Enjoy the half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind in Saigon

Saigon is not only famous for delicacy food but also for simple but interesting noshes, and half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind is one kind of such noshes.

Saigon is not only famous for delicacy food but also for simple but interesting noshes, and half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind is one kind of such noshes.

It is usually said that Saigon does not have its own cuisine but the interference of many other cuisine, which has been brought here by people from many places.

With Vietnamese people, half-hatched duck egg (or quail egg) is very familiar, it is considered as a delicious and nourish dish. However, people are just familiar with boiled half-hatched eggs, using with pepper and salt and flagrant knotweed. Meanwhile, in Saigon, frying half-hatched eggs with tamarind is more favorable.

While only two half-hatched duck eggs can easily make us full and do not want to eat more, we can still eat tens of half-hatched quail eggs. However, when we fry eggs with tamarind, the eggs’ taste would become more moreish, which make them easier to eat.

It is not very difficult to make the half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind. You can easily make the dish only with some simple and cheap ingredients.Pouring oil into a frying pan, keeping the fire high, putting boiled half hatched duck eggs and then frying them, remember to turn them over steadily. When they turn into yellow, take them out.

Frying garlic with oil, putting ripen tamarind and adding sugar, a little salt into. Then overturn the mixture steadily, add a little water and keep the fire small. After a while, take the frying pan out and remove all the tamarind’s seeds.

The last step, pour the tamarind sauce into the frying eggs and put them on the oven, continually overturn in order to make the sauce soak into the eggs. After that, pour the water of corn flour over, add some chili and cilantro, mix all together and we would finish the dish. Spoon it into a plate, put the flagrant knotweed, ginger, pepper on and the dish is ready to use.

We make it nearly in the same way with quail egg. After boiling the quail egg, we remove all their shell. Then, soak the dry tamarind into hot water to make it soft and fry it with garlic on small fire until the sauce become viscid.

Finally, put the half-hatched quail eggs into the pan of tamarind sauce; overturn the eggs carefully so that they would not be broken. Remember to add sugar to create the typical sweet taste of Southern food.

This dish is not only a delicious and nourishing nosh, but also a favorable food for ones who like to drink. Going with some friends, enjoying the dish, drinking some beers and you will see how wonderful it could be!

Half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind is famous all over Saigon, you can find the dish in any snail restaurant. Therefore, you can hardly find a place that only sells this dish. Most of the customers who love half-hatched eggs frying with tamarind usually go to the famous snail restaurants to enjoy the special sweet, sour and greasy tastes of the dish.

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