This Vietnamese Dishes Will Preserve Your Craving For Lifetime
By: Sneha Chaudhary
Well, you all have heard about Vietnamese Cuisine; it is one of the top reasons why Vietnam is consider by many travellers’ wish list. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are the two busiest streets in the city. The culinary delights of Vietnam are abundant and yet relatively uncomplicated in flavours.
Without a doubt, Vietnamese Cuisine is probably one of my treasured delicacies food ever. Vietnamese Cuisine is characterized by its balancing of flavour’s sweet & salt, hot & cold, fresh & cooked. The city of ‘Hanoi’ creates harmony within contracting elements ‘old to new’, ‘east to west’. The same harmony can be found in Vietnamese Cuisine. Vietnamese Cuisine it’s all based on the ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ theory. The biggest bowl of amazing ‘fuh’ is their signature soup.
Get ready to take a crazy ride into Vietnamese Cooking territory.
Here are Some Vietnamese Dishes you must try
- Bun Cha
In Hanoi’s pokey eatery, Barack Obama and Celebrity Chef Antony Bourdain met over a bowl of Bun Cha. Bun Cha Huong Lien- has become a must-stop for gourmands and tourists alike. Its Hanoi dish is flavoured with grilled pork, rice noodles (bun) eaten with a dipping sauce.
- Banh Xeo
Banh Xeo is also known as Vietnamese Sizzling cake. This dish is named from the sizzling sound of the batter when poured on the skillet. This dish was first introduced at a local eatery in Southern Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan province. It is made with rice flour, water and topped with squid or Shrimp, slivers of sliced pork and spices. It may look like an omelette, but there’s no egg in the entire dish.
- Bun Bo Nam Bo
Vietnamese dishes are not just refreshingly simple, but also approved by a dietician. This southern-style beef salad is both healthy and delicious- rice noodles, lean marinated beef, thinly sliced fresh vegetables and roasted peanuts. Nuoc cham Vietnam’s favourite dipping sauce that combines with fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and water, sometimes is decorated with garlic or bird’s eye chilli and is sweet, sour and spicy.
- Grilled Fish (Cha Ca Thang Long)
Vietnam’s seafood is one of the most popular dishes. The fish is marinated in turmeric, ginger, garlic and fish sauce. It served till it becomes flaky and served with fresh herbs, often dill, crushed peanuts, rice noodles and dipping sauces, sometimes it includes ‘mam mem’(fermented anchovy dipping sauce).
- Banh Mi
The French left Vietnam with their culinary imprint. A French baguette has been turned into a formidable meal by the Vietnamese with an assortment of fillings that normally resolved around pork. Pork belly, fried pork or pork liver pate, and it came together with fresh vegetables such as cucumber slices, pickled vegetables, cilantro, and cheese are included sometimes. It makes the ideal meal for ‘grab and go’.
- Vietnamese Coffee
If you’re a coffee lover then definitely you’ll be going to love this Vietnamese Coffee. Vietnamese’s coffee style is natural. In small coffee percolators, the brewing style is similar-drip-style. In the end, the result couldn’t be more different. Vietnam is among the world’s leading coffee producers. Most of the Vietnamese people like to serve cold coffee. Making Vietnamese coffee is simple even though you can try at home.
