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Buttered Toast- Many VN have never tasted real butter, believe it or not. The 6 y.o. daughter of a friend had 4 slices of toast, until I noticed she was licking the butter off and feeding the bread to the dog -@Aidan in HCMC

My ex from Tay Ninh used to eat butter raw. Have seen Vietnamese dipping French fries in butter & sugar! In Singapore I took Ms Thanh down Boat Quay for a pizza one night I was feeling flush. She ordered & took one bite out of it & stopped eating it. I was p****d off & said hey that cost 20Sing & you dont like it so why order it. "I look look  TV I like, I eat I no like " was her answer. So took it back to the apartment in a doggie bag & planned to have it when I got back from office the next day. When I got back she had scoffed the lot.

I do a mean cream of Mushroom soup, tomato soup, sweet corn soup, cauliflower soup & asparagus soup & they go down well. Mince & tatties is a fav too but not with Ms My as all she eats is vegetables which is a bit of a pain!   

Most Vietnamese will eat anything as they do not like to waste anything.

I did cook a boneless breaded/crumbed chicken drumstick with pork to replace the missing bone and a mango chili gravy. My in-laws loved it. The younger ones love my thin crust pizza (yes, I know I asked about a good place to get pizza in HCM in a previous post, but sometimes I just want to relax and have a nice pizza without cooking and cleaning), spaghetti and lasagna. My wife loves my mashed potatoes, I remember the first time i made it I gave her some and me some on the plate and when went for seconds nothing was left in the saucepan. I was so sad.

    Most Vietnamese will eat anything as they do not like to waste anything.
I did cook a boneless breaded/crumbed chicken drumstick with pork to replace the missing bone and a mango chili gravy. My in-laws loved it. The younger ones love my pizza, spaghetti and lasagna. My wife loves my mashed potatoes, I remember the first time i made it I gave her some and me some on the plate and when went for seconds nothing was left in the saucepan. I was so sad.
   

    -@cougarcar20

potatoes & sweet potatoes mashed together are nice

@goodolboy

most root veg are fantastic mashed but must use real butter and or cream.

I love the VN word for potato - khoai tây, something like Western root vegetable

I do a mean cream of Mushroom soup, tomato soup, sweet corn soup, cauliflower soup & asparagus soup & they go down well. Mince & tatties is a fav too but not with Ms My as all she eats is vegetables which is a bit of a pain!   
        -@goodolboy

Oh my, I forgot to get into the creamed soups!

Soon, very, very soon!

I also found that Vietnamese are surprised about western style gravy, but they love it.

    Most Vietnamese will eat anything as they do not like to waste anything.
I did cook a boneless breaded/crumbed chicken drumstick with pork to replace the missing bone and a mango chili gravy. My in-laws loved it. The younger ones love my thin crust pizza (yes, I know I asked about a good place to get pizza in HCM in a previous post, but sometimes I just want to relax and have a nice pizza without cooking and cleaning), spaghetti and lasagna. My wife loves my mashed potatoes, I remember the first time i made it I gave her some and me some on the plate and when went for seconds nothing was left in the saucepan. I was so sad.
       -@cougarcar20

Spaghetti and lasagna! Now added to the up-and-coming list!

@Aidan in HCMC

Oh yes cream soup, I have made pumpkin, potato, asparagus and tomato cream soups and all my Vietnamese loved it except for the asparagus.

@Aidan in HCMC

I cheat with my lasagna I mix both cheese, white sauce with my meat and tomatoes mix all together. Its quicker and easier and no one notices the difference. My friend's Italian grandmother taught me this trick, she was from Cissone.

Oh, also my Vietnamese friends love my Australian meat pies but really love the Bo Kho pies.

    Oh, also my Vietnamese friends love my Australian meat pies but really love the Bo Kho pies.
        -@cougarcar20

Excellent! The hits just keep on coming!

Meat pies I totally forgot about! Steak and kidney, ham pasties, steak and mushroom, shepherd's pie....

I'll be doing these in very short order. Can't wait!

My Irish friend gets me use mash potato as the crust instead of pastry. So, I cook the potato base first then add the meat base and then another layer of potato with a layer of cheddar cheese just like his mother use to make.

