Hu Tieu (My Tho noodle soup) is a traditional dish, so specific to Southern Vietnam. As a Chinese long-aged dish, this food was taste of My Tho delta people to become well-known nationwide.
Usually served as a snack with raw garlic, Nem chua is eaten all year round as an appetizer or a side. It is eaten especially for the Lunar New Year by many Vietnamese families.
If anyone has been to Hanoi in the winter day, you'll see along the streets there are many types of grill restaurants. Perhaps because Hanoi winter, in cold weather, people often prefer to sit where the restaurants sipping hot. Which is the potato, maize, cassava boiled ... legs, wings, quail ... Grilled, not to mention dishes especially grilled “nem chua” Hanoi.
Among Vietnam’s delicate specialties, "bánh cuốn” ranks top thanks to its softness, sweet fragance of cinnamon, dried onion and strong taste of minced meat and sources!
Snake flesh has, long ago, been recognized as a precious medicine for release pain, cold disinfection, sore joints.. Besides, characterized by a lot of exercise that snake flesh is lean, nutritious and contains more protein than that of other animals.
Its name is a little bit confusing, it actually is not a cake at all, but a dish of thin rice noodles woven into intricate bundles. In spite of the texture and taste quite similar to vermicelli‘s, fresh bánh hỏi is distinctively thin and soft.
Still the similar recipe is applied, but just a little change in ingredients is enough to give birth to a new flavoring dish; what is mentioned here is a Vietnamese popular favorite named “gỏi xoài”.
In Mekong Delta, there are a lot of bitter snails that are very easy to find on the fields, rivers, canals round the year. Just simple wade in canals, ditches with a basket in one hours, you can catch some kilos snails to make Goi Oc Dang (raw bitter snail with vegetable). This is a very exciting rustic food.