Summer Vietnamese Soups

Conservative and older generation Aussies have fixed ideas about food. Soups (except chilled cucumber or fruity soups) and stews are to be taken in winter only. Dessert is usually baked or poached with the exception of sorbet, cheesecake and ice-cream. It was unthinkable to have beans and grains to be served in dessert, not until decades ago.

Soul food : chicken noodle soup

Vietnamese cuisine made popular since the 1980s has probably revolutionalized Australian dining. It is no longer taboo to eat noodle soups eaten in summer, rice noodle made into salad and three coloured ice dessert with beans and grains which are no longer the preserve of main courses.

Combination fried rice noodle with gravy