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Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> Supper last night was barely worthy of the name. Gack. I cooked a mess
> of thin rice noodles and dumped some flavorless beef broth on them and
> called it soup. Blech. I have a bunch of rice noodles left and am
> considering trying to conjure up something like the salad I sometimes
> order at Cam Ranh Bay Restaurant here -- rice noodles on a bed of
> lettuce-salady stuff with some cukes - I've got the necessary goods for
> that. Even have the stuff for nuoc mam cham. What I'm iffy about is
> what to put on top of the rice noodles on top of the salady stuff.

Something aromatic...

I'd recommend soy sauce, fresh grated ginger and crushed garlic.

Cheers!
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