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Customers order phở, pizza, burgers, steak and bibimbap. Cook every dish by its real recipe, in the right order, before they lose patience!
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Recipe book & sources
Phở bò Vietnam
Hanoi-style beef noodle soup: a clear bone broth perfumed with charred aromatics and toasted spices, poured boiling over noodles and thin raw beef.
- Char onion & ginger
- Toast star anise, cinnamon, clove, cardamom & coriander seed
- Simmer beef bones with the aromatics & spices
- Season the broth with fish sauce
- Blanch the bánh phở noodles
- Lay thin raw beef slices on top
- Ladle the boiling broth over
- Herbs, lime, bean sprouts & chili on the side
Sources: RecipeTin Eats: Vietnamese Phở · Wikipedia: Phở
Pizza Margherita Naples, Italy
Pizza Napoletana: dough stretched by hand (never rolled), San Marzano tomato, fior di latte, basil and olive oil, baked 60–90 seconds in a wood-fired oven at about 485 °C.
- Stretch the dough by hand
- Spread crushed San Marzano tomato
- Tear on fior di latte
- Add fresh basil leaves
- Drizzle extra-virgin olive oil
- Bake in the wood-fired oven (~485 °C)
Sources: AVPN International Regulations (Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana) · Serious Eats: Neapolitan pizza dough
Hamburger USA
A diner cheeseburger: a loosely formed chuck patty, seasoned just before it hits a very hot griddle, cheese melted on after the flip, a toasted bun and an assembly in order.
- Form an 80/20 chuck patty
- Season with salt & pepper
- Sear on the hot griddle & flip
- Cheese on to melt
- Toast the bun
- Bottom bun & sauce
- Lettuce & tomato
- Cheeseburger patty
- Pickles & onion
- Top bun
Sources: Serious Eats (J. Kenji López-Alt): Ultra-smashed cheeseburgers
Pan-seared steak Steakhouse classic
A ribeye patted dry, seasoned, seared in a smoking-hot cast-iron pan, basted with butter, garlic and thyme, cooked to the ordered doneness, rested and sliced against the grain.
- Pat the steak dry
- Season with salt & pepper
- Sear in a smoking-hot cast-iron pan
- Baste with butter, garlic & thyme
- Cook to the ordered doneness
- Rest 5 minutes
- Slice against the grain
Sources: Serious Eats: Pan-seared, butter-basted steak · ThermoWorks: Steak temperature guide
Bibimbap Korea
Dolsot bibimbap: rice in a sizzling sesame-oiled stone bowl, each namul seasoned separately, seasoned beef, a sunny-side-up egg, gochujang sauce and sesame oil.
- Heat the dolsot with sesame oil
- Add the cooked short-grain rice
- Spinach namul (blanched, sesame-seasoned)
- Soybean sprout namul
- Sautéed carrot
- Sautéed shiitake mushroom
- Sautéed zucchini
- Seasoned beef (soy, garlic, sesame)
- Fry a sunny-side-up egg
- Gochujang sauce
- Drizzle sesame oil & seeds
Sources: Maangchi: Bibimbap · Korean Bapsang: Bibimbap