When I started this blog half year ago, I have a post about the curry noodles (bún càri) and I did mention about my experience in India, when I realized that many things can cook as curry: from very traditional chicken, beef, goat or lamb to fish, frog, eel...or from favorite sweet potatoes, carrot to okra, eggplant, beans and ...chili! Curry chili!?
Every nation always makes the curry as their own signature dish by adding some specific ingredient as lemon grass in Thai curry or a lot of big onions to thicken the Japanese curry sauce!
In Vietnam as street food we easily find many stalls selling chicken curry with bread, or duck curry with rice vermicelli, and the most popular among those people who love to drink is the goat curry where they enjoy drinking more than eating!
I still remember when I was kid, in our neighborhood, there was a man, my mom's acquaintance. He already passed away long ago. At that time he had a huge billiard house in Nguyen Trai street and probably he was a millionaire in 1970s (millionaire in 70s was much more valuable than today's millionaires in our country as our currency đồng has been very much devalued).
One beautiful day in order to celebrate some special event, that I already forgot, he cooked a very good curry to treat the whole our neighborhood. Hundreds of people! The curry taste at that time was so yummy, so tasty to a young kid like me, that I never forget! Mr Bông, his name, was so kind, so generous gentleman but his family situation is another touching story.
