If you
eat to be full, you must have not chosen porridge. But for a supper, porridge
is a perfect choice. Because before going to sleep, eating porridge is easy for
your stomach to digest in short time. Especially Sai Gon white porridge.
Sai Gon, in the early morning has the light humid of
spring, the noon is hot sunny like usually, and the evening is quite cool down
remind us of the Highland. It’s happy to gather with family after a busy day,
slowly waiting for a hot porridge bowl in the chilly evening.
The main ingredient is rice and water. To have a right pot of porridge, it
usually has the water three time more than rice and a pot to cook. At the
beginning, put it on really high heat to boil rice and water, and make rice
dilate bigger, then low down the heat to simmer rice until cook through. The
more you cook, the thicker porridge is.
Does a bowl of white porridge have something special? Of course, the goodness
of Sai Gon white porridge is not that simple. Because, accompanying this
porridge is a lot of side dishes. Even they are just side dishes, the cooking
process seems to be complicated and take time.
The dish that is ordered the most is white porridge with salted duck or “hot
vit bac thao” (century egg), 3 colors fried egg. The egg yolk is crushed, mix
well with porridge, make the white porridge change color and have fat fleshy
smell enough to attract all dinner that is hungry. If you like seafood the
porridge can also be with poached anchovies, fry anchovies or poached fresh
water crab, poached shrimp. Porridge with meat has poached pork with pepper or
every types of dried shredded such as dried shredded fish or meat. Besides,
there are also fermented cucumber, fermented egg-plant…
There are many stores has a common sign named “Chao trang” (white porridge) on
Ly Chinh Thang street. These are not luxury, with small space. The marvel in
making a bowl of porridge need to be respected, and enjoyed by soul to feel the
depth of it. Porridge has a diversity meaning in Vietnamese life, it’s the food
for sick people, old people, kids or simply just a supper to fulfill a day.
*Taro**
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