again, with all the traveling we've been doing, we changed it up a bit. instead of making something, we gave each other the option of either making something, or sharing with you all the brunch we had.
when i think about brunch, i don't often think about Vietnamese food. so i thought to myself, if i was having a Vietnamese brunch, what would i eat? the first thing that comes to mind is chao, porridge, which is probably because i will eat that any time of day. i then thought about what my mom would make when we got to sleep in a little bit on the weekends. the first thing that came to mind was banh tom, which is a sweet potato shrimp cake. so that is exactly what i ordered when i met some friends at Minh's Restaurant in Milpitas, CA
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| Banh Tom (sorry, we dug in before i could take the picture) |
if you'd like to make your own, which i definitely recommend, i found the recipe here on Sea Salt with Food. This recipe looks exactly how my mom used to make them, the thinly sliced sweet potatoes patties with the shrimp nested in the middle. a shrimp nest, if you will. i remember walking into the kitchen and seeing the thin slices of the orange sweet potatoes and shrimp bathing in their batter, as my mom was tending over the hot frying pan. she made platefuls of these little guys for me and my brothers to chow down on. she made sure we ate our greens by showing us that we would need to wrap it in lettuce before we ate it. i miss sitting down with my mom and siblings and enjoying a good home cooked meal.
i hope you try making these yourself, i know i definitely will the next time i get.
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<3 roe [a roesy life]
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