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  1. I think Lacay either was the name of the the area or a famous noodle house within a Chinese enclave ( Cholon) in Saigon. I incline to think the earlier. Hu tieu is the broth which can be used with either rice noodle (Pho noodle) or tapioca noode ( Hu Tieu Dai-dai means chewy). When a dish is referred to a area, it indicates what kind of tradition that dish is based on. Hu Tieu My Tho should be made according to the My Tho tradition with southern Vietnam and Cambode influence ( clearer broth) as opposed to Lacay which is more of Chinese influence ( broth is similar to Chinese noodle house).
  2. Hương means fragrant as in Sông Hương-fragant river. Hưng means favorable, raise, good in business sense. Sông means river while Song means 2 or twin as in Song Long means twin dragons. Phát means prosperity. So Hưng Phát (Grocery Store) means good prosperity for the store and Song Phát means twin prosperity for the restaurant. Sông Phát is not the right name.
  3. May be you enjoy looking at dirty sole right next to your table while eating. I don't. As for me, I will never go to that restaurant again.
  4. According to your logic, there should be no first and second degree crime because either way, the same crime was committed. To me the difference is whether the event is beyond a person ability to control. I am not looking to be offended and usually just ignore these sort of things. I didn't expect the manager to do much beyond dropping a hint like "Can we take your coats".
  5. Agree!. I would not complaint sitting next to a bigger person on an airplane and believe me, I put up with more than my share. I would if that person lean over and breath down my neck and that is what I think this situation is.
  6. No, I thought I ask the manager. Yes, it would. No, she did not have a leg problem as evident by her moving about. She was sitting in the bench big enough for 2 persons and she was almost laying on it. The only thing I was hoping for was that the manager offered to take the coats away.
  7. There is a difference. There is an invisible border between her table and mine and crossing that border with your dirty sole up is different than staying within your table and chew with the mouth open or talking loud. I think there is a different between showing it and pushing it !
  8. First, I am not Arab. Second, I would be annoyed but not outraged if the legs were crossed. The leg was straight on the bench almost touching our table. We were wondering if there is anything wrong with her leg !
  9. I went to Black Salt for lunch today. Didn't even know it was a Restaurant week. I generally avoid the restaurant week because services and foods are not usually up to the normal standard Anyway, we were seated next to 3 older ladies in the bench section and one of the ladies sitting by herself in the bench had like 3 coats on the bench and she was sort of almost laying on the bench with her leg stretching out to almost to my table with her sole prominently displayed. I asked the manager if anybody can talk to the lady to ask her put her feet down and the manager said no. He basically said He can't do anything about it as long as the customer is not abusive to others. I guess spending your whole lunch looking at some body dirty sole is not abusive to him. I still don't understand why a manager in the service field can not come up with indirection and discretion like asking the lady "May we take your coats!". I went to Black Salt many times before but this is my last !
  10. After 3 years reading in here, I think it's about time I introduce myself. I live in Falls Church, VA and am of Vietnamese origin. Started cooking a few years ago and not a very good one even thought my wife thinks I am the best cook in the world. I started cooking after watching Goodfellas, The Score, The Godfather and realized that tough dudes cook. I learned and continue to learn from members here. Thank you !
  11. Yes. At Rodmans. I think they only have 1 case.
  12. Bought 2 4 pack of Founders' breakfast stout on Tuesday. Drinking it right now. Tasty bastard!
  13. No, that's not an alternate spelling of Nguyen. Nguyen is pronounced win - 1 syllable. The person change her name based on the wrong pronunciation. Sad, it really is.
  14. Take it from a Vietnamese. The foods serve in there is loaded with MSG !
  15. There shouldn't be any bone marrow in bun rieu. What you think is liver is actual rieu which is crab meat paste. Where did you get recipe for this ? Bun rieu is made from crab meat catched in the river. This recipe is terrible and does not even have any crabs in it. Here is a authentic Bun Rieu recipe if you are up to it. Not even the restaurants in Eden do it this way cause it just too time consuming. They use mostly pork broth. Crack 6 live maryland crabs open, quarter the meats and mash them till they become fine paste. Mix them with 6 quarts of water, use your fingers to rub out the meat of the crab and let them mix with water, filter the shells of the crab, what you have left is milky water. Bring it to a slow simmer, not hard boil, pour in a cup of fish sauce and let it simmer, you will see the crab meat stick together and float to the top, take them out. What you have left is the crab broth for Bun Rieu. Let it simmers. If you have crab meats in the can, mix them with fish sauce, freshly ground black pepper to taste and 2 egg white, scoop them slowly in the broth, there's your rieu. Use 2 tomatoes, cut each into 8 pieces, fried tofu ( I bought them already made in Thanh Son tofu in Eden), slice 2 shallots into thin pieces and slice some garlic as well. in a sauce pan, heat up annato seed oil, put in tomatoes, shallots, fried tofu, stir fry for about 3 minutes and pour them into the broth. Bring the soup to taste with salt. You can serve your Bun rieu with noodle of course, add banana blossoms that were shredded, Kinh Gioi, Tia To, mints, hot pepper, slice of lime, pork blood, all the standard that you see they serve in Eden and no bean sprout please. If you use shrimp paste (mam ruot), take enough of the broth in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil, keep the crab meat separate, add shrimp paste and mix well. I don't eat shrimp paste uncooked. Sorry, I do not have detail written instruction, it's from observation and doing it at least once a month. My wife loves bun so I alternatively cook bun rieu, bun bo hue, pho, hu tieu every week for her. The smashing, mixing and filtering of the crab is hard labor. It takes me an average of 3 hours just to do that. but if you're patient enough, you will be rewarded with the sweetest Bun Rieu you ever taste. Cheers
  16. Sure, which type chicken or beef ?
  17. The mayonnaise is nothing but egg yolks beat "butter". I don't know how nasty egg yolk beater is. Bi is cooked pig skin cut to thin long strips and mix with dried-rice crumbs. There should be no meat there if you only ask for Bi. BTW, Bi is a Chinese word for skin.
  18. Cook it at home every 2 weeks. Wouldn't trust any of the recipes listed.
  19. There are not a lot of good options for Hu tieu in this area. Little Saigon is better than Hai Duong for sure. You can also try Viet bistro. I made them myself Liver in Bun Rieu ? What's next ? Pasta for lomein ?
  20. Those dishes must have some lychee in it. She was known to have a deep affection for lychee and the story was that her lover ( the emperor's adopted son) had to ride the horse all the way from the south to the capitol with her favorite fruit to make her happy.
  21. F2M has live spiny lobsters. Jerk lobstersssssss yum.......
  22. Not too recent but I do not see the need to try again. We do not go out for pho any more. We make it at home. Now, we can slurp all the broth we want without worrying about MSG.
  23. Sorry for the late chime in but Pho Xe Lua in Eden uses too much MSG in their broth. I ate there once and had to douche myself with .gallons of water to quench my thirst If you want real authentic pho that do not use much MSG then you should try pho 50 in loehmann plaza at the corner of route 50 and graham rd The saw tooth herb is very common nowsaday and you can get it in almost any vietnamese groceries store for 50 cents a bag. Just ask them for ngo gai. That's an essential herb for tiet canh ( gelatinous duck/chicken blood) which I doubt many will indulge given the bird flu scare.
  24. I am about 2 minutes from Great Wall. I don't shop there as much cause I think their vegs are not that good. They need sprinkler system for their vegs. I'll check them out again.
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