The funny part about the VN diet is that it consists of about 40% western ingredients without knowing.  Ex:  xà lách trộn is actually just egg salad, bò lúc lắc is peppered steak.  The Vnamese themselves forgot they were colonized by France for over 100 years.  Even the popular banh xeo has its root back to the French crepes.

        Oh, also my Vietnamese friends love my Australian meat pies but really love the Bo Kho pies.        -@cougarcar20

Excellent! The hits just keep on coming!
Meat pies I totally forgot about! Steak and kidney, ham pasties, steak and mushroom, shepherd's pie....
I'll be doing these in very short order. Can't wait!
   

    -@Aidan in HCMC

shepherds pie is yummy, just not easy to get a shepherd in Vietnam!

The hits just keep on coming! Meat pies I totally forgot about! Steak and kidney, ham pasties, steak and mushroom, shepherd's pie....I'll be doing these in very short order. Can't wait!        -@Aidan in HCMC

shepherds pie is yummy, just not easy to get a shepherd in Vietnam!        -@goodolboy

LOL!

Okay if I use a German Shepherd?

    The hits just keep on coming! Meat pies I totally forgot about! Steak and kidney, ham pasties, steak and mushroom, shepherd's pie....I'll be doing these in very short order. Can't wait!        -@Aidan in HCMC
shepherds pie is yummy, just not easy to get a shepherd in Vietnam!        -@goodolboy

LOL!
Okay if I use a German Shepherd?
-@Aidan in HCMC

yup that would work

The hardcore drinking Vietnamese guys will love that German shepherd pie 😂

I cooked for my vietnamese girlfriend last winter and she loved everything. The problem I find is that the ingredients are so expensive that it makes no sense.

    I cooked for my vietnamese girlfriend last winter and she loved everything. The problem I find is that the ingredients are so expensive that it makes no sense.       -@Malcolmleitrim

Agreed on the price. I threw for another can of Hereford Corned Beef yesterday,

having messed up my last attempt. 228k VND (gak!), for what might be regarded

by some people as "premium spam" (not to me though!).

The only way I can justify the costs of some Western ingredients/foods is by telling

myself how toasty warm it makes the cockles of my heart feel. That, and watching how

the locals react sort of/kind of/almost makes it worth the price.

Introduced the neighbours kids to one of my favourite desserts tonight. It was a big hit with them (three boys, ages 6, 5 and 3).

. They'd never had rice that way before, but boy oh boy, did the boys ever lick their bowls clean! 

Also, though not exactly food related, I showed the neighbours how I keep salt from becoming damp/wet while in the shaker. Unlike in most of the west where our salt is mined, here it is sourced by evaporating salt water on large flats of land, so I've found that it is always a little wet(-ish) even straight from the bag. Simply add about 25% uncooked rice to salt into the salt shaker. Works a treat. I was quite surprised that people here hadn't heard of this before.

    Introduced the neighbours kids to one of my favourite desserts tonight. It was a big hit with them (three boys, ages 6, 5 and 3).
. They'd never had rice that way before, but boy oh boy, did the boys ever lick their bowls clean! 
Also, though not exactly food related, I showed the neighbours how I keep salt from becoming damp/wet while in the shaker. Unlike in most of the west where our salt is mined, here it is sourced by evaporating salt water on large flats of land, so I've found that it is always a little wet(-ish) even straight from the bag. Simply add about 25% uncooked rice to salt into the salt shaker. Works a treat. I was quite surprised that people here hadn't heard of this before.
   

    -@Aidan in HCMC

aaaaaahhhhhh rice pud, oh the memories. When I was young (a long time ago) the only rice we ate was rice pud & then the rice was straight out of the tin.

Mom baked it in the oven, made it with dry short grain rice, milk and butter. Then I'd fight my brother for the nutmeg and mace "skin" on the top.

Maybe need to give it a go in the Sanaky oven

    Mom baked it in the oven, made it with dry short grain rice, milk and butter. Then I'd fight my brother for the nutmeg and mace "skin" on the top.
Maybe need to give it a go in the Sanaky oven   
    -@MyGuess

That's exactly the way my mom made it! Same competition for the skin, too LOL