Following a stream of those in my YouTube recommendations I had to try making those. It took a fair bit longer time than I had and the kids started eating the table but once served everyone was super happy.
As far as cheap food goes this is quite nice; rice vermicelli, a bit of chicken breast and aromatics go a long way.
I made peanut butter sauce with hoisen sauce in it :) And there was some sweet and sour classic nem sauce as well. I tried one more variation of vinegar / nuoc mam but it was still not hitting right.
Dang. Ah well! Love that peanut sauce!