14/01/2019
🎉🎉Tet is coming nearer and nearer with us. There are many things making the unique attract of this occasion such as its purpose, its origin, its traditional activities etc. And we cannot skip the existence of the Vietnamese cuisine in Tet. Have you ever wondered how familiar the "pure Vietnamese" dishes such as: Chung cake, sticky rice, rolls, ... are so familiar to us? It is not enough to speak English well, being a Vietnamese, we need to understand and describe our country's specialties for foreign tourists. This has both increased your vocabulary and helped you be more confident when introducing your Western friends to your country! This week, to know clearly about special aspect, Le Quy Don English Club decided to choose it to discuss. And this article will suggest to you a few brief introduction about traditional Vietnamese dishes as well as some extremely useful vocabulary!
+ CHUNG CAKE ( full name Stuffed sticky rice cake)
“Stuffed sticky rice cake” is one the most traditional special foods for the lunar new year in Viet Nam. It is made of sticky rice, pork and green bean, all ingredients are wrapped inside a special leaf which calls Lá D**g. The rice and green bean have to be soaked in water for a day. The pork is usually seasoned with pepper & salt for several hours. Banh Chung is boiled for 6 or 8 hours. Nowadays, families in villages still maintain making stuffed sticky rice cake before the lunar New Year but people in the cities do not. They don’t have time to make it and usually go to shops to buy it.”
+ PHO ( PHỞ)
This simple staple consisting of a salty broth, fresh rice noodles, a sprinkling of herbs and chicken or beef, features predominately in the local diet. Pho is cheap, tasty, and widely available at all hours.The Hanoi and Saigon styles of pho differ by noodle width, sweetness of broth, and choice of herbs.
+ KEBAB RICE NOODLES ( BÚN CHẢ)
Kebab rice noodles is one of the most delicious dishes. Grilled pork with rice noodles heaping piles of fresh greens, and a dipping sauce. We can eat “Kebab rice noodles” with Crab Spring Rolls, which has crispy on the outside of this spring roll, then strong crab taste with black pepper flavor on the inside.
+ STUFFED PANCAKE ( BÁNH CUỐN)
Rice flour rolls and/or pancakes is a mix dishes that is popular in Red River Delta. It sometimes stuffed with ground pork and onion. They are eaten in a variety of ways with many side dishes, including one out of a million kinds of Cha (Chả), which are Vietnamese meats spiced and flavored in a multitude of ways -often ground to a paste and cooked.
+ CRISPY VIETNAMESE PANCAKE ( BÁNH XÈO)
The Crispy Vietnamese Pancake is made of shrimp and pork, also served with dipping sauce. It origins from Korea and Japan and is most popular in the South of Vietnam.
+ QUANG NOODLES ( MỲ QUẢNG)
A very popular yet extremely complicated noodle dish. Also originating from Quang Nam, Mi Quang varies in its preparation and features very sharply contrasting flavors and textures in (if prepared properly) a shallowly filled bowl of broth, noodles, herbs, vegetables, and roasted rice chip.
* Some traditional food vocabulary in Vietnam:
Bánh dầy : round sticky rice cake
Bánh tráng : girdle-cake
Bánh tôm : shrimp in batter
Bánh cốm : young rice cake
Bánh trôi: stuffed sticky rice balls
Bánh đậu : soya cake
Bánh bao : steamed wheat flour cake
Bánh chưng : stuffed sticky rice cake
Bào ngư : Abalone
Bún : rice noodles
Bún ốc : Snail rice noodles
Bún bò : beef rice noodles
Bún chả : Kebab rice noodles
Cá kho : Fish cooked with sauce
Chả : Pork-pie
Chả cá : Grilled fish
Bún cua : Crab rice noodles
Canh chua : Sweet and sour fish broth
Chè : Sweet gruel
Chè đậu xanh : Sweet green bean gruel
Đậu phụ : Soya cheese
Gỏi : Raw fish and vegetables
Lạp xưởng : Chinese sausage
Mắm : Sauce of macerated fish or shrimp
Miến gà : Soya noodles with chicken
Kho : cook with sauce
Nướng : grill
Quay : roast
Rán ,chiên : fry
Sào ,áp chảo : Saute
Hầm, ninh : stew
Hấp : steam
Phở bò : Rice noodle soup with beef
Xôi : Steamed sticky rice
Thịt bò tái : