Vietname's Culture

Special food in Vietnam

Nem ran (Spring roll) ​

Nem ran (called cha gio in the south) is a much-appreciated speciality, although it is very easy to prepare. Since long ago, nem ran has been a familiar dish on the menu at all households during the New Yearâ?Ts festivities, at family parties, and at receptions.
The stuffing of the nem ran is comprised of mince pork, sea crabs, eggs, minced Jew''s ears, thin-top mushroom, dried onions, bean-sprouts, pepper, spiced salt, etc. The mixture is then rolled in flat rice cakes and fried in a pan until crispy.
Nem are eaten hot with a sauce that it is, at the same time, somewhat salty, sweet, acidic and scented (with the flavours of onion and pepper). Papaya and a few fresh scented vegetables are added.

long time when my mother lived in RUS, my mother make NEM RAN to her neighbour.then they asked she "what is the food,and how do u do it?" my morther only share methor of do it didn''t explain what the food.

I am hungry.
U make me hungry more

shellfish soup and vermicelli ( bún ốc)
One of the tra***ional food in VietNam.
This is a famous food, and most of foreign tourist come to VietNam has ever heard about it. But it not only well-known with foreign tourist, also It always stay on VietNam people heart. No one in VietNam don''t know about it, Especially people who live in North of VietNam ( namely HaNoi).
It''s made main from shellfish and vermicelli.
With shellfish, you can chose 2 kind of shellfish, the first is helix, and the second is large edible snail ( or even medium-sized edible snail ).
But I prefer the second kind, because, the felling when I bite a large edible snail. At that time, It sound crunchy and crunchingly. It''s very wonderful....( with helix, I don''t like, because it too small, and My teeth fell uncomfortable ... )
I don''t know how to make delicious ( because I''m a man)
But I have eaten it alot, around HaNoi.
(oh, of couse It''s not mean that I am a nosh man, I just have alot of chance to go with my friend, and they have alot of experience in this field )
I think, when it''s cold, If we sit around , and eat a hot shellfish-soup and vertimicelli, It is very wonderful and fantastic. and If you want to forget the cold weather more, you could try more chutney. wow, the sound was made when we eat noisily seem make us fell more delicious.
chậc chậc..
In Hanoi, there are alot of store of this kind,
I used to go to HangDa Street when ever I want to have good snack. Because there is a good store (shop) of shellfish-soup and vertimicelli in near crossroads between HangBong St and HangDa St.
Do you used to go to there to take snack??

wow Shellfish food is very dilicious.i like it but i never go to HÀNG DA stress take snack.my mum sometime cooks it.
i like SHELL_BOIT.i think all of Vietnamese know it.espacialy young person.

Hehe shellfish soup and vermicelli is the most attractive to young ladies because of brittleness by snails, the slightly sour taste by snail soup, and hot by chilly boiled down, making even gorged people keep eating. In cold weather going to eat Snail dish is glad. I''''m craving for it at present
But, anybody knows the method to cooking it?
Được uhday sửa chữa / chuyển vào 23:25 ngày 08/12/2005

Although now is winter, but I still want to write about Grilled green rice (Cốm). In this autumn, I haven''''t aeten Grilled green rice . I wonder where people still buy it .
Following is a article of vietnam tourism link write about "Cốm " .

Every autumn, around September and October, when the cool north-westerly wind brings a cold dew, the sticky rice ears bend themselves into arches waiting for ripe grains because these rice grains are at their fullest and the rice-milk is already concentrated in the grains, predicting that the com season has arrived.
Better than any other person, the peasant knows when the rice ears are ripe enough to be reaped to begin making com. Com is made from green sticky rice that is harvested in blossom period, roasted in many times, crashed and sieved.
Com is a speciality; at the same time, it is very popular. One can enjoy com with tieu ripe banana. When eating com, you must eat slowly and chew very deliberately in order to appreciate all the scents, tastes, and plasticity of the young rice.
Com is an ingredient also used in many specialities of Vietnam, including com xao (browned com), banh com (com cakes), che com (sweetened com soups), etc.
Com may be obtained anywhere in the North of Vietnam, but the tastiest com is processed in Vong Village, 5km from Hanoi, where com making has been a professional skill for many generations.
Được uhday sửa chữa / chuyển vào 23:40 ngày 08/12/2005

bác đỉnh ghê em chỉ tập toẹ được vài chữ nên chăng bít viết gì.hay bac viết về chiếc NÓN của VIỆT NAM đi.thank so much

@uhday : bạn có thể write 1 bài về 1 chương trình của VTV mà bạn thích không ?...

Hehe cái này thì phải mất mấy tiếng em mới viết được. Vì vốn từ vựng trong đầu hơi ít, viết mấy cái này toàn phải tra từ điển loạn xì ngậu lên, viết mấy tiếng mới được 1 trang A4. Viết xong chẳng nhớ còn mấy từ trong đầu nữa .
Các bác tiếp tục đi nhé. Tự dưng em học tiếng Anh thấy văn hóa Việt Nam sao nó hay thế.