How to cook Bun rieu cua (Vermicelli with sour crab soup)

To make Bun rieu cua, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

500g crab
300g pork tibia
Water morning glory, 300g tomatoes and tofu
Served with raw vegetables: lettuce, shiso, marjoram, banana flower
Onions, green onions, saw-leaf herb
Cooking oil, sour vinegar, salt, pepper, sodium glutamate, shrimp
sauce if you have.

Step 1:

Clean crab, take the body of crab to grinder and add a few grains and
take reproductive parts of crab under the shell.


Add some water into the body of crab and squeeze, then wait for the crab meat emerges above the water, small fire to boil water until crabmeat floating into large pieces.


Step 2:

Put pork bones in a pot of water to boil. Then take it out and wash it out and stir with spice.


When bones is fragrant, pour water to stew, get bubbles out.


Step 3:

Boil Water morning glory with boiling water


Tofu sliced small and fry tofu with oil.


Onion sliced.


Fry onion with oil and get fried onion out.


Tomatoes sliced, stir with spice and the oil that you used to fry onion.


When tomatoes well-cooked, pour the crab meat in step 1 until it separates


Green onion, minced saw-leaf herb


Wash raw vegetables


Step 4:

When the crab pot has emerged into a huge array, push it to one side slightly, then pour the broth in step 2 and tomatoes in step 3 pour Sour vinegar slowly until reaching as you want , add spice.


Step 5:

Take Bun through boiling water before put into the bowl, sprinkled onion, fried onion, minced saw-leaf herb into the bowl. Then pour the broth on bun, if you like eating shrimp sauce, you can add a bit to the bowl. When eating, you can eat raw vegetables and a little sauce. It makes the bowl of bun rieu cua be more  harming.


Bun rieu cua is a dish that is suitable for summer, both cool and rich in calcium. If you don't like to eat bun as above, you can add some Thai Egg Plant. I wish you success with rustic dish that is very attractive!