Name: Com Tam
Time of Day: All day
Location: Everywhere. This one was in Chau Doc, the last town in the Mekong Delta before Cambodia.
Cost: 10,000 - 50,000 dong depending where you are and if it's street or restaurant
The Rest: Taking the barbecue concept and beefing it up (well porking it up really) is com tam. If my sources are correct com tam means broken rice but it's the pork that's the main event. No kebab this time but it's not missed too badly due to the freshly barbecued pork chop, slice of pork terrine, shredded pork skin and - if you're lucky - some pork stomach. A veritable pork banquet all for about 30p and all for breakfast.
As this is more meal than snack (broken) rice provides carbs, pickled veg some nutrients, nuoc cham some saltiness and heat and soup some rehydration. The one pictured was my last meal in Vietnam and also one of my favourites of my month there.
What an epic trip.
Posted by: Lizzie | November 14, 2009 at 02:44 PM
It's been pretty epic. Very sad to see it end and just keep thinking about doing another one.
Posted by: Joshua Armstrong | November 17, 2009 at 08:15 PM