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px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Went to eat at a little mom and pop's at a strip mall tonight and, silly me, I expected some traditional vietnamese items on the menu. I ordered a "number 77" and I'm feeling like it was just chinese food in disguise.

What should I be looking for in a traditional Vietnamese menu??

knee tunes · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:46 am

px wrote:

Went to eat at a little mom and pop's at a strip mall tonight and, silly me, I expected some traditional vietnamese items on the menu. I ordered a "number 77" and I'm feeling like it was just chinese food in disguise.

What should I be looking for in a traditional Vietnamese menu??

chimpanzee brains

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

I think I'll stick to chinese.

Rebar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:06 am

Rebar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:08 am

There's actually a pho thread I didn't know about, here. Pho can be very delicious or very bland, depending on where you get it I guess.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77520&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=pho

Mods, can you please move the thread I linked to F&D?

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Thanks, Rebar.

I ordered the curry shrimp "vietnamese style." Seems like the restaurant we went to wasn't the right one - but we just decided to 'go for it' without much research.

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Rebar wrote:

There's actually a pho thread I didn't know about, here. Pho can be very delicious or very bland, depending on where you get it I guess.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77520&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=pho

Mods, can you please move the thread I linked to F&D?

Not much info in that thread (about food) and yet lots of info.

Rebar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:16 pm

Sorry, I just saw the thread title, didn't read it. My bad.

knee tunes · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:42 pm

px wrote:

I think I'll stick to chinese.

is cat meat curly?

just wondering...

Doug RR · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:16 pm

pho sate and banh mi with shredded pork

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

pho intellectuals

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

bun dac biet?

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

knee tunes wrote:

px wrote:

I think I'll stick to chinese.

is cat meat curly?

just wondering...

I haven't eaten cat, that I know of. I've herd that horse meat is delicious.

equine com dac biet. (practicing my ordering)

Orpheus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:20 pm

I always get the bun with grilled pork, one of my favorite meals on earth.

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Nate, what is bun exactly? It was described to me as 'lettuce.'

Orpheus · **Posted:** Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:28 pm

Bun is just vietnamese rice noodles, basically vermicelli. You get a big bowl of noodles with various vegetables and whatever meat you want, grilled pork being the standard. Add in fish sauce, hoisin, sriracha and you've got yourself a perfect meal.

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Ah, ok. I think I know what to be looking for on menus now. The restaurant we went to had a lot of chinese on it. It had bun, but that was it and I didn't know what the heck bun was at the time.

Thanks guys!

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Went to this place yesterday http://www.restauranteur.com/lemongrassbistro/menu2.htm

I had the combination bun with vietnamese egg rolls. Sriracha and lemongrass sauce. :heartbeat:

I'll never eat kung pao again...

washing machine · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:34 am

Shawna, Banh Mi. Learn it. Live it.

px · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 am **Posts:** 18049

Hmmm. Bahn Mi huh? okie. That mom and pops I complained about in the OP? It delivers and does have 'bun' on the menu. I've grown very fond of the combination bun. OMG I love living within delivery range.

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