On My Plate: Con Dao

In Vietnam, the simplest ingredients are combined in countless different ways to create culinary magic. The best part is that each region does a dish just differently enough to make you want to try it again and explore new flavours.

Where: Six Senses Con Dao, Vietnam

What: Banh Xeo. A delicious combination of a crispy rice flour pancake stuffed with pork, shrimp, spring onions and sprouts. Break a chunk off, wrap it in lettuce or mustard leaves with fresh mint, basil and other herbs, dip in a sweet and sour fish sauce and enjoy. Thoroughly. The combination of this with my ice cold jasmine tea and the sound of the surf lapping the beach mere feet away was pure heaven.

Mike Poppe dreams of this little slice of Vietnamese heaven while he plans trips all over Southeast Asia.