Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Vietnamese egg cream

I was surprised and delighted to see “Egg Cream Soda” listed among the drink offerings at a nearby Vietnamese restaurant. But this egg cream is not the New York concoction of chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer. The menu describes the drink like so: “sweet drink made from egg yolk, sweetened condensed milk & club soda served over ice.” And the menu really calls it an egg cream soda, or soda sua tlot ga. The tlot must be a typo: the Internets identify this drink as soda sua hot ga, or soda sữa hột gà.

Life is better when one is willing to marvel at ordinary things.

comments: 4

Slywy said...

A great addition to my much-neglected commonplace book!

Life is better when one is willing to marvel at ordinary things.

Michael Leddy said...

I’m honored!

Gunther said...

"Life is better when one is willing to marvel at ordinary things" – fantastic, thank you!

Michael Leddy said...

You’re welcome, Gunther!