Miss Saigon (#04-14, Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Road) is an eatery by Bánh Mì Saigon. Their first shop is at Orchard Plaza and now they have another at Fortune Centre.
That's the bánh mì áp chảo - baguette with a tomato-y stew with sardines, a couple fried eggs, a couple of meat balls and pate. The bread was pretty airy and crumbled a lot. I'm guessing this is similar to the Saigon breakfast thingy we've previously had at Nam Nam.
The stew tasted like tomato, sugar and Maggi seasoning. So it's sweet, salty and umami. After a while I thought it became a little sweeter than I was comfortable with.
The name of this dish was cơm thịt kho trứng cải chua củ kiệu. What I managed to decipher online via translation was cơm (rice) thịt kho trứng (pork belly & hard boiled egg stewed in a rich, savoury sweet sauce made from coconut water and fish sauce) cải chua (pickled mustard greens) củ kiệu (Chinese onion). Sounded about right based on what we had. Those pickled mustard greens were crunchy and fibrous.
We've had something similar in the defunct O Banh Mi.
The stew was sweet and a little smokey with really tender chunks of pork belly.
And a a hard boiled egg that has been deeply infused by the flavours of what it had been stewing in. Nice.
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