Banh Khot - pancake and stuffings

School Holiday Program Recipes (Vietnamese)

🐔Gỏi Gà Bún - Chicken, Noodle & Cabbage Salad This light and flavour packed chicken salad combines a colourful group of vegetables for a unique experience of textures. ...

Spring Onion Oil

This is a simple and tasty spring onion oil for Asian foods. It’s found on a lot of dishes in Vietnamese and Chinese and many others. So it goes very well with grilled meats or rice noodle...

Chả Giò - Spring Rolls

Find me a person who doesn’t like spring rolls, and that is a soulless and pitiful person indeed. 

Bánh Xèo - Crispy Turmeric Pancake

Banh xeo gets its rich orange hue from turmeric and makes a versatile and delicious appetiser or accompaniment to any Vietnamese meal. The work xeo comes from the sizzling sound the batter makes...

Phở Gà- Chicken, Rice Noodle Soup

Phở is a national dish of Vietnam that originated as streetfood and is named after the portable clay pots that would carry and dispense vats of the aromatic broth. The chicken version is a little...

Cơm Tấm - Broken Rice with Pork & Pickled Vegetables

Traditionally a breakfast dish, com tam has become hugely popular throughout Vietnam and abroad. ‘Tam’ refers to the fractured grains and ‘com’ refers to cooked rice. If...

Gỏi Gà Bún - Chicken, Noodle & Cabbage Salad

This light and flavour packed chicken salad combines a colourful group of vegetables for a unique experience of textures.  Ingredients For The Chicken 1 chicken breast  1L...

Cream Caramel

This chilled, creamy and silky sweet treat is my go-to dessert when I am cooking for friends because I can make it the day before. This recipe version is the traditional Vietnamese Flan with...

How To Cook Prawn Crackers At Home

These prawn crackers or just crackers are a great snack to have on hand. Once you cook you will need to keep a box and it will be good few day later still.

Mini Banh My, Pickle Vegetable, Confit Duck, Mayo

How To Make Duck Confit

Duck confit is considered one best French dishes. The confit is prepared with process of preservation that consists of salt curing duck and then cooking it in its own fat. You can use this...

Vegetarian Spring Rolls

Vietnamese spring rolls is known for its best taste and look amazing on your platters for home parties. The spring rolls is typically smaller than Chinese ones and contains ground or chopped...

Vietnamese Cream Caramel

We thank the French for introducing crème caramel to our food. Easy and simple dishes to make.

Bo La Lot - Beef in betel leaf

Fragrantly seasoned grilled beef wrapped up in wild betel leaf (lá lốt) are one of the favourite Vietnamese street food. You can replace the beef with salmon cut into finger size.

Chè Chuối – Banana Pudding

This cheap and cheerful dessert can be done anytime at home. Just like when you eat plain bananas, ripeness is everything. Too green and it’s starchy and astringent, too ripe and...

Chả giò - Spring rolls

Crispy little rolls of deliciousness, these spring rolls are an easy and versatile addition to any meal. Be creative with the kinds of vegetables or meat you use to fill them and let your...

Pho Ga - Vietnamese Chicken Pho

Pho Ga - Traditional Chicken Noodle Soup   Pho is one of one of the greatest noodle soups in the world and is said to be Vietnam’s national dish. This recipe’s complex broth...

Bun Cha Hanoi - Hanoi style BBQ pork and Noodles

This is one of Hanoi staple grilled pork with a sweet fish broth and rice noodles - once eaten by president Obama and late chef Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi. 

Cha Tom - Sugar Cane Prawn

Sugar cane prawn or Chao Tom is a traditional Vietnamese entre. ... You can eat them directly as finger foods, or remove the prawn from the skewer and wrap it in lettuce and dip...

Goi Cuon – Fresh Rice Paper Rolls

Fresh rice paper rolls can be a go-to healthy snack that's bursting with fresh flavours and textures. Easy to make and flexible with ingredients.

Nuoc Cham - Dipping Sauce

Nuoc Cham is a mixture of water, sugar, lime juice and fish sauce which creates a base that is foundational to Vietnamese cuisine. We add extra garlic and chilli for bite and heat, but neither of...

Vietnamese Coffee Icecream

Vietnamese Ice Coffee is an intensely brewed coffee concentrate that drips down into a tall glass of ice and a big spoonful of sweetened condensed milk. If you...

Vietnamese Noodles Pho Soup. What is Pho?

Vietnamese Noodle Soup is Pho. It is a “must” Vietnamese food experience made up of a broth with flat rice noodles, spring onion, coriander, spouts, Thai basil and either chicken or...

BBQ Pork Noodles - Bun Cha Hanoi - My favourite lunch in Hanoi

BBQ Pork Noodles, Bun Cha Hanoi, Herbs, Spouts + Nuoc Cham by Otao kitchen   As a Vietnamese from Hanoi, I was really excited about going out for lunch in one of the street...

Vietnamese Pork Rolls

You might find Vietnamese Pork Rolls or “Banh mi thit” in most Vietnamese bakeries. This Vietnamese dish often includes pork belly, Vietnamese sausage, pork floss, chicken, or...