Good question! It’s not egg and spud I’m pretty sure, but egg and some sort of carb/starch. Don’t know the name, but it’s a staple of the Asian NY events.
Thanks, Krapow! Interestingly, when I google that there’s a wide range of images come – and none that look precisely like the standard issue dish I’ve seen numerous times at NY events in the west.
Wikipedia describes it thusly: “A Chinese-influenced pastry, it exists in many versions all over Asia; the Vietnamese version features a special tangy soy sauce on the side, rice flour cubes with fried eggs (either duck or chicken), and some vegetables.”
There’s a noodle-ish dish some of my friends like at dumpling shops in the city using sliced rice cakes which ends up looking like giant orzo, I think you can buy the sliced rice cakes frozen at vincent vegetarian (and probably many other places) – not sure if they’re the same as these ones though. (probably a similar product judging by this article – http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/seriously-asian-korean-rice-cakes.html )
Korean rice cakes are great! Dok or tteok, depending on how you transliterate it. On a visit to Seoul during winter I was introduced to dok bokki which is sold everywhere in street stalls. Looks like gnocchi napoletana, but it’s a fiery chilli sauce not tomato based. Delicious and warming
consider the sauce 
Looks like a good day out 🙂 What’s the egg & spud dish, I haven’t come across that before?
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Good question! It’s not egg and spud I’m pretty sure, but egg and some sort of carb/starch. Don’t know the name, but it’s a staple of the Asian NY events.
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Its banh bot chien. And usually delicious!
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Thanks, Krapow! Interestingly, when I google that there’s a wide range of images come – and none that look precisely like the standard issue dish I’ve seen numerous times at NY events in the west.
Wikipedia describes it thusly: “A Chinese-influenced pastry, it exists in many versions all over Asia; the Vietnamese version features a special tangy soy sauce on the side, rice flour cubes with fried eggs (either duck or chicken), and some vegetables.”
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Thanks Krapow 🙂 I haven’t seen fried rice flour cakes before but I’m sure they’d be delicious, judging by the lovely golden colour on the edges
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Thanks for asking what was my first question Juz!
There’s a noodle-ish dish some of my friends like at dumpling shops in the city using sliced rice cakes which ends up looking like giant orzo, I think you can buy the sliced rice cakes frozen at vincent vegetarian (and probably many other places) – not sure if they’re the same as these ones though. (probably a similar product judging by this article – http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/seriously-asian-korean-rice-cakes.html )
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Korean rice cakes are great! Dok or tteok, depending on how you transliterate it. On a visit to Seoul during winter I was introduced to dok bokki which is sold everywhere in street stalls. Looks like gnocchi napoletana, but it’s a fiery chilli sauce not tomato based. Delicious and warming
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