Bun thit nuong

This is a take home Bun thit nuong (Grilled meat with cold vermicelli noodles) grabbed along Nguyen Thong Street near the junction with Ky Dong Street in District 3. It's the dac biet (special) dish of the stall which also serves an array of noodle soups. The nuoc mam (fish sauce) is well tangy and sweet and scattered with crinkle cut carrots and onion. The pieces of pork shrapnel are marinated in sweet fish sauce and grilled over embers stall front. There are also portions of 'rolled pork kebab' which are skewered before grilling. For greens you have mint, cucumber and banana flower. There's also some chopped nuts in among this lot. This is fabulous streetscoff and costs 10,000VD. Highly recommended. Sorry I don't have the exact address, but it's very near the Ky Dong junction. Come lunchtime just follow the scent of the nearest grill. NB: Over the coming couple of weeks blogging may be light. However, I have an interesting wee mini-series planned which I intend to blog as soon I have put it together.

Comments

[MrsTweety]

The meat looks yummy.. unfortunately.. i'm not a big fan of pork.

[Reid]

Hi Noodlepie,

Gosh, this looks good! I take it that Vietnamese are fans of pork. Most of the Vietnamese restaurants that I go to here have a wide range of dishes made with pork, even more so than with beef or chicken. In any case, this sort of grilled meat is like the Vietnamese version of barbecue right?

[pieman]

Thx MrsTweety - great name:) Reid - good to hear from you. I think you're right pork is the most popular at the stall front barbie. It smells wonderful. There's a place just down a side street near the central Post office and every time I pass it I get these wonderful fumes floating towards me... have yet to actually try it. There are quite a number of beef and chicken barbie numbers. Bo Tung Xeo, marinated grilled beef, is a classic and I'll blog it when I get a chance. There's a hyper-popular one in Saigon on Ly Tu Trong Street in D1.