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Vietnamese "Red" Chicken?

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Martin Fisher

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Perhaps Dầu Hạt Điều (Annato Oil) played a part!?

~Martin :)

I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

Unsupervised, rebellious, radical agrarian experimenter, minimalist penny-pincher, and adventurous cook. Crotchety, cantankerous, terse curmudgeon, non-conformist, and contrarian who questions everything!

The best thing about a vegetable garden is all the meat you can hunt and trap out of it!

 

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I had watched this thread for a while.  I commiserate with you on trying to find the name or technique of a dish with few details.   I still pine for the red fried rice at a restaurant called Victory in LA that is gone I hear.   Anyway, this probably is not the chicken you are looking for, but I found this fascinating video on a "waterfall" chicken street food in Saigon.  The ingenuity of the fryer is very cool, and the oil looks red to me.   The host is very personable too.Vietnamese Waterfall Chicken.

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Martin Fisher

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20 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

I had watched this thread for a while.  I commiserate with you on trying to find the name or technique of a dish with few details.   I still pine for the red fried rice at a restaurant called Victory in LA that is gone I hear.   Anyway, this probably is not the chicken you are looking for, but I found this fascinating video on a "waterfall" chicken street food in Saigon.  The ingenuity of the fryer is very cool, and the oil looks red to me.   The host is very personable too.Vietnamese Waterfall Chicken.

 

Thanks!

I think I've watched almost all of Mark Wiens' videos. :)

~Martin :)

I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

Unsupervised, rebellious, radical agrarian experimenter, minimalist penny-pincher, and adventurous cook. Crotchety, cantankerous, terse curmudgeon, non-conformist, and contrarian who questions everything!

The best thing about a vegetable garden is all the meat you can hunt and trap out of it!

 

Martin Fisher

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1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

I did ask around when I was in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) back in May, but got nowhere.. Sorry,  I forgot to tell you at the time.

 

But, don't give up!

 

 

Thanks for asking around!

~Martin :)

I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

Unsupervised, rebellious, radical agrarian experimenter, minimalist penny-pincher, and adventurous cook. Crotchety, cantankerous, terse curmudgeon, non-conformist, and contrarian who questions everything!

The best thing about a vegetable garden is all the meat you can hunt and trap out of it!

 

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The first thing I thought of when seeing "red chicken" was the kho (caramel) style dishes from Vietnam, which are similar to Chinese red-braised dishes but not always long-simmered. In this specific case, ga kho gung (caramel chicken w/ginger), which doesn't always turn out deep red when cooked at home, but I've definitely been to restaurants where whatever they've done has ensured that it's come out a really deep red.

 

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