Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Hanoi - bun cha









Bun cha - one of the best meals I've ever eaten. You combine everything pictured into one wonderful dish. Aaaaah.

2 comments:

Steve Jackson said...

It's my favourite too -I reckon I eat it at least four times a week.

Chris said...

yes! thank you for confirming, it's hard to describe bun cha to someone who hasn't tasted it before. i noticed that this is one of the few foods we photographed in vietnam (or southeast asia for that matter) that wasn't ever represented in its finished form. why? i have pondered that, and have decided that i was just too darn busy eating it to take a picture. so i took photos of the components as they were laid on the table, and said, i'll take a round-up picture once it's all there, and then started eating, and then lost myself eating it for a while and at the end said 'oh, i probably should have taken a picture of what it looked like in the middle'.

fortunately these fine folks have done more thorough analysis for me:

http://www.awhiffoflemongrass.com/?p=895

http://stickyrice.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/do_the_bun_cha.html

http://noodlepie.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/bun_cha.html