Tan Ky Vietnamese Restaurant, Cabramatta

Vietnamese bun mang vit (duck, noodles and bamboo) consists of three parts:

• the cold duck salad that also contains offal and topped with Viet spearmint
• vermicelli in soup that was used to cook the duck and 
• the ginger chilli fish sauce

Duy Linh Vegetarian Restaurant, Cabramatta

Vegetarian duck and bamboo soup

Duy Linh is this Sydney food blog's favourite vegetarian restaurant in Cabramatta.  They make an effort to make the food taste good as well as look good.  They also tend to make vegetarian food taste and look like the meat equivalent, which isn't to everyone's taste.  Today I had the vegetarian version of duck and bamboo soup.

This one at least doesn't taste too much like meat.. I'm guessing it's hard to make something taste like duck.  But it was tasty.

Walter had the vegetarian version of bo kho tieu - beef cooked in fish sauce pepper.  This dish looked and tasted remarkably like the meat equivalent.

Duy Linh Vegetarian
117 John St (Entry via Hill St)
Cabramatta

Tan Ky Cabramatta

Now here's a relatively unkown eatery in Cabramatta, surprising because Tan Ky is on John Street, the main street of Cabramatta.

I was so lost as to where to go for dinner tonight, I stumbled by chance on Tan Ky and ordered a relatively unkown Vietnamese dish, Bun Mang Vit (duck, noodles and bamboo).

It consists of three different parts. The vermicelli in clear bamboo soup, duck salad and ginger chilli dipping sauce.

Utterly delicious.

Duck and Bamboo Noodle Soup: Tan Ky

Pho, Mi and Bun Bo Hue are the more well known Vietnamese noodles, but Bun Mang Vit might be something the general community is not so familiar with.

Bun Mang Vit is really two dishes in one:

Firstly thin rice noodles in soup...

Secondly, cooked duck on chinese cabbage salad garnished with crushed peanut, fried onion and my favourite, rau ram (Vietnamese Coriander).  You eat them together, a dry dish washed down with the soup.

The duck should be dipped in a lemongrass, garlic, chilli sauce.

Tried it at a new restaurant in Cabramatta, Tan Ky.  It's not an easy dish to make because there are so many components and the sauce is so crucial, I was sceptical, but felt like a change.

I was very pleasantly surprised, it was delicious and ridiculously cheap - less than $10.