These crispy air fried Vietnamese fish sauce chicken wings are savory and finger licking good! Nom Nom Nom…

If anyone knows me, I hate soggy wings, rather I like my wings crispy and dipped into a sauce. I adapted my parents recipe to be a more of a dry oil rub served with a fish dipping sauce. Typically the dry rub is just dry ingredients, then it’s tossed in a honey/fish sauce glaze but today I’m cutting the sweetness and opting for something a little saltier and savory.

So I did something!  I combined two of my favorite things, a Banh Mi sandwich and a hamburger mashed into one!

This Banh Mi inspired burger is oozing with a homemade Maggi cilantro mayo/aoili, a Maggi seasoned beef patty, fresh jalapeños, cilantro, cucumbers, and pickled daikon & carrots sandwiched between a hot, buttered brioche bun!

How anti-Asian sentiment has exploded, but the East has made some of your favorite things.

It would be impossible for us to claim we’re all about good living, love, or being the best you can be, and then go silent when uncomfortable things and injustices take place. This past year has become an inflection point for so many things. Political upheaval, social injustice, healthcare, our economy, and all of this just scratches the surface.

In Vietnamese this is known as Mỡ Hành. This simple garnish is simply made with lightly fried green scallions and is often served with traditional Vietnamese dishes.

Vietnamese shaking beef, steak tips, steak salad aka Thit Bo Luc Lac!We didn’t have much steak growing up but this Vietnamese steak 🥩 salad was something I always loved! They call it shaking beef because you chop up top sirloin in 1” cubes and shake it in a pan until it’s nice and dark around the edges.

Growing up my mom enjoyed cooking Italian foods while my father did all the Vietnamese foods. These meatless “meat”-balls are amazing and tastes just as good if not even better than real meatballs. It doesn’t seem like it now but I was a vegetarian for over 10 years so I love a good plant based meal every once in a while!

Today after 15 days of reminiscent childhood foods and good feastings, Lunar New Year celebrations officially come to an end.Pictured above is Bánh Chưng, a traditional Vietnamese food eaten during Lunar New Year (Tết) 🇻🇳 and is made from glutinous rice (aka sticky rice), mung beans, pork belly that is tightly wrapped in aromatic phrynium or banana leaves.

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It isn’t enough for a drink to simply taste great anymore. The entire beverage market is moving toward functionality. Consumers not only desire but expect that what they put into their bodies should benefit them in a myriad of ways. Philippe Trinh and Julian Lesser, owners of the Hudson Valley's Seek North Kombucha, recognized this trend and have strived to concoct drinks with incredible flavor — and a work ethic of their own.

This is popular traditional Vietnamese dish, bún thịt nướng, is a tasty combination of grilled pork, vermicelli rice noodles, fresh veggies & herbs, and serviced with a side of fish dipping sauce, Nuoc Mam Cham.

The secret here is the honey in the pork. It adds a touch of sweetness and helps caramelize the pork.

Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa is a Japanese celebrity chef and restaurateur known for his unique fusion of tradition Japanese with Peruvian twists.

Two of his signature dishes at the popular NOBU restaurants are the miso black cod and miso eggplant. The semi-sweet and super savory miso sauce glaze is marinated on black cod and eggplants then broiled to golden perfection.

Philippe and Julian have been together for over 15 years, and they probably work so well together because they both have a serial drive to follow their hearts no matter what. While it might have culminated in your favorite kombucha, that’s not where it started.