It's always fun to go to a birthday party. You can sample lots of tasty dishes that may not be available in a restaurant. So I stuffed myself Sunday night before staggering home in a stupor. The chicken wings were good, but their crispiness has faded a bit waiting for the guests to arrive. The veggie maki were tasty, but you needed to be selective in your choices and picked the ones that had the most filling.
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| Chicken wings |
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| Veggie maki |
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Some of the fresh rolls were a bit soggy, but they made up for it by having delicious and non-standard ingredients including dried shrimp and pork. The fresh mint is always a nice touch. My two favourite dishes were banh khot: golden deep-fried slight sweet dough with shrimp and green onions and banh bot loc: a stickier, chewier cousin to ha gow. These were sublime with fish sauce.
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| Fresh roll |
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| Banh khot |
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The main dish was Mi Quang (Quang-style noodles). Quang is a central province in Viet Nam that also gives rise to Bun Bo Hue (spicy beef noodles). This milder cousin is a mixture of noodles, shrimp, pork, peanuts, and rice crisps. But unlike pho, its curry-like broth just covers the bottom of the bowl, enough to keep the noodles soft. After a long rest, it was time to finish off the evening with various rice puddings, tapioca drinks, and a strawberry short-cake.
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| Banh bot loc |
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| Mi quang |
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