Category:Vietnamese Cuisine

For the Vietnamese cuisine, the fish sauce, the soy sauce and the hoisin sauce are the most common ingredients. The Vietnamese cuisine is rich is vegetables, various herbs and spices such as lemon grass, lime and kaffir lime. There is also a variety of Buddhist vegetarian dishes. The Vietnamese meat dishes are made with pork, chicken, tropical fish, seafood or prawns and beef or duck are less contained by the Vietnamese recipes. The Vietnamese cuisine contains also unusual dishes made of snake or dog meat. There are French influences on the Vietnamese cuisine such as the “Banh mi”, the traditional French “Baguettes”. The Vietnamese “Banh Mi” are prepared as sandwiches with Vietnamese meats and seasonings. The Vietnamese cuisine is popular in European countries like France, Poland, or Germany but also in the United States, Australia and Canada. The “Banh Bao” dish is made of pork meat or chicken, onion, mushrooms and vegetables. There is even a vegetarian option of this Vietnamese dish, which is very popular in Buddhist temples. “Banh Chung” is made of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves with pork and black sesame seeds. This is a traditional dish usually eaten during the Lunar New Year. The Vietnamese Spring Rolls, named “Nem Rán” are flour rolls with pork meat, mushrooms and different herbs and seasoning. “Bun Bo Hue” is the Vietnamese rice noodle soup made with beef, spices, lettuce and mint leaves. “Goi cuon”, or the Summer Rolls are made with rice paper, shrimps, rice and herbs.