As I'm living in district 5, right at the entrance gate to Chinatown, but every time with someone I try something there, it's always a new discovery to me! So many things in this vibrant part of the city! Tonight with friend I came to a small place in 125 Chau Van Liem street, famous for their homemade sui cao and noodles (different from dumpling noodles that I did review before). That place has been recommended by a Japanese foodie living in Saigon for 10 years!
Fried sủi cảo - filled with meat and veggies, dip sauce is chili saté with soya sauce!
Sủi cảo Đại Nương (Đại nương literally means Big Lady (!?), so hopefully she's a great chef too!) The most popular and probably favorite dish here is sủi cảo, so we have either steamed or fried ones! But there is something we need to know about this traditional Chinese dish!
Steamed sủi cảo are also good but we prefer fried ones!
Sủi cảo is important to many Chinese, as it's a part of their traditional meal during the Lunar New Year Eve, it's symbolized as the reunion after a hardworking year, away from home, now everyone in family gathering behind the dinning table for a good meal, good stories!
Sủi cảo fillings is chopped meat with veggies. I heard that the combination of meat and veggies sounds in Chinese as "a fortune", when people prepare the fillings, how they chop is important - the longer, the louder they chop the meat together with veggies - the bigger and last-longer - their fortune! Interesting!
