Blogs Tagged With vietnamese options | rated: b

  • Another weekend went by too fast

    On Friday. my boyfriend and I surprised our best friend into a birthday dinner. Unfortunately, he knew what we were up to. I guess I'm not a very good liar at times. Any way, we returned back to Village Yokocho because he and I were craving for some juicy and delicious takoyaki. Tony ordered some b…

  • San Diego Restaurant Review: Que Huong

    This is a guest post from Kirbie's Cravings Last week, FH and I were lucky enough to have dinner with Kirk of mmm-yoso, who generously made time in his super busy work schedule to spend an evening with us. We’ve been to Que Huong once before, but didn’t really know what we were doing…

  • Cupcakes Inspired By Cà Phê đá (Vietnamese Coffee)

    I can't believe it's the end of September already! It's crazy how fast time is flying by. Since my last recipe post in August, I've been busier than ever with school, babysitting and trying to keep up a social life so it was nice to finally be able to take some time out this weekend for myself and…

  • Restaurant Review: Xe Lua

    I love Vietnamese Food, but there are only two Vietnamese restaurants that I adore and love going to. One of them is Thai Son (located between Walker & Baxter Street) and Xe Lua (located between Canal & Mulberry Street). Xe Luais one of my boyfriend's favorite restaurants in the entire Chin…

  • Bánh mì

    I recently came up with my version of this popular Vietnamese sandwich after finding my favorite at a north-side restaurant here in Chicago. I desire the sandwich more than I desire to trek all the way to that restaurant, so I learned how to make it at home This is about as traditional a version…

  • Moon Festival

    192 It was a yearly tradition when I lived in Hong Kong. We'd go to Kowloon Park, light our lanterns and eat mooncakes while we looked up at the full moon. Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival (perhaps our Thanksgiving equivalent) celebrated by the Chinese & the Vietnamese and is marked as…

  • Can't Get Enough of Bun

    I love eating Vietnamese food, but there is one particular item that I always love to order from almost any Vietnamese restaurant and that is the Vietnamese Rice Vermicelli Bowl also known as "Bun" in Vietnamese.

  • Weekend Lunch with My Mama

    Yesterday, Mama and I were in Chinatown running errands and decided to have lunch together since it's been a long time since we did. Mama took me to her favorite Vietnamese restaurant. It's actually one of the most comfortable restaurants I've been to in Chinatown. TU DO is located in the center o…

  • Here Comes The Sun & Heat

    Here comes the sun & heat, is right. We've been having a lot of beautiful sunshine lately but with that, we also suffer the intense humidity and heat out there. I thought I was going to faint on my way to work knowing that it was going to be HOT today, but I guess I was just being silly and jus…

  • Do you get offended

    I'm Asian. To be more specific, I'm Filipino. But sometimes people mistake me for Vietnamese, Chinese, or Japanese. I either go along with or laugh. And then I correct them. I mean, I know I sorta look like one of those ethnicity. I can't blame them. Sometimes, I mistake other Asians for other ethn…