Drip Coffee

As I've been blogging a lot about drip coffee lately, I thought I'll make an entry on what the instant drip coffee look like. Above is the package I received via snail mail from my friend this year. And she specifically ask me to drink it before it expire by end of the year. And since it's a French drip coffee, I decided to make Banh Mi to go with it. You can find a recipe on how to make that here. So for the drip coffee, basically you just open it and hand it inside your cup. And as I've learned making Vietnamese drip coffee, you first pour in some hot water to soak the coffee for around 10 seconds first, before pouring in the rest of the hot water to make the actual coffee. The french type drip coffee is a bit lighter. The ones I make using the Vietnamese style coffee is super thick! You could burn a hole in your stomach drinking it!

And that is why, it is always nice to have some nice toasted baguette with your coffee! The secret to making a great Vietnamese baguette is actually the pickled vegetable which I've learned to master. I am getting so good at it that I even made coleslaw for the first time a few days ago! More about that in my new entry! But isn't the above photo just lovely to look at?

As I was saying, the secret to making a great banh min, apart from the picked vegetable, is also the smelly vegetable above. Although I usually hate them in my chinese food, my banh mi is somehow not the same without them. They say that you are getting old the day you start appreciating vegetable like these! Cilantros, yes, that's what those smelly vegetables are call. Don't go without them. And last but super important is of course cheap liver paste. Without them, banh mi is just a subway sandwich. You don't even need expensive gourmet type. Just get the cheapest 2SGD one to make an authentic street side banh mi!

Here's the end product! Isn't it lovely? They say we feast with our eyes, and this is just gourmet to me! And how cool is the mini black baguette which I got from giant at around 0.75SGD each? I love making food, I love taking photograph of my food creation, and I love eating them. There is just something so satisfying about it. Its the knowledge that you made these. You created something so beautiful, so tasty, so memorable. Yup, you'll be seeing lots and lots of food porn on this blog in future as I learn to make more and more dishes.