US’s Leading Pizza Chain to Open First Store in VN

[Dai. 7]

OMG. Agreed 110% I brought back chinsu but can't find any here and the ####### we bought last week had me gaggin. I can pour chinsu on anything. But bad nuoc mam can't be in the same room with me.

Our Family uses the nuoc mam with 3 crabs on it. We find it to be the best one and goes good on anything.

[ScottThuy 140]

Share the brand name please. I will look for it.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Share the brand name please. I will look for it.

On the right. It's the same brand Phuong buys.

I don't particularly care for seafood, and I can't really warm up to something whose primary ingredient is "anchovy extract". How the heck to you 'extract' an anchovy?

[Frank and Duyen 0]

On the right. It's the same brand Phuong buys.

I don't particularly care for seafood, and I can't really warm up to something whose primary ingredient is "anchovy extract". How the heck to you 'extract' an anchovy?

The "Extraction" process

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

The "Extraction" process

I was envisioning something like this.

[luckytxn 2,264]

On the right. It's the same brand Phuong buys.

I don't particularly care for seafood, and I can't really warm up to something whose primary ingredient is "anchovy extract". How the heck to you 'extract' an anchovy?

I recognize that stuff on the right. Never been in an VN home and not seen that.

[luckytxn 2,264]

When I go to VN I am not allowed to eat anywhere out but wonder if they would allow me if it is a American food place.

[ScottThuy 140]

On the right. It's the same brand Phuong buys.

I don't particularly care for seafood, and I can't really warm up to something whose primary ingredient is "anchovy extract". How the heck to you 'extract' an anchovy?

Oh snap, the one in the middle is the one that sent me runnin last week.... will look for the crabs now.. and after I mentioned this discussion with Thuy she said oh yeah thats what everyone told her too.. hai cua... but when we went and bought some, that wasnt the one we got... what a mistake IMO...

[ScottThuy 140]

I was envisioning something like this.

I saw something on TV that walked one through the process.. maybe it was bizarre foods or soemthing like that but it was informative.. and I still use it after seeing the way it is made... Sits out in the sun in salty watter for a year in some cases and then they dump the containers into pools to combine different flavors like making wine and then it is siphoned off into bottles using small rubber tubing with a sock on the end to filter solids... The QC dept was the guy who decided what vats were dumped together and when... I saw no machinery in the process...

[Ban Hammer 13,275]

I was envisioning something like this.

i thought it was gonna be something like this.

[Anh map 2,098]

On the right. It's the same brand Phuong buys.

I don't particularly care for seafood, and I can't really warm up to something whose primary ingredient is "anchovy extract". How the heck to you 'extract' an anchovy?

Brand on the right is the same one Linh buys whether at the local big grocery store or at one of the Viet markets in Dorchester.

[Dai. 7]

Oh snap, the one in the middle is the one that sent me runnin last week.... will look for the crabs now.. and after I mentioned this discussion with Thuy she said oh yeah thats what everyone told her too.. hai cua... but when we went and bought some, that wasnt the one we got... what a mistake IMO...

It's going to be pretty hard to find Chin Su here in America.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

i thought it was gonna be something like this.

I dunno what happened to the pic I linked to.

Anyway, it was a photoshopped pic I found on the internet of a old fashioned wringer washing machine, with a steady column of salmon going through the wringer and being squeezed flat, and a torrent of fluid gushing from either side.

[james&nicole 2]

there is a dunkin donuts clone at 136 nguyen thai hoc cross street is pnl. Have a pic but i don't know how to post it.

[Teacher Mark 53]

there is a dunkin donuts clone at 136 nguyen thai hoc cross street is pnl. Have a pic but i don't know how to post it.

I saw that the other day. Did you notice if they have hot coffee there? I love Vietnamese style coffee, but I hate waiting for it to drip. Most of the time the coffee is cold before it's finished.

The easiest way to post a pic is to

1.) Upload it on a photo site, like Picasa.

2.) Right click on the photo and hit copy image location.

3.) On the VJ reply screen click Insert image.

4.) Paste the image url into the box and post.

Edited December 1, 2010 by Mekong Mark