Grilled Lemongrass Pork Sausage Ssäm Daikon, Carrot, Herbs & Fish Sauce Vinaigrette

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By David Chang and Peter Meehan

Published 2009

  • About

When we started serving the night menu at Ssäm Bar, this sausage was stuffed into a made-to-order summer roll with herbs and rice noodles. When late-night started to get busier and busier, we learned why so few places make rolled-to-order summer rolls: it’s a pain in the ass.

So we simplified things and added the sausage to our growing roster of ssäms. As Tien Ho will tell you, coung (meats or fishes served with lettuce to wrap them in) are the ssäm of Vietnam, so it’s not li