Vox Hunt: Get Comfortable
Show us your favorite comfort food.
Submitted by nosa.
I give you the intensely satisfying and comfortingly robust pozole rojo--all the delicious that one bowl can handle. Also a good hangover cure, as are most comfort foods. Mexicans usually argue menudo is a better hangover cure, but let's face it, people: Tripe tastes like ass, and not without reason. And who wants to eat ass when they have a hangover?
When I'm hungover or sick or feeling a little blue, what I want is most definitely loads of chile and pork fat. Yum.
Avgolemono, though, or even pho, will do in a pinch. I wonder how often people find themselves in a pinch that can be alleviated by the addition of soups of Greek and Vietnamese origin. I'm guessing not that often.
(The linked recipe for pozole looks roughly adequate to me--I don't use a recipe when I make it, but this is at any rate the right ingredient list. The only thing I do different is I usually use pork shoulder rather than ribs, but I don't see why ribs wouldn't be equally good. Anyway, since I haven't actually used that recipe, though, I vouch not for it. Ditto the pho recipe--it seems about right to me, and I learned to make pho in a Vietnamese restaurant, but I don't ever use an actual recipe. I can assure you, though, that the charring of the ginger and onion is crucial. Pho broth that has uncharred aromatics is bleh, very bleh.)
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Da Nang has only one meaning to me: Near-death food poisoning. I was sick a lot in Vietnam, mostly because I was 2 months pregnant, but Da Nang--wow. Wow. I really thought we were going to die. Worst of all was that our hotel room was on the third floor, so we kept having to drag our sorry asses up several flights of stairs to vomit. Oh, God, I hate Da Nang.
I guess there was also in Da Nang that one scooter driver who WOULD NOT leave us alone. He followed us to China Beach and back to our hotel and all around town. Da Nang is just one long bad memory.
The best pho I had in Vietnam was in Sapa. We were in Sapa for a few days while I thought I was having a miscarriage, and we ate the same $1-a-bowl pho every morning for breakfast and it was exactly like the pho my "mom" used to make at the Vietnamese restaurant I worked at, which is the best pho I've had in the States. Truthfully, though, now that I know how to make pho, I don't eat it in restaurants that much. Much of the time in the States, it isn't worth it.
Man, I know what it's like to be really sick while travelling. Not much fun at all and yeah, thoughts of dying do take on a surreal dimension. Where is Sapa by the way?
A decent bowl of pho down here costs about AUD$8-10. I agree, it's not worth it but what can you do when you've got the cravings? If I can get the Queen Ninja to experiment with the soup base, I reckon we'd be eating this stuff for weeks on end!