Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat & vermicelli salad
This Vietnamese-inspired noodle salad is an easy and refreshing meal with green bean vermicelli noodles, pork luncheon meat, fresh vegetables, a tangy fish sauce dressing, cilantro, chilies, and roasted peanuts as the topping.
Vermicelli salad is a nourishing meal that you can prepare in no time. It has a savory-sweet, nuanced flavor despite the short ingredient list. The green bean vermicelli noodles, that are used in this salad, are a thin and transparent type of noodle, sometimes called glass noodles, and they are popular to put in soups, stir fry dishes, and spring rolls.

Salad
340 g
400 ggreen bean vermicelli
100 gred onion
3 tomatoes
150 gchinese celery
20 gcilantro
2 chilies
3 tbsproasted peanuts
4 sesame rice cake
Sauce
3 small chilies
4 clove(s)garlic
2 tbsplime juice
4 tbspsugar
2 tbspfish sauce
10 gcilantro roots
Cooking
Difficulty: Easy
Food preparation
Making the sauce
Serving
Tips
Swaps and substitutions
- If you don’t have green bean vermicelli noodles, egg noodles are a great alternative for this salad.
- If you want more vegetables in your salad, you can also include shredded lettuce, red or green cabbage, spring onions, and fresh herbs like Thai basil or mint.
- Give the noodle salad a sweet and pickled touch by adding Do Chua - Vietnamese daikon radishes and carrot pickles. The pickles are traditionally served on banh mi sandwiches and Vietnamese bun salad.