Low-cost dishes local favorites that are super easy to make.

Purple Cabbage Salad

Curly strips of purple cabbage are probably one of the most beautiful things you can put on a plate, and they taste great with just extra sweet and sour sauce.

Vietnamese purple cabbage salad is mixed with orange strips of carrots and salt'n'pepper shrimp and then topped with roasted peanuts and coriander. The final step is to soften the strips with a mixture of vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, cooking oil, and either fish sauce or salt. You can totally replace the carrots with ripe mango and it will taste simply sublime.

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