Haha....yeah, they'll kill the ecosystem if you grow them in the ditch, as they have been found to be grown by some. You can grow them in a container of some sort in your back yard. That way, they can't "escape." :lol: I just buy mine at the Asian supermarket. :)

I'm hungry. What's for supper tonight?

Hehe....Had this for lunch. Yes, very plain but very nice to eat after 3 days of party food and more days of leftovers. :yeldead:

Just plain white rice with boiled yu choy doused with spicy soy sauce. You like the pieces of chili peppers? :D I would've grabbed more but figured it wouldn't be good for my stomach, hehe.

For dinner, I had egg with cheese and tomato on wheat bread. Not Vietnamese food so I didn't take a pix. Thought I'd mention it for Sarge. :)

That looks Tasty !!!

it does look good. i couldn't handle too many chili peppers. it would taste good going in, but.....

Had chicken pho today. :)

That looks interesting. What is in it? BTW, I'm having gumbo tonight

I would DIVE face first in to that Lola !!!!!!!
and the soup dont look Half Bad eather !!!!!! ;)

Zippy's video explains it. I hope it works for you cuz it doesn't run for me. :p:

Anyways, I had star fruit for dessert, home grown. My mom grows the plant in a pot and it still yield lots of fruits.

Zippyt, I just noticed the white words! :lol:

Am I the only one who is aroused by that plate of food??

Silly, Sarge.

Had fried rice yesterday. This morning, I decided to have one of those 3-in-1 instant coffee. I had to add 2 tsp. of creamer to make a tad decent.

i can't stand coffee. i drink tea (iced sweet tea or hot tea).

hehe...I know how you southerners drink your iced tea.

I've been busy so I haven't been taking any food pix. There were a few dishes that would've been good to show. Anyways, here are some different types of bananas I have at home at the moment. The kids love those teeny tiny bananas. They're sweeter than the others. I like the short, fat ones. However, I can't tell when they're ripe. I bought those tiny ones when they were green. When I saw the short, fat ones, I thought they were ripe because they were totally yellow. When I bit into it, my mouth had that sticky feeling of unripe fruits. That was two days ago. This morning, I ate another one and it was still a tad under ripe. Blah. I don't think I'll buy that type again since I can't tell when they're ripe. The bigger ones in the pix are the kinds you can find at any American grocery store.

Oh yeah, I drank this coconut two days ago. It turned out to be a dry coconut. Taking the meat out was a pain. I usually drink the young coconut, but I bought the wrong kind. DOH!

I love coconut milk! Please adopt me. I love Asian food

unripe bananas are gross!

Try unripe perssimons. That's like 3X worse. And the sticky feeling in your mouth doesn't go away for a long time. :greenface

Had chicken ragout a few days back but never had a chance to post. The second picture, I'm showing you a Japanese cookie, brand Yoku Moku. What I was eating is coffee flavor. The third pix is coffee bought from Hawaii. Someone went to Hawaii for their kid's wedding and came back with gifts. Well, it wasn't given to me but the recipient doesn't like the vanilla flavor so I asked for it. :D No, I didn't take it in front of the giver, hihi.

This afternoon a friend gave me some desserts. It is steamed cassava root eaten with coconut milk and sprinkled with coconut flakes and salt and sesame seeds. The third pix is to show you the same dessert but bought at another store. I didn't eat that one, just to show you a difference. The last pix is a warm dessert, tofu with sugar syrup cooked with ginger. This tofu is cooked to be eaten as dessert and not the other kind where you can eat it as a dish. They are cooked differently. Usually a person would use a thin metal spoon and scoop out thin layers of tofu. I was lazy, so I just used a regular soup spoon. That is why the toful is chunky and ugly. :p:

I would try but prolly pass on the To( NONE FOOD )Fo

I would have to pass on the coffee. I can't stand the stuff

I should start a coffee thread. :D

This is yesterday's food. Not sure what it's called, I forgot to ask an older Viet person. I asked my sister and she wasn't sure either. :p: Anyways, I think it's meat mashed with other stuffs, spread eggs on top then steamed. I put up the top view and side view for y'all to see.

Sure looks good. :yum:

quiche is what I'd call it.

and it does look good!

It looks delicious. What's the crust made of? It doesn't look flour based. It looks more like tofu or some sort of meat paste.

It's egg white. Eggs are spread on top. The yolk stays on top while the egg white slides down.

Below is lunch. Looks little because I took the pix after I ate, hihi. Forgot to take them before. :p: The first pix is winter melon soup. The second pix is curry chicken.

I love quiche. Yours looks scrumptious

Girl, I don't think you eat enough to keep a titmouse alive! The food looks good, I'd just need jumbo portions

I am trying to lose weight. :p: Heck, everytime I eat, my mom would say, "I thought you were on a diet??" I would reply, "I need to eat otherwise I'd die!" :lol:

Anyways, here are today's food, lunch and dinner. I ate rice with braised mackeral and sour soup for lunch. For dinner, I had yuchoy soup and a tangerine for dessert. And just earlier, I drank some milk and a string cheese. That last tidbit info is for Sarge's sake to show that I eat a little more than just the pix I put up. :p:

I have to agree with BS , those look like Appetizers to me ,
TASTY Appetizers though

Being tiny as I am, if I don't eat "appetizer" portions, I will gain weight. :(

Okay, lunch. I ate a bowl of brown rice with the following. First, fried fish paste. The green stuff you see is leek. Second is mustard green soup.

Im just funnen with ya ,
like BS im a Big Boy , we eat big meals , and get biggerer

Your food looks YUMMMMMMMY , just small

It's true. Lola is physically tiny. Her stomach is probably the size of a walnut. But in intellect, personality and impact she's a cathedral of power.

Loving this foodblog. Even if I occasionally read it as foodbag.

Awww....you're always flattering me. :blush::hug:

This dish is grilled bbq pork with vermicelli eaten with mints, salad, bean sprouts, pickled carrots and jicama, sprinkled with crushed peanuts, and doused with mixed fish sauce. But below is a vegetarian version, hehe. So it's not pork but umm....whatever it is not meat :lol: and mixed soy sauce. Everything else is eaten the same way.

As for the green looking food, that's sweets. I've put an extract from wiki to help explain:


Bánh da lợn or bánh da heo[1] (literally "pig skin cake") is a Vietnamese steamed layer cake made from tapioca starch, rice flour, mashed mung beans, taro, or durian, coconut milk and/or water, and sugar. It is sweet and gelatinously soft in texture, with thin (approximately 1 cm) colored layers alternating with layers of mung bean, durian, or taro filling.

Rice porridge or congee Attachment 41633

That Bánh da lợn sounds really interesting, and it's certainly pretty.

I agree. It looks great

I would send y'all some to try except they'll spoil by the time the package gets there. :p:

Below is cabbage salad. It normally has chicken or in this case, shrimp, to eat with the rice congee. Typically people eat chicken cabbage salad with chicken rice congee. Anyways, the salad is supposed to have its particular sauce, which I never made so I don't know off-hand what are the ingredients. I gotta go so can't look it up either. :p:

Been eating lasagna and stuffs so no Viet food to post, hehe. Anyways, yesterday's food. This is vegetarian "shaking beef." And the coffee looks good so I decided to take a picture, heheh. Coffee, sugar, creamer, ice....yummmmmm.

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Posting from the phone So I don't have a chance to look up what the dish is called. Whatever it is called, this is the vegetarian version of it.

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Sweet soup. Has cassava root and tapioca.

In case anyone who doesn't know, sweet soup is dessert. Anyways, someone gave us this. Ginger preserve candy. It's homemade and quite good.Attachment 41701

I had vegetarian curry for lunch. Ate it with french bread, which I kinda burnt, hehe. I had to put a spoon in there to elevate the food. There was a lot of water. Attachment 41702

Chocolate mochi someone gave us. She bought it at theJapanese airport. It is yummy! Oh yeah, we already ate a few pieces, hihi.Attachment 41703

I'm really enjoying this blog. There are so many interesting things. BTW, we know you are a great cookie chef. Any chance you can bake some Twinkies???

Crab and shrimp udon soup :)Attachment 41715

Ha....you're a silly man. Why would I want to make Twinkies? Just go out to buy some. I'm sure generic brands are out there. The last time I ate them as an adult, they were sweeter than I remembered. The only thing I never got to try was the Twinkie with chocolate filling. A little disappointed.

Now I could really go for that crab and udon soup.
Yummeh!

Ramie leaf glutinous rice steamed cakeAttachment 41727Attachment 41728

I've decided to give y'all a link to explain better the "ramie leaf glutinous rice steamed cake." Hehe....There's actually another link, which I may put underneath the first one, but it has a pop-up so I'm not sure if y'all like that or not. The first link is a blog. The second link a for tourism. I think the details a little better there.

http://vietspices.blogspot.com/2010/...ttle-cake.html

http://didulich.net/english/news/100...binh-dinh.aspx

hehe....I think it's quite good and easy to eat. My sister is going to ask the cook how to make it. :D

That Crab and Udon is RIGHT up my ally !!!

Vermicelli rice with grilled chicken and veggies. Attachment 41753

Yummers !!!!

Looks great! What are the plans for Thanksgiving?

Gonna join my aunt's family for lunch. How about you, Sarge?