Oh it was a great reminder of eating at my mum’s place when we had this dish for the first time in Dubai. It will be fantastic eating for the scorching summers here when you don’t want to eat anything that’s hot.
We didn’t have high expectations of finding rice paper in Dubai. Especially when we have seen for ourselves the lack of Asian grocery stores here, we just assumed that Asian grocery stores were everywhere in the world!
There is the odd Pilipino supermarket but they don’t have a greater variety of products then the regular hypermarkets, just a wider range of brands of the same products. Oh well it’s better then nothing.But be assured, the next carton we’re expecting should be packed full of Asian grocery items I instructed my mum to send.
And it’s crazy to say but I have been cooking more Vietnamese dishes while in Dubai then when I was living back at home – like anyone else I was thinking why bother paying attention when you live with someone who does it so well! Now that I’m not close to close to home, I’ve been raiding the internet for Vietnamese recipes.
Man the “Blue Dragon” brand of hoisin sauce I bought was extra salty, I had to water it down with what seemed like half a litre of milk before the sodium level dropped! Mental note: good heart attack ingredient when I want to get Aidan out of the picture.
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