Vietnam cuisine is always considered as one of the tastiest and healthiest of the world’s featuring the five fundamental spices in the overall meals with distinctive flavor.
Vietnam cuisine is always considered as one of the tastiest and healthiest of the world’s featuring the five fundamental spices in the overall meals with distinctive flavor. Common ingredients include fish sauce, salt, sugar, shrimp paste, chili, lime, rice, vegetables, meat, fish and lots of fresh herbs. The Vietnamese don’t fancy the processed food but prefer food cooked from the fresh ingredients purchased daily for their meals and thus is admired because of what they eat. The taste of the food and dishes vary greatly based on each region but keep the taste of five spices as the base note (which can complement or surpass each other). Traditional dishes are nem (spring/summer rolls), pho, bun (noodles dish), rice with side dishes and often being used widely in daily meals.
On the other hand, Vietnam has a great selection of street food serving as snack such as grilled corn, pan cake, nom (a kind of salad), banh cuon (steamed pan cake), bun cha (noodle and grilled meat), che (mixed of bean, fruits with syrup), nem chua ran (fried fermented meat) which can be found every corner in every city especially the big one of Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, Saigon, Can Tho. They are tasty and collect huge fan base even foreigners who admired the skillful and diversified good taste.
Although owning a great collection of good food, Vietnam quickly adapts and welcome foreign food from other countries as witnessed of a chain of fast food, Japanese food, Korean food etc expressing the open mind and eagerness to learn the new things of Vietnamese.
