17 Feb 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Moving day! Lots of good food needed for energy, right?! I skyped home with my dad for his birthday in the morning (12 hours time difference), which was a nice chat, despite the horrible internet connection.   Then we got everything packed up and into a taxi.  Xe om (motorbike taxi) just couldn’t quite cut it for our massive amount of luggage. We settled in, did a bit of shopping and lesson planning, then I worked in the evening. We had chicken pho for dinner, but below is a photo of another meal I had earlier that is definitely one of my favourite street foods! And it was only 15,000VND, about $0.75!

“bột chiến" (plus accents) is similar to an omelette. You take an egg and you take fried rice cake cubes (I thought they were potatoes/hash browns at first) and fry it all together.  You throw in some green onion and put it on top of greens or cabbage and they might throw other veggies on the side too. You pour over a soy and red chili sauce right before eating. Vietnamese-style fried eggs!


Here’s a YouTube video showing how you make it! SO simple! Nommy egginess... 
How to make Bot Chien

Note: google translates bột chiến as "powder war"!



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