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Viet World Kitchen is a recipe and culture site dedicated to the food traditions of Asia, particularly those of Vietnam, the country where I was born. Dive in and join in the fray!
I’ve written a recipe for coconut coffee in The Pho Cookbook that’s like a crazy tropical iced coffee drink. The caramel flavored sweetened condensed milk was surprisingly deeper in flavor and amplified the avocado a bit more than the regular kind of SCM. In Taiwan I ate up a mountain of shaved ice, mango and sweetened condensed milk. I’m also tinkering with a Thai grilled condensed milk pork, which I’ll report back on soon!
Once I did, the Italian-American-Mexican connection liberated me to experiment and created a lazy day Caesar salad with fish sauce. The reasoning for using fish sauce was this: Anchovies are assumed to be part of the original Caesar dressing. When romaine is unavailable for this lazy day Caesar salad, make a tricolore: toss a mixture of radicchio, frisée, and arugula with the dressing and cheese. With fish sauce or garum in the dressing, the lazy day Caesar salad practically circles the globe with all its cultural melding.
There are historic recipes online that call for boiling fish with spices and dried herbs plus some vinegar but garum was also a fermented fish-based condiment. State Bird employs Red Boat fish sauce because it doesn’t contain additives and is close to the original garum. Since Imperial Roman cooks seasoned garum with vinegars and wines, plus herbs and spices, the restaurant’s recipe includes aromatics and spices too. (If you don’t have Red Boat, use a favorite fish sauce; in the Asian aisle at mainstream supermarkets, look for Dynasty brand or Thai Kitchen.)
But I missing classic sweet and sour pork, which involves deep-frying the pork cubes to a delicate crunch, then you quickly stir-fry vegetables, add a tangy sauce and Wanting to do right by sweet and sour pork but not wanting to deep fry or make a mess, I decided to give an air-fry makeover to Christopher Tan’s old school sweet and sour pork recipe posted a few years back. When I got into air-frying, I splurged and bought a high-end oil pump sprayer that except for a few hiccups, works quite well; you can put whatever kind of oil in there. If you don’t have an oil sprayer, drizzle or brush on some oil before air-frying the pork.