VIETNAMESE DELICIOUS FOOD
Vietnamese food is good in color and flavor. Vietnamese cuisine is healthy & fine, can satisfy any visitor.
Diversity
Vietnam is an agricultural country in the tropical monsoon region, divided into three distinct regions of North, Central and South. The geographic, cultural and climatic character of individual regions reflects in the cuisine. Each region has its culinary culture and typical taste of the variety of dishes and differs from the name, ingredients making Vietnamese cuisine rich and diverse.
Integrating
Integrating is more and more obvious today when the Vietnamese easily absorb the food culture of other neighboring groups such as Korea, Japan, China even Europe countries to create more dishes, new dishes, new processing or variation for addition into pure Vietnamese dishes. This is also a prominent feature of Vietnamese cuisine.
Less fat
Vietnamese food is almost natural, nutritious, healthy due to the use of fresh ingredients mainly vegetables, tubers, fruits, less fat, not much meat but also very tasty in line with the current trend of the world.
Incorporation of bold flavors
Vietnamese cuisine is characterized by a mediocre way of mixing ingredients, spices however not too spicy, not too sweet or not too fat. Typical dishes include fish sauce, seasonings, sweeteners, sugar ... are used frequently in most dishes of the Vietnamese make up the sum of many taste sour, spicy, salty, sweet, , fat ... There are also other sauces such as soy sauce, oyster sauce... to make the dish more flavorful, more characteristic.
Applying the Yin-Yang philosophy
Spices, fresh materials, color mixing, presentation ... are used in the same way, in harmony with each other. Typical dishes such as cold-easy stomach (solder) forced to spicy hot (heat) accompanied and vice versa. Hot ingredients (warm) must be cooked with cool ingredients (cool) to create a balance for the dish. Some of the dishes cannot be combined or eaten at the same time because they are not good, or potentially harmful to health. When processing and enjoying dishes, the Vietnamese chef always pay attention to how to combine skillfully sour, spicy, salty, sweet to achieve balance but remain flavorful.
Set up the tray
Vietnamese have the habit of preparing the tray, serving several dishes of one meal at a time, different from the Western way of eating is served according one to another principle.
Use chopsticks
One of the interesting and unique features of Vietnamese culinary culture and other Asian countries is the use of chopsticks. Chopsticks are not only a tool on the table; the culture of using chopsticks reflects the sharing subtlety of the Vietnamese.
Hospitality
The hospitality is often expressed by the offering the invitation before each meal. Before each meal Vietnamese people have the habit of inviting each other. Traditionally, in the Vietnamese families before the meal the younger one will offer the invitations to the elderly ones to express the communication, affection, hospitality, concern and cherish others.
Community
In traditional feasts, parties, Vietnamese people often gather around the mats or around the tray or dining table, together with a cup of fish sauce, they share the dishes which arranged on the share tray by picking food from the same dish, dipping the food in the same cup of fish sauce.
With unique features, Vietnamese cuisine also attracts the curiosity, interest and desire to savor from most of foreign tourists. Taking Vietnamese cooking courses is also a way for people who are passionate about exploring not only the Vietnamese culinary characteristics, but also the culture of the country.
If you are food lover and want to discover the secret of the Vietnamese cuisine, don’t miss the exciting cooking courses when visiting Vietnam.
VIETNAMESE SPECIAL COFFEE
Most travel blogs in the world have stated that drinking coffee in Vietnam is not only a long-standing habit but also a cultural one.
Vietnamese coffee not only has excellent flavor, is grown and processed from large coffee farms in the Central Highlands but also considered unlike anywhere else, other than that "thrilling" location, by the street side, in a long narrow alleyways and the price is startling cheep.
Delicious taste
Along the old streets of Hanoi such as Hang Giay, Hang Buom, Ta Hien, Luong Ngoc Quyen ... there are many street pavement cafes that are mainly Western customers. Talking to some tourists, we find the answer why they love coffee roasted Vietnamese grilled. This is because of the four main characteristics of Vietnamese coffee: see the real coffee beans, aromatic flavor.
