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2015-01-14
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My wife and I used to live in Vietnam and we often lament the lack of ACTUAL Vietnamese food in HK. Nearly everywhere plays with Vietnamese flavours, but falls short. Noodlemi sort of falls into that category.So, we visited for an early dinner and the place was pretty quiet. My wife ordered a beef pho and I ordered a grilled chicken bun. Everybody knows pho. The flat, cut rice noodles, so iconic of Vietnam. Pho actually refers to any kind of sheet rice noodle. The soup should be boiled fo
So, we visited for an early dinner and the place was pretty quiet. My wife ordered a beef pho and I ordered a grilled chicken bun.
Everybody knows pho. The flat, cut rice noodles, so iconic of Vietnam. Pho actually refers to any kind of sheet rice noodle. The soup should be boiled for a minimum of 7 hours to extract allof the flavours from the beef bones and aromatics. In Hanoi, the taste is cleaner and they don't like to mess too much with the soup, whereas in Saigon, they add hoisin souce. Here, they were going more for the Hanoi style with green aromatic leaves. Unfortunately, they failed in the most critical place - the broth. It had absolutely no taste. It was basically hot water. One of the blandest pho we have ever had.
Bun, is not as famous as its cousin pho. Bun are rolled round rice noodles. They are served cold in bun cha in Hanoi (possibly one of my favourite dishes in the worldand the one I miss the most from Vietnam) and in Hue, the famous bun bo hue is a soup wide with beef and pineapple (to tenderize the meat). Here they made their own kind of thing based in Vietnamese flavours. The noodles were cold and served with leaves, beansprouts, lettuce and warm, charred grilled chicken. The flavour came from nuoc cham, a sweet fish sauce that is used for dipping. They also had a big bottle of it on the table. It was good. Really good. While not a classic, it was a modern take on Vietnamese and it really worked. So much so, that the pho was forgotten. I added more nuoc cham to my bowl and had to keep giving mouthfuls of the bun to my wife who was lamenting her pho decision.
Basically, go and eat bun (kind of pronounced boon, not bun as in bread).
张贴