On 2015-01-22, Dave Smith > wrote:

> It was a first for me. I had been curious about Vietnamese food for
> years but never got around to trying it. Today my son and I went to
> Hamilton for something and were driving along looking for the place
> and passed an area where there were a number of Vietnamese stores
> and restaurants. After we got what we had gone there for we went
> back and had a late lunch/early supper. I can't begin pronounce the
> dish I had but it was rice vermicelli with a spring roll and grilled
> chicken. It was pretty tasty.

While Viet food can be quite good and very tasty, some of it can also
be pretty boring. Not sure what it is, but the take-out I usta
frequent hadda lotta desert items for sale. While there were many
different looking food-stuffs, they were all contained the same thing,
some kinda rice gummy-bear concoction w/ day-glo green and pink
colors. Rows and rows of 'em. Weird stuff.

The thing I liked about this one place were the awesome bánh mì's.
They also had a display counter w/ hot dishes in bain-marie's. I
ordered a batch of little birds, baked whole. Very good. Another
thing I loved was the fresh soy milk. I will not buy that stuff in a
carton on the sprmkt shelf, but fresh, chilled, soy milk is quite
tasty. Very close to real milk. The pennywort drink was pretty good,
too, despite containing pennywort seeds almost as big as those tapioca
beads one gets in bubble drinks.

I will be trying to bake bánh mì baguettes, this weekend.

nb