Combination method: many
Coffee with egg. This is one of the most unique (perhaps strangest) way of coffeeing in the world that Vietnamese mix coffee with raw egg!
However, many visitors at first find it very unusual, initially when looking at how the coffee is mixed with egg york, everyone is worried about the safety of food hygiene as they could smell a little fishy smell left. However, when they taste, they are convinced by the sweet taste of fresh milk, coffee with a little bit of the custardy flavor from egg. The egg worries disappear! "On a winter day, enjoying a cup of hot coffee like the way Hanoian do is a great idea," Jordan said.
Although coffee with ice and milk is too popular with Vietnamese people all over, however, this is another new discovery of foreigners. Normally, in other countries like Italy, people enjoy coffee with milk, while in Vietnam we use condensed milk (sweeter and smoother).
Blogger Ed Pettitt said: "I used to enjoy the best coffee in Italy, Turkey, but the Vietnamese coffee surprised me the most. It made me sleepless for 20 hours, the second time I came back to Vietnam, I knew how to drink coffee in a different way. The art of tasting milk is very different, the art is where the milk melts into the coffee, the sound of stirring when stirring the coffee cup also makes me very impressed and would remember forever”.
Coffee with yogurt is also a unique combination in the view of the Western people. Sour taste, not sweet of yogurt, the sweet taste of milk with a little bit of coffee to make coffee drink unforgettable.
Place of drink: surprise
Most Westerners notice, Vietnamese in general and Hanoians in particular do not like to drink coffee from street vendors like in Southeast Asian countries or take away from Western style, but prefer to sit in a small shop, convenient. The position or comfort is not important, but above all, it is familiar.
In the blog Eating Asia, the author shared his surprise: "A friend of mine introduced the coffee in the Old Quarter coffee shop, but not only because of this drink, but also because of sugar The entrance is a small alley between the shop selling souvenirs near the shore of Lake Hoi small and dark but when i get through, in front of my eyes is an ancient space, different from the outside world. Going into the yard of the old house and then going up the stairs, I go up the terrace with the most beautiful view in Hanoi, it is great feeling like looking for treasure.
In Hanoi, people do not like sitting in the luxury coffee places but often come to the restaurant which they have memories with. Therefore, although the menu is not of many choices, but the "four coffee Ha Thanh" Nhan Danh Giang still have their stable volume of customers after through nearly a century of existence. Even some people have said that Hanoi coffee will lose most of its flavor if they cannot have coffee served in low and dark old places or outside along the sidewalk.
In Saigon, even people enjoy coffee when sitting down a corner of the garden, without furniture, not menu but still make a culture of culinary culture extremely special.
Drink time: from morning to night
Asian food blog Eating Asia continues to claim that, unlike other countries that enjoy coffee only in the morning before going to work, drinking coffee in Vietnam is an indispensable activity throughout the day.
According to the 180 Degrees West blog, coffee is a culture in Vietnam. In the morning, the elderly people sit together on the sidewalk, chatting, chatting and chatting on the coffee table. Most of them are men; they can sip and talk for hours.
In the afternoon, the office staffs gather in a casual open-air lounge, sitting in red plastic chairs, no backrests, overlooking the street or lake. Evening is the time of the young couple, they often dating in the cafe and more romantic.
Price: super cheap
The price of a cup of coffee in Vietnam is reasonable, about $ 1, depending on the location. The more popular the cheaper the price is. Jordan McDonald said that their friends had bought a cup of coffee at 6,000 dong and were really astounded by this. Normally, they will have to pay between VND10,000 and VND15,000 per cup in the popular bar and over VND20,000 in the bar. This is cheap compared to a cup of coffee sold in other countries.
To discover Vietnamese coffee culture, taste the variety of coffee combinations; include coffee breaks in a Hanoi city tour!
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