DD Mau and NUI cook up a collaborative dinner built for sharing | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s source for arts, culture, and events

1 of 1 2 of 1 Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter.It’s time for another Feast and Friends and DD Mau, and if previous editions are any indication, reservations will be scooped up quickly.On March 15, the Chinatown spot hosts the fourth volume of its collaborative dinner series, this time teaming up with the crew from NUI for a Vietnamese-Korean feast that leans into comfort, technique, and a shared love of deeply savoury flavours.Chef Tyler Hoang welcomes NUI’s JJ Hwang and Kyle Macintosh into the kitchen for a multi-course menu that threads together Vietnamese and Korean traditions. Think ingredient-driven dishes, plenty of herbs, and broths that mean business.The evening begins with a phó gomtang, blending NUI’s gomtang broth with DD Mau’s chicken phở oil. A seasonal pickle plate follows, featuring kimchi, soy pickles, chilli bamboo, guava leaf cabbage, and water celery.From there, the menu moves into small plates and shareables. Bangeo hweh pairs raw yellowtail with herb salad and a tomato-fish sauce vinaigrette. Fried chicken arrives two ways: one coated in classic Korean yangnyeom sauce with savoy cabbage, the other glazed in lemongrass and calamansi and finished with lá mơ leaf.Mains are built for the table. A soy and coffee-braised pork collar bo ssam comes with gem lettuce, perilla, ssamjang, garlic, and serrano, with the option to upgrade to a ssam hap with a half-dozen oysters. There’s also a crab fat “dry bún riêu” made with glass noodles, crab meat, fresh herbs, and salmon roe.Dessert bridges both culinary worlds. Expect a monaka layered with red bean, condensed milk, toasted soy bean, and vanilla ice cream, alongside a Vietnamese yogurt parfait with seasonal fruit jam and green Thai tea meringue.Behind the bar, Lauren Park, known for her work at Nomo Nomo and formerly Chupito, is offering Korean-inspired cocktails à la carte, including a toasted rice old fashioned, a Melona-inspired drink, and a perilla leaf highball.Feast and Friends Volume 4When: March 15, 5pm and 8pm seatingsWhere: DD MauTickets: $98+, available here Join the discussion Facebook comments not loading? Please check your browser settings to ensure that it is not blocking Facebook from running on straight.com