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• Meat, fish or seafood • Stir-fried, raw, pickled or steamed vegetables... • Canh or other Vietnamese-style soup• Prepared fish sauce or soy sauce for dipping with garlic, chili, ginge

Welcome

to Vietnamese cuisine

Outline

• Meat, fish or seafood

• Stir-fried, raw, pickled

or steamed

vegetables

• Canh or other Vietnamese-style soup

• Prepared fish sauce or soy sauce for

dipping with garlic, chili, ginger or lime juice added

» All dishes apart from the individual bowls

of rice are communal and to be shared.

2/ Five elements correspondence

• five spices: spicy ,

sour, bitter, salty and

• five colours: white ,

green, yellow, red

and black

popular vietnamese dishes

• Movie

(Chen movie )Bánh chưng the soul of Vietnamese new year

+ traditional & irreplaceable

cake of Vietnamese people in

Tet Holidays and King Hung’s

anniversary (10th March

Lunar)

+ ideal way to express gratitude

to ancestors and homeland.

II Special food in three regions:

- use less meat,

fish, black pepper to

create spice

-Taste: strict, less

sweet, more salty

(hinh bua an)

Some kinds of Phở

Pho gio

+ less diverse in choosing spices, ingredients+ In the winter: seasoned broth with vegetables and meat

+ a common fish dish: Chả cá

Special food in the north

• Miến luon

Special food in the northBánh trôi

Bánh cốm

Banh day

II.2 Special food in the central

2.1 Distinctive features

in cuisine:

+ Quiet distinct from the

cuisine of both the

Northern and the

southern

+ Distinct in its extreme

spices and color of

food of Hue’s cuisine,

affected by royal

cuisine

2.2 Food ingredients + constitute dishes served at small

proportions

+ have a mixture of fish sauce, sugar, garlic, chilly, onion and grease

+ taste: sweet,

buttery, salty,

bitter, sour and

peppery-hot

Special food in the central

My Quang (Quang soft noodle soup)

Banh trang cuon thit heo (Dry pancake roll with pork)

Com hen song Huong

(Perfume River mussel cooked rice)

Cao lau

Banh beo xu Hue

(Hue bloating fren-shaped cake)

Banh la cha tom (Grilled rice

cake with Cray fish)

2.3 Special food in hue:

• Movie che hue va mon chay

II.3 Special food in the South

3.1 Distinctive features in cuisine:

+ Heavily affected by Combodia, Thai,

Chinese cuisines, French colonists, typical tastes: sweet and spice (chilly pepper)

+ Reflecting the tropical climate, foods are

cooked in short time

+ Using a wide variety

of herbs

(chen hinh thao moc)

3.2 Food ingredients: + Having many

wrapped in

sugarcane)

Mắm cá cơm • Mắm cá

• Mắm kho cá kèo

Ca tai tuong chien xu ("Tai tuong"

bloating fried fish

Ca nuong trui (Bare fried fish)

Ca kho to

(Dry-boiled catfish)

Lau mam (Mixed vegetable and meat hot

• gỏi miến

gỏi xoài

• Gỏi chua ngọt

Cua rang muoi (Fried salted crabs)

• movie