This Vietnamese fresh rice noodle rolls recipe or Hanoi pho cuon recipe kicks off our series of Vietnamese spring roll recipes. These filling rolls can be eaten as appetisers before a main or served alongside other Vietnamese dishes sharing-style or family-style as we eat here in Southeast Asia. You probably thought I was going to kick … Read more
These Vietnamese spring roll recipes have been a long time coming. We fell in love with Vietnamese food over thirty years ago when we became addicted to fresh Vietnamese spring rolls. We thought it time we shared some of our favourite spring roll recipes – fresh and fried, old and new, from north to south … Read more
This five-spice crispy pork belly recipe is one of my favourite ways to cook pork belly. I’ve been refining my version of this dish over the last couple of years and I’m happy to say that I’m getting consistently fantastic results. I’ve been doing a lot of cooking while Lara has been away the last three … Read more
Things we hate about cookbooks include everything from missing recipes and no recipe list to cookbooks that have obviously not been well researched or, at worst, haven’t had their recipes tested. We love cookbooks. As much as it’s convenient to pull up a recipe on an iPad, we still prefer to page our way through a … Read more
The best Phuket cooking classes range from hands-on Thai cooking lessons in state-of-the-art purpose-built cooking schools with dedicated Thai cooking instructors to hotel chefs giving demonstration-style classes in the resort restaurant in between service. You can learn popular Thai dishes that you’ll find all over Thailand or you can ask chefs and cooking instructors to … Read more