GregoryD > wrote:

> 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 once ate at Quan Kien Giang in Garland, a better area for Vietnamese
food, it seems... There was wonderful, spicy ech xao sa ot (frog legs
fried with chile peppers and lemon grass), and a very good fish curry.

> (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).

Kaffir lime or bergamot leaf probably...

> (d) vietnamese sausage.. the spring rolls usually had either sausage or
> shrimp in them.

For some good Vietnamese recipes see the Vietnamese and General Asian
sections of the List O'Links for alt.food.asian blacksalt posts on that
newsgroup. It is also at <http://vsack.bei.t-online.de/afa_faq.html>.

Victor