One of my favorite family-style meal dishes is Cá Kho Tộ, Vietnamese braised catfish. The braised catfish is savory and sweet from the fish sauce and sugar marinade and simmered to a rich and sticky icky goodness. The fish tastes super flavorful, delicate, and tender and soaks up all the flavors from the marinade. So … Continue reading Vietnamese Braised Catfish (Cá Kho Tộ)
Growing up in a Vietnamese household, family dinner time was really important in my family. No matter how busy my parents were from work, (even when they worked multiple jobs), they always found time to cook up delicious Vietnamese home-cooked meals for my siblings and me. One of my favorite family-style meals included Canh Chua … Continue reading Vietnamese Sweet and Sour Soup with Catfish (Canh Chua Cá Bông Lau)
We love eating Cháo Trắng, rice porridge at my house. This is one of my favorite humble simple eats as a child and still love it as an adult. My kids love it as well. When the kids and I are sick or we just want something light and simple to eat, we just make … Continue reading Simple Rice Porridge (Cháo Trắng)
Quoc Viet Foods recently hooked me up with Pork Flavored Soup Base. My family and I have been using their other soup bases for years and I was super excited to try it out this new soup base and it surely did not disappoint. Lately, I've been a fan of making Bún Riêu with pork … Continue reading Quick Vietnamese Crab Noodle Soup (Bun Rieu)
After eating horribly during the holidays, back to eating salads and getting back on track with my fitness. Eating healthy and eating salads don't always have to be boring. You can make a healthy and beautiful looking salad and have it taste good too. Like this Vietnamese Style Roasted Salmon Salad! There's a lot of … Continue reading Vietnamese Style Roasted Salmon Salad
We love chicken katsu at our house, but last week I changed it up and tried making a Vegetarian friendly version of chicken katsu using tofu for when we want to go meatless and not have meat. The process is exactly the same as the chicken katsu version, but you will be substituting a block … Continue reading Tofu Katsu
Banh Xeo, Vietnamese Sizzling crepes, is super addicting and great to eat at anytime because of the insanely amount of fresh and crisp veggies that accompanies the whole banh xeo eating experience. I normally make salad wraps with my banh xeo and dip it in prepared fish sauce, but recently saw lots of people online … Continue reading Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes)
I had tons of leftover Japanese rice from the other day and recently just bought a big 'ol jar of kimchi from Costco that I wanted to use so I decided to freestyle it up and make some Spam Kimchi Fried Rice..because I always have Spam in the pantry. The fried rice turned out great … Continue reading Spam Kimchi Fried Rice
I love carne asada steak/beef tacos, especially when the beef is grilled over mesquite lump charcoal at the taquerias. However, we don't always have the time or ability to grill delicious mesquite-smoked beef at home and some of the best taqueria tacos I've tasted have been cooked over a griddle, so this recipe will ensure … Continue reading Taqueria Style Beef Tacos
The air quality in San Jose has been really bad and I haven't had a chance to do much BBQing. The other day I woke up and the air quality index looked really good so I took out some chicken wings to thaw and wanted to BBQ for dinner. By noon, the air quality worsened … Continue reading Double-Fried Fish Sauce Chicken Wings
