Grandma Thu's KitchenVietnamese cooking from the ordinary supermarket
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Thu · 2026 edition
Grandma Thu's Vietnamese Kitchen
Cheap, simple Vietnamese cooking from the ordinary supermarket, the way my mother made it.
Ninety-one recipes for a table of four, each with the reason under every step,
what to do when it goes wrong, and what it cost, in dollars and in pounds. With two small
companions: one for the rice, one for a month of dinners.
634 pages91 recipes95 photographs$ and £ on every recipe7-day money back
634pages
The cookbook
Grandma Thu's Vietnamese Kitchen
Cheap, simple Vietnamese cooking from the ordinary supermarket
634 pages · 22 chapters in four parts · 91 recipes
Pho, bánh mì, rolls and the rice plate, for a fraction of the restaurant price
The caramel pots, the slow pots and the New Year table
Every recipe priced line by line, in dollars and pounds
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93pages
Companion · the rice
Everything My Mother Knew About Rice
Fifty-six small tricks for a pot of rice
93 pages · 56 tricks in six parts · 10 drawings
The bag, the washing water, the pot and the fire
A pot that boiled over, rice wet on top and hard underneath, rice that caught
Yesterday's rice: the one-hour rule, fried rice and rice soup
Sticky rice, broken rice, and the golden bottom on purpose
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100pages
Companion · the month
Four Weeks at Thu's Table
Twenty-eight dinners for four, with the shopping list and the bill
100 pages · 4 weeks · 28 dinners
One shopping trip a week, in packs as the shop sells them
The order to cook each night, so everything is hot at once
What every night cost: the four weeks come to $403.82 / £279.71 for four
What is left tonight, and which night eats it
Cooks from the cookbook. Every dish is a recipe in Grandma Thu's
Vietnamese Kitchen, named by its title and not repeated here.
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Best value868pages
All three books + a free gift
The cookbook and both companions
The recipes, the rice, and a month of dinners planned from them
868 pages · four PDFs
Grandma Thu's Vietnamese Kitchen · 634 pages
Everything My Mother Knew About Rice · 93 pages
Four Weeks at Thu's Table · 100 pages
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Something Sweet
Ten Vietnamese sweets from the ordinary supermarket: caramel custard, red bean and
three-colour chè, rice balls in ginger syrup, a jelly in layers and more. 41 pages. Not sold on its own.
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How it works
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The ten minutes with the lid on that most people skipp. 31
The golden bottom of the pot, made on purposep. 40
Why fried rice wants yesterday's ricep. 58
The packet of instant noodles, the Vietnamese wayp. 222
Caramel from sugar and water, the colour of an old copper coinp. 375
Pho from a carton of stockp. 447
The bánh mì with caramel porkp. 455
Caramel pork with eggs, and what to do when the caramel goes blackp. 516
A weeknight table for four for $13.00 / £9.70p. 585
Twenty-two chapters in four parts: the everyday staples, restaurant at home, my mother's
kitchen in one pot, and the Vietnamese table. A glossary of every Vietnamese word, with how to say it, and two indexes.
The arithmetic, shown
A weeknight dinner for four: $13.00 / £9.70
Rice, ground pork with fish sauce and black pepper, tomato and egg soup, and a cucumber
salad with mint and peanuts. This is the table from page 585, line for line. Every recipe in the
book is counted the same way, so you can put in your own shop's prices and the sum still closes.
What went into the table
Line
US
UK
Ground pork, 1 lb / 500 g
$3.41
£2.40
Fish sauce, for the pork, soup and salad
$1.76
£0.68
Sugar
$0.05
£0.09
Garlic, 5 cloves
$0.36
£0.11
Tomatoes, 1 lb / 450 g
$0.96
£1.07
Eggs, 3
$0.49
£0.74
Scallions (spring onions), 2
$0.30
£0.20
Cucumbers
$1.32
£1.49
Cilantro (coriander), ½ bunch
$0.42
£0.41
Mint
$1.78
£0.50
Shallot or onion, ¼
$0.09
£0.03
Chili, 1
$0.10
£0.09
Limes, 2
$0.50
£0.46
Peanuts
$0.24
£0.32
Jasmine rice, 4 bowls
$0.79
£0.83
Pantry pennies: oil, pepper, salt and the rest
$0.43
£0.28
The table for four
$13.00
£9.70
Shelf prices seen 19 October 2026 on the online listings of one large US chain and one
large UK chain, standard prices. About $3.25 / £2.43 a person. Four Weeks at Thu's Table does
this for 28 nights in a row, with the shopping list in packs.
From Thu's kitchen
I have written my mother's kitchen down, with the reason under every step
My name is Thu. You say it like "too". My mother cooked rice twice a day for ten people in
one black pot over a wood fire, and she had no measuring cup and no clock. She had the bell of
the lid, and she had her hands.
Everything in these books comes from the ordinary supermarket you already drive to, in America
or in Britain. Where one trip to an Asian grocer is worth it, the book says so, and where it
changes nothing, the book says that too.
If a book is not for you, reply to your receipt within seven days and you
will have your money back. Keep the file.
Eat while it is hot, con.
"Con" means child. It is what my mother called me across that kitchen.
Questions
Before you buy
Is this a printed book you post to me?
No. Each book is a PDF that you download and keep. Read it on your phone, your tablet or your
computer, or print the pages you cook from.
I am not good with computers. Will I manage?
Yes. After you pay, a download button appears on the screen, and the same link comes to your
email. Press it and the book opens. If anything goes wrong, write to
thu@grandmathuskitchen.com and the book is sent to you by hand.
Will my card be charged again?
No. You pay once. There is no subscription and no account to make.
What if I lose the file?
The download link stays in the email you were sent. If that is gone too, write and say which
email address you bought with, and the link is sent again.
I live in Britain. Will it work for me?
Yes. Every recipe gives US cups and metric weights side by side, and its cost in dollars and in
pounds from a UK supermarket. Where the names differ, both are given: cilantro (coriander),
zucchini (courgette). The price is charged in US dollars and your bank converts it.
Do I need special equipment, or an Asian grocer?
One heavy pot with a lid and a frying pan. Everything comes from the ordinary supermarket. Six
things are worth one trip to an Asian grocer if you pass one; the book says which, and where the
supermarket version is just as good.
Can I use Four Weeks at Thu's Table on its own?
Not really. It plans the cookbook's recipes and names them by their titles; it does not repeat
them. Buy it with the cookbook, or on its own if you already have the cookbook.
How old are the prices?
They were seen on 19 October 2026, and every table says so. Prices move, which is why each
line is shown and not only the total: put in your own and the sum still works.
What if I do not like it?
Reply to your receipt within seven days and you get your money back in full. No form, and no
reason needed. Keep the file.
Not today?
One email when there is something new from Thu's kitchen
A new book or a new video. Nothing in between, and one click to leave.
Start with the rice?
Everything My Mother Knew About Rice: fifty-six small tricks, one to a page,
for $9.99. In a Vietnamese kitchen, everything begins with the rice.
