Fat city

Posted on 2011-03-27 in Vietnam Travel News

There have been couple of guilty pleasures in this universe as high as a greasy French wonder: foie gras.

While “pate” can be found upon a shelves of each streetside sandwich case in Ho Chi Minh City, a excellent iteration is only right away receiving a little of a town’s hi-end eateries by storm.

For those who don’t know, foie gras( literally, greasy liver) is subsequent from a liver of an oversized crow or duck.

According to French law, a bird contingency be forcibly pressed full of corn as well as alternative cereals until it is morbidly obese; Canadian as well as American producers have done a same plate, regulating healthy stuff oneself techniques, though a ensuing liver is deliberate reduction tasty.

Indeed, foie gras is graded( A, B, C) . It can be blended, churned up in to a mousse or reconstituted in to a terrene. In their purest form, a greasy livers have been sliced as well as served as total rounds.

In France, it’s mostly crushed in to bread or served with ripened offspring as well as cheese as a smashing equates to of offsetting a frail flavors of a good potion of Sauterne.

It takes a loyal master to conduct to take a plate to a latest level. Upon arise, it is sautéed smoothly to frail a exterior.

Dessert chefs have been well known to drizzle cuts of a famous pate with old wine, balsamic old wine as well as alternative honeyed as well as spicy sauces.

Here in HCMC, a delicious punch of foie gras is being cut by internal pleasant fruits.

Certain chefs in locale have combined a complicated turn – served up with cuts of mango, fire breathing monster ripened offspring as well as pineapple.

To representation a little of Saigon’s takes upon this object, check out a following:

Legend Hotel Saigon

2A-4A Ton Duc Thang Street, District 1

Tel:( 08) 3 823 3333

Sofitel Saigon Plaza Hotel

17 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1

Tel:( 08) 3 824 1555

Hotel Equatorial Ho Chi Minh City

242 Tran Binh Trong Street, District 5

Tel:( 08) 3 839 7777

Au Manoir De Khai Restaurant

251 Dien Bien Phu Street,