A mouthwatering introduction to the pleasures of regional Vietnamese cooking featuring more than 100 recipes and illustrated with more than 60 photos. Includes mail-order sources and Web sties for hard-to-find ingredients. 2-color throughout.

Delicious, fresh Vietnamese food is achievable any night of the week with this cookbook's 80 accessible, easy recipes. IACP AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Washington Post • Eater • Food52 • Epicurious • Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Drawing on decades of experience, as well as the cooking hacks her mom adopted after fleeing from Vietnam to America, award-winning author Andrea Nguyen shows you how to use easy-to-find ingredients to create true Vietnamese flavors at home—fast. With Nguyen as your guide, there’s no need to take a trip to a specialty grocer for favorites such as banh mi, rice paper rolls, and pho, as well as recipes for Honey-Glazed Pork Riblets, Chile Garlic Chicken Wings, Vibrant Turmeric Coconut Rice, and No-Churn Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream. Nguyen’s tips and tricks for creating Viet food from ingredients at national supermarkets are indispensable, liberating home cooks and making everyday cooking easier.

Real Vietnamese Cooking is your ticket to a new world of Southeast Asian tastes and flavors--from the traditional to the modern. On this vibrant culinary tour, visit the food stalls of Vietnam's bustling urban centers, pull up a kitchen chair for a family feast, and then--in one of the cookbook's most unique forays--sit down in a mess hall with the hungry soldiers of the Vietnamese Army. Real Vietnamese Cooking combines the collective culinary wisdom of three intrepid food explorers who spent many years training with Vietnam's best chefs while scouring the countryside in search of tastes few foreigners experience. The trio appear throughout the cookbook, in caricature form, serving as guides, teachers and food ambassadors. This cookbook introduces readers to local takes on classic dishes, as well as lesser known favorites--all delicious and accessible, made with easy-to-find ingredients. The more specialized, including rice paper wrappers and rice flour, are readily available in all major American grocery chains. Street eats, food stall favorites and home-cooked delicacies that savvy travelers could once only find on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and in the cafes of Hanoi are gathered here for the first time. This one-of-a-kind cookbook opens a new culinary window on contemporary Vietnam, exposing the full range of sweet, salty and savory tastes previously unavailable to the home cook. Dishes include: Shrimp-stuffed spring rolls Classic Pho

Amidst the wonderful wealth of cuisines to be found in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese food has retained its own identity. For those who love Chinese and Thai food, Vietnamese cooking is the obvious next step in a culinary exploration of the Far East.The Book of Vietnamese Cooking offers 80 authentic favorites, from starters to desserts, including: Prawn Crystal Rolls, Vermicelli & Mushroom Soup, Green Papaya Salad, Chicken with Lemongrass, Spicy Beef Stew, Zucchini with Ginger & Garlic, Eggplant in Spicy Sauce, Vegetarian Fried Noodles, Lychee Sorbet, Coconut Custard, and more.

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • With this comprehensive cookbook, Vietnam’s most beloved, aromatic comfort food—the broth and noodle soup known as pho—is now within your reach. Author Andrea Nguyen first tasted pho in Vietnam as a child, sitting at a Saigon street stall with her parents. That experience sparked a lifelong love of the iconic noodle soup, long before it became a cult food item in the United States. Here Andrea dives deep into pho’s lively past, visiting its birthplace and then teaching you how to successfully make it at home. Options range from quick weeknight cheats to impressive weekend feasts with broth and condiments from scratch, as well as other pho rice noodle favorites. Over fifty versatile recipes, including snacks, salads, companion dishes, and vegetarian and gluten-free options, welcome everyone to the pho table. With a thoughtful guide on ingredients and techniques, plus evocative location photography and deep historical knowledge, The Pho Cookbook enables you to make this comforting classic your own.

In his eagerly awaited first cookbook, award-winning chef Charles Phan from San Francisco's Slanted Door restaurant introduces traditional Vietnamese cooking to home cooks by focusing on fundamental techniques and ingredients. When Charles Phan opened his now-legendary restaurant, The Slanted Door, in 1995, he introduced American diners to a new world of Vietnamese food: robustly flavored, subtly nuanced, authentic yet influenced by local ingredients, and, ultimately, entirely approachable. In this same spirit of tradition and innovation, Phan presents a landmark collection based on the premise that with an understanding of its central techniques and fundamental ingredients, Vietnamese home cooking can be as attainable and understandable as American, French, or Italian. With solid instruction and encouraging guidance, perfectly crispy imperial rolls, tender steamed dumplings, delicately flavored whole fish, and meaty lemongrass beef stew are all deliciously close at hand. Abundant photography detailing techniques and equipment, and vibrant shots taken on location in Vietnam, make for equal parts elucidation and inspiration. And with master recipes for stocks and sauces, a photographic guide to ingredients, and tips on choosing a wok and seasoning a clay pot, this definitive reference will finally secure Vietnamese food in the home cook’s repertoire. Infused with the author’s stories and experiences, from his early days as a refugee to his current culinary success, Vietnamese Home Cooking is a personal and accessible guide to real Vietnamese cuisine from one of its leading voices.

Discover the stunning food and sights of Vietnam with Real Vietnamese Cooking. Follow Tracey Lister and Andreas Pohl on a delicious journey through the culinary regions of Vietnam, and learn how to recreate the flavours of Vietnam at home. This comprehensive collection brings you the delectable foods served at street stalls, countryside eateries, bia hois and family gatherings. With recipes ranging from Vietnamese classics such as beef noodle soup (pho bo), spring rolls (nem) and banana flower salad, to lesser-known recipes like eel in caul fat and boiled jackfruit seeds - Real Vietnamese Cooking is perfect for cooking up a traditional Vietnamese banquet or throwing together a casual meal for friends.