My first day back from the old country and I was itching for some kind of Vietnamese food. After looking through my parents’ fridge I noticed some leftover eggs and decided to make Cha Trung or… Vietnamese Omelette. Unfortunately I never really learned how to make it via my mother and since my parents were still in the old country I needed to either find a recipe or have a quick Skype conversation with her to figure out what to do.

Via the Skype conversation I knew that I needed roughly the following:
– eggs, vermicelli noodles, ground pork, white onions, black pepper and fish sauce.

A fairly simple recipe… except I wasn’t entirely able to figure out the portions needed so I searched around online and found a couple of recipes from Saigon Cooking and Asian Spicy Recipes. What I ended up using as a basis was the Saigon Cooking recipe which included:

Ingredients
1/2 a bundle of vermicelli noodles
small handful black fungus
1-2 tablespoon of oil for frying
3/4 eggs
1-2 shallots, chopped
3 chives, chopped thin
1/3 lb. ground pork
fresh ground pepper
2 tablespoon of fish sauce

Directions
1. Beat eggs in a large bowl, with fish sauce. Chop onions, vermicelli, and mushrooms. Mix in with eggs. Add ground pork and black pepper.

2. Heat pan over high heat with oil. When hot, pour in mixture, cover with lid, and reduce heat to medium/medium high. Let cook. Check after about 6 minutes. Let cook until top is set and bottom is browned. (Can take up to 15 minutes). Once top is set, loosen edges with spatula. Slide it out onto a plate, then carefully place the pan over the plate and invert. Continue to cook until bottom is crunchy set.

3. Remove onto plate. Let stand. Cut into squares. Eat over rice.

Now as usual I adapted in accordance to taste:
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