Ambitious Deliciousness – Dont Eat Lazy.

As promised in my previous post, I want to share a recipe for pork belly bahn mi sandwiches. Banh Mi, for those of you who might not be familiar, is a Vietnamese sandwich made with pate, some sort of protein, then layered with pickled veggies and fresh cilantro on crusty baguettes. For this recipe, I skipped the pate at the request of the shower hostess but it was still delicious!

Next time, I will buy a big slab of pork belly and slice it myself. I bought the thinly sliced ones, which was good but not as tasty as having huge chunks of pork belly goodness in each bite. The most time consuming aspect of this recipe was chopping and pickling radish and carrots. I pickled everything the night before so that I could focus on braising the pork belly on the day of the bridal shower.

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Not sure if you’re aware of the latest fad taking food lovers by storm – Banh Mi sandwiches. I find this “fad” quite amusing since BanhMi sandwiches have been around for a long, long time. But to be fair, I didn’t actually try eating one until recently. What the heck was I waiting for? I have no idea.

I had a couple of friends over for dinner, and one of them suggested that we make BanhMi. While we were assembling our sandwiches, they kept referring to themselves by L and S, trying to predict what I would write in this post. And just because of that, I’m going to say their names.

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Why is the chicken shaking? Yea, I don’t know either.

The original dish is actually called shaking beef, or Bo Luc Luc, which is a wildly popular Vietnamese dish. The name comes from the act of shaking the beef to get all the flavors to intermingle.

Since my version of this dish was quite far from the original, I think it’s more appropriate to name it Drunken Chicken. I will try making the real dish next time, with the proper ingredients.

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I like to eat Vietnamese food on a regular basis. But since I don’t know how to make Pho, I thought I’d make what I do know how to make – summer rolls.

Vietnamese food became very popular in Korea a few years ago, and now there are a bunch of Vietnamese restaurants that are Korean owned. I think the tastes do vary, as every cuisine does, according to its new culture. I’m no expert but I do know when I like something!

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