Imagine a soup brimming with vegetables such as Chinese cabbage (wombok), water spinach, okra, bean sprouts, mushrooms and seafood such as whole prawns and chunks of fish. If you crave the polarising flavours of sweet and sour, do yourself a favour and give this recipe a whirl to experience them the Vietnamese way, in this classic and much loved sweet and sour soup.

Perfectly cooked eggs dressed in a decadent sauce, encased in a crusty Vietnamese bread roll lined with rich French pate, then garnished with fried garlic chips and fresh coriander.

Fragrant and succulent lemongrass chicken, tucked in a crusty banh mi lined with French pate, my famous pickled carrots and finished with a few slices of fresh chilli. This is one of my favourite banh mi's of all time!

A ‘banh mi’ variation Vietnamese bakeries do not sell. Sardines from Morocco in a pool of savoury tomato sauce encased in a Vietnamese roll (banh mi o) with a generous crack of black pepper and coriander.

A CHEAT’s version of making delicious Vietnamese bread rolls with succulent roasted pork with crispy crackling, home-made pickled carrots, fresh cucumber, chilli and coriander.

Nothing can compare to the nostalgia from a refreshing glass of Vietnamese iced coffee and its power to immediately transport me back to the streets of Vietnam. Duncan Lu Vietnamese coffee is my unique blend bringing together robusta and specialty arabica coffee beans to refine the tasting notes of Vietnamese coffee. Expect dark chocolate and walnut notes from the robusta beans and hints of stone fruit all in the one glass.