“Always a balance, salty, sweet, bitter, and sour. Whole houses to burn!”Īt the Golden Phoenix, Duc will bring together traditional French techniques with the complex, ancient flavor combinations of Chinese cooking. There’s a whole street in Hanoi where you can buy stuff to burn-suits, hats, cars. “And you burn some paper money,” he explains, “Things the ancestors can use in their other lives. Then one is allowed to ask their ancestor for luck in life. But before the family sits down, a portion of each dish, as well as tea and alcohol, are set out as offerings. Our NEW Menu Scroll down to see the wide variety of dishes we are ready to prepare for you. The whole family comes together on the day their relative died and everyone cooks, eats, and drinks. And do it better.” Duc explains that these feasts are celebrations for the ancestors. For his restaurant at the Golden Phoenix, he tells us, “I will have some dishes from my childhood. In the winter of 1979, Duc’s family arrived in West Berlin as part of a group of 200 refugees. There, they were then given two options for emigration-West Berlin or Chile. I watched my aunts and uncles cook and was always interested in food.” Early in his childhood, his family was forced to leave Hanoi and ended up in Hong Kong. “I started my career early, in my mother’s kitchen. His mother is Vietnamese and his father was Chinese. But Chinese food is in my blood.”ĭuc was born in Hanoi. Steves Green House Grill Restaurants American Restaurants Bars (1) (258) Website View Menu 46 YEARS IN BUSINESS (602) 252-2742 139 E Adams St Phoenix, AZ 85004 0.3 miles OPEN NOW had to call the waiter to give our order.
He smiles, “Chinese food is like French food. This independently owned restaurant serves fresh seafood, chicken, and tofu, priced between Order Online 4. So for Duc, the only thing left to explore at his new endeavor inside the Golden Phoenix was Chinese-the father, so-to-speak, of all East Asian cuisine. Not long after came 893, a swanky, gangster-style Japanese restaurant off of Kantstrasse. More recently, he opened a cozy and beautiful Vietnamese Brasserie called Madame Ngo, as an homage to his mother. Since Kuchi, he has gone on to lead Cantina, the ultra-hidden eatery inside Bar Tausend, as well as Moriki, a highly-acclaimed restaurant in Frankfurt. Kuchi, which serves modern Japanese Izakaya, came onto the scene when there were no cool Asian restaurants in Berlin. “The only thing left was Chinese,” Duc explains over small plates at Kuchi, the first restaurant he ever opened in 1999.
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