Charles Phan's Vietnamese Home Cooking

[dimsumgirl]

I just got this book as a Christmas gift. I'd like to know if anyone has made anything from the book yet. There are beautiful pictures. I just don't know where to start. Anyone tried any of the recipes? I'm thinking of doing a stir fry dish tonight.

[tcamp]

I got it as a gift too. I have many pages marked to try but the only thing made so far is a simple dish with scrambled egg and pork. Very easy and good.

[dimsumgirl]

What page is that one on? I love eggs!

[pluralofcow]

The only thing I've made thus far was a pretty involved dish of grilled squid stuffed with a pork/noodle/mushroom/oyster sauce filling. It's served in a spicy tomato sauce. It was absolutely delicious. Stuffing the slippery squid with the slippery noodle filling is no fun, but in the case the results were more than worth it.

Now that the holidays are nearly past I'm ready to dive into the book again. I'm interested to hear what you cook!

[dimsumgirl]

Thanks for your reply. I love squid but I've never done it stuffed.

I'm trying the gulf shrimp and sing qua stir fry on Page 131 tonight. It's a vegetable that I've cooked many many times before but not in the way that he describes so it will be interesting to try it his way.