Thoughts on Vietnamese food ?

Thoughts on Vietnamese food ?

  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >Asian Continental
    >with French inspiration
    sounds fucking delicious OP

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      God I love colonial fusion food
      You can really taste the colonialism

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Based.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Adding to that, if you can find a Vietnamese crawfish restaurant, they are amazeballs
          The colonialism takes a back seat to the war trophy squaw wife vibe, but it's still in there with a solid cajun twist

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Me love it long time

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Underrated

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    a vietnamese joint just opened up
    >in the middle of farm-country PA
    >in a fucking farmers market
    >in an area where NOBODY wants to try anything new
    They're doing crazy business and it's a cash-only business. That shit is pretty good.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      A farmer's market actually seems like a really good place to set up a Vietnamese place in a small area. Foreign names like banh mi or suon noung might freak someone out, they'll probably feel a lot more comfortable if they walk by the stand and see sandwiches and pork chops.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Good point. Most of the people there, are there to buy decent meat and veggies, so they're probably more open to trying something "exotic".

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      tell me another person from Culinaly goes to fairgrounds and ill shit right here right now

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Another local boy, huh? Yeah, it's the one at the Fairgrounds Market.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      kek are they processong the meat in the stall as well?

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, it's an indoor "upscale" farmers market. Not like the real farmers markets, where you can order cooked goodies and 100 feet away, you can bid on livestock and do it yourself.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Banh mi is fucking goated, how did those VCs get pickled vegetables so right?

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    highly complex, yet can be simple. I only developed my deep appreciation for it after learning. Used to be a high octane weaboo myself, what a shame.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's pretty coozy, would actually go outta my way to get some

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Ive only eaten banh mi but it fucking rocks

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's okay. Nothing special.

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    There are many soups in the world almost as good - but none better - than Phở

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    luv pho
    luv bahn mis
    'ate those floppy shrimp egg rolls
    simple as

  11. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I lived in a city with a vietamese french bakery. Most restraunts got their banh mi bread from that place. Now even if the insides are delicious the bread just doesn't cut it.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >vietamese french bakery
      If you are looking for french baguettes, get French baguettes from a French-style bakery. If you are looking for Banh Mi, get Vietnamese Banh Mi. These two are not interchangeable, even though western people usually call them both baguettes

  12. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I want to impregnate a Vietnamese girl after she cooks for me

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      are you British per chance?

  13. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    They have this amazing pork + rice plate, I think it's called thit nuong. It's marinated with lemongrass.

  14. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Vietnamese food in the west is actually better than in vietnam, a rare phenomenon. Vietnam is an overrated travel destination as well.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I heard it's better cause all the refugees are great cooks. Also heard it's a lot cleaner in the west. My friend went to vietnam and said there were flies all over the meat there.

      We did have an issue with Lee's sandwiches using non FDA approved meat. Have no idea where they were sourcing their meat from.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >My friend went to vietnam and said there were flies all over the meat there.
        you can either source your meat from two places in Vietnam big cities: your typical groceries stores, which can have a fresh (very chilled) meat section as well as actually frozen section (mostly import). Or go straight to the farmer spot / wet market, witness the protein source getting stabbed, drained and butchered alive, you can buy the meat when it's still literally hot. And you know what heat, entrails and the tropical climate attract? Exactly.
        What your friend said is just a single facet, and some exaggeration for fun (in case you haven't figured out).
        If you DO go to the countryside, then yes, there will be lots lots lots of flies everywhere, you don't even need to have meat outside. May God have mercy on you because those flies won't.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >lee's sandwiches
        you mean lee's bakery? in atlanta?
        that place kicks ass but im always afraid to take the free bread since its just out for anyone to contaminate

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I heard it's better cause all the refugees are great cooks. Also heard it's a lot cleaner in the west. My friend went to vietnam and said there were flies all over the meat there.

      We did have an issue with Lee's sandwiches using non FDA approved meat. Have no idea where they were sourcing their meat from.

      They have real competition here
      Not just other Vietnamese restaurants, they know in their hearts they have to compete against everything from Burger King to Texas de Brazil

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      There's a similar situation with Mexican food. Now the food in the big cities is great but the smaller towns don't necessarily have the infrastructure in place to facilitate great cookery. You need refrigerated trucks, good roads, ample refrigeration in the shops, and so on. When I stayed with family in Bumfuck Mexico I was starved for stuff like salads and fresh fruit, stuff that their markets carried in short supply because they had such small sections for frozen and refrigerated foods. They still used a lot of dried and canned fruits/vegetables because it was more accessible.

      In the US Mexican cooks have better access to fresh and frozen produce. They can also cook with more meat.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      it's because they are poor and they skimp as much as possible on the meat. you'll get like a tiny portion of shitty meat in Vietnam instead of generous good quality meat portions in the west. shit sucks.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >Vietnamese food in the west is actually better than in vietnam
      Lol sure ok anon

  15. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Their soup is phonominal.

  16. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Love it. Pho places are fairly common around NJ. Also I'm a weirdo and get chicken pho rather than the beef pho.

  17. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's pretty tasty but can be a bit of slop.
    Ironically, pho is easily their shittiest dish and does not hold a candle to any of their better noodle soups.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >pho is easily their shittiest dish and does not hold a candle to any of their better noodle soups.
      strange indeed. Pho probably has the widest range of quality. It's bad when the broth is diluted (not using enough bone) but when it gets good, it gets really fucking good..

  18. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The Vietnamese language is like chinese but slightly more ugly

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >slightly
      It manages to be resoundingly more ugly, which is impressive given how ugly Chinese already is

  19. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Where I've lived all the bakerys have been run by Vietnamese. The French really left a mark when they colonised the place. Good stuff except their pies seem to be filled with dog food. Ive been to Vietnam and also live in a predominantly Vietnamese area.. Heaps of restaurants in competition so the quality is really good..
    Funny thing, I had the best pizza I've ever had when over there. They also make fantastic salads.Ive lived with a Vietnamese family for a while and the grandma was always cooking and gardening.one day she brought home a whole pigs head and proceeded to make head cheese with it. She gave me some with some of her homemade pickles and it was fantastic.
    The garden was full of mint and on a hot day it was all you could smel.l

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >Good stuff except their pies seem to be filled with dog food.
      vietnam has no pies

  20. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    banh mi is a fucking banger

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Woops. Meant to reply to this guy.

      >Good stuff except their pies seem to be filled with dog food.
      vietnam has no pies

  21. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    mostly trash, but i make an americanized version of those rolls in the bottom left by wrapping up chef boyardee ravioli in some rice paper. learned it from general sam.

  22. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    perfect, it's like the french came to thailand and china and taught them how to cook

  23. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Pho with tendon is fucking incredible but it's too high level for most people

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >not eating it with tripe
      never gonna make it

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Tendon a shit. Tripe is the shit. This guy gets it

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Tendon a shit. Tripe is the shit. This guy gets it

        Point proven, tastelets can't handle tendon

  24. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I live in San Diego, there's this place I go to called K sandwiches. Very good banh Minh, and bakery stuff like crossiant ham and cream cheese, etc etc their breakfast is absolutely goated and I absolutely love their Vietnamese coffee. It's strong but not too strong, I tried other Vietnamese place and coffee place, it's Meh at best, but it can't beat K sandwiches, it just hits different.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >K sandwiches
      anon, I hate to break it to ya, but I looked at their menu.. their Banh Mi are just baguettes in disguises..

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but their crossiant breakfast sandwiches are to die for, their bagguettes are quite crunchy and fresh. Crossiant filled cream cheese with jalapeño and ham are my favorite thing to eat there. It's just unf.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          >their bagguettes are quite crunchy and fresh

          >in disguises
          That's literally baguette, no disguise, Vietnam was French colony for almost century.

          >That's literally baguette, no disguise, Vietnam was French colony for almost century.
          Vietnam Banh Mis are not supposed to be crunchy. That's the hallmark of western bakery powerhouses (USA, UK, Germany, French).
          Vietnaggers Banh Mi crust is ultra thin and crispy

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >in disguises
        That's literally baguette, no disguise, Vietnam was French colony for almost century.

  25. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's the best.

  26. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >pho with that thin raw beef that cooks in the piping hot broth

    LOVE that shit

  27. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I’ve been cooking out of Charles Phan’s book “Vietnamese home cooking” for years. Some incredible recipes in that book, my favorite is “mama’s meatballs” which are pork meatballs in a shallot/Annatto/ketchup/vegetarian stir fry meat sauce it’s fucking incredible and gets even better when you use the leftovers to make banh mi. Some day I want to go to his restaurant in SF

  28. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's arguably the best but you could also make a case for the Thais.

  29. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Vietnamese food is delicious. I am a pajeet from the UK who just got back from a 3 week vacation going to Cambodia and Vietnam, and let me tell you, after eating all the street food that I could find and trying all the top local dishes, I can safely say that the anons complaining in here about "muh hygiene" are homosexuals. I never had a bad stomach on any day, despite eating in suHispanicious places (from a tourist POV anyway). As soon as I came back to the UK however, no matter what I ate, I got a belly ache and/or the shits. The food out there is cooked in pork fat so its easier on your body, man I miss Vietnam so much

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      The one thing I wasnt a fan of were their spring rolls, they were served cold. I preferred the crab rolls that you would be served with Bun Cha, which were crispy and delicious. I think ultimately it depends what you like. I preferred Bun Cha and Bun Bo Hue over Pho, Pho felt a bit basic compared to some of the other dishes. I think my favourite dish had to have been the Banh Xeo. They gave this sauce to dip it in which I want to find in the UK but idk how i will do that

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        That sauce is nước chấm
        Very easy to make.
        It's a mix of sugar, water, fish sauce, lemon juice, chili and garlic.
        Usually sweeter for fried dishes, or more sour when used for dipping meat, fish etc.
        Don't get the bottled stuff, it's never good.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          >It's a mix of sugar, water, fish sauce, lemon juice, chili and garlic.
          5-1-1
          5 parts water
          1 part fish sauce
          1 part sugar
          Everything else is optional to-taste

  30. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    it is superior to chinese food by a massive margin

  31. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    A good Banh Mi is heavenly. Pho is good, but extremely variable.

  32. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    personally, i prefer the rice/noodle dishes to pho, although you can't really beat beef trip, mm

  33. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's ok but not my favorite Asian cuisine. It's not Hispanicy and rich like Chinese food or crunchy and savory like Japanese food or tangy and sweet like Korean food. It's just ok. I've tried pho but not bahn mi. It seems to rely a lot on fresh greens and jalapenos to give it some kick. It reminds me of this short stack viet chick I fumbled at work last year, so I don't eat it that often.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >It's not Hispanicy and rich like Chinese food or crunchy and savory like Japanese food or tangy and sweet like Korean food.
      oh dear, oh dear, here you are reducing cuisines down to basic tastes. I'm not even trying to compare between Viet and Jap food here, but are you seriously calling Japanese food "savory and crunchy"? What the fuck?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >this short stack viet chick I fumbled at work

      i feel you bro

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      eat bun bo hue
      it will change how you think of viet food

  34. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    When I was in Vietnam I bought some rice balls from a street vendor, then went to a homestay (basically sleep outside in a shack), put the rice balls down and they were completely covered by ants in 10 seconds, motherfuckers

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      it's a dog eat dog world out there, anon

  35. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    vietnamese is one of the higher tier asian cuisines imo

  36. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Terrible, nowhere near as good as British food

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      This but unironically. Proper fish and chips with malt vinegar mogs everything under the sun. Meanwhile there are FDA warnings on every fish from Vietnam.

  37. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    poverty asiaticslop wagefuel that gets me through the day just barely enough so i can complete tasks for mr. shekelgruber
    t. america-born viet (self-loathing, avg. penis size but probably small)

  38. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    A real sandwich has cheese, and shredded carrots do not belong on a sandwich. A banh mi is not a proper sandwich.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Shit b8, m8.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        You're a retard with shitty taste and you don't know what sandwiches look like.

  39. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    i'm figuratively a nazi and i hate all ethnic food. if your fuckin food was so good, it would reflect in what you create, the societies in which you live. but ethnics live in shitholes and thus their food is also low-quality trash. i had a burrito recently for $9.75 and it was absolute garbage.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Poland is a shithole but kielbasa and pierogies are great

  40. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Bun bo and banh mi are obvious greats, but there was this viet place that would have this super cheap lunch special of noodles veggies and some kind of meat with that fish sauce/sugar dipping sauce. It was simple but satisfying. Also I fell in love with a vietnamese girl in school and we text on our birthdays and its the highlight of my year

  41. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    2nd best Southeast Asian cuisine
    3rd best Asian cuisine overall
    4th most attractive women on average
    I rate it highly.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >3rd best Asian cuisine overall
      this oughta be good
      who are first and second

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        1. Sichuan
        2. Thai
        3. Vietnamese

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Thai should be higher than Sichuan

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            And Vietnamese should be higher than Thai
            I'd probably go Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam
            And even then it's almost splitting hairs, for all the similarities they're really very different when you look at them holistically

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              Japanese is pretty overrated. Most of their top food is centered around fried and western adaptations of food.

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                I agree, Japanese is largely inspired by other culture's favorite dishes
                It's their pursuit of improvement if not perfection is remarkable
                It's why French and Japanese culinary schools exchange staff, they're very different cooking cultures but their disciplines compliment each other

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                >improvement if not perfection is remarkable
                Meh, at most. Their ads division is what remarkable here.

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                I don't shill for Japan
                I would but I don't think they know I exist
                My neighbor is the largest importer of sushi fish in the US, maybe I should see if he knows anyone with clout and cash

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not telling you are shilling for them, in case you misunderstood. I really meant it when I said
                >Their ads division is what remarkable
                capiche?

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                Gotcha
                But that also helps make Japanese food culturally relevant outside of the US
                We have instant ramen, candy, retarded canned drinks, and fish flakes in every pantry spanning the entire world
                While their food is simple its impact is global
                That's why I rate J-a-pan food over Vietnam's even though I would eat Vietnamese 10 times for every time I would Japanese

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              >Japan
              Stopped reading there

  42. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Really like Banh Mi and Pho, no idea about anything else

  43. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    those cold vietnamese rolls are really gross

  44. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Japan's adaptations of western food (their curry, Hamburg steak, etc) are the weakest of any Asian country's with the exception of filipino spaghetti abominations

  45. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    im glad my dad goes out to eat vietnamese resteraunts all the time so he knows which places are the best for hu tieu and bahn mi and even shui mai

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >shui mai
      damn I need to buy some siu mai
      ate this at so many places in my life, yet only 1 shop gets it right:
      - the meatball is springy
      - yet soft to the bite, very good structure
      - not juicy, not dry, just pleasantly moist
      - slightly sweet with an acidic tomato sauce

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        i dont know what they are called but the little shui mai kiosks in the asian markets sometimes have these fried balls with some sweet beef and veggies in it. i suspect its made from the same stuff that they use to make steamed buns

  46. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    pork rolls are a goat lunchtime meal

  47. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I have a mission.. to bring Vietnamese foods to its peak performance.. starting with..
    Thit Kho Trung.
    Maybe I'll write a cookbook later, idk

  48. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    banh mi is overrated but the rest of the stuff I've tried has been pretty good. My favorite is this rice dish that comes with some kind of meat thats been cut into thin strings

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      depends on what Banh Mi you had, you either had had the most overrated shit (just decent), or the best orchestra of textures, tastes, and flavours of all times.

  49. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    What do you think of vietnam grilled meat?

  50. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    One of my favourite cuisines ever.
    Hispanicy and sour is just what my tastebuds crave

  51. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    A good bahn mi with a Vietnamese iced coffee is an S-tier lunch

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      i drank a vietnamese coffee that was so strong too fast that i started having heart palpatations and needed a smoke

  52. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >picrel
    >no bun bo hue, the goat of viet cuisine

  53. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's pretty decent though pretty much everything good enough to be known internationally they got from the French;even pho.

  54. 1 month ago
    Yet

    not really a fan of pho tbh, to me it tastes very gamey. other people like it and its fine if they do buts just not my cup of tea

  55. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    ngl id anialiate everything in that picture anon

  56. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    They make the best egg rolls in Asia.

  57. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I love a good Pho.

  58. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    i am very much a fan.
    The Bahn Mi is my favorite form of sandwhich. its in such harmony. creamy patte, crispy pickled onions /carrots fresh bread. and of course the vietnamese cured meats.
    mama mia

    anyone have any good vietnamese companies to invest in? they are gonna overthrow china soon

  59. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    bottom tier slop
    but enough about your mother, Vietnamese food is fucking awful

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      You are retarded dear trilobite anon

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >trilobite
        what wonder what anon tastes like

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          If anything like anomos pretty bland

  60. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    vietnam is a very nice place to visit and the food is amazing. i only had one bad dish there during my month long trip. it was some bo kho (beef nooodle soup) from a stand outside my friend's place, tasted like watered chef boyardee.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >bo kho (beef nooodle soup)
      there's no "noodle" in "bo kho", but yeah, many places will water down the stock to sell more bowls (to save money on more beef/bones). Poor country in a nutshell.

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