This gal is so relaxed and cool! Great storyteller, love her use of visual cues, provides options and alternatives, has great knife skills, and has a great voice. You can tell she loves food and is an excellent chef/cook.
YESS This is such a great recipe of bánh xeo!! My moms version includes squid as a protein and jicama with the bean sprouts for more crunch!! So glad this dish is being shared!!
Or you can have pickles of carrots and daikon added when you roll it with veggies, or some add the pickles to the dipping sauce. Those also give the crunch.
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
True, and it's nice that we're getting more Vietnamese recipes that aren't just pho or banh mi. I wanna see some other dishes like Mì Quảng, bún bò Huế, bánh cuốn, canh chua, chả cá Lã Vọng. There's so much good stuff that people around the world haven't been exposed to yet
@@xboxstudent I don’t think that foreigners like overpowered tastes like sourness on their dish, they usually prefer balanced dish like pho or spring rolls
@@N2O_The1000thElement Most of the dishes on this channel are common to the countries they're from. Like there are recipes for sandwiches and how to grill meat. But every country is different and you get different styles, canh Chua is a sour soup which isn't very common outside of SEA and Eastern Europe. People should try it
I remember the first time I had this in a restaurant and I tried to recreate it with eggs because I assumed it was a crispy egg omelette. I couldn't figure out why the eggs were not as crispy as the ones in the restaurant. 🤣
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
Koreans make something like this, but they grind the mung beans and make batter, adding a little ground rice to the batter. Then they add beansprouts, ground or chopped pork, chopped kimchi onions and chilies. I love this version for it's crispness, and that it uses far less oil. I'm going to try it sometime! Great video!
I love that you made this recipe properly. A lot of places in the US butcher this dish and put eggs in their batter. One of my favorite Viet dish. I once walked an hour to track down this lady who made banh xeo on the side of the road in Phu Quoc.
She has an adorable personality. I personally would have cooked the crepe a bit longer so it'll have more of a crunch, though. I like seeing her use mung beans as you don't see it used that much in banh xeo, but growing up, that's what we used along with flavored ground pork that was pre-cooked. I personally don't like a lot of mung beans or any at all, but I hear it's usually used in place of meat or seafood, which is more expensive.
Am I the only one who watches these videos for a few seconds just so that it goes in my watch history? I do it so I have something to watch when I eat my next meal lol
Ohh wow great that munchies brought up this vietnamese food my parents love cooking and teaching me how to make this as a kid its a very underrated vietnamese dish
Awesome thank you so much these are my daughters favorite her best friends mom makes them for her every-time she goes over and she’s been sick so I tried to make it just now couldn’t figure out why pancake was breaking and we now realized we weren’t cooking it long enough. So excited to try again 😊
I'm here because I ordered it last night as I usually see Vietnamese indulge it but I don't know how to eat it properly. Lol, I guess what's matters is the ingredients will all meet in the stomach anyway. 😂 Thank you Vietnamese people for you yummy foods! From a Filipino who loves to eat them!
As long as you enjoyed it, your method of consumption doesn't matter. My mother is Vietnamese and would just give me a fork to eat "Vietnamese pancakes" on a plate. I could go through 2-3 of them at a time when I was in high school. I didn't know wrapping them was a thing until I got older.
Makes me want to go back to vietnam now! you could get these everywhere and they were so good! Favourites were in NhaTrang across the rode from the temple. squid head so good!!
One of my favorite dishes. Great recipe! It is so customizable. Short on time? Buy the premixed bags of banh xeo powder. Don't have pork belly -- try ground pork. If you like spicy and a fusion taste, add chopped rocoto peppers (canned is ok) to flavor the meat. I prefer without the mung bean. It makes the crepe heavier and thicker than I would like. The joy is in wrapping a piece of banh xeo within a section of lettuce and then dipping it. I find red leaf lettuce to be a great companion. It is thinner than the green leaf variety, though you have to be careful not to tear it while wrapping. Happy eating!
I didn't know to do it until I was much older and was eating it at a friend's house where they do it. And then I was like "Aha! Why didn't I think of this?" So much easier to eat since wrapping it in lettuce, it often breaks or falls apart as I shove it in my mouth. LOL!
Banh xeo is amazing!! I think I like it more than pho... my local restaurant charges $10+ which really adds up if you have it once a week ... I might have to try this at home.
Anyone who hasn’t tried, please try it. It’s not gonna taste like anything you’ve had. I’m viet and eat predominantly American and Mexican food and this dish is so goddamn good and unlike cuisine in mex or American food.
I LOVE BANH XEO! When I was living in Seattle, my lab manager introduced me to this as this is her hometown food. And I fell in love with Banh Xeo ever since. Every time I see Banh Xeo, I remember all the good memories at the lab with my lab manager :)
I lived over there for almost 4 years but thanks to COVID I’m back in Murica but man I ate those alllllll the time!!! The shrimp is much smaller in Vietnam though and the shells left on but due to the size it doesn’t bother you. Dip in whatever amazing sauce they gave you and enjoy.
My family makes it with mince pork and whole shrimp. We also have the pickled radish and carrots to boost the acidity, it helps balance with out the oiliness. I also ask for bean sprouts on the side and not in it because I hate cooked bean sprouts.
It's exactly the way my mom makes Banh Xeo but she prefers oil made from pork grease rather using cooking oil. I once ask her why and she says it tastes better than oil.
Normally for the carbonation we add coconut soda rather than beer. But other than that this is exactly how banh xeo is cooked and eaten, particularly how she wraps it. It's crispy, but light for the most part and wrapping them in vegetables makes it feel fresher.
i came over to my friends house when i was 10 and her mom made me this and it was so good but i never figured out what it was called until 5 years later i asked her what it was called lol
