This Week’s Film: The Ramen Girl
Cuisine: Japanese
Each week, I feature an Asian film and create a recipe from the cuisine of that country. This week, it’s The Ramen Girl, a food film from Japan, with a ramen recipe to go with it.
Join me throughout the week for a closer look at the food and the film. My recipe and film review will be posted at the end of the week.
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
With its strong French-colonial influences, Vietnam is known for its excellent French-style baguettes. In Vietnamese they’re called banh mi, and the baguettes are used to make a variety of meat and vegetable sandwiches, also simply called banh mi. This version is made with spicy vegetable slaw and savory pork meatballs.
Here is a link to the Recipe and Photo on ThingsAsian.
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
I always marvel at how certain films of major significance have eluded me for years after their release. Of course, I’ve never been one to flock to the box office, especially since the invention of VCRs and DVDs. I much prefer to watch movies at my leisure, in the comfort of home, where I can pause the film to make a comment, ask a question, fetch a snack, look something up on the Internet, or take a bathroom break. And with the proliferation of films available for home viewing, especially via Netflix, there are still so many films that I’ve yet to see.
Among them are Schindler’s List, the vintage classics It Happened One Night and Gaslight, I’ve never seen a single film by Ingmar Bergman or Federico Fellini, and believe it or not…Apocalypse Now. But that’s finally about to change, now that my son Will and I have plans to watch it together this weekend.
My film review will be posted at the end of the week, along with my Banh Mi recipe.
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
As always, I’m looking for a dish that I’ve yet to try, and one that springs to mind is the Vietnamese-style sandwich known as Banh Mi. The name simply means baguette, but it seems that there are endless variations upon the theme.
A basic description of Banh Mi would be: a French baguette, split lengthwise and filled with various meats, vegetable toppings, and condiments, which leaves it quite open to interpretation. So I will be conducting more detailed research to decide on the combination of fillings and condiments that I will use for my own version.
My Banh Mi recipe will be posted at the end of the week, along with my Apocalypse Now film review.
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Although Vietnamese cuisine is unique, it has evolved over many centuries from Chinese, Indian and French Colonial influences. Vietnam is also distinctly regional, from the cooler northern region, the rich cultural Hue region in the center, and the tropical southern region, each with its own indigenous vegetables, seafood, and wildlife; each with its own style and spice.
Northern cuisine is lighter and less pungent, the cuisine of the central Hue region, once the site of the ancient capital, is flavorful and elaborate, while the southern region falls under the influence of Chinese cuisine, with more pungent spices and stir-fry techniques. The southern region is also the melting pot of French and Indian influences characterized by curries and European ingredients such as bread, potatoes, asparagus, shallots, and fine herbs.
My Vietnamese recipe will be posted at the end of the week along with my Apocalypse Now film review.
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning Vietnam War Era interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness stars Marlon Brando as a mentally deranged army colonel who has gone AWOL in the Cambodian jungle, and Martin Sheen as the officer who is sent to track him down and kill him. [...]
This Week’s Film: Apocalypse Now
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Each week, I feature an Asian film and create a recipe from the cuisine of that country. This week, it’s a classic: Apocalypse Now, and a Vietnamese dish to go with it.
Join me throughout the week for a closer look at the food and the film. My recipe [...]
This Week’s Film: Fire
Cuisine: Indian
Dysfunctional doesn’t begin to describe the family dynamics in this sexually charged drama written and directed by Deepa Mehta.
Here is a link to my Film Review on ThingsAsian.
This Week’s Film: Fire
Cuisine: Indian
This colorful curry is seasoned with a blend of earthy Bengali spices and vibrant aromatics that bring the flavor of the plump, meaty catfish filets to life. Served with a classic rice pilaf, it’s a memorable main course for an Indian meal.
Here is a link to the Recipe and Photo [...]
This Week’s Film: Fire
Cuisine: Indian
I’ve always loved curry in all its various interpretations, but for most of my life, I used only commercially blended curry powders to make curry at home. However, in the five years that I’ve been creating recipes for Chopstick Cinema, I’ve learned a lot about curries and curry powder:
The term [...]
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