Our favourite Lunar New Year recipes
It's time to feast and ring in the Year of the Wood Snake with our best Lunar New Year dishes.
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11 vermicelli noodle recipes to add to your repertoire
Try these refreshing vermicelli salads or warming broth soup recipes for quick and easy meals.
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Lemongrass prawns with gỏi xoài
Gỏi xoài is a traditional Vietnamese green mango salad with a zesty dressing. In this recipe, we used ripe sweet mangoes to balance the sharp green mango and tart salad dressing.
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Now open in Sydney’s CBD: Mumu, a lively restaurant from Dan Hong
The low-lit spot is open till late (properly late) and has a menu packed with Southeast Asian street food classics inspired by Hong’s travels.
Vietnamese rice paper rolls
Flavour and freshness with every bite.
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Anchovy
Besides the thrilling, original cooking, the most exciting thing about this modern Vietnamese-Australian restaurant is its constant evolution.
There are phở dumplings and tamarind onion rings; just don’t call Ông a “modern Vietnamese” restaurant
In Adelaide’s CBD, second-generation restaurateurs Quang and Thy Nguyen have shaped a menu of their own making, coloured in with their childhood food memories.
Watch: Jerry Mai’s guide to making bánh xèo
The Vietnamese savoury pancake, rendered into crisp, golden goodness before your very eyes.
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Coming soon: Melbourne’s Anchovy to open a bánh mì thịt store, right next door
The lockdown sandwich side-hustle is turning permanent.
Sunda’s beef rice-paper rolls
This dish is head chef Khanh Nguyen's favourite thing to eat, hands down.
Anatomy of a dish: bánh mì thịt
This fusion of French and Vietnamese flavour is wrapped up in a neat package.
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Thi Le’s Vietnamese spring rolls with mustard leaves and herbs
A textural filling of shredded taro, carrots and wood ear mushrooms equal these crisp, moreish parcels. Try stopping at one.
How to make phở: a masterclass with Angie Hong
Now is the time to make this deeply comforting noodle soup.
Opening soon: a Vietnamese-style beer hall by Annam chef Jerry Mai
In Melbourne’s south-east suburbs, Mai is hoping to replicate the hustle and bustle of Vietnam’s bia hoi where drink-friendly snacks, beers, and hot pots are top orders.
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Our favourite recipes by Dan Hong
From his early days at Lotus and his rise to executive chef at Merivale, the much-loved chef has shared some of his favourite recipes over the years.
Vietnamese-style grilled prawns with chilli dressing
The perfect grilled prawn lies in the dressing – and this one's a winner.
No pho, no rice paper rolls: this Vietnamese restaurant is doing things differently
There will be bar snacks, cocktails and Hanoi-style street food.
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Chef’s best Vietnamese recipes
With this bun cha by Tony Tan, and a winning pho recipe by Dan Hong's mum, you can do no wrong.
Amy Hamilton’s grilled scallops with spring onion and peanuts
This modern take on the classic Vietnamese street-food dish will be ready in a flash.
Liberté’s whole barbecued snapper with green papaya salad
Throw this whole fish, done Vietnamese-style, on the barbie.
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Bún chả (Hanoi grilled pork with rice vermicelli)
Fire up the barbecue for this popular north Vietnamese dish. It's smoky with charred pork, crunchy with a refreshing noodle salad, and comforting with a light, sweet broth.
Tony Tan’s Vietnamese yellow curry
This vegetable curry involves marinating mushrooms in a mix of tamarind, ginger and lemongrass before grilling them and the results are powerful.
Hello Please’s bun cha
In addition to the pork patties we’ve got here, Brisbane restaurant Hello Please serves this with pork belly that’s been simmered in an aromatic stock, pressed overnight, then pan-fried.
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Thi Le’s stir-fried pork liver with garlic chives and beansprouts
Anchovy's Thi Le employs her bright, bold take on South East Asian flavours in this fast and fragrant pork stir-fry.
Grilled pork belly, lychee salad and chilli jam
Annam's Jerry Mai delivers full-flavoured Vietnamese fare in this sweet and spicy pork dish.
Banh mi-style steak sandwich
A delicious steak sandwich, with all the flavours of a classic Vietnamese banh mi.
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Jimmy Wah’s grilled squid with watercress, green chilli mayo and fried garlic
Fried garlic, grilled squid and a spicy chilli mayo - Brisbane Vietnamese restaurant Jimmy Wah know how to bring the heat. Stay cool with a G&T on the side.
Dandelion
REVIEW Geoff Lindsay’s celebration of Vietnamese cuisine has been popular with Bayside locals since opening in 2011. The long, narrow space – exposed brick walls, light-well garden feature and polished concrete floors – is a regular hangout for wannabe yachties and young families, who graze through an extensive menu offering everything from pho five ways […]
Anchovy’s garlic shoots with spice salt
Garlic shoots makes for a spicy vegetable side to compliment tonight's main meal; Anchovy chef Thi Le shares her recipe for a street-food inspired side or snack.
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Anchovy’s pork neck with herbs and banh hoi noodles
Pork neck with herbs and banh hoi noodles- whisk ingredients except pork in a bowl to combine. Add pork, cover and refrigerate overnight to marinate.
Hot Plate: Jimmy Wah’s, Burleigh Heads
This bright new Vietnamese eatery at Burleigh Heads punches above its weight in the flavour stakes.
Anchovy, Melbourne restaurant review
Anchovy has hit its stride and, writes Michael Harden, there’s promise of more exciting times ahead. Blood pudding ahoy.
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Vietnamese-style slaw with pickled carrot
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Vietnamese-style slaw with pickled carrot.
Vietnamese-style beef and vermicelli salad
Australian Gourmet Traveller fast recipe for Vietnamese-style beef and vermicelli salad.
Steak with the flavours of pho
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for steak with the flavours of pho by Dan Hong.
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Mum’s crisp quail
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Mum's crisp quail by Dan Hong.
Banh mi thịt (Vietnamese pork roll)
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for banh mi thit.
Hu tieu
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for hu tieu.
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Vietnamese chicken wings
Simple? Yes. Delicious? You bet.
Banh xeo with prawns and pickled carrot
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for banh xeo with prawns and pickled carrot.
Pho
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for pho.
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Pork banh mi
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for pork banh mi.
Luke Nguyen’s Aunty 5’s rice cakes with tiger prawns and pork floss
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Aunty 5’s rice cakes with tiger prawns and pork floss by Luke Nguyen.
Red Lantern on Riley
REVIEW There’s bustle without the hustle, bite without the skite – Red Lantern manages to be streetwise and sophisticated at the same time. Hoist a Hoi An Julep while contemplating the extensive French and Australian wine list and the Indochine idyll, long marble tables, padded banquettes and Vietnamese bric-à-brac. The entrées are where the true […]
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Red Lantern on Riley, Sydney restaurant review
With the opening of Red Lantern on Riley from co-owners Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen, Sydney’s modern Vietnamese dining scene just got a whole lot brighter, writes Pat Nourse.
Vietnamese prawn cakes
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Vietnamese prawn cakes.
Dandelion’s Hmong spicy eggplant mash
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Dandelion's Hmong spicy eggplant mash.
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Dandelion, Melbourne restaurant review
A sense of fun enlivens Geoff Lindsay’s Vietnamese cooking at Dandelion. Michael Harden recommends bringing a group, ordering big and rolling up your sleeves.
Aunty Three’s Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Aunty Three’s Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs from Grasshopper Asian Kitchen in Brisbane
Pork crackling, prawn and watercress salad
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for pork crackling, prawn and watercress salad.
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Ginger and beer-steamed crab
Australian Gourmet Traveller fast Asian-style seafood recipe for ginger and beer steamed crab
Vietnamese lemon grass beef and rice noodle salad
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Vietnamese lemongrass beef and rice noodle salad
Sweet and sour fish soup
Australian Gourmet Traveller fast Asian recipe for sweet and sour fish soup
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Lobster and rice noodle rolls with green onion oil
Australian Gourmet Traveller fast food Vietnamese lobster and rice noodle rolls with green onion oil