8/24 vietnamese

my favorite ethnic food - by far... but very much outside my cooking comfort zone. no worries though, i had a hand from Haskell who joined me for dinner as well as a very good cookbook to guide me. The main dish was Ga Kho Gung (chicken braised in ginger and caramel sauce). This involved making homemade caramel sauce and cooking chunks of chicken thighs in it along with a good amount of ginger and some fish sauce. To go along with this, we also made some shrimp summer rolls. Again, not something i make very often. in fact, i've never made em before, but they were fun to put together and quite tasty. overall a pretty successful meal.