.At Sap Sua in Denver, among our Best New Restaurants of 2024, gourmet chef and also co-owner Ni Nguyen intended to feature a variation of his preferred Vietnamese meal, cu00c3 u00a1 kho (fish braised in a clay container), to the food selection. Needing an accurate approach so the dish could be reproduced nightly by the dining establishment's cooks, Nguyen and also his staff ultimately settled on a slightly different techniqueu00e2 $" the black, lustrous sauce is made independently, paying for greater command as well as precision. Heavily scrumptious along with a minor sweetness from the coconut water, this recipe is weeknight-fancy cooking at its best. Sap Sua utilizes hamachi collars, yet salmon fillets are a much more home-cook-friendly . At the restaurant the food is topped with cu00e1" ' m depu00e2 $" delicate flakes of younger unpleasant rice. Usual crunchy rice cereal verifies to become a worthy, restaurant-approved alternative. u00e2 $" Shilpa Uskokovic, senior test kitchen editor.