"GregoryD" > wrote in message
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> For the past two years, I've lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In
> Arlington, there's a restaurant called Le's Fire Pot that has a bunch of
> Vietnamese food as well as a fire pot/hot pot. I used to make a weekly
> trip there on Saturday, load up on food, and then go home to watch the
> football games, stuffed for the day. I've moved to New Orleans recently
> and am fiending for this stuff (I'm a local, so the local food doesn't
> exactly overwhelm me, even if it is good).
>
> I miss a few things over there, and I'm wondering if anyone can help me
> out here. Specifically, the following:
>
> (a) curry chicken with potatoes
> (b) vietnamese meatballs (for pho or hot pot... pretty sure they bought
> these because they came in beef and either chicken or turkey)
> (c) spring rolls (seemed to be rice paper, not fried.. with a blade of
> grass that tasted like lemon... not sure what that was, though).
> (d) vietnamese sausage.. the spring rolls usually had either sausage or
> shrimp in them.
>
> Also, what cut of beef do these restaurants usually slice for shabu shabu
> or hot pot? And lastly, there was a sweet, dark sauce along with the fish
> sauce and the chili sauce.. wasn't teriyaki, though. Any ideas?
>
> GregoryD

I think you need to go here first: http://asiarecipe.com/vietnam.html

Then to Google

Dimitri