Porridge with pig's internal organs!

Porridge with pig's internal organs or just "cháo lòng" in Vietnamese is one of rare offerings in our street food culture! As beef noodles, or some other dishes cháo lòng can be our breakfast, lunch or dinner! 24 hours service!

         A bowl of cháo lòng of our only gal in the toys biz team - a chili lover!   

It's almost everything from the pig we can find in this hearty rice porridge: bones, skin, heart, blood,
liver, intestines...! Strange? Yeah but it's true!

To make cháo lòng tasty, first thing we need to cook pig's bones, then other innards! One thing, if you notice, the color of the porridge is darker compared to other porridges, that color comes from the pig's blood! So literally we have bloody porridge!

            Cháo lòng with cube of congealed pig's blood, liver, heart, skin...and chak way!

Cháo lòng is one of my favorites, together with real but more simple blood porridge (cháo huyết) that I already mentioned in some previous post!

Cháo lòng can be served from early in the morning to late at night but the most common time to have cháo lòng is around 4-5 PM, esp, when sitting in the office, we may feel a bit hungry and don't want to wait until dinner time, cháo lòng is the best light meal before dinner!

       Cháo lòng can be topped with shredded ginger and don't forget to squeeze some lime juice! Tastier!    

More than 15 years ago, on An Dương Vương street there was one store they sold very good cháo lòng, I remember I always passed by there in the afternoon and had a bowl of cháo lòng with a very yummy sausage! This family already migrated to the States and I wish to know whether they have launched their cháo lòng stall there or not!
Yeah I forgot to tell you - cháo lòng is special because it's always served with some slices of sausage! How to make the sausage - another story!

            One of sausages to go with cháo lòng - pig's blood sausage!  

This afternoon, some people in our team probably feel boring, sitting in the office, so we decided to go out to the company warehouse (!?). It's a huge place next to Sài gòn river in Thanh Đa area. I was told that next year - a 39th floor building will be raise here!

On the way back to the office we had a quick cháo lòng on Nguyễn Bĩnh Khiêm street, coincidently the cháo lòng stall is next to my childhood swimming pool that I did mention in another post! Curious to know how much it has been changed - the pool!

By the way, in our team there is a young German guy and as far as I know most foreigners usually don't like our porridge, especially those dishes with the internal organs...but here is an exception my colleague seems have no problem with that!
But he didn't touch those black cubes of congealed blood, I just wonder whether he knows that the porridge has been already mixed with blood during the cooking!
Probably no! No problem!