Lunar New Year: Under $10 Rice Paper Scissors Brunch | Brick & Mortar

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Rice Paper Scissors recently rang in 2014 at their new space at Brick and Mortar Music Hall, and now they’ll be kicking off the Year of the Horse with a Vietnamese brunch.

The menu features traditional Tết or Vietnamese New Year dishes, such as Banh Chung, a sticky rice cake made with ground pork and mung beans, then steamed in banana leaves. One of their new dishes combines Vietnamese and Chinese techniques to make the Pho Bao, steamed buns filled with beef pho broth, ground beef and Vietnamese herbs.

Brick and Mortar will be serving Bloody Marys and mMmosas at the bar.

Menu

Starters

• Fried Daikon Cakes – $6
  Crispy rice cakes made with daikon, Chinese sausage and dried shrimp
• Pho Bao – $6
  Steamed buns filled with beef pho broth, ground beef, scallions, cilantro, and lime
• Banh Chung – Tet Sticky Rice Cake – $7
  Sticky rice with ground pork and mung beans, steamed in banana leaves. The filling resembles the different layers of the earth – a humble representation of the earth we live in

Mains

• Chicken Xiu Mai Banh Mi – $9
  Chicken meatballs in a ginger-tomato sauce pate served with housemade mayo, chicken liver pate, cucumbers and cilantro
• Pho Ga – Chicken Pho – $13
  Fresh rice noodles in ginger chicken broth, served with poached chicken, shaved onions, culantro, scallions and lime leaves
• Pho Ga Dac Biet – Special Chicken Pho – $15
  Same as above plus confit gizzards, quail eggs and chicken feet
• Buddha’s Delight – $12
  Cellophane noodle stir-fry with tofu, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, lily buds and roasted ginko nuts
• Thit Heo Kho – Caramelized Pork and Egg Rice Plate – $13
  Caramel claypot baby backribs braised in star anise, coconut water and fish sauce, served with a soft egg and broken rice and dua gia.
• Banh Bia – $5
  Vietnamese mooncake with flaky crust filled with mung beans and a salted egg yolk

Drinks

• Jasmine Tea – $3
• Vietnamese Iced Coffee – $3
  Slow-dripped Trung Nguyen coffee with condensed milk
• Kumquat Ginger Beer – $3
  Housemade ginger beer with candied kumquats

Starting February 10th, Rice Paper Scissors will start lunch service out of Brick and Mortar from 11 am to 2 pm, Monday through Wednesday, with plans to expand to the full week after a month. Their opening menu will include fried egg banh mi, beef pho, vegetarian yellow curry, iced Vietnamese coffee and house fermented ginger beer.

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