Milk Flower Earthenware – Pot Cooked Rice (Com Nieu Hoa Sua) (Rice cooked in small earthenware pots) (at No. 569/19A, Nguyen An Ninh street, Vung Tau city) – is in a cottage roof, dark red brown enamel brick wall, Chinese brick floor, small path under cottage vault, with natural bamboo furniture but always crowd with fellow dinners.
Going to Milk Flower Earthenware – Pot Cooked Rice you will see young ladies in South Vietnamese loose-fitting blouses (kind of shirts used by South Vietnamese people) to welcome and briskly invite fellow dinners to take their seats, pour out a cup of warm tea before you order food.
The meal depends on fellow dinners’ liking and taste, but all are actual simple Vietnamese food of three regions’ gastronomy for fellow dinners’ choice. Soft aromatic white cooked rice is cooked in earthenware pots on cooking-pot holder knitting by bamboo.
Gobies, soft lip fishes... and other kinds of freshwater fishes are braised in earthen bowls with moderate thick boiled stock, slightly odor of fried onion, peppercorn, and grease scraps. Mixed vegetables are medium-boiled, green, going up in smoke. A sort of sour soup with freshwater fishes, very thick braised fish sauce as per the Southern type; shellfish soup with fennel, dish made of papaya and shrimps... everything is piping hot and pleasant to taste.
Fellow dinners coming to Milk Flower Earthenware – Pot Cooked Rice are also “stylish”. Parking vehicles on the opposite roadside, walking into the restaurant, choosing private and tranquil corners, both enjoying homeland taste and talking besides cups of tea. It seems Milk Flower Earthenware – Pot Cooked Rice a real space of folk verses. And fellow dinners coming to Milk Flower Earthenware – Pot Cooked Rice can not only skillful cooks but also country and friendly feature of rice cooked earthenware pots in a space of warming family.
Gia An
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