Vietnamese Food: Wok Tossed Eel

 

Vietnamese Food

 

This week it's back to wok. I mean back to work! This week I am making Vietnamese food. Anyone who know me knows that I LOVE Vietnamese food! I LOVE Asian food and Vietnamese cooking.  So I sat around at work this week thinking about what I wanted to make for my video and blog post this week and although I have been fulfilling many, many requests for Malaysian and Italian cuisine I had to focus on  some other requests to be fair to everyone and that is why I am making Vietnamese food this week.

I really didn't know what I wanted to make as far as Vietnamese food is concerned. I thought soup! Nah! It's summertime here in Vegas already and it's to hot for soup. So I thought that since I whipped out my wok last week for Malaysian food I would put it to use this week for Vietnamese food! I wanted to do something different this week though. I mean there is lot's of Vietnamese food recipes out there but I didn't want to work with beef or chicken or even pork for this weeks dish.

So there I was trying to think of something a bit different in Vietnamese food that I could make. I finally came upon it. This weeks Vietnamese food dish is going to be wok tossed Eel! Yup! Eel! I know a lot of you out there are going "Oh, no way!" I understand. Many people have a natural dislike of Eel even though they might not have ever tried it. Many people think that Eel is an ocean or river snake. That's not true! Eels are fish. Eels are a nice meaty, fatty and oily fish that of course have a really mean bite if you don't know what you are doing when you fish for them.

I am proud to say that Italians and Vietnamese people have one thing in common and that is their love of Eel. I mean in the Italian community where I come from in Brooklyn, New York the Italians have  this celebration of Christmas Eve called The Vigil or La Vigilia  and this celebration is done with meals of fish and other seafood and one of the fishes used to celebrate La Vigilia is the Eel. The Italians fry the Eel or marinate and roll the Eel and cook it in many other ways. Either way and no matter how it's done the Eel is delicious and a much underestimated fish in my opinion.

So this week it's going to be Vietnamese food. Now this dish is usually made using mung bean thread or glass noodles but in this case I am going to be using regular Italian spaghetti instead of the  glass noodle. I LOVE glass noodles in my Vietnamese food don't get me wrong but I thought since the Italians and the Vietnamese have such a love of the Eel that I would add a bit of Italian influence to the dish besides the fact that the Italian pasta adds more chew to the meal than the glass noodles do. So let's get going and have some Vietnamese food! Enjoy the video.

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