I make my hunger diversify its preoccupation with asian food at least. You don’t see biff and broccoli up in this bitch everyday, do ya? Didn’t think so. But I suppose you do get a lotta shit with soy sauce. Sorry? Or… you’re welcome.

I’m working in Chinatown at my day job that does pay these bills (cause yall see that ad to the left? please know fo sho that that shit ain’t puttin food on the table). There is this vietnamese spot near my office that I like to go slam 4.75 on the table of and order a big fat hardy bowl of rice/salad/beefy shtuff. I recreated it for you here. You can substitute the rice for rice noodles if you want. Or, if you are an atkins freak that thinks bacon is better for you than bread, remove the rice product all together.

Vietnamese salad combines the cooked warmth of rice or rice noodles, topped by crunchy, thirst quenching salad greens, with the perfect finish of every meal: delicious meat.

Vietnamese Salad

4 cups cooked rice (or rice noodles)
Butt end of a an iceberg lettuce head, chopped
1 cup of spinach, chopped
1/2 cup basil, chopped
1/2 cup cilantro
some springs of mint, which is so key to vietnamese salad, but kinda makes me puke
handful of sprouts
1/4 cup white onion, chopped
pine nuts, to sprinkle of top (i think peanuts are actually better here, you should do that)
thin cut steak, one serving
Serve two.

dressing:
2 parts soy sauce
1 part sesame
.5 part chile oil
2 parts fresh lime juice
sliced hot green pepper

Combine all the ingredients of your dressing and let marinate while you do the rest. Put your cooked rice or rice noodles in the bowl, top with all your veg. Grill your steak to desired temp. Slap hot steak right on salad.  Pour dressing liberally on top.

PS. I know you see shallots and grilled onions above. I removed them from this recipe cause they were useless, but feel free. I chopped the shallot and let it sit in the dressing while I assembled everything else and poured over the salad when ready. The grilled onions I just thoughtlessly threw on top the steak. Yo can totally forget about them. Whatever. Wanna fight about it?