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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2012, 04:18:30 AM »
  • She made it look like dog food.
  • The color is all wrong. The stew is supposed to be redish, colored by Annato seed oil.
  • She thinks frying the garlic is flavoring the oil. It's not. It's to bring out the flavor in the garlic.
  • Lack of onions is fine, but the better stews do use onion or a combination of onions and shallots for extra complexity.
  • WTF the red wine?
  • Beef and carrots are cut into too small pieces. Repeated heating is what makes it good on the second day. Little pieces won't survive that.
  • Wrong cut of beef. Needs more connective tissue. The gelatin from cuts with more connective tissue melt into the stew to give it the proper flavor and texture. Obviously this requires more than 90 minutes of cooking time - more like 3++ hours. Carrots are thrown in for the last hour.
  • Some recipes use lemongrass, but I can overlook that. I'm not a big fan of it in this dish.
  • I can overlook the ketchup
  • But I can't overlook the mushrooms. That's going to fuck up the flavor.
  • 1/3 cup Soy sauce? WTF. This is not a Chinese stew. That's going to fuck up the flavor too.
  • Yeah - those packets. That bullshit. I wrap fresh spices (cloves, cinnamon, ginger, star anise) in a cheesecloth. The cloves and anise are slightly carbonized in a pan beforehand.  The outer skin of onions and ginger is burnt over open flame, then scraped away.
What she made is fine, but it shouldn't be called Bo Kho.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2012, 05:10:04 AM »
GODDAMN ASIANS!
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2012, 06:10:37 AM »
Lol, she made Beef Bourguignon w/ soy sauce!


Vietnamese = French + Kikkoman!


Btw, did she use Kikkoman?  I swear if she did, someone needs a slap.


Yamasa ftw!
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2012, 06:38:08 AM »
Quote from: RexAeterna on April 04, 2012, 03:50:17 AM
i'm on a diet too. it's called a see-food diet. i see food and i eat it. best diet ever!

I'm on this diet as well hehehe
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2012, 09:10:51 AM »
I like my own food (Hong Kong and Cantonese food) but I REALLY like Korean and Thai.  Whereas I find the Italian and Japanese restaurants to be very pretentious.

Alternatively, when I do eat steak, I have blue steak, I don't know if you Americans know what it is but it's pretty much raw meat with seared tops and bottoms.

Others I like to eat are Ox tongue and ox heart, good stuff.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2012, 02:38:31 AM »
Meet food.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2012, 06:50:28 AM »
So jealous.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2012, 02:10:23 PM »
Where is the food, I only see scotch...

Quote from: purrin on May 28, 2012, 02:38:31 AM
Meet food.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2012, 06:05:34 PM »
Quote from: ocswing on May 28, 2012, 06:50:28 AM
So jealous.

Crap. You are close by. We forgot to invite you. There was plenty of room.
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Re: Vietnamese Oxtail Stew
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2012, 03:53:21 AM »
Quote from: purrin on May 28, 2012, 06:05:34 PM
Crap. You are close by. We forgot to invite you. There was plenty of room.

No worries. It won't have that food, but I'm looking forward to the August meet.
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