Today is wifey’s birthday, so we went to a favorite Vietnamese restaurant. I had an incredible pho dak biet. Wifey had the fish in broth, served in a clay pot. We just had a very nice relaxing afternoon. Pleasant conversation. Shopping. First time in a very long time that we have been free of Covid fears, and had a enjoyable time out.
Happy to hear that. I don't think I've ever had any vietnamese food, and I've always wanted to try a pho. Heard there is like over 100 different spices in that one dish.
Woo for getting out and relaxing
It is sooooo good! With hoisin plum sauce and sriracha.
I turned my Peruvian onto Vietnamese food not long ago. For myself, been eating it for about the last 40 years. I haven’t been to a strictly pho place in a while, but I am a fan, and I did have a pho like version of beef soup earlier this year at the place we go. I’ll order anything on the menu, love it all, but I do steer towards anything spicy. I make summer rolls at home sometimes, got the rice paper in the pantry right now.
When I used to frequent some of the Vietnamese restaurants near DC, the food was only part of the treat. The gorgeous Vietnamese girls bringing your food was part of the experience. The place we go now, the wait staff is Americans.
Really, my love affair with Asian food began as a young teen eating highly Americanized Chinese food in the only Asian restaurant probably within a 100 miles at the time. I still recall we got fried wontons, sweet and sour pork, beef and broccoli , moo goo gai pan (things that are hardly Chinese actually). I loved that the vegetables weren’t over cooked, never had vegetables like that before. As an older teen I had a half Korean friend introduce me to Korean food. By this time I could handle spicy. For the next 10 or more years I rarely ate anything out that wasn’t Asian. . . . Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, even knew a Burmese place years ago. That half Korean friend and I would hit random Asian places making sure the word ‘cocktails’ was in the window ordering those tiki drinks like zombies, navy grogs, scorpions and the like and get thoroughly plowed while gorging on the food.