One-Dish Meals in Southeast Asia

Appears in
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore

By Robert Danhi

Published 2008

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Street foods constitute some of the best one-dish meals. For a quick gustatory pleasure on the run in Vietnam, stop in Hà-Nội, for a bowl of Phở (pronounced like “fuh”), the classic Vietnamese beef noodle soup. It contains meat, vegetables, noodles, broth, and herbs—a complete meal.

Teaw Vorarittinapa with Tom Yum Hot Pot

A noodle bowl can be a whole meal.

Pad Thai noodles

In Singapore, duck into an aroma-packed food court for Nasi Briyani for a complete meal of spice-laced, vegetable-studded basmati rice paired with mutton curry.