Mooncakes are traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam
Vietnamese Food

Vietnamese mooncakes

In Vietnam mooncakes are a celebration food most commonly eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Tết Trung Thu) and are often given as gifts to family, friends and business associates. The sharing of a mooncake cut [Read more…]

Bun Dau Mam Tom is popular in Hanoi
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Bun Dau Mam Tom

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…]

Quang noodles are a speciality of Central Vietnam
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Mì Quảng

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…]

Pho is Vietnam's internationally best known dish
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Pho

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…]

Kebab meat Banh mi
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Banh mi (Vietnamese sandwich)

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…]

Vietnamese fried rice
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Vietnamese fried rice

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
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Vietnamese chicken and rice

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…]

Vietnamese steak and eggs in Saigon
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Vietnamese steak and eggs

Steak and eggs cooked together in a skillet is popular dish in Vietnam. The Vietnam call  the dish bo ne which means shaken beef, which refers to the shaking of the meat as it cooks [Read more…]

Vietnamese coffee is served thick and strong
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Coffee in Vietnam

Coffee is a big deal in Vietnam. Vietnamese people drink lots of it and they grow lots of it: Vietnam is the world’s second largest exporter of coffee and its the second most valuable agricultural [Read more…]

Leaf cake is a popular dish in Vietnam
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Leaf cake

There are many different types of leaf cake (banh la) which are eaten in Vietnam. The Vietnamese leaf cake is similar to the Thai dish Khao Tom Mud and is made with sticky rice and other [Read more…]