Sauce and marinade ingredients
- Sour taste: kumquat/lime/lemon/rice or apple vinegar
- Sweet taste: sugar/honey
- Salty taste: fish sauce and soy sauce
- Neutral taste: water
- Spicy taste: chili sauce/chopped chili
- Chopped garlic
- Lemongrass
Main dish ingredients
- Thin rice – bún
- Iceberg lettuce or other crunchy lettuce
- A bouquet of Asian herbs: Perilla (tía tô – shiso), Thai basil (húng quế), Vietnamese coriander (rau răm)
- Pork belly
- Green papaya/green mango
- Carrot
- Cucumber
- Optional: Crushed peanuts/cashews and roasted sesame seeds
Sauce preparation:
- Mix kumquat juice, sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce and water one part each. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- If you want, you can use another sour/sweet/salty ingredient from the list above.
- Add chopped chili and garlic to taste, remember that it is better to add chili in small amounts several times and test the spiciness of the sauce than to add a large amount of chili at once and get a sauce that is too spicy.
- Set the sauce aside for use later.
Dish preparation:
- Briefly soak the rice noodles in boiling water - if you bought fresh ones. If you must use dry noodles, prepare them according to the instructions on the package - some only need to be soaked in warm water, while others need to be boiled for a few minutes. Drain the noodles and let them cool
- Cut the bacon into medium-thick slices and place in a bowl.
- Add fish sauce, soy sauce and sugar in a 1:1:1 ratio.
- Cut off the lemongrass blades, keeping only the stem (approx. 10 cm). Remove the first one or two layers of the stem, chop the rest finely and add to the meat.
- Chop the shallot and add to the meat, along with a little chili.
- Mix thoroughly and set aside for 30 – 60 minutes. Note: If you have time, prepare and marinate the meat the night before. Put the meat into the refrigerator overnight. Better marinated meat is even tastier!
- Cut the carrot, cucumber and green papaya into strips (Julienne cut) and put them into an empty bowl.
- Add salad dressing and mix the ingredients
- Cut the herbs and lettuce into strips, do not chop finely, as all the flavor and aroma will remain on the cutting board.You can also tear the herbs with your fingers.
- If you have access to a grill, grill the meat.
- If you don't have access to a grill, heat up a wok (preferably) or a frying pan and roast the meat in the pan in its own fat.
- Set the meat aside to cool down.
- Drain excess sauce from vegetables.
- In bowls/portioning plates, arrange in the following order: herbs, rice noodles, vegetables, and meat.
- If you want, sprinkle everything with roasted sesame seeds and crushed peanuts/cashews.
