I love ASEAN cuisines, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Filipino. Unfortunately, we only have some places selling some Indonesian delights and a Thai restaurant that people say has gone downhill since the Thai chefs went home.
No, we do not have any Filipino restaurants here even though many Chinese restaurants in town serve that crispy pata and they call it Philippine pork leg and yes, we have had a Vietnamese place once and a stall in a coffee shop too, but they did not last very long.
That was why I couldn’t wait to check this place out in Miri but unfortunately, I did not think it was all that great. Thankfully, we went to a really good one in Kuching but the way things are going these days, I don’t suppose we will ever get to hop over again to go and eat there.
Well, it so happened that my missus picked up two packets of this…
…at the supermarket at the mall round the corner from my house. Boy! Was she excited when she cooked one to try!!! She loved it so much and she told me straight away in no uncertain terms not to blog about it so they would not be sold out (like what happened to the Aussie wagyu that day) and she would be able to rush over and buy some more…which she did and she came home with around a dozen packets of the beef and some of the chicken.
One can easily guess from all that in Vietnamese on the packet that it is made in Vietnam. Phở bò means beef (flat) rice noodles (kway teow) and Hà Nội is Hanoi in Vietnamese, the capital of Vietnam. The chicken one is phở gà Hà Nội.
Inside the packet, you can find the noodles and three sachets…
Inside the red one is something like chili sauce and the gỏi rau, translated to mean vegetable salad, looked like dehydrated spring onion, fried shallots and fried garlic to me. I guess the xương hàm in the big sachet is the seasoning in liquid/sauce form, unlike most where it is usually in powder form and there are small bits of meat in it.
I boiled the noodles in a bit of water, emptied the contents in all the sachets into the pot, added a few Thai basil leaves from my garden and poured everything into a bowl. I served it with a few slices of beef (Aussie wagyu, no less) and some of the chili (from my garden) that I pounded with ginger and lime, garnished generously with chopped spring onion (also from my garden)…
Yes, I really must say it was so so so good despite being nothing more than just instant noodles.
According to my missus, they’re only RM1.90 a packet…
…and the chicken one is also very nice. I certainly will give that a try one of these days.
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It looks great with all the garnish you had on top.
Now that you have blogged about it, I think it is sold out already. LOL 😀
In my state, there are plenty of Vietnamese restaurant. Then again we seldom get to enjoy them. Perhaps we always stick to local cuisines.
I love Vietnamese, the exotic herbs and spices. Absolutely out of this world. Not cheap though.
The noodles looks transparent before cook and after cook it looks like our kway teow. Now you are so good in your presentation and that definitely makes the whole bowl of noodles looks appetising.
Thanks for your compliment. Not difficult to do that, dunno why our hawkers cannot do the same – some of the things they dish out are so messy, not enticing at all.
Ooh.. the noodles look good.. and of course, the beef that goes along with that la… something different from what we usually eat…
Yes, Vietnamese pho is different from our clear beef soup noodles, more exotic with all the herbs, also different from the Taiwan style ones. All nice!
Big fan too but faves are Thai and Vietnamese.
I’d put Thai and Indonesian top on my list and Vietnamese a close second. So far, I’ve yet to come across a really nice Filipino place, not that many around and none here!
I have not tried much Filipino food – mostly desserts and I found them all way too sweet.
I’ve tried once at a Filipino restaurant in Kuching and another time in Miri. Can’t say it got me all excited – would not be dying to go back for more but good to have sometimes for a change. Variety is the spice of life! There is one place in Bintulu – I dunno when I can hop over to give it a try.
Oh! Your bowl of noodles look so good! hah..hah… a warning from your missus, eh? She wisely went to buy more just in case…. LOL!
LOL!!! I think a lot of people are going round today to buy. My cousin in Bintulu went to the supermarket there and there was a young girl on the phone in the noodles section. She asked her – it turned out that she reads my blog. My! My! Small world.
I had tried thai, indonesian and vietnamese food but not filipino.
I’ve tried Filipino once…and Myanmarese cuisine once too!
Wow your vietnamese instant noodles look so presentable and yummy!
Very nice, can try looking for them in Singapore.