It turns out that Ăn Là Ghiền has a couple of outlets in Chinatown across from the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. This dish was featured prominently on the first few pages of the menu, and it sounded interesting enough. It was described as a noodle dish from central Vietnam that only came with a small amount of broth. It arrived in three separate parts, so it took me a few minutes to figure out how to assemble it.
It turns out that one isn't supposed to put the noodles in the claypot with the broth. It's the other way around: one scoops some of the hot turmeric (and slightly sweet) broth onto the noodles. That then gets tossed with shredded banana blossoms, peanuts, chili, and lime. One also gets a crispy rice cracker to go with it, as well as frog legs inside that pot to nibble on. It was pretty cool and I'm glad I tried it.
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