Hubby and I are going on a date night to a Vietnamese place that I've never been to. He's always talking about it and I'm finally getting him to take me, yay! But I don't know what to get there.
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PHO!
Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef or chicken. The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with Asian basil, mint leaves, lime, and bean sprouts that are added to the soup by the person who is dining. The dish is associated with the city of Hanoi, where the first phở restaurant opened in the 1920s. (From WIKI)
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Pho! I just had pho for lunch. So yummy. I also like both the summer and spring rolls.
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Have fun! In addition to the above I also have banh mi, rice vermicelli with pork or spring rolls and Vietnamese iced coffee. Now you have me wanting Vietnamese.
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Beef or chicken Pho is good. I also like summer rolls or egg rolls as an appetizer. If I don't get pho, I'll get the vermicelli with grilled pork and egg rolls. Oh for the beef pho, I like to get the steak on the side so I can add the meat myself since I don't like my meat well done.
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Yup, Pho or grilled pork chips with rice are my fave. Vietnamese rice is different than rice from Chinese restaurants, it's called "broken rice". A lot more flaky than other types of rice. There's a sauce that comes with it (usually with shredded carrots in it) you drizzle that over the rice. Sooo good.
Now I'm missing the grilled pork chops from my fave viet restaurant in NYC. They just don't make it the same at the viet restaurant near me.
Is this your first time going to a Viet restuarant? What a fun date night idea! Hahah unfortunately near us there aren't many ethnic restaurants we haven't tried before.
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i love cha gio and pho with rare steak (meat cooks in the hot broth)
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Depends on the type of Vietnamese restaurant. Around here, pho restaurants are one type, but you usually can't get pho at regular or family style restaurants. I like vermicelli bowls or spring/summer rolls that you can wrap yourself.
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Pho! OMG, I'm so jealous but so happy for you that you're finally going!!! Let us know how it goes!
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pho is good, but i wouldn't recommend it for the first dish! that's what i had and i decided i didn't really like vietnamese lol. but my hubby took me to vietnamese restaurant in richmond and ate the grilled pork chops wtih broken rice and MMMMM! i'd go with that first!! that's the first vietnamese dish i ate that i absolutely LOVED! porkchops with vermicelli is good too.
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Pho and banh mi are both delicious, but they're kind of like the equivalent of a BLT - more what I'd pick for lunch, not dinner, especially if it's a nice place. My favorite thing to get is a Vietnamese crepe, banh xeo, that you wrap up in lettuce and dip in delicious sauces. SO good. I also love a steamed rice paper roll that they do at one of our local restaurants.
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yum yum yum! I usually get either chicken pho, vietnamese fried rice (we call it VFR), or vermicelli with grilled pork. Sometimes I'll get a flat rice noodle dish with chicken. I ALWAYS start with fresh summer rolls with pork and shrimp AND shrimp toast.
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Spring rolls, and summer rolls, and either a vermicelli bowl of grilled pork chop with rice and steamed veggies! My favourite Vietnamese restaurant here has combo meals with a spring roll, a summer roll, a tiny bowl of soup, and then either your vermicelli with 2 different meats or the grilled meats on rice with steamed veggies.
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I've heard so much about pho so I've wanted to try it. But it's so hot here, I don't think I want soup. And I don't eat pig so no pork chops for me. I've heard alot about broken rice, that sounds yummy!
@regberadaisy: My husband has a very sensitive tummy so we don't get to go to a lot of ethnic places. But of course this is one he loves and is too far away for us to go regularly, and it's indoors and we prefer outdoors so we can take our pup. So it'll be a special date night!
@joyjoy: They have pho. He brought me home a menu.
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@artbee:
Do you eat beef? There is also BBQ Beef over rice (com dia). Vietnamese spring rolls are fried and generally meat free. Very different from the "egg rolls" you get Chinese restaurants. They're made with a thin rice wrapper. -
@regberadaisy: that all sounds so yummy, I do eat beef. Thanks for the suggestions!
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pho!
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What about vermicelli with grilled shrimp? Or they might have grilled beef. If they have shrimp on sugar cane that's also very good. You can chew/suck on the sugar cane at the end.
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@bluestriped bee: love shrimp. Too many options!
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@artbee: I don't eat beef or pork, so I normally get proteins like grilled shrimp or tofu on my vermicelli and summer rolls. A lot of places also do BBQ chicken. The vermicelli bowls and fresh rolls are cold dishes, if you don't want something hot.
@bluestriped bee: The grilled shrimp on sugar cane is my favorite! I always get that for my fresh rolls.
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Pho if you want noodle soup, vermicelli (bun) with grilled anything (pork is the common one but I like chicken better), either grilled or lemongrass chicken/pork with rice, shaky beef (marinated steak), fresh garden rolls (usually comes with shrimp and pork), and their spring rolls are the best b/c they use rice paper to wrap it. And if they sell sandwiches (which most restaurants don't), you'll have to try their sandwiches called bahn mi. They have all kinds of sandwiches. Not all places make it that good though...and the bread they use makes a huge difference. Happy eating!
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Vermicelli with grilled pork, grilled pork and rice, short ribs and rice, or pho. I love Vietnamese food!
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I only take pho to-go because Vietnamese BBQ pork is so delish! I get the one that's already chopped up with a side of their meatloaf (it's like a quiche w/o the crust with eggs, meat, vermicelli, wood ear mushrooms, some add carrot), and I also like the thin slithers (looks like powdery noodles) of pork skin!
I usually have it with young coconut juice and Vietnamese iced coffee after. I'm hungry now =(
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Be sure to double check it's not pork, if you're Jewish. The meat loaf is made of pork, but they have chicken BBQ, and chicken soup (Pho Ga).
One of my good friends is Jewish and she loves Vietnamese food and usually orders chicken noodle soup. My favorite Vietnamese restaurant back home serves a mean soft-shell crab. But if you eat beef, their BBQ is really good. It's usually served with a thin, watery sauce on the side, be sure to try that with it, if you get it =)
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So? What did you end up eating!?
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@Rubies: date's not till Sunday. I'm glad, I need more time to decide, everything sounds so yummy!
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@artbee: OH! I thought it was last night! Oopsie! But yeah, you have a LOT of options...Choose wisely. LOL!
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@Rubies: I hate ordering the wrong thing! Especially when my husband will order something that I would have loved and I just have to sit there and eat something that's kind of blah. That's why I usually just copy him. That way at least if I don't love it I don't have to sit there and watch him eat something yummy.
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I looooove summer rolls!
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@artbee: I thought you went last night, too. I was curious what you ended up getting.
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@joyjoy: Oh, yeah. Shrimp on sugar cane is so good. I found a recipe so I could make it. My mom makes these shrimp poppers. She uses the thin egg roll wrapper and uses that same shrimp filling. Looks like I'll be eating a lot of shrimp this weekend.
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@bluestriped bee: Nope, I just love planning ahead! Plus my husband brought home a menu for me because there's so much on it, he wanted to prevent me spending an hour to figure out what I want. And he knows that I always like to plan ahead, I always say, "I wonder what I'll be eating tonight..." when we go out.
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I agree with everyone else, Pho! Love it!
Our nearest Vietnamese place is very casual and they do Pho, Banh Mi, Vermicelli plates and rotate specialty dishes every weekend. I never knew I loved Vietnamese food until that place opened!
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AH I eat everything (I'm Vietnamese!). Vietnamese restaurants (for the most part) specialize in one type of food-- so a bomb.com pho place wouldn't typically have good com tam (broken rice), and a banh mi (sandwich) place wouldn't have good bun (vermicelli). So I would find out what kind of place this is first (if it's a fusion place, you should be able to get a little bit of everything).
Bo luc lac is a good intro dish-- it means "shaken beef" because the cubes of beef are cooked in a hot pan, and kind of "shaken" wok-style.
Com tam suong nuong (broken rice w/ pork chop) is good, too... usually it's broken rice w/ a few proteins (cha-- egg/meatloaf, cha gio-- eggrolls, thit nuong-- grilled meat, usually pork); avoid bi-- it's an acquired taste/texture (shredded pig skin). All com tam dishes come with nuoc cham, a fish sauce that has been altered to be fit for eating (some water, some sugar, and julienned carrots/daikon).
Pho is good, and is basically beef noodle soup, with rice noodles. Vietnamese soups are rice-noodle based and Chinese soups are egg noodle based (for the most part). Tai is rare steak, chin is cooked/brisket, gau is fatty brisket, and there's also tendon and tripe, depending on how adventurous you want to get.
Bun in cool rice noodles (vermicelli) served with nuoc cham. Usually comes with the same protein options as com tam, but no pork chop.
Let me know if there's anything else you'd want to know! Or if you let me know the name/location of the restaurant, I can see what's good
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@HabesBabe: You're so awesome! We need to go to Brodard together.
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Pho or rice vermicelli. Mmmm and spring rolls!!
Whoah, I think I need to take @HabesBabe with me to a Vietnamese restaurant, as well!!
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