Bo Bay Mon (Seven Delights of Beef), PLT, Canley Heights

Recently, it seems like I'm eating Bo Bay Mon every week, while that's not true, I do admit to having it twice this week.

Two most common questions, friends have asked is: isn't it alot to eat seven courses of beef and how can there be seven different ways to cook beef?

The answer to the first question is in the pic here: this is the first dish, extremely thin slices of beef is cooked in the vinegar broth wrapped in rice paper together with an incredible range of salad and mints (if you look carefully the salad also includes green banana!).  The wrapped roll is dipped in Vietnamese chilli sauce.  Oh, and the whole thing is interactive, you cook this yourself at the table.

The answer to the second question is that there's probably even more than seven ways, but suffice to say, there's boiling, frying, meat balls, congee, salad, with vermicelli.... omg, I'm feeling like it again now!

And my favourite place to have Bo Bay Mon is Phuoc Loc Tho in Canley Heights.  Enjoy!

Phuoc Loc Tho (PLT) Restaurant, Canley Heights

An undiscovered gem is PLT in Canley Heights.  We went here for seven delights of beef.  Not as bad as it sounds as the meat is minimal and the vegetables and mints that accompany are plentiful.

We went here to unwind with a group of friends after Walter's talk at Whitlam Library.

Vietnamese Canh Chua, Canley Heights

My all time favourite dish is Canh Chua (sour soup). It's what you'd have at home usually with fried fish for contrast.

Canh chua is basically a sour soup from tamarind, pineapple and tomato. Then there's just too many Vietnamese mints added to name, bac ha, chilli, been sprouts, garlic and choice of meats; usually fish or prawns are popular but you can have it with chicken.

This dish is from Phuoc Loc Tho in Canley Heights... all the ingredients are raw, including the fish. The soup is in the centre and will come to biil from coal underneath... once it's boiling you just push all the ingredients into the soup stock in the centre and enjoy!

Vietnamese Ice Coffee

Coffee drips into cup... layer of condensed milk... mix it all up and pour over ice... Vietnamese ice coffee, a traditional favourite.

This one was at Phuoc Loc Tho (PLT) restaurant in Canley Heights.

7 Delights of Beef: PLT Canley Heights

Our SBS In Language work team decended on Phuoc Loc Tho in Canley Heights for a vietnamese dish/banquet which most people have not heard about... Bo Bay Mon (seven courses of beef) or as I like to sizzle it: Seven Delights of Beef.



I've known the owner since his days in Crown Street, Darlinghurst where it was his specialty. Followed him when he moved to Bankstown and now Canley Heights.





There's hot pot beef, this strips of beef, beef balls, beef congee, beef skewers... some already cooked, and some you cook yourself at the table and eat with an variety of vietnamese mints, pickles, rice paper and vermicelli.



We couldn't believe it, last night PLT also had a special for $2 more (total $24/head) you also get the all you can eat hot pot after the seven delights! Yep light Vietnamese rice cakes, salads, seafood and meat in hot pot!