Full Course Meal-Asian Style

Hey guys,so like I said last time that I would be telling you about a meal. It will be Asian food, from Vietnam. It will have a mix between my grandma, aunt, and my mom food/cooking style. That is usually how things are done, they help each other in the kitchen when it comes to cooking for a big family.

We will start with breakfast which is really early in the morning around 7 or 8 o'clock. My cousin and I are usually the last ones up so we go to a small shop that is right by the house and get breakfast. We have soup and coffee, it is so good. The soup has noodles and Asian meat balls, the coffee is iced coffee but you can get it hot too. Sometimes we have porridge (looks the same as American porridge but instead of with oats it is with rice). Then the rest of the day until lunch time which is around 12 or 1 o'clock, we snack. It will either be from fruits (we will eat this throughout the day) or candy. However, my grandma will make it be healthy so we do not get that much candy. Fruits, either rambutan, jackfruit, lychee, durian (stinky fruit), and dragon fruit. Including sometimes we will have hard boiled eggs, yummy! Onto candy, either nougat (which is sesame peanuts and sugar), coconut candy, gum (many different flavors from grape to mango and peach), tamarind candy, lucas chili powder (which I did not like and thought was disgusting, bleh!), and white rabbit. There are plenty more but those are the main ones that we had.

For lunch and dinner we basically have the same things which are always rice with vegetables and some type of meat. Here are some options, stir fry, sandwich (sweet shredded carrots onions, pork, mint leaves, and the option of putting peppers in there to make it spicy), homemade eggs rolls (carrots, pork, onions, and shredded mushrooms), and spring rolls which are different from egg rolls because it is not deep fried and used with rice paper (variety of vegetables at least 3 or 4 different kinds and then either with chicken or shrimp). The vegetables would either be stir fried or boiled. If the vegetables are boiled they are made into soups, they are just cut up into small bits and mixed with broth. Vegetables would be napa cabbage, choy sun, bitter melon, galangal, lemongrass, and others but they typically get these only. Also you could probably tell by now that we mainly have pork as our meat.

My grandma, aunt, and mom make all of this at once because we like our food hot. When they are making it they set it in the middle of the table and everyone has a bowl of rice. Then we just dig in all at once and use our chopsticks to get whatever we want. After that we have dessert which is more fruit. Our food options and amounts are very different from Americans. However, each culture is different! :)