Vietnam Life

Elisa Floating Restaurant is a large, well known, and relatively expensive restaurant on a boat docked in the Sai Gon River in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City. About the Elisa Floating Restaurant Elisa Floating [Read more…]

Bun Dau Mam Tom is a Vietnamese dish which is particularly popular in Hanoi. The principal ingredients are noodles, tofu and shrimp paste which gives the dish its pungent fragrance. About Bun Dau Mam Tom There [Read more…]

Mì Quảng, pronounced ‘me wang’, is a noodle dish from Central Vietnam which is less well known than Vietnam’s most famous noodle dish, pho, but highly regarded in Vietnam and by people familiar with Vietnamese [Read more…]

Most South Asian countries have their own distinctive noodle dishes. In Malaysia it’s laska, in Thailand it’s pad thai, and in Vietnam its pho. In Vietnam you will find pho served everywhere generally in the [Read more…]

Malaysia is a country in South East Asia with a population of other 32 million people and a land area of around 330,000 square kilometres. Malaysia is unique amongst the nations of South East Asia [Read more…]

Banh mi means ‘bread’ in Vietnamese, but the term is also commonly used to refer to the uniquely Vietnamese style of sandwich that is sold all over Vietnam, and has become popular in Cambodia and [Read more…]

Fried rice is staple of the cuisines of many Asian countries and each country cooks its own unique way and Vietnam is no different. The Vietnamese fried rice pictured above is a delicious vegetarian version [Read more…]

Vietnamese chicken and rice, or ‘com ga’ in Vietnamese, is a popular dish which is served a variety of different styles although the basic cooking technique is the same with sauces and other ingredients added [Read more…]