This is a result from my countless trials to achieve the Vietnamese original taste from easy to obtain ingredients and theirs substitutions. Herbs like cilantro, mint or basil. CHUNKIEST peanut butter. Tbsp hoisin sauce tsp sugar. Tbsp lime juice amount varies, depend on your Hoisin sauce saltiness tsp Sriracha or chili paste adjust to your spicy tolerant please cup porkshrimp boiled broth saved from above add more for thinner sauce, or less for thickerpaste styleStart with washing the pork, pat dry, cut along its fibred into long rectangular strip with 1x. Put all your pork into a small area pot with lid, pour in water just above the meat. Add 0. 2. 5 tsp spoon of salt, cover and put on high heat. The pork should be boiled for about 2. While your pork is cooking, you could go ahead and multi task by preparing other veggies, shrimp, etc. Just remember to check every 5 1. When Pork is done, place them onto a large plate or cutting board, and let it air cooled. Do not discard the boiling waterbroth, save them for the peanut sauce. When the cooked pork is cooled, slice them evenly along its width, so that the area dimension is around 1 x 2. Lecture separate by the leaf. Cucumber if youre using minidill cucumber, just slice them thinly along their longer side. If yours is the large and softer cucumber, cut into halves, remove seeds, and then thinly slice them too. Remember to cut its length to about your hand length. Mint basil remove old stem, separate leaf. Fruit thinly slice them just like your cucumber. Place all of the veggies in separate dishescontainer at room temperature. Wait until your pork is done cooking, just remove the pork without turn off the heat source, add in and boil your shrimp with their shells on to preserve the naturally sweet and freshness. When the shrimps color turn pink dont over cooked, your shrimp will lose their crunchiness, remove shrimp from the pot, place them into a wide plate to let them air cooled. Now remove the shells, and cut into halves. Save all the juice coming out of the boiled shrimp for your peanut sauce. In a tall covered pot, boil about 3 qt of water. Add in vermicelli, use chopsticks or spatula stir occasionally to prevent sticking to the bottom of your pot. Depend on the brand of rice vermicelli youre using the cooking time may vary a lot. The safest way is to test taste a small strand every 5 1. Pour the whole thing into large hole basket and rinse the vermicelli with cold water to remove excess starch. Let them dry for at least 1.