Today’s Food Crusader will take you to a Vietnamese restaurant that has been in Taiwan for over twenty years. It offers light meals that you can’t resist.
It’s already way past lunchtime, but this Vietnamese restaurant is still crowded with customers who have been in line for a long time just to taste its light oriental cuisine.
Beef rice noodle soup is one of the most popular Vietnamese dishes of all time. Raw beef cooked at high temperature with chicken soup preserving the sweetness of the meat. With a little lemon and bean sprouts the noodle soup is ready to be devoured.
“The best part about the noodle soup is the sweetness of the soup. We have to cook it for a long period of time with a mixture of herbs and other meats,” said the restaurant worker Liu Su-ming.
Just hear the sound of the oil simmering inside the pots you can imagine how crispy the spring rolls will taste after being deep-fried inside this bubbling oil. Deep-fried pork and shrimp are also popular traditional dishes among the Vietnamese.
Try this pork dish steamed inside a rice wrap. With traditional Vietnamese sauce to add an extra flavor of richness, you can never say no to this temptation.
“It is a Vietnamese tradition to have grounded meat wrapped inside rice wraps. It is very tasty and not greasy at all,” said Liu Su-ming.
The Vietnamese love to include shrimp in their daily cuisines. Take a look at these shrimp egg rolls, sugar-caned shrimp and fried shrimp. Don’t they look tasty?
In Vietnam most people enjoy dripping coffee like this. With a little cream and condensed sugar it will definitely be refreshing after a big meal,”.
Besides iced coffee you can still have a bowl of Vietnamese sweets if you’ve still got room after such a gourmet meal.
“A little secret to share: in this store we sell all types of ingredients needed to make a Vietnamese gourmet meal. So if you want to trying cooking Vietnamese we got all of your needs,” said restaurant staff Lin Wei-ming.
Try authentic Vietnamese cuisine in Taiwan 