Bò Kho, Vietnamese Beef Stew - Thịt Bò - AFF IndoChina # 3

This is one of my favourite dishes at the Vietnamese restaurant. Each time I hoped that baguette is available, they always say no and in the end I have to eat it with rice.

I didn't really plan to make this, but it seems that I have collected the perfect cuts for this dish over a few weeks. I tend to buy whatever I see as nice and freeze them. And so, I decided to cook this. No regrets!

Bo Luc Lac @ Shaking Beef -Thit Bo AFF IndoChina #2

I tried this recipe and it's so easy to cook and nice to eat. I like the presence of pickled onions in this dish as it cuts away the grease, oh well, at least it gives me the feeling of it. It just makes eating more pleasurable.

But it tasted different from one I had a Vietnamese hawker. It tasted like as if, the dish was cooked with butter instead of oil! So yummy!

Bo La Lot, Vietnamese Beef Rolls with Wild Betel Leaf - Indochina AFF Bò # 1

For this month's Asian Food Fest, it's the month of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian food, grouped under Indochina. For more information, hop over to Kelly's blog, this month's host.

Bò lá lốt is a popular Vietnamese dish that is not served in the Vietnamese restaurants here in Malaysia.
It's one of the dishes in "7 course of beef", served usually during weddings.

In some countries where wild betel is not available, grape leaves are used to wrap these, but it may not have the same fragrance.
In Malaysia, wild betel is abundant and is used in the local cuisine and is locally known as daun kaduk.

Kashmiri Pulao - AFF Indian Rice Dishes #2

I tried this recipe more than a year ago... been wanting to redo it, because I used too much saffron! The recipe called for 1/2 tsp. I should've followed the recipe with 2 pinches. The whole thing turned out too yellow and the smell was strong! But alas.... it never realized.

So, just let it be....

Mishti Pulao - AFF Indian Rice Dishes #1

Mishti is sweet is Bengali. Mishti Pulao simply meant, sweet rice.

It might sound funny to you to eat a sweet tasting rice.... but not really. The sugar here nicely offsets the pungency of the turmeric and it's just mildly sweet, like how we enjoy the taste of coconut rice. The list of spices is not long, and they are easily available.