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Birthday weekend finale: pouring @oddbird and serving piles of lobsters, oysters, mussels and green beans. 🦞🍷🫛
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Celebrating Tết the traditional way! ✨ 

Mai invited us to make 'Bánh Chưng', the traditional Vietnamese sticky rice cake wrapped in banana leaves. We spent a wonderful day cooking, sharing stories, and enjoying an incredible feast together. 

The best Vietnamese food 😋 right here in Leiden! 

Can’t wait for Mai’s new cookbook "The Bible of Vietnamese Cuisine" it's coming in May! 🇻🇳🥢 

#Tết #Vietnamesefood #BánhChưng #Foodies"
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I've been living in the Netherlands for close to 2 years and one thing I never expected prior to moving here was how warm or welcoming the foodie community in the Netherlands is. Got invited to @mainguyen.eu's home to celebrate usher in the Year of the Snake with a group of foodies—toko owners, chefs, cookbook writers, food stylists, food photographers, illustrators, restauranteurs, culinary artists etc—from different parts of the Netherlands and had the best time! We spent the afternoon making bánh chưng, wrapping spring rolls, and tucking into the absolute feast that Mai put together:

- Caramelised pork belly & hard-boiled eggs in coconut water. There was also a beef version of this dish, and both were unbelievably delicious!!
- Annatto sticky rice steamed in banana leaves and topped with fried shallots, and served alongside mung bean paste. Mai said that this can either be enjoyed as a savoury dish with spring onion oil (with little bits of crispy lard), or as a dessert when sprinkled with sesame & peanut powder and fresh coconut. All these condiments and accompaniments were homemade 🤯
- Roast duck with homemade hoisin sauce. Everyone who has ever roasted duck knows that this is a feat in itself. 
- Spring rolls with dipping sauce and a whole platter of fresh greens and herbs.
- Bánh chưng: glutinous rice parcels that consist of pandan sticky rice, mung beans, and marinated pork/ beef. This can be enjoyed dipped in brown sugar.
- Homemade sausage made by marinating coarsely ground pork and diced pork fat in five spice powder, stuffing the mixture into casings, drying the sausages, slicing, and frying. 

I'm so blown away!! This level of culinary skill and generosity is really NIET NORMAAL. Thank you so much for having us, Mai! What an afternoon to remember 🙇🏻‍♀️❤️
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Annual Christmas chaos with friends ❤️
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Een nieuw hoofdstuk voor Workmode Amsterdam!

Wat een feestelijke dag was het afgelopen week: we vierden de opening van onze prachtige nieuwe locatie in de Jordaan met een gezellige brunch. 🥂 Een moment om samen stil te staan bij alles wat we de afgelopen jaren hebben opgebouwd én om vooruit te kijken naar de inspirerende avonturen die nog komen gaan.

Tegelijkertijd was het een perfect afscheid van Emilie, die nu heerlijk van haar welverdiende verlof mag genieten. We kunnen niet trotser zijn op wat we samen hebben neergezet.

De nieuwe Workmode-plek voelt al als thuis, en we kunnen niet wachten om hier samen met onze community te groeien . 🤎
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