Today in Danang I had some of the best food ever! This trip has certainly given me a chance to try different Vietnamese food than I have had before!
We went to Ba Thoi- a place recommended by the ticket seller at the Cham museum. Indeed, this place is about a 5 minute walk straight out from the entrance to the museum.
Ba Thoi is a sea food place. Being in Danang on the ocean they probably have good seafood here.
I ordered Crab steamed in Beer. We did notice that there were 5 categories on the English section and 8 on the Vietnamese section but I paid it no mind.
I got steamed shrimp.
No amount of pointing and saying "cua" (crab) would make the woman understand what I wanted. So I will eat big succulent shrimp. NO worries!
Every table in Vietnam has a small dish with a wedge of lime, some chili, and a salty mix of sea salt and maybe MSG and maybe, as in the case of this place, crushed miniture dried fishies. The idea is to use the juice from the lemon and make a sauce/paste with the ingredients for dipping.
Not bad. Limey. (well I made mine mostly liquid with the lime juice).
Then a dish piled high with lettuce, basil, mint, sliced star fruit, zucchini, and other greens arrived. At the same time a plate of rice paper and dishes with fish sauce and peppers and a kind of peanut sauce were set down.
I am supposed to make my own mu shu/burrito/wrap with these ingredients.
Peel the shrimp and take off the head.
Lay a slice of star fruit and a slice of zuccini, some mint, and some other greens on the half-moon rice paper.
Dip the shrimp into the fishsauce and lay it on its bed of greens on the sheet of rice paper.
Wrap it up and gobble down!!
MMMM! Yummy!
The other dish that we didn't order that came out was steamed fish (did I mention the influence of Chinese?) But this was not a simple Chinese steamed fish covered in green onions and drizzled with oily sweetened soy sauce. This fish had scallions, pork, lemon grass shavings, mushrooms, onions, ... a bunch of stuff I couldn't quite distinguish and a sauce from out of this world!!
I am sure it had fish sauce, that is a given. Definitely had sugar. Must have had soy sauce. But what else? there was a little kick to it but I didn't see any peppers. I don't think I could reproduce this dish, but I would sure like to try!!
We went to Ba Thoi- a place recommended by the ticket seller at the Cham museum. Indeed, this place is about a 5 minute walk straight out from the entrance to the museum.
Ba Thoi is a sea food place. Being in Danang on the ocean they probably have good seafood here.
I ordered Crab steamed in Beer. We did notice that there were 5 categories on the English section and 8 on the Vietnamese section but I paid it no mind.
I got steamed shrimp.
No amount of pointing and saying "cua" (crab) would make the woman understand what I wanted. So I will eat big succulent shrimp. NO worries!
Every table in Vietnam has a small dish with a wedge of lime, some chili, and a salty mix of sea salt and maybe MSG and maybe, as in the case of this place, crushed miniture dried fishies. The idea is to use the juice from the lemon and make a sauce/paste with the ingredients for dipping.
Not bad. Limey. (well I made mine mostly liquid with the lime juice).
Then a dish piled high with lettuce, basil, mint, sliced star fruit, zucchini, and other greens arrived. At the same time a plate of rice paper and dishes with fish sauce and peppers and a kind of peanut sauce were set down.
I am supposed to make my own mu shu/burrito/wrap with these ingredients.
Peel the shrimp and take off the head.
Lay a slice of star fruit and a slice of zuccini, some mint, and some other greens on the half-moon rice paper.
Dip the shrimp into the fishsauce and lay it on its bed of greens on the sheet of rice paper.
Wrap it up and gobble down!!
MMMM! Yummy!
The other dish that we didn't order that came out was steamed fish (did I mention the influence of Chinese?) But this was not a simple Chinese steamed fish covered in green onions and drizzled with oily sweetened soy sauce. This fish had scallions, pork, lemon grass shavings, mushrooms, onions, ... a bunch of stuff I couldn't quite distinguish and a sauce from out of this world!!
I am sure it had fish sauce, that is a given. Definitely had sugar. Must have had soy sauce. But what else? there was a little kick to it but I didn't see any peppers. I don't think I could reproduce this dish, but I would sure like to try!!
2 comments:
Hi blair,
when you come to visit us in France, I will make you try "real" food!!
andréa
Aaahhhh, this does sound tasty!!
Dad
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