Vietnam Kitchen @ 1 Utama

Hmmm...


I was there 3 years ago with my fellow course mates for appreciation lunch - a session attended by us, EL 2005 batch with our beloved lecturers from Year 1 Semester 1. Previously, each of us forked out somewhere around RM30 for the lunch.

The setting back then was really nice there and now, it's nice too... They have one of the nicest set of utensils...


This time around, I took my parents and sister out on a meet-up with my cousin, Lillian, and she suggested that Vietnam Kitchen is a nice place to go to.

~ Pretty Cousin Lillian, mum and stupid sister ~

~ Beloved daddy and yours truly ~

Honestly, I know nothing about the menu in Vietnam Kitchen, so my cousin proceeded to make the orders.

Oh, oh, by the way, I ordered my own drink - something that looked cendol-ish but it wasn't cendol but it was close to cendol...


Then, cuzzie made a very interesting introduction to an appetizer in Vietnam Kitchen which is known as Banh Hoi Thap Cam.


This dish will be served with rice papers that look like this...


The rice papers are so damn nice, you know, got patterns some more...


If you don't know what Banh Hoi Thap Cam is, just take it as a simple DIY spring rolls - Vietnam style. Unique, right? Basically, it is a dish of pork, chicken and vermicelli, fried spring rolls, minced shrimp on sugarcane and pork balls.

Here, let me teach you how to make these simple DIY spring rolls...

First of all, spread some water on the rice paper...


The reason is so that the food will stick to the rice paper and will not fall out of place easily.

Secondly, get what-so-ever ingredients you like onto the rice paper like this...


And this...


Or if you like raw vegetable, put some beneath all the pork, vermicelli and stuffs to make it more crunchy...


Fold it up and have a bit to have the savour of satisfaction... Hahaha... You should be satisfy because it tastes nice actually... Best of all, you can have it for less than RM25.

Okay, now for the main course...

~ Stew Pork Leg with Eggs, RM16.90 ~

~ Stir Fry Lotus, RM12.90 ~

~ Seafood Tofu with Minced Pork, RM12.90 ~

~ Deep Fried Fish with Miso Sauce, RM38 ~

The fish was so damn expensive - tasted normal enough for me, nothing special and nothing to shout about but RM38 was so damn expensive lor! Yes, so damn expensive that I felt like stabbing a knife right through the head of the fish like this...


After which I did that, the fish died on me...


There, right through the head - kesian, little fishie...

At the end of the day, the bill came out somewhere at RM165 or so...

In a nutshell (sounds so formal), it'll be a good try for those of you who love Vietnamese food.

Lot S 312,
2nd Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing).
Tel:7724-1336