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Lúc Lắc Vietnamese Kitchen
Lúc Lắc Vietnamese Kitchen, or simply Lúc Lắc, is a Vietnamese cuisine, Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Leon Chung Company Building, in the United States. Description and history Lúc Lắc is a counter service style Vietnamese restaurant co-owned by Adam and Alan Ho. The restaurant opened in November 2011, following Pho PDX's rebranding and relocation. Menu options include crispy rolls, mussels, pho, steak rolls, and sugarcane shrimp. The "Sassy Sour" is the restaurant's best selling drink. Ca Phe Cola is also on the drink menu. Lúc Lắc has been described as a "cozy Vietnamese sandwich shop/cocktail bar". In 2012, ''Willamette Week'' Kelly Clarke said of the Vietnamese restaurant's interior: "The decor ... is as delightfully baroque as its drink ingredients. A horseshoe of tall-backed, red-leather banquettes surround a huge oval-shaped wood bar painted bright teal. One entire wall is devoted to a stunning, graffiti-ish mural of capering Chinese dragon heads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese Cuisine
Vietnamese cuisine encompasses the foods and beverages originated from Vietnam. Meals feature a combination of five fundamental tastes (): sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and Piquant, spicy. The distinctive nature of each dish reflects one or more elements (such as nutrients and colors), which are also based around a Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), five-pronged philosophy. Vietnamese recipes use ingredients like lemongrass, ginger, mentha, mint, Vietnamese mint, long coriander, Saigon cinnamon, bird's eye chili, lime (fruit), lime, and Thai basil leaves. Traditional Vietnamese cooking has often been characterised as using fresh ingredients, not using much dairy or oil, having interesting textures, and making use of herbs and vegetables. The cuisine is also low in sugar and is almost always naturally gluten-free, as many of the dishes are rice-based instead of wheat-based, made with rice noodles, Rice paper, rice papers and rice flour. Historical influences Besides indigenous Vietn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
