Phorati

A quick soup scan through Technorati informs me that there are more than a few people nattering about pho, the ubiquitous Vietnamese beef noodle soup. Three links worth noting for pho fans,

Husband and wife bloggers Faizis cooked up a version of pho in Singapore and they have a very detailed looking recipe.

Kalyn has a post at BlogHer with quotes and links out to various pho eating and cooking bloggers.

From Kalyn I arrived at Food Lover's Journey. This blog is written by Anh in Australia who describes herself as "a Vietnamese girl who loves to cook". She appears to have a penchant for Vietnamese cooking, although she cooks dishes from all over the place. There aren't too many Vinarecipes up there at the moment - she's only been blogging since October 2006 - but what she does have looks rather good.

If you know of a decent Vietnamese food based blog, let me know. I'm hoping to get my cook's hat on very soon to attack Andrea's mega Into the Vietnamese Kitchen book. Meanwhile, if you're a total pho head, scour the Technorati pho search.

Comments

[Anh]

Hi,

Thanks for mentioning my blog (Food Lover's Journey) in your post. I grew up in Hanoi so most of my cooking is essentially Northern-style. However, this great blog by Hoang Tam is more Vietnamese-food focused, and it has more flavours from southern Vietnam

http://www.pwmf.blogspot.com/

I have never seen Into the Vietnamese Kitchen cookbook. Is it any good? I have come across a lot of Vietnamese cookbook in English, and they are NOT authentic at all.

[Graham]

You're absolutely right. Vietnamese cookboks bear little or even no relation to the Vietnamese food I know and you'll find on this blog. However, Andrea's is a gem. Very, very detailed in her descriptions. I highly recommend it. She is aiming at the Californian cook i.e. you won't find all the standards or things cooked absolutely in the Vietnam Vietnamese way, but I think it's very good. I've shown it to a number of Vietnamese who agree. I also intend to start blogging from it - if I'm brave enough :)

And thanks for the link. Will go and check it out.

[Graham]

I should also add Andrea very kindly popped into the comments here:

http://www.noodlepie.com/into_the_vietnamese_kitchen/index.html