Cooking a simple dinner for one...

Still slightly jet lagged, feeling tired and like cooking in, so I went out on the street, found some rice and vegetables and tossed together a quick dinner.

A cool facet of Vietnamese markets is that you can buy "kits" of fresh vegetables and herbs.
Each package comes with the correct combination of things to produce a balanced flavor for a soup or stir fry.
My kit came with a chunk of pineapple, a pouch of bean sprouts, okra, tomatoes, chiles, luc-bin stalk (a water flower with a celery like constancy), ngo gai (culantro/saw leaf herb), and rau om ( rice paddy herb). The whole packet cost me less than $1.00 US and made a stir fry to serve with rice, tofu, egg, and a splash of fish sauce.

                                                              Vegetable Kit

Luc Bin (stalks are crisp and moist, like celery)

Rau Om (Tastes of cumin and coriander seed)

                                                                    Other ingredients

                                                                          Finished Bowl