Indian foods

Only main dishes, btw ;-0)

Foods

Fiesta meal at Aunt An et uncle Dung

The waffles of Libert farm

Apparently rumours go that the Belgian Royal family came here to have waffles, and we could confirm that it's true!

The waffle is not so sweet (but super heavy with the homemade cream and cranberries sauce), and they taste amazingly good.

The farm is also famous for its game (they even have a ranch full of deer, and different sort of birds). Very simple food, but well preparation, recommended!

Super Bun bo Hue

Because I have been complaining that there is no good Bun bo Hue in Brussels, and too lazy to make one, aunty An invited us for real Bun bo ;-).

It is super hot, but super delicious, even now my mouth is watering and my nose is running to just think about it.

This one is a typical soup of Central VN, Hue. We have to use to slightly bigger kind of rice noodle, and it have to have a taste of lemongrass with lots of peppers. My most favourite noodle soup!

Brunch with the boys

Doe filet "au four" in teriyaki sauce, sesame and gingembre

Thai dessert

Grapefruit n green papaya salads

Both of the salads are typical South VN, especially the green papaya, it is a student type of snacks. When you talked about papaya salad, every student from Saigon would talk about how much they love it because it is cheap, and it is really a delight after classes, gathering with friends in famous places that sell this salad. The salad is usually mixed with dry beef, and served with super hot sauce. Yummy!

Grilled clams with sour and sweet peanut sauce

Foods

Pork rolled in scented leave

Cabbage salad a la Thao

I love eating salad and obviously making them ;-), no wonder why my salads are usually yummy ;-)

Ruben's cooking ;-)

Didn't know Ruben cooks good, and he surely deserves an A ;-) for being a great cook and a hilarious host.

BTW, one of the dish is called ropa vieja-old clothes ;-)

pickles

Apart from killing time in cleaning, reading, puzzle, I have spent time in finding ways to make different possible pickles ;-). They are super good for noodles, rice and any Asian dishes. Can be served as apperitifs.

Sudhir's cooking

Simple, killing hot and delicious!

Fondue of old time

I remember when I was in VN, we often used this type of fondue, where the hole in the middle was filled with hot charcoals to warm the soup. There is no electricity or gas, only charcoals.

Now there are plenty of more "convenient", and clean fondue, easy to clean, but I was quite happy to find a VN restaurant here last week that is still using this ;-). Brought nostalgy.

Chinese dimsum in Antwerpen

Of course, we ordered too much that at the end none could finish the fried sticky rice. Gosh, I miss HongKong, this helped ;-)

MMM Yummy

Fox's cooking

After the trillion years ;-), Manon and me were lucky enough to enjoy Fox's cuisine.

He prepared a very nice Mexican tortallia served with a light Spanish bubble made the whole brunch experience became delightful ;-)

Rice porridge

The last time I ate rice porridge was in HK, having dimsum with Fox. Anyway, last Tuesday wanted so much to have porridge, so I made it...MMM

Gong vegetable salad

Indian dinner ;-)

Chana masala
Chicken tandoori
Raida cucumber and mint

Served with naan (Indian breads)

In Indian cuisine, they used a lot of spices such as cumin, red chilli, tamarind, coriander seeds...etc, especially the garam masala, which is a mix of everything, and is used in most dishes, cold or hot although an excess in quantity will over-power the dishes.

BTW, they also eat a lot of onions, fresh ones...

Make sure you have a lot of gums with you to recover from bad breath afterwards ;-)