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Bun Cha is one of the most representative dishes of Vietnamese gastronomic culture, which includes ingredients such as noodles or pork patties dipped in a broth that dilutes sweet and sour, spicy and salty flavors. Dabiz Muñoz, during his culinary tour of Vietnam, makes a stop at a street food place to enjoy this dish that, as he reveals, ‘excites him a lot’.
My head exploded. This place is to freak out hard. I’ve been to Vietnam several times and I’ve never tasted a Bun Cha like this. How can you do so much and so incredible and so unsurpassable with so little???? What the fuck?’, writes in a post the best chef in the world about this semi-hidden enclave of which he shares with the public its location: Bun Cha 74, Hang Quạt.
Muñoz describes it as one of the best Bun Cha in Vietnam, and expresses his enthusiasm about the dish and the restaurant that serves it from the beginning to the end of the video. First, he takes a tour of the alley in which it is located, showing the ingredients with which it is made, the kitchen and the tables that make up the premises.
This is followed by a tasting of the Bun Cha that would ‘blow his mind’. A sequence recorded by his wife Cristina Pedroche, in which he proceeds to the tasting, joining all the ingredients, and giving way to a kind of tutorial in which he explains them one by one, while verbalizing the sensations they transmit.
The dish in question is made with glutinous rice noodles, herbs, sticky rice, garlic and chili, and a broth made with rice vinegar, lime and sugar. In it, he dips two types of grilled meat: sliced bacon and pork patties with green papaya and scallions. He decides to add a little extra chili to give it that ‘spicy’ touch. All this is accompanied by a rice paste roll filled with fermented crab, which he dips into the broth to enjoy ‘one of his favorite things in life’ to the fullest.
