Vietnamese cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines of the world.
Vietnamese cuisine is made up largely of vegetables, fruits, herbs, rice and meat, and it is also very healthy. Traditional Vietnamese dishes are varied, distinct and are comparatively low in fat and high in carbohydrates. Now, even well-promoted. However, this must be done with reserve. Lots of fried, but very sweet foods, beverages and meals are not healthy enough.
Catering is an important group event of the day for the Vietnamese. Contrary to our style of eating, you have to get used to munching and burping, which are a sign of satisfaction with the food! Mess and litter around the tables and on the floor in street cafeterias is rife, you just have to put up with it.
Street food is standard – Hanoi is a paradise for the street food.
At almost every corner you will find a stall or a restaurant with soups, rice, a variety of meat or noodles. The street restaurants are often focused on only two or three meals, but the choice of restaurants is great and all their meals are different. This is especially so in Hanoi – it is a veritable paradise for street food. In the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam eating is a little more limited, and a little less variety but still not difficult to find.
The base ingredients of Vietnamese cuisine are rice and fish sauce.
Vietnam is the second-largest rice exporter in the world after Thailand. Rice is found growing throughout the country, from the fields in the lowlands to the mountain terraces. It is most bountiful in the Mekong Delta down south and you will see it when traveling in Vietnam. Rice appears at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. There’s rice-rice of course as well as rice noodles, rice paper wrappers, rice porridge, sticky rice with fruit, fried rice, puffed rice snacks, and rice wine.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices are commonplace.
In northern Vietnam, the cuisine varies a bit depending on where you are, whether in the mountains or in the city. In the city there’s a vast selection of food, you can taste almost everything here, while in the mountains it is largely represented by rice, fresh vegetables, herbs and meat. Meat is an expensive commodity for the people from ethnic minorities.
You can purchase excellent coffee, beer, hard liquor, juices or shakes in Vietnam.
Drinks in Vietnam are mainly, juices, tea (Tra Viet), mineral waters, and beers (Hanoi beer, Dai Viet, Bia Hanoi). There is also a good choice of fruit shakes (Sinh to). A specialty is the excellent and popular strong Vietnamese coffee (Ca Phe Sua). Coffee is often served with the sweet condensed milk at the base of a glass with ice cubes , and filter coffee poured on top, (If you order Cafe Fin you will get filter coffe in this style) . Vietnam is the world’s largest producer of Robusta coffee.
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