Com Tam (Viet Broken Rice)

Method

1. Pork Chops:
2. Mix all the ingredients of the marinade together.
3. Trim the pork chops, then marinade the pork chops for as long as possible.
4. On a hot fry pan, sear and cook the pork chop until cooked.
5. Pickled Vegetables:
6. Julienne (matchstick cut) the carrots and daikon to even sizes.
7. Mix the warm water with sugar and salt - making sure that it completely dissovles. Then add the rice vinegar.
8. Add you vegetables to the mix and let it sit and pickle at room temperature.

Dressing

1. In a mixing bowl, add the warm water, then garlic then sugar and make sure that the sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Add the remaining ingredients: lime juice, fish sauce and chilli to complete it.
3. Others:
4. Fry a sunny side up egg
5. For each portion, plate up with: Rice, sliced cucumber and tomatoes, fried egg, pork chops and pickled vegetables.
6. Notes for Trish:
7. For the meats you can do (for cost saving - remember roughly 100grams meat per pax):
8. Pork Chop (bone in would be nice)
9. Pork Loin Steak
10. Pork Belly
11. Chicken Thigh Cutlet
12. Chicken Leg (bone in)