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American boy finds comfort in Vietnamese food

An American boy writes to DTiNews about how he has started to learn how to cook Vietnamese food for the family.

 

Jupiter peeling the pomelo
Nuts and herbs used for the salad
The final dish

Jupiter Judson, an 11 year-old American boy, writes to DTiNews about how he has started to learn how to cook Vietnamese food for the family.

On my 10th birthday, my parents, my sister, and I went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Paris with our friend Cô Hai and her family. I had the most delicious grilled chicken with fresh vegetables and perfumed rice. It was the best food I ever ate in my whole life.

I’ve seen photographs of Viet Nam and know it’s a beautiful country, with charming lakes and very pretty flowers in wintertime. I’ve not been to Viet Nam but decided that Vietnamese food is my favorite.

Learning how to cook is a lot of fun. Today I made a salad of pomelo (trái bưởi) and Cô Hai said it was one of the best. This pomelo was imported from Viet Nam. It cost 1 euro and 50 cents in France.

You must buy a juicy pomelo for this salad. First, you peel it and break the flesh into small pieces. Next, you roast half a cup of raw peanuts in a dry pan until the black dots appear around the nuts. You let the nuts cool. Then you chop them into tiny pieces.

To make the dressing, you mix 1 big spoon of fish sauce (nước mắm) with 1 big spoon of sugar and 1 big spoon of rice vinegar (or apple vinegar).

You chop a bunch of fresh mint leaves and Asian parsleys.

In a nice bowl, you mix the pomelo and everything together. You may add some fried onion flakes, which is optional.

Bon appetite!

Source: dtinews.vn
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