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So I have seen some posts here in the past, mostly by the bird brothers, about great Vietnamese food. I have a really good Vietnamese restaurant close to my work. The only thing I have had so far is Pho Ga soup and I have tried it at several places and this restaurant makes the absolute best so I would like to try some other dishes but it is hard to figure out what to try next as it is really catered to Vietnamese. The menu doesn't go into much detail other than the name of the dish and all customers and employees are Vietnamese so I am a fish out of water but want to have something good without eating animal organs. What do you recommend I try? NRA Benefactor Life Member | ||
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Goi ga. "Chicken salad". A cold dish, sort of like cole slaw with shredded chicken in a citrus dressing. Spring rolls. Rice paper shrimp and greens burrito. Summer rolls. Bbq beef inside. Wor wonton soup. I like the wontons steamed but they're usually fried. Shrimp, beef, pork, chicken with every vegetable they have in the kitchen. It's a meal. Edit: Yes, Wor Wonton soup is Chinese and I have yet to find a Pho restaurant in Nevada without it on the menu. It seems to be "Honorary Vietnamese food".  Enjoy! BruceThis message has been edited. Last edited by: RNshooter, "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Do they have a menu online? Or pics in yellllp review? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Bahn mi Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Better Than I Deserve! |
Bahn mi, spring rolls, egg rolls all go great with Pho. ____________________________ NRA Benefactor Life Member GOA Life Member Arizona Citizens Defense League Life Member | |||
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If you have a strong stomach, Balut. I watched another Marine eat one once...... Google it. Sgt. USMC 1970 - 1973 | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
That isn't Vietnamese, it's Filipino No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
And Wor Wonton is Chinese. OP: you could try going down the menu and trying each one. I also like Vietnamese ice coffee. In a Thai restaurant, Thai iced tea. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
If they know how to make these, you will love it. Bo Luc Lac (beef chunk steaks) Bun Bo Hue (special spicy noodle soup originally from Hue) And, how can you eat Pho Ga, and not try Pho Tai Nam Gau Gan Sach? This pho is Vietnamese food. Just toss the "sach" part, since you don't like animal organ parts. Sach = beef tripe. Q | |||
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Google Vietnamese menu - a few items down will be some menu images that are both in English and Vietnamese. You can use that as a guide to translate your local one. | |||
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Mad4363 is correct. I had to look up the correct spelling, but the Vietnamese version is called trung vi lon. They also have their own version of Kimchee which is somewhat fouler - smells more like a chamber pot than kimchee pot.  . “Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . .” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://poundsstudio.com/ | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
Vit (= duck) Yeah, embryo duck egg. Yum!  It's like Alien.    Q | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
First off, Phở Gà is chicken noodle soup. Chicken phở is the variant, beef phở is the original. Get the combo, usually called the đặc biệt (special), comes with well done brisket, rare filet, tripe, and tendon. Put the bean sprouts, basil leaves, and a squeeze of lime into the broth. You'll also want to try the cơm tấm, broken rice. The are like six or seven toppings typically served with it. The menu might be overwhelming because they basically list out every permutation of the toppings. Just get the special that has a little of everything, typically BBQ pork, a fried imperial roll, shredded pork, an egg quiche, grilled shrimp, fried shrimp paste, etc. Spoon a little of the citrus sauce over the rice as you eat it. | |||
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What the fuck is that!!!!! | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
It's dead then after you eat it - it comes back to life and escapes the way it went in. At least that's how it worked for me. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Raptorman |
NO, just no. That is the most disgusting bowl of entrails I have ever witnessed, BLECH! A Com Thit Nuong dish. Start there. It's rice and Pork BBQ, FANTASTIC. Pour the fish sauce over the rice.  Bo Kho is like American beef stew with an herby twist. Absolutely addictive. I'm no expert, but I work with people who literally escaped the killing fields that love to take me to great places to eat because I am truly interested in their culture.  ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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Chau Chuoc  Best not to inquire. But yummy. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
Too bad you don't like it. That's about as Vietnamese food as apple pie to America. Q | |||
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The Karmanator |
I quite like Bún Bò Xào. Especially in the summer. It is a beef noodle dish with vegatbles - almost a salad. Sliced beef sautéed with lemongrass, onions, peanuts and cilantro. Served with vermicelli noodles, pickled carrots and daikon. Served with Super tasty. It might also be called Bun Thit Nuong Bo  | |||
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