Last year I went to Hanoi, Vietnam to eat pho, a Vietnamese soup noodle.
For this 20 years Vietnamese restaurants have appeared here and there in Japan. And I love Vietnamese dishes.
They are easy to be digested and low in calories. Generally they are little sweet and not spicy nor fatty. Among others, I love Vietnamese spring roll, lotus flower tea, and the pho.
Pho is made with rice noodles and cooked in chicken or seafood soup with salt and flavor.
Hanoi was a quite interesting town.
French culture and Asian culture are blended together to create unique lovely culture.
For dinner we ate real Vietnamese dishes but pho was not served then.
I ate pho at breakfast in a hotel. The type of noodle and toppings changed daily.
I liked it so much that I ate two bowls of pho besides tea, fruits and yoghourt.
At a local supermarket I bought various kinds of pho packages, which I later enjoyed at home.
They were easy to prepare and as delicious as I had in Hanoi hotel.
When I finished all the packages, Vietnam Festival was held in a park nearby.
I got six packages of pho which had Japanese labels on them but haven’t seen inJapan.
Instead of shrimps and coriander, I put young sardines (tiny white fish), Japanese green onion, tomatoes and seasoned with yuzu, a Japanese citrus fruit grown up in my garden.
This is my favourite one. It is like the best match of Japanese and Vietnamese instant noodle. I put shrimp and Japanese chives on it.
Vietnam was colonized and occupied by Western nations.
The country is now rapidly developing and having various environmental problems.
And now, many Vietnamese people are working in various countries including Japan, and suffering from the dismissal due to the pandemic.
I like Vietnam and the Vietnamese people. I would like to support them if possible.
