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Bánh Chưng (Square Rice Cake with Mung Bean and Pork Belly)
This past Christmas my grandmother (bà ngoại) taught me how to make bánh chưng. The last time we made bánh chưng together, I was 5. I ran amuck and made a big mess of everything – my grandmother still...
View ArticleRau Om learns to wrap bánh tét : A video
That’s right, folks, Rau Om enters the cutting edge world of moving pictures with a short kinematographic post to Youtube. The days before Tết are a frenzy of food preparations, including wrapping and...
View ArticleRau Om learns to wrap bánh chưng: A video
Instead of bánh tét, people from Northern Vietnam wrap bánh chưng for Tết. This past Christmas, we learned to make bánh chưng from Grandma. For Tết in Houston, we demonstrated that the lesson (mostly)...
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Rau Om’s Tofu Misozuke at Rainbow Grocery
We’re very glad to announce that starting this weekend Rainbow Grocery will be stocking our tofu misozuke in the cheese section. To kick off our presence in San Francisco, we will be hosting a...
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Tofu misozuke update #6 – Rooibos-miso marinade
Here we report on some preliminary experiments to drive the speciation of tofu misozuke into heretofore unexplored habitats – we’re trying out new ingredients to add to the basic miso marinade. We...
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Tofu Misozuke Goes Over the Mountains and Down to the Sea
The reason for our title above: we’re excited to be at New Leaf Community Markets starting from April 1st, making our tofu misozuke locally available to Santa Cruz and surrounding communities: Downtown...
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Cá thu kho trà xanh / Braised fish with green tea
Growing up, my family cooked cá kho/braised fish the Northern way and it was never a favorite dish until much later. Northern style cá kho is ascetically simple and intense. Southern style cá kho is...
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Rau Om at the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival
This weekend, you can try samples of tofu misozuke at Rau Om’s booth (#15) at the Soy and Tofu Festival. We’ll also be serving up some tofu misozuke with cucumber, French bread, crackers, and fresh...
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What we did last summer
Oooh-whee that was a packed summer. But first an announcement: We have two tofu misozuke events coming up: Saturday Oct. 20th 11am-3pm : Tofu misozuke tasting at Rainbow Grocery, 1745 Folsom Street...
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The Mostly Unverifiable History of Tofu Misozuke
Last year our friend from Wandering Spoon told us about the second annual Northern California Soy and Tofu Fest. A gathering of Bay Area tofu lovers all in one place? Sign us up! After signing up, and...
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