I have tried many dishes here in Ho Chi Minh, and so far my favourite dish is Bún Chả and it is a dish from North Vietnam.  I can’t remember eating this in Australia and I think the reason for this is that the majority of Vietnamese that came to Australia in the 70’s were from South Vietnam.

It consists of noodles that are cold, a plate of fresh herbs and lettuce (coriander, lettuce, spinach, mint, Vietnamese mint, morning glory and bean sprouts). The last part of the dish is the ‘soup’.  It has pork meat balls, bacon bits and soup.  You place the broken rice in a new bowl, add some soup and then had the greens.  The soup has a sweet and sour flavour.

I like all the greens except for this one

It is called rau diếp cá and in English it translates to heart leaf, fish mint, fish herb or lizard tail.  It has a fishy taste and it is hard to detect when they put it in amongst the other green leafs.