My Asian Food Trip

Day 1

Recipes:

#1 Seafood Sweet & Sour Soup    Ingredients:

Tilapia                                  Palm Sugar
Prawns                                 Tamarind
Tomato                                 Fresh Herbs
Celery                                  Lime Juice
Bean sprouts
Fish Sauce
Chilies


Procedure:
1. In a pot combine water, tamarind paste, fish sauce & lemon or lime juice.
2. Add all the other ingredients. Cook.
3. Season TT.
4. Serve.
                                                      

#2 Caramelized Chicken & Ginger

                                                           

Ingredients:

Chicken
Ginger
Green onions
Garlic
Black pepper powder
Soy sauce
Fish sauce
Chili powder


Procedure:
1. Saute in stone pot the pounded ingredients w/ 1T oil.
2. Add in the chicken. Brown the chicken.
3. Add water. Season TT. Reduce.
4. Serve

#3 Steamed Rice

Ingredients: 

Long grain rice

Water

Procedure:

1. Cook the rice in a pot w/ water.

2. Serve.

Day2

#1 Nuoc Cham

Ingredients:                                                     Procedure:

Garlic                                                                        1. Pound garlic & chilies in mortar & pestle.

Chilies                                                                       2. Add all other ingredients. Taste.

Fish sauce                        

Sugar

Water

Lime juice

#2 Banh Xeo

Ingredients:                         Procedure:

Pork fat                                          1. Slice pork fat & pork belly thinly. Put in separate bowl. 

Pork belly                                          Season w/ salt & pepper.

Shrimp                                            2. Slice shrimp in half.

Mung beans                                   3. Soak & boil mung beans. Remove the skin. Strain.

Mung-bean sprouts                       4. Remove the roots of mung bean sprouts.

Batter:                                            5. Make batter. Chill for 30 mins.

Rice flour                                       6. Slice onions & mince garlic.

Coconut milk                                 7. Render pork fat & belly in a pan then cook the onions & garlic

Turmeric                                        8. Add shrimp & batter (thin). Cook till crust is formed.

Leeks                                             9. Add mung beans & mung bean sprouts. Fold one end.

Salt                                               10. Serve w/ luttuce leaf, carrots, jicama & nuoc cham.

Aromatics:

Onion

Garlic

Seasonings:

Salt

Black pepper powder

#3 Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls

Ingredients:                              Procedure:

Rice wrapper                                      1. Poach pork belly. Poach shrimp.

Pork belly                                           2. Soak rice vermicelli in water.

Shrimp                                                 3. Remove roots of mung beans. Blanch.

Sweet basil                                          4. Soak rice water in hot water. Put in table.

Coriander leaf                                     5. Add the ingredients shrimps last.

Mint Leaves                                       6. Roll. Serve w/ Nuoc cham.

Romaine lettuce

Mung bean sprouts

Rice vermicelli

Water

White wine vinegar

Black peppercorns

Lemongrass

Ginger

Shallots

Onion

#4 Vietnamese Crispy Spring Rolls

Ingredients:                               Procedure:

Ground pork                                        1. Mix fillings together. Season. Set aside.

Crab sticks                                          2. Dip wrapper in hot water. Lay flat on table.

Mushroom                                           3. Add in the fillings. Deep-fry. Pat dry w/ paper towel.

Carrots                                                4. Serve.

Onion

Leeks

Rice vermicelli

Wood ear mushroom

Dried Shallots

Salt 

Pepper

#5 Hoisin Dipping Sauce

Ingredients:                           Procedure:

Hoisin sauce                                     1. Mix all ingredients in a pan.

Peanut butter                                    2. Simmer for 5 mins.

Chili powder                                      3. Serve.

Butter

Fish sauce

Garlic

Day 3

#1  Cabbage Salad

Ingredients:                          Procedure:

White cabbage                                1. Make vinaigrette.

Purple cabbage                               2. Add Vinaigrette w/ the sliced cabbage.

Sriracha                                           3. Serve.

Lime juice

Sugar syrup

#2 Lemongrass Chicken Skewers

Ingredients:                          Procedure:

Chicken thigh                                 1. Make marinade. Marinate the chicken.

Lemongrass                                    2. Put in skewers.

Kaffir lime leaves                          3. Grill. 

Garlic                                              4. Serve. 

Ginger

Olive oil

Red chili powder

Palm sugar

Fish sauce

Bamboo skewers

#3 Crispy Skin Salmon w/ Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:                         Procedure:

Salmon                                          1. Marinate salmon w/ lemon juice & ginger.

Lemon juice                                  2. Heat pan w/ veg oil. fry the seasoned salmon skin down.

Ginger juice                                  3. Finish in the oven.

Coarse salt                                   4. Serve w/ tomato sauce.

Black peppercorns

Veg oil

#4 Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:                         Procedure:

Tomato                                           1. Caramelize onion in a pan.

Shallots                                           2. Add all other ingredients.

Onion                                              3. Serve w/ the salmon.    

Garlic

Chili powder

Sugar

Fish Sauce

Chicken stock

Tomato paste

Day 4

#1 Pho Bo

Ingredients:                           Procedure:

Beef bones                                     1. Make the stock.

onions                                             2. Char the onions. Add to stock w/ all the other ingredients. 

shallots                                           3. Reduce. Season tt.  

ginger                                             4. Serve w/ cooked rice noodles & garnish.

star anise

cinnamon stick

dried sand worm

Garnish:

bean sprouts

basil

long coriander

chilies

lemon or lime wedge

hoisin sauce

Thai chili sauce

Seasoning:

rock sugar 

black pepper

fish sauce

salt

#2 Banh Cuon Batter

Day 5

#1 Waterfall Beef Salad 

#2 Stir-fried Seafood w/ Basil

Day 6

#1 Tom Yum Goong

#2 Pineapple Fried Rice

#3 Thai Fried Chicken w/ Sweet-chili Sauce

#4 Curry Lobster

Day 7

Mid Term Exam (Crispy-fried Breaded Pork w/ Tomato Sauce, Toasted White Bread & Micro Green Salad)

Day 8

#1 Papaya Salad w/ Chrispy Pork

#2 Pad Thai

Day 9

#1 Black Bean Crab

#2 Rice Claypot

Day 10

#1 Daikon Cake

#2 Fried Noodle w/ Black Bean Sauce

Final Exam (Black & White Restaurant)

Amuse Bouche (Chicken Sate w/ Mango Salad)

Appetizer (Pomelo Salad)

Main Dish (Massaman Beef Curry w/ Black & White Rice & Buttered Broccoli & Carrots)

Dessert (David's Black & White Palitaw/Rice Cake)