Los Angeles
Our colleagues in the Orange County chapter invite Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to market tours and cooking classes focused on Vietnamese cooking. Details below:
Tour Vietnam without your passport –this Slow Food OC sponsored tour takes you on a wonderful journey to a Vietnamese market where you learn more about the glorious produce, live seafood, and cookware; then we return to Xanh Bistro to see the exotic ingredients we purchase transformed into delectable dishes, with a chance to taste this light and healthy yet flavorful cuisine.
Come and join Chef Haley Nguyen on this exciting and educational experience. We’ll start out at a local Vietnamese market, buy the ingredients and come back to Xanh for the demonstration hands-on regional Vietnamese cooking class, then savor a scrumptious multi-course dinner.
When: Monday, July 13, 2009 and Monday, July 20, 2009. See schedule below.
Where: Thuan Phat/Westminster Super Store and Xanh Bistro
Cost: $75 per person, per event. Price includes market tour, cooking class, dinner, tax, and gratuity but does not include alcoholic beverages.Monday, July 13, 2009: Market tour, cooking class, and dinner
1. 6:00 pm: Meet in front of the market and tour the market (address below
2. 7:00 pm: Go to Xanh Bistro for cooking class
3. Hands On Cooking Menu:
Rice paper rolls with grilled pork
Banana blossom salad
Simmered fish in clay pot of black pepper & soy reduction
4. 8:15: Eat dinner. Dinner includes: rice paper rolls with grilled pork, cucumber and rice noodles, banana blossom salad with shrimp & Vietnamese mint, simmered fish in clay pot of black pepper & soy reduction, sauteed seasonal Vietnamese greens with garlic, tapioca pearl and grilled seasonal fruit.
5. 9:30 pm: end of eventMonday, July 20, 2009: Market tour, vegetarian cooking class, and dinner
1. 6:00 pm: Meet in front of the market and tour the market (address below)
2. 7:00 pm: Go to Xanh Bistro for cooking class
3. Hands On Cooking Menu
Lotus roots salad with Asian celery, mint & cucumber
Kabocha squash soup with coconut milk
Braised tofu with tomato and pineapple
4. 8:15: Eat dinner. Dinner includes: lotus roots salad with Asian celery, mint & cucumber, kabocha squash soup with coconut milk, braised tofu with tomato and pineapple, grilled eggplant with purple parilla & scallion and vegan soy cheese cake.
5. 10:00 pm: end of eventMarket Address (where class meets): Thuan Phat/Westminster Super Store, 15440 Beach Blvd., Westminster CA 92683 (Corner of Beach & McFadden) .
Reservations may be made online via Brown Paper Tickets.
If you have questions about the event, contact Heather Stolzfus of the Orange County chapter.