Today, we ate at a Michelin guide restaurant. It does not have any Michelin stars. It is a recommended restaurant in the Michelin guide. So, there is a sign on the restaurant that it is a Michelin though I think it is misleading as I thought it has a Michelin star. With a Michelin status, the price of the food is not cheap. In my opinion, the food is highly priced and it is not value for money. But the food is delicious so the heart was less painful in paying the food.
My friend and I shared two small dishes and two big dishes. It is recommended 1 big and 1 small or 1 medium and 2 small or 4 small. We shared fresh spring rolls with shrimps SEK170, pumpkin croquette with puffed green rice SEK165, pho noodle soup with water buffalo meat SEK320 and shrimp and chicken noodle (quang nam) soup SEK320. My opinion is that the dishes could be priced at SEK100 lesser.
The small dishes came out first.
Pumpkin croquette with puffed green rice is new to me. The croquette is made from Hokaido pumpkin. I have never read before of green rice until right now. It is found in Vietnam. The sauce is a combination of tamarind, coconut milk, longan, chilli and shallots. Yummy sauce too.
Short description of Vietnamese Green Rice, known locally as “cốm,” is a special type of rice made from young glutinous rice grains. Unlike familiar white rice, Green Rice is characterized by its green color, which comes from soaking the rice with the juice of young rice plant leaves. Source from Keep Up Cooking.
There were 8 small pieces of spring rolls with mam xanh dipping sauce. Ingredients of the dipping sauce - Green bird's eye chilies, lime juice, sweetened condensed milk (the secret ingredient for creaminess), white sugar, kosher salt, Makrut lime leaves (for aroma), and often MSG for flavor enhancement. The sauce was yummy. Really matches well with the spring rolls.
Main dishes - The pho noodle soup came with fried bread. The fried bread which is my favourite does not even closely resemble the taste of fried bread. I was dissatisfied. Don't sell the dish if you cannot cook it or don't even know the real taste. I prefer the soup of the pho rather than the chicken and prawn noodle soup.
Good thing that there were many meat pieces in the pho soup to justify SEK320.
Chicken and noodle soup came with fried rice paper that is filled with black sesame seeds. There were 3 pieces of prawns and 3 pieces of chicken and half an egg. Gosh. Give a full egg instead. The rice noodles were not a lot in the soup. I was disappointed when I mixed the contents of the soup.
Here are some photos of me taken by my friend while waiting for the food. The interior decoration has some old photos and cage-like lamp designs.
This is my favourite photo with my squinty eyes.
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