I usually eat Viet food at least once a day. If it's uni or work day then I'll have breakfast and lunch at uni and dinner at home. If I'm at home the whole day then it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. LOL

At least 1 dry dish, one saucy dish and one soup.

Malaysian fish curry or chicken curry at least once a month. My grandma's an expert.

Nice sig and avatar NQSH!

I eat Viet food all the time everyday, though international food pops in too. I feel weird if I don't get rice in.

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This is way off topic but I can't bump the old thread up so I'll stick it in here.

Dr. J.B.Kramer discovers references to the mechanical nature of the south-pointing chariot and declares, that the Chinese therefore did not invent the magnetic compass

http://www.odts.de/southptr/needham/
http://www.odts.de/southptr/meccano/cousins.htm#Kramer

Hmmmm?

So what now?

Thanks again vn1234. What's your name dude? I'm Frank, Vietnamese is Chuong.

Yeah I also eat alot of Indian, Chinese and Japanese. You've just gotta try Indian butter chicken man. Awesome.

Yeah how can you live without rice eh?

Huy here.

Heh - I'm vegetarian! lol

I can't live without Viet food, but I can easily eat other styles of food. I notice a lot of our parents can't handle western food. But once I realize it western junkfood aint so good. When i was younger I thought pizza was king cause all my friends in elementary school liked it - now it's so greasy and bland - especially the pizza around my area.

HA! Its hilarious - you look like your some newcomer with that sig - I'd never recognize you! - what happen to that little boy in the avatar? people are gonna say - heh

Man you don't know what you're missing out on

I'm an animal lover (sponsors World Wildlife Fund $35 monthly) but eating meat is a different thing. Gosh how can I live without beef, poultry and seafood? (Don't eat pork coz I'm Muslim by birth)

What do you define exactly as "Viet" food? Do you mean the staple rice, or rather "Viet side dishes" or what?

Rice is not even Viet staple, it's an Asian staple. You should know better that I mean Vietnamese dishes of kho, chien, xao, hap, luoc, canh etc

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"Asian" staple? hmmm I dunno man...what the hell? I should know better?

Half my diet is spaghetti, bread, steak and salads...I hardly eat Asian foods.

What I typically eat in a day:

breakfast: cereal, toast, fruits, oj.
lunch: spaghetti OR bread with tuna.
dinner: mum's cooking (usually chinese stuff), somtimes steak or some other kind of meat (usually beef), potatoes.


Aren't the "types" of food you metioned rather methods than foods itself? I can easily say those methods apply to ALL Asian styles of cooking..sheesh! some people get jumpy!

If rice is not considered an "Asian" staple in the general term then what is? Yes you should know better of what I mean. If I mean rice then it wouldn't be a distinct Vietnamese dish would it?



Well thanks for letting me know that



Yes they're the methods of cooking and I used it to distinguish my meaning from your "Vietnamese" dish or rice. What I mean was the Vietnamese dishes that are cooked using those methods, I did not mean rice. Sheesh, why did you even think that I was jumpy? I was simply addressing a simple issue that was rather complicated by an individual.

The way you express yourself sometimes is very condescending.

The methods you metioned are also applicable to Chinese cooking - lots of steaming, stir frying and deep frying.

Rice IS a Vietnamese staple....I think you read it the wrong way in my last post, you read it as if RICE ORIGINATED FROM VIETNAM.....

Viet cuisine seems anchored by rice, every meal is rice or rice noodles.

A muslim Viet?? that is the first time ever i hear that.... At least youre not are fundamentic one

Well I'm sorry if you feel that way. I think that's the only way to get my message across in the mids of "confusion". Perhaps if you're a girl I wouldn't be so condescending

Yes I know the methods I've mentioned earlier applies to Chinese cooking... and alot of other cultures' culinary. However, I clearly stated "Vietnamese food" and the fact that this is in the Vietnamese Chat section couldn't be more straightforward and clearer.

No I did not read it as "Rice originated from Vietnam", I read it as you saying that rice is a Vietnamese dish. When people talk about Vietnamese food, I don't think they're talking about rice, they're talking about the dishes. Rice is obviously not a "Vietnamese" staple but an "Asian" staple and even a "Global" staple if you want to go that far.

Yes Viet food is built on rice dishes and rice related products such as bun' etc. That does not mean that when people talk about Vietnamese food, they're referring to rice. Rice rather have complementary role in Vietnamese food.

Aren't the Cham people of Vietnam mostly muslims?

Anyway, NQSH, I will leave it at that...if I was a girl you'd go easy on me? Hmmz, didn't see that coming from a dad hugger...do you like beer?

Yes majority of Chams are Muslims, but i inherited that from my half Malay mum's side.

What are you trying to say in the second paragraph, exactly?

literal interpretation:

No more comments from me. You sexist prick, I thought you were gay. Do you like beer <-- how much simpler can I express this line?

You think I don't know what you were implying? Now that you're bluntly insulting me, let's make war.

LOL ah never mind, I'm in no mood for flame war today. I've just recovered from my warning level


No I'm not sexist, I'm just more gentler towards the weaker sex.

My dad kissing me on the forehead and hugging me makes me gay? What the heck?

No I don't like beer, it suxs. I l spirits, especially Barcadi and Midori

i love viet food (many others as well), i espically like those Orange colored rice, and those spicy beef noodles............

i love those lime water..................

there are so many more, but since i can't pronounce vietnamese, i doubt i can spell it..

Dear lord, you ought to drink more beer pal...

VB, Cascades and Empiore...omg and Vegimite mmm...cutting down on beer though...

What the hell is it with Asian guys and these Lolly drinks? Midori, Sub Zero, etc? I weaned off chicks drinks at 17 for crying out loud. Gotta get more into Vodka, Whisky, Coke and Bourbon dood(ettes)!

I'm sure this line:



Will go down well with the feminists.

As for the dad hugging and kissing, well I'm homophobic.

Hmmm the only type of beer that I can tolerate is Heineken. I'm cutting down on alcohol consumption though. Now only rarely drinks when going clubbing.

Well if you're homophobic, I think you need to open your mind abit more. I've got over that stage. Fear, hate and anger certainly are not good for you. Drop it.

Errr Ok doode, angry? this is online doode? I have barneys with my colleagues and we have a beer at 5pm most Fridays.. loosen up man, this is Australia...

Heineken is good but too expensive. VB or Casacades, especially Cascades, gotta get off those lolly drinks doodette...funny thing is the alki content in those sweet drinks is much higher than beer.

Dude, I'm as relaxed as ever. It's 11:30pm man *sleepy*

You reckon Heineken's expensive eh? I reckon VB and Tooheys are cheap. LOL lolly drinks... funny You're trying to prove your masculinity basing on what you drink?

I just find that most beers tastes really bad, especially Guiness and VB. And yes, the alki level is higher, but they taste better.

Err no, I seriously love beer, perhaps its due to the fact that I use to hang around with a lot of Aussies and the area I lived in was prodominantly Aussie...it doesn't prove jack...as I said the alki content of lolly drinks are 12-20%, some more...
beer is usually 5-8%

Guiness? It's OK...

Heineken is alright but a bit light...Cascades is my fav.

Hey! I don't think the Viets have the breakfast as the westerners. But i believe that they have a great Lunch, and a good dinner...I love to eat Viets very much...!!



RockHeart,

Well, it depends.

From August to April, it's American all the way.

From May to July, it's Vietnamese all the way.


Tah!

Wow Daiviet, there're nothing Asian or Viet around you in AZ ?

Well, I live on campus in AZ and the town's population is about 30,000 people, mostly old white people. It's really far from Phoenix (where most Viet people live). Plus, I don't have a car.

But back home in MN, yeah, it's Viet all the way! So the first thing I get back from school is a good bowl of rice with nước mắm. Hehe!

I guess you had no choice but to develope a taste for the American food. So summer is like heaven, eh ?

i eat Viet food most dinner.

All day, every day.

mostly every night

You eat bibim bap? (Korean food)

Gotta have NUOC MAM on everymeal.

Nope. My mother passed away when I was about 8, so there's noone to make Korean food.

Have u guys tried dê nướng ? Damn, it's the bomb !

What different kinds of món đặc sản (thú rừng) have u guys had ?

^ yea, i tried that pretty good.. i like lẩu dê too... i dun kno about other thú rừng.. wat r the others?

I am 2 weeks away from getting my healthy daily servings of Vietnamese food. Yes, bu'n rieu muo^n na(m

Gotta go out on a limb here but I hate rice and nuoc mam hehe, sorry guys. I would live on bu'n and mi` for the rest of my life if I can.

Ohh I like e^'ch chie^n bo*, it was amazingly good but definitely will never try de^ or cho'.

Oh, so u like lẩu hả Hy ? Same here - especially lẩu..... lưỡi

i dun get the joke there....

@ trang, there's nothing wrong w/ eating dê... ...

My papa's tuo^?i de^ or should I say tuo^?i mu`i.

I usually eat Vietnamese food on the weekends

ah okay.. mine tuổi chó n khỉ .. lol tuổi thân còn khỉ ở lùm, trèo qua trèo lại rớt cái ùm suông sông

Oh man. I am sorry to hear that Jayson.

both are very fun-creatures.

Sorry about your mom Jayson.

^ me 2.. i'm glad u r doing well tho ^_^

bleck! meat! you people are gonna get colon cancer or something.

Why meat is a no no:

1) It's a four letter word - jk
2) Doctor's never say: "Ok go home gets lots of rest, fluids, and eat plenty of medium rare steak so that the blood squirting out under your fork will spill into your eye and speed your healing."
3) It's mean.

awww thats hell sad

I tried being a vegetarian for two weeks, no meat, or seafood but it was so hard, and my dining hall sure doesn't make it easy. What's your secret vn1234?

Heh! Secrect???

Make sure the food is good. Most people don't know how to convert their cooking from meat to a pure vegetarian cuisine, so the taste is a shock to most newcomers.

If you don't cook or have someone in your family that cook vege well then you gotta find a decent restaurant or else you'll bomb out like most people after a few days.

Most people are afraid vege is like eating rabbit food - well that all depends on your luck on meeting tasty meals.

Also depends on your motive: is it for the care of animals, health, or just fun?

#1 and #2 keep you stuck longer. I used to do track & field for the city and vege helps me keep fit.

Also I heard nasty results that can come from eating meat (many examples on the www) and the reverse from eating vege diet.

You gonna make him more sad if you say that.