Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).
Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.
Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves
Bread with tomato
It is the simplest thing there is, a tomato rubbed on a slice of bread.
It is usually done with a specific variety of tomatoes but it can be done with almost any variety as long as they are ripe enough. Sometimes if they aren’t ripe enough or I’m short on tomatoes I put them in the blender and spread the puree instead (it is important in this case to apply some pressure on the bread to simulate the rubbing).
Add some salt and olive oil and it is done. Then this is accompanied with all kinds of cured meats and cheese.
You forgot the part where they grind a garlic clove in the bread itself before putting the tomato and oil, although idk if that’s done in your region too.
It is done, yes. I have friends that grind the garlic to the bottom of the slice to make it more prominent.
I always forget because I forget to buy garlic too.
That’s so absurdly simple it almost sounds like a joke, except I’m salivating thinking about it. Neat.