Name: Omelette of Pork Mince, Preserved Radish and Spring Onion (Trứng Chiên Thịt Băm)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 4 eggs; 2 spring onions (scallions), white part only, sliced; 1 teaspoon fish sauce; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; ½ small red onion, diced; 1 tablespoon oil; 1 tablespoon preserved radish (available in Asian supermarkets); 100 g (3½ oz) minced (ground) pork; ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Secrets of the Red Lantern

By Pauline Nguyen , Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen

Published 2007

About

Mark Jensen: When we ate our way across Vietnam, Pauline, Lewis and I often found ourselves looking for restaurants with a sign reading Com Binh Dan (‘home-style cooking’). We tired very easily of the food made fancy in some of the up-market restaurants and craved for more simple and honest food — food that