Trung Duc Thit (Vietnamese Meat Omelette)

Growing up, we made many home-cooked, 30-minute meals, and this one was a series regular! Trung Duc is quite literally a crispy omelet, filled with pork, eggs, vermicelli (bean thread) noodle, black fungus, and onions. I loved eating this with rice and a bowl of soup as a kid!

Ingredients:

  • 10 large eggs

  • 1 pound pork

  • 1/2 ounce of dehydrated black fungus

  • 1/2 bundle (19 grams) of vermicelli (bean thread) noodles

  • 1 cup of finely diced yellow onion or shallot

  • 1 teaspoon soy sauce

  • 4 tablespoons fish sauce

  • 1 pinch of sugar

Instructions:

  • Fill a bowl with hot water and rehydrate black fungus and vermicelli, about 5 minutes

  • Drain and cut black fungus and vermicelli into tiny pieces using scissors, the smaller the better

  • Finely chop your shallots

  • In a separate bowl, add in ground pork, shallots, vermicelli and black fungus

  • Add soy sauce and a pinch of sugar

  • Add in your eggs

    • Adjust your eggs to your liking. Our family likes a more egg-forward omelete so we stick with 10 eggs per pound of pork

  • Add in 4 tablespoons of fish sauce