If you’ve been following along with my food adventures, you know that I love Vietnamese food and I love BBQing! This Smoked Brisket Bánh Mì is the perfect fusion of some of my favorite types of food and beautifully captures my pride as a Vietnamese American. I was super excited to have leftover brisket to... Continue Reading →
Bánh Mì Hot Link
I love Bánh Mì, Vietnamese sandwiches, and I love hot links, so bringing these amazing ingredients together is a match made in heaven for me. If you’re looking for the perfect 4th of July recipe and/or trying to figure out what to do with the leftovers, you gotta check this out! Hot Links are spicy... Continue Reading →
Smoked Pastrami using Packaged Corned Beef
It’s St. Patrick’s season and packaged corned beef is on sale everywhere! I plan to make the usual traditional corned beef and cabbage boil this weekend, but for this cook, I made Rueben sandwiches with smoked pastrami using corned beef! I seasoned packaged corned beef with pastrami rub, smoked it until 202 degrees (wrapped in... Continue Reading →
Bánh Mì Sliders
For the weekend’s Game Day and Tet (Lunar New Year) Celebrations, I combined two of my favorite party foods.. burger sliders and Bánh Mì sandwiches and made juicy Bánh Mì Sliders. Although my team lost the big game, I enjoyed all the quality time and yummy food with the family. These flavor-packed sweet and savory... Continue Reading →
Chinese BBQ Pork (Xa Xiu / Char Siu)
California weather has been perfect this week. We've been blessed with high 70-degree weather and plenty of sunshine..perfect start to the first week of daylight savings time change. This weather got me super excited for all the planned and/or impromptu BBQ sessions I'll be having in the upcoming months with my family and friends. There... Continue Reading →
Chinese Sausage and Egg Vietnamese Sandwich
Hello Summer! Today’s the first day of summer. WOW! It has been over 4 ½ months since my last post. What have I been doing since February? , I’ve traveled to Nashville and had an amazing time touring the city and sampling the delicious food with my best buds, joined a fitness challenge at work... Continue Reading →
Grilled Pepper Jack Cheese Sandwich
I'm a huge fan of Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. It brings back a lot of childhood memories and its so good! On this particular day, I felt like eating a grilled cheese sandwich, but didn't want to be so ordinary. So I went to Safeway and got Sourdough bread and Pepper Jack Cheese to create a... Continue Reading →
