🇻🇳 Thura Thien-Hue

Tony ate at Boi Tran’s home and gallery with Boi Tran, painter; Nguyen Qui Duc; Hương Lan, writer and food blogger; art collector Jean-François Hubert, and Philippe Damas. They had bird’s nest soup, made of swallow’s nests and served with crabmeat, crab roe, red onion, pepper, and seasoned steamed lotus seeds; lobster with red onion, ginger, lemongrass, and chiles, cooked and presented in a bowl with lime leaves and the stock poured over it

Tony had bún bò Huế (bone broth with lemongrass), fermented shrimp paste with rice noodles, tender beef shank, crabmeat dumplings, pig’s foot; huyết (blood cake)

Tony met with his old friend Dinh Hoang Linh and had grilled eel with lemongrass, green chili, and pepper. And lobster

Tony had lunch here: bánh xèo (rice-flour pancakes), steamed and topped with fried shallots and cassava paste and crumbled fried shrimp; bánh bột lọc (cassava or tapioca with pork and shrimp wrapped in a banana leaf); fried sticky-rice dumplings filled with shrimp