Eat More Vegetables

Exploring Vietnam’s best vegetarian ingredients For many, Vietnam is a paradise for vegetarians of all kinds. Restaurants roll out a vegetarian menu for the first and 15th of every month for those looking for a bit of soul purification. Home cooks revel in a huge assortment of fruits and vegetables, changing with the season. And

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Samosas

Samosa, Sambusa, or samboksa is a fried or baked dish with a savory filling, such as spiced potatoes, peas, cheese, minced lamb or minced chicken. Its size and consistency may vary, but typically it is distinctly triangular in shape. Indian samosas are usually vegetarian, and often accompanied by a mint chutney. Samosas are a popular entrée, appetizer or snack in the local cuisines of the Arabian

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Promotion @ Đèn Lồng Restaurant

For those of us who feel too tired and lazy to cook a Vietnamese meal at home after all the Tet festivities : Den Long Restaurant is here to help you, with 15% discount on their entire menu! 130 Nguyen Trai, Ben Thanh, District 1 Hotline: 093 3180316 Visit their Facebook page  

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Let Them Eat (Cup)cake!

Red velvet cupcakes is a bit of melt-in-your-mouth heaven on earth Who doesn’t like cupcakes? Cupcakes have to be among the most versatile, easy to make desserts around—and they’re a lot of fun to decorate! They’ve been around for a long time—the history of cupcakes dates way back to the late 19th century. They were

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You’ll Flip Over These

Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day – and every traveler knows that it’s the hardest part of your daily routine to change. No matter which part of the world you’re from, if you’re living overseas, the last thing you want to face when you wake up every morning is

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For the Love of Cod

Basquaise in the deliciousness of this fish course Everyone knows the feeling – when you’re away from home for a long time, all you can think about is what you’re going to eat when you get back. My job gives me the chance to prepare and sample culinary creations from around the world, but it’s

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Food for a Cause

Be part of the solution for children who suffer from heart disease I was born in Vietnam during a very violent and difficult era, and I still have many painful memories of what it was like for the children who suffered at that time from the effects of conflict and poverty. One of the painful

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The Long and Short of It

It has to be one of my favorite dishes of all time – braised short ribs, American comfort food for the soul. This is something I just love making at home for my family, and its rich flavor is perfect for the winter. Of course, now that I live in Saigon, I follow the local

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It’s Smokin’

Make this smoked salmon appetizer at your next shindig and get raves For over eight years in the US, I worked as a caterer at events ranging from small intimate soirées to the Oscars after-parties. While the tastes and styles were vastly different from one event to the other, some items were always welcome –

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Candy Crush Crudité

How a smartphone game inspired healthy cooking for kids A few years ago, my daughter contracted the deadly H1N1 virus. She was in a hospital for over three weeks – truly a dreadful time for my wife and me. Seeing our three-year-old on a hospital bed riddled with plastic tubing and with a fever that

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