Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
Clear broths, fresh herbs and bright dipping sauces. 17 tested Vietnamese recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
Dark roast coffee dripped slowly through a phin filter onto sweetened condensed milk, then poured over ice. Strong…
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
Fish steaks braised in a clay pot with caramel sauce, fish sauce and black pepper until the liquid reduces to a…
Cà phê trứng: a whipped custard of egg yolk and condensed milk floated on strong Vietnamese coffee. It sounds wrong…
A rice flour crêpe made yellow with turmeric, filled with pork and prawn and folded over beansprouts. It is torn up…
Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
Beef shin stewed with lemongrass, star anise and annatto until it falls apart, with carrots cut thick. Eaten with…
Rice batter steamed into sheets thinner than paper, rolled around pork and wood ear, with fried shallots over.
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
Poached chicken torn into shreds with cabbage, herbs and a sharp fish sauce dressing. Forty minutes, mostly cooling.