Eating in Hue 6

This will be my final (for the time being anyway) post on my trip to Hue, Vietnam, and being me, I have to do another food post though it’s not that exciting as it’s my hotel buffet food that I had for three days for breakfast.

I tried to eat mostly Vietnamese and sometimes other Asian food to start my day but occasionally there would be something French placed inbetween two local dishes and I would just go for that, too.  And being Vietnam, French was not so bad.

The rectangular crepe kind of thing I think was supposed to be banh beo. The onion is French and the green Chinese. The Chinese cabbage, what we call “chingensai” in Japanese, was very very good with just the right amount of garlic.

Pho ga!!

Porridge which I thought may have been more Chinese than Vietnamese. The Vietnamese put peanuts in everything it seems.

Exotic fruits. I don’t think we ever get pomelo (the citrus in the back that looks like grapefruit but much sweeter) in Japan.

This is the ultimate Hue specialty called Bun Bo Hue which I wanted to try outside the hotel but I didn’t have enough number of meals to do so.

What the Japanese call “osekihan” meaning literally “red rice” generally made with sticky rice and red beans. Apparently there are other versions of the dish in other parts of Asia, Vietnam being one of them.

But we would never eat osekihan with these condiments.

More variety! The Chinese bun and the dumplings were nice but they are really Chinese.

Such small lychee.

Glass noodle soup cooked in the same soup as the pho.

LOVE Vietnamese food.