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Mangosteen yoghurt pannacotta
Mangosteen
The queen of fruit, delicate, fragrant and likably sweet. This tropical treat is often paired with durian, but is delicious on its own or transformed into a light summer dessert.
Recipes: Mangosteen yoghurt pannacotta
Posted in Dessert, fruits
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Carob Molasses Cake with honeyed ricotta
Carob Molasses
Made from the pulp of the carob fruit. It is sweet and deep and delicious in its own right. Please don’t use it as a substitute for chocolate, everyone will be disappointed.
Recipes: Carob molasses cake with honeyed ricotta
Posted in cake, Dessert, grocery
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Carrot soup with dukkah
The ladies at the market must love it when they see me coming. I knew they would overcharge me, a towering white girl with no Vietnamese, I mean who wouldn’t? It isn’t by much, but I am sure that I’m paying the requisite white tax. I don’t mind though, I deserve it with my lack [...]
Posted in soup, vegetable
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Spiced chocolate mousse
It was years ago. The concept of the food blog was in its infancy, Julie and Julia was yet to surface and a whole generation of eaters and cooks were still getting their lo-fi information from the library. A buzzing, flickery hulk of a boxy crt took up most of my desks at home and [...]
Posted in Dessert
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Egg, tortilla, salsa.
I came to Hanoi not because I like Vietnamese food but because it was the best option for me at the time. Friends in Australia were jealous of all the amazing food I’d have easy and inexpensive access to, something that I was excited about after the wallet emptying doldrum that is Sydney. Delicious, cheap [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, lunch, vegetarian
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