My favourite part of any Vietnamese meal is the humble spring roll (Cha Goi). Mined meat, vegetables and herbs all mixed up and rolled up in rice paper and then deep fried…twice. Yum, yum, I say. So I went to a cookery class in Hanoi to learn how to make them. Here’s the recipe:
2 oz [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘food’
December 11, 2009
How to make Vietnamese Spring Rolls
September 24, 2009
The price of fish
Every year the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK
collects the prices of 650 goods to calculate the official retail price index and Consumer Price Index (CPI), which give it an indication of inflation levels and household spending.
Known as ‘The Basket’, the list of items that are compared are chosen to reflect the [...]
September 13, 2009
Luang Prabang: The good, the cheap and the ugly
A few days in Luang Prabang will doubtless be one of the highlights of any trip to Indo-china. A couple of weeks there allows you to sample most of what the city has to offer in terms of sights, excursions, food and drink, accommodation and activities. So Jamie and I – having been here for [...]
September 4, 2009
Rice to be you…to be you rice?
Lao food is almost unique in Asian cooking as it uses ’sticky’ (glutinous) rice as its main staple for all meals rather than – as in other countries –just desserts. This type of rice is named for its high starch content, which means that it sticks to itself and can be rolled into balls with [...]
August 29, 2009
In the Laap of luxury
Laap is a Laotian salad made with minced meat, finely chopped long beans and a number of piquant herbs and spices that give it a salty, yet sweet and lemony flavour. It’s delicious, tasty and – best of all – cheap and we’ve been eating a lot of it.
However for the last couple of days [...]
August 6, 2009
Thai cooking for morons
The great philospher Socrates once said ‘Wisest is he who knows he does not know’. If this is true it makes me a very wise person indeed when it comes to Thai cooking.
I had always thought I could throw together an Pad Thai, have a stab at a Thai curry, and I was pretty [...]
