Traditional Vietnamese cuisine
Food in Vietnam is a collective event: a dish is served on the table in a common plate, from which fellow diners catch pieces of food with chopsticks (in restaurants, as a rule, Europeans do not serve dishes like that).
Since the Vietnamese are very clean, do not worry that eating in local restaurants can end up with gastrointestinal upset for you..
In addition to the fact that food in Vietnam is delicious and completely safe for health, it is also very cheap (food in the country is cheap).
Food in Vietnam
Despite the fact that Vietnamese cuisine is a mixture of Indian, Chinese, French and other cuisines, it is completely unique and distinctive..
The Vietnamese diet includes seafood, chicken, pork and beef dishes, noodles, rice, as well as delicacies from turtles, snakes, game, rats ... Vietnamese love to flavor their dishes with aromatic herbs (mint, lemongrass), seasonings (onions, garlic, ginger root), soy and fish sauces.
Arriving in Vietnam, you will have the opportunity to taste the traditional Pho soup, crocodile, frog, ostrich meat, as well as black and red rice, shrimp, cuttlefish, octopus, lobster.
If you are vacationing in large Vietnamese cities, be sure to visit specialized streets, for example, crab streets or those where chickens on a spit marinated in different spices are displayed at every step..
Where to eat in Vietnam?
At your service:
- cafes and restaurants (they have a varied menu, so here you can taste Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, French and even Irish cuisines);
- "snake" restaurants (here you can not only taste a snake, but also look at the exciting spectacle associated with the preparation of this reptile);
- coffee shops and tea houses (here you can enjoy the rich taste and aroma of coffee and various types of tea);
- street cafes (the peculiarity of such cafes is that visitors here sit on small plastic chairs).
Drinks in Vietnam
Vietnamese favorite drinks - tea, coffee, fresh juices, exotic fruit necks, local wine.
In the country, you can try a special type of tea - artichoke: it occurs in the form of resin (it needs to be dissolved in water) and dried leaves (it is brewed like regular tea).
If you decide to buy real Vietnamese coffee, then it is better to go to the market in Dalat for it (you can, of course, buy it in any tourist center in a specialized store, but there its cost will be 1.5-2 times higher).
Gastronomic tour to Vietnam
Gourmets can go on a food tour to get acquainted with the national cuisine in different regions of Vietnam (the cuisine of North, South and Central Vietnam is very different from each other). So, going on such a tour, you will understand that the culinary symbols of the North are noodle soup, fried meat and seafood, the South - spices and spicy dishes, and the Center - complex Vietnamese dishes..
If you wish, you can attend master classes on cooking basic Vietnamese dishes (Pho soup, rice pancakes with shrimp and pork, green papaya salad).
A tour to Vietnam will be remembered not only by the local sights, but also by the amazing cuisine.
