Viet Garden
Viet Garden on Liverpool Road in Angel is a pretty damn fine and very informal Vietnamese restaurant. Here are some of the things we ate …
Vietnamese pancake:
Another of their specials, beef wrapped with sweet betel leaves:
Tilapia - here I’m eating the head:
This is what we ordered*.
* I take no responsibility if they’ve changed the numbering since I wrote this. In fact I take no responsibility for anything at all ever.
August 26th, 2006 at 2:14 am
I really miss London-Vietnum food… Thai food as well.
They are popular here in Tokyo but are Japanese-Num, in the end…
August 26th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
fumineko:
What is “Japanese-Num”? I think you may mean they are not very authentic.
I find that the “Italian” food in Tokyo is really strange. Not at all Italian. It can be quite awful, too.
Anyway I’m glad I can make very authentic pizzas now. Maybe next time I’m in Japan I can make pizza there! Can you buy good mozzarella though?
Rich.
August 27th, 2006 at 1:19 am
some cheap italian restaurants in japan such as capriciozza, and many more, are incredibly awful, not just strange..
real shame of japanese admiration for the West…
there are certainly authentic western restaurants though,, richard, i can take you!
eisuke
August 27th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Please!
August 28th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Eisuke-kun is right! I bet Ita飯 in Japan keeps pretty high standards.
Never been to Vietnum nor Thai so I don’t really know which is more like
authentic…. Having said that I find that Japanised-food needs stronger taste with punch. Could be wilder in some way. It’s too decent (well, this is 日本的, isn’t it?）. I feel the same for Chinese dishes. I never failed in being thrilled whenever I had Vet/Thai food in London. I was always dubious about hygiene matter. Did they wash vegetables? clean the floor??..
Now here, it’s clean but then I start doubting “how long have they kept those vegetables in fridge? ” Funny though, I demand that wildness now!!
Yeap. Do you know we have “Yorkshredale” in Japan?
Nagano and Hokkaido- these areas are popular for dairy farming. Of course, import cheeses are available too. We’ve seen fromage shops in town lately!
http://www.cheese-oukoku.co.jp/
Looking forward to your delicious pizza sometime♪