OMA — stories from the Huế family table

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stories from the family table

OMA tells stories through the family table: the full mâm cơm Huế is the house's center, and every dish is a sentence in the story.

The white courtyard opens the story: white walls, wooden tables and chairs, a big umbrella, the blue–red–yellow sign and a golden phoenix.

Then the noodles: bún bò Huế with crab cakes, grilled-pork noodles with pickles and fried shallots, vegetarian Huế noodles with mushrooms and tofu — three bowls, three ways to tell the same Huế story.

And the morning market: ginger, tomatoes, mangosteen, eggplants — fresh produce before it becomes dinner, before it becomes story.

The Huế family table

The full spread

Clay pot, tomato soup, pork with noodles, tofu, greens, shrimp — the family table is the house's center.

Huế noodles

Three bowls

Bún bò Huế, grilled-pork noodles, vegetarian Huế noodles — three bowls, one Huế story three ways.

Vegetarian

Vegetarian Huế dishes

Vegetarian Huế noodles and banana-blossom salad — Huế cooking has room for vegetarian guests too.

The full mâm cơm Huế spread — 'Stories from the Huế family table' — clay pot, tomato soup, pork with noodles, tofu, greens, shrimp.

Market basket: ginger, tomatoes, mangosteen — The morning-market basket — ginger, tomatoes, mangosteen, eggplants, carrots: the Huế kitchen's raw materials.

An OMA table: beef in leaves, noodles, spring roll — A table with beef in betel leaves, grilled-pork noodles and a spring roll on lemongrass.