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Overview of Vietnam travel exotic cuisines
Sampling local food is the most effective way of exploring a country’s traditional culture. Mainly, there are many interesting related stories for each dishes’ origin. This article is like a small journey to get the insight into Vietnam travel cuisines which is the primary season of almost international travelers who choose Vietnam is their one-a-lifetime destination.
Used-in-festival Cuisines is an advanced form of Vietnam daily food for both ingredients, decorating art and unique spices such as fish sauce, soy sauce and herbs (cinnamon, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, chili, spicy tropical fruits, sour fruits, etc.). Moreover, it is rare to use cinnamon while cooking the daily meal but is often during the festival, especially the biggest Lunar New Year festival in a year.
Vietnam is divided into three regions: North, Central, and South. Foody art in these three regions has its boutique characters (ingredients, tastes, and flavors) and differs with each other. That is why we have organized so many Gourmet Package tours for the global chef and food lovers. The food in the North is mainly sour and salted while Southern one is lovely and Central one is too spicy.
Vietnam cuisines in festival
There is nearly one thousand festival in this fantastic Asian country, and the food offers to the ancestors or gods during the festival. When we finish cooking, we need to prepare a set of unique dishes then put that on the altar, burn incense and pray for the lucks and the fortune. In this article, we focus on Lunar New Year – the biggest festival of Vietnamese.
The criteria of Vietnam travel festival cuisines
The criteria for festival food evaluation is quite strict; it is qualified when you satisfy these following requirement:
- The quantity of dishes is an odd number, such as three bowls and five plates.
- The food, like other Southeast Asian countries, emphasizes the balance of yin and yang elements. Some food is considered as yin means cold such as seafood, so the seafood dish is always served with chili, ginger, and lemongrass which is regarded as yang (means hot).
- Each plate has its herb vegetable which creates the differentiative flavor.
The list of must-have in this festival
A dish of Made-from-rice cake: ‘’Banh Chung’’ cake or Steaming sticky rice, created by Vietnamese godfather over 2 thousand years ago. Until now, we still use it as one of the must-have dishes in Tet. To be specific, it is made basically from glutinous rice, green beans, and pork meat then covered by green banana leaves.
- A dish of Boiling chicken
- A bowl of dried-pig skin with colorful vegetables such as carrot, kohlrabi
- A plate of Fried spring rolls
- A bowl of glass-noodle with chicken coop
- A dish of pork rolls
- A meal of seasonal vegetable salad
- A pot of baby bamboo with sparerib
Vietnam cuisines in daily life
For breakfast, we have a habit of having breakfast outside with several thousand vendors and local food stores in every corner throughout Vietnam for the whole day. The locals’ favorite dishes are all types of Vietnamese noodle soups, ‘’Banh mi’’ – Vietnamese sandwich and Steaming rolls with minced pork meat. These 3 street foods are super tasty and convenient for the local to access or take away.
About noodle soup, we also called ‘’Pho’’, it has a hundred versions with differentiative flavor in 64 Vietnam provinces. Some popular noodle types we always use are rice-noodle, vermicelli, glass-noodle, and wheat-noodle. Infact, we still eat that with beef, chicken or seafood. To have a unique-flavor-broth, the local artists need to use 10-15 different ingredients, including beef ribs, grilled ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, star anise, etc…to make it soft and aromatic.
In the main meals, the favorite menu for Vietnam Travel should be A bowl of soup, a plate of stir-fried seasonal vegetables, a plate of boiling pork meat or fried pork meat and a plate of fish or prawn. With regarding the bowl of soup, the locals have many version such as crab soup with tomatoes, sour minced-pork-meat soup with vegetables, soup of potatoes, carrots with beef, soup of green pumpkin with sparerib, etc.
Top 10 must-eat dishes in Vietnam
Usually, Vietnam travel cuisines are created from 3 elements of flavor, color and decoration art. Rarely, you can find out Vietnamese food with only one color. In addition, one dish is a set of some color blocks, for example, a noodle soup with beef is a set of brown color (beef), green color (onion, herbs), the red color (chili), the orange glow of ‘’Quay’’ (make from wheat flour) and the white of sprout and noodle.
List of dishes
For your convenience, hereunder is the bucket list of most famous Vietnam travel street food, look over it and choose what you prefer:
- Pho: noodle soup with beef or chicken. Address: 10A, Ly Quoc Su Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Bun thang: a bowl of noodle with minced-fried-egg, small pieces of chicken, Vietnamese pork sausage, dried radish, green onions, etc. Address: Cau Go Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Buncha: a bowl of cold soup with the grilled ball of pork meat with herbs. Address: No 01, Hang Manh Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Cha Ca La Vong: rice noodle with Grilled Fish and Onion. Address:14 Cha Ca street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Fresh spring rolls: Pork, prawn, vegetables, bun, and other herbs wrapped in Vietnamese rice sheet then roll it up and enjoy it with dipping fishing sauce
- Fried Spring roll: Seasoned ground meat, mushrooms, and diced vegetables, rolled up in a sheet of rice paper, then deep fried. Eating that with a bowl of dipping fish sauce. Address: Hang Be Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.
- Banh Xeo: A savory fried pancake made of rice flour, water, turmeric powder, pork, shrimp, diced green onion, mung bean, and bean sprouts. Address: Hang Bo Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Bun Bo Hue: A hot bowl of noodle soup with pork meat, boiling blood and herb vegetables. Address: 198 Hang Bong Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
- Che: A sweet dessert often contains beans, tapioca, jelly, fruit and coconut cream. Address: 26 Gia Ngu Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
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