Friday, October 24, 2008

Vietnamese Chicken Salad~

On the early morning of 18th October, the four incredible chefs sprang out of their beds and headed to cô Bích's house! With stomachs were filled with much excitement and lots of empty space, we were all ready to chomp down all the yummmy foods that awaits us!

Our role of the day, make a 'rất ngon' chicken salad!

Our excitement can barely be contained. We got to cô Bích ở nhà early and started playing with our groceries! Here's the carrot-nosed Gerlynn!




Lots of shredding were done! The 'Food Shredder' helped us a lot! Gigantic Cabbage gave us lots of shreddings!



The critical part of the salad lies in mixing the sauce! With our indigenious taste-buds, we cocktailed a balance between sour, fishy and garlicky and ta-dah! Sauce-o-cocktail is created! Starfruit was cut into 'nhiều sao' and used to beautify our salad!



Our final product! Đẹp quá knông?



The vegetarian version was created since there were SO much vegetable shreddings left!



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The final moment! Three beautiful judges tasting all the yummy food! Cô Bích's being camera shy! (= Hurry and taste the food! "Các cô ơi, chúng em rất đói!"



See, we can't wait to start digging in!



Finally, presenting to you the 4 incredible chefs! Chúng tôi rất vui!



So here's our secret to a yummy chicken salad,

For the sauce,
Sugar + Fish sauce + Lime juice + garlic (chopped) + Vinegar + Water
Proportions based on much tasting and intuition (=

For the shreddings,
Cabbage + Carrot + Big yellow onions, small red onions + Basil leaves + Mint leaves + Bean sprouts
Shred and mix them together!

TIP: The trick is to make the sauce not too vinegary but more fishy! And let the garlic soak longer because it makes the sauce have a really nice smell!

Hope everyone enjoyed yourselves! We had a really good time~
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