Saturday, March 20, 2010

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Chào các cô va các bạn! Chúng em là Hùng, Đại, Kiên, Phượng và Thành. Chúng em were in charge of making chá giò, which is the Vietnamese spring rolls. The experience we had was rất vui và enriching. We had a lot of fun cooking and we managed to get know one another better. Preparations were tough and tedious though.

In this blog post, we will share our cooking experience, and we hope future sinh viên tiếng Việt will enjoy this project also. =)


Tối thứ sáu chúng em đi ntuc ở Ang Mo Kio mua đồ ăn nấu chá giò. Ch rt đông ngưi. However, that did not deter us vì chúng em rt chăm ch
In picture: Kiên & Hùng 
  
 



Sau đó chúng em đi nh
à Hùng to practice how to nu chá gìo.
We even spent some time to plan and prepare the decorations and ingredients to get all set for the next day nhà thy Minh.
 
We spent about 5 gi cooking, t 7 gi ti đến 12 gi đêm. It may be rt mt nhưng vui. 

In picture: Kiên & Hùng
 














Our samples. T
ốt quá, phải không?


Upon arrival, we were initially very excited. However we realized that the house was very packed. Even though it was inconvenient, it was nice to see các ban và các cô there. 

packed nhà!
 
Vì nhà rt đông ngưi, 5 of us had to roll our spring rolls on just one chair in the lift lobby =(.


Ingredient mixed well.




On that day, our thân thin cô qùynh helped us with some preparation by giving us tips, and helping us put a bit of fish sauce into the spring rolls. This would enhance the taste of the spring roll. 
However, we did not put enough fish sauce as we were afraid it would be too strong. =(


These are our pre-frying products.
Chá giò trông rất tốt, phải không? =p


The frying process was different from what we had practiced as there were many teams frying before that and we had to wait for more than mt gi
In picture: Hùng, Phượng & Kiên
 





Sadly, due to the lack of time, we could not shower as much care to the spring rolls as we had desired. 

See how panicked we were!
Thế thì chán quá ! 

Thus, we fried the rolls at an unusual, very hot temperature to speed up the cooking process.

Unfortunately, this had negative ramifications on our final product. Our rolls did not look up to our ideal standard as what we had initially practiced the day before.
 Chán quá..........

 During the tasting process, we received some constructive feedback from Cô Bich on how to improve on it. However, we were quite pleased that we received positive feedback from everyone else, since taste and cooking are very subjective. Nevertheless, we were extremely vui with our spring rolls! 
From left: Đại, Thành, Kiên, Phượng và Hùng
Nevertheless, it was a good experience!
Total time spent: 2 ngày
Total manpower: 5 ngưi
Total price of ingredients: 16 tin
Immersing in the Vietnamese culture with my friends: Priceless!

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