mon an 3 mien

Welcome
to Vietnamese cuisine

Outline

I. Common features of
Vietnamese food
1 / Typical Vietnamese
family meals
•
Individual bowls of
rice
•
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
sweet
•
five nutrients: powder,
water, mineral
elements, protein and
fat.
•
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:
North-Central-South
II.1 Special food in
the North of
Vietnam:
1.1 Distinctive features
in cuisine:
- typical with stir
fries, noodle
- use less meat,
fish, black pepper to
create spice
-Taste: strict, less
sweet, more salty
(hinh bua an)

1.2 Food ingredients :
- use soy sauce, fish
sauce, prawn sauce
- have many stir fried
dishes
- the most notable
dishes: phở and bánh
cuốn

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 north
Bánh 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)