Month: November 2017

I started to make fresh bánh canh when I was in High School. At that time, I was still pretty much a newcomer and there were many things that I…

I hope everyone had a food-filling wonderful Thanksgiving. My family’s Thanksgiving was stuffed with lots of laughter and love from our family and friends. If you have been following my…

I hope everyone had a food-filling wonderful Thanksgiving. My family’s Thanksgiving was stuffed with lots of laughter and love from our family and friends. If you have been following my…

Welcome to my Vietspices blog! I am so excited to launch my first cooking blog. Cooking has always been my passion since I was a little girl. I can never…

Every month I try to experiment with a new recipe for my daughter’s preschool class. A friend of mine suggested to try puff pastries with raspberry since I have lots…

Fried pork fat might not be the heathiest due to the high amount of saturated fat but it’s certainly delicious. You may use fried pork fat to sprinkle on anything.…

Have you ever tried Vietnamese Banana Ice Cream Bar with roasted peanuts and shredded coconut? It’s very simple to make and actually tastes pretty good. I haven’t had it for…

My husband and I used to dine out frequently when we were still dating. We would follow our noses around to good food in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco mostly.…

We did it! Our steamed pork buns andbanana ice cream bars were a savory success. We labored for 4 hours in my cozy kitchen, hiddened from the pouring rain outside…

wAfter having lunch with the spicy savory mắm cá chưng that one of friends gave, I had the urge to produce a lot to last through these cold, raining days.…

I woke up this morning, fed my kids oatmeal, then pulled out a can of paint and started to touch up all the cracks and doodlings on the walls left…

This beautiful, delectable, low key sweet treat is very common in Viet Nam. It’s made of mainly sweet rice gluten wrapped around a ball of mung bean paste and coated…

I love banh gio wrapped in banana leaf. As you may know, the Vietnamese people wrap every kind of food in banana leaves; it may as well be our national…

Banh Gai are very common in Vietnam. I remembered everyday before I took off to school, my mom gave me money for snacks. The snack vendors sat right in front…

Once again, five of us gathered at my humbled kitchen to try our hands at Bánh Quai Vạc. I can see the hunger in the girls’ eyes and their hands…

It was lunch time. My daughter and I wentto a friend’s house for cháo gà (chicken porridge) but instead ended up with a bonus dish of delicious roasted duck red…

During last Christmas, I had an opportunity to make treats for my husband’s coworkers. Since I had lots of puff pastries in the fridge, I decided to make Chicken Pot…

One of my favorite food bloggers is Andrea Nguyen. She is a writer, a cooking teacher and the author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen and her recent cookbook Asian Dumplings…

My daughter woke up from her afternoon nap and wanted to eat something besides the noodle soup that I made for lunch and dinner. She’s probably tired of eating chedau…

Chả Tôm Huế is a popular dish from the central region of Hue, the imperial capital. it’s a popular versatile item that can be used in different recipes. It can…