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Street Food Vietnam by Jerry Mai

Posted by Nigella on the 6th June 2019
Image of Jerry Mai's Beef Pho
Photo by Chris Middleton

I adore Jerry Mai’s food: I first ate it in Western Australia, when she was cooking at the great food festival, Gourmet Escape, and have since made a point of going — as much as I can — to her restaurant, Annam, in Melbourne. Her cooking is joyful, exuberant and exquisitely flavoured — and this vibrancy shines out of every page of this book. And while it is an entirely pleasurable experience as a form of armchair travelling, this is a book that’s impossible to read without littering with hopeful post-its.  I want to eat everything, but I know which recipes I am most impatient to cook. Rice paper salad with shrimp; Braised chicken in ginger; Caramelised pork belly; Chicken congee; Noodles with shredded pork and coconut cream; Coffee creme caramel: all these beckon me greedily kitchenwards. But the recipe I want to try first, and the one I’m sharing with you now, is the Beef Pho, a huge vat of it!

From Street Food Vietnam by Jerry Mai, published by Smith Street Books, 2019
Photographs by Chris Middleton

Book cover of Street Food Vietnam by Jerry Mai

Try this recipe from the book

Image of Jerry Mai's Beef Pho
Photo by Chris Middleton
Beef Pho
By Jerry Mai
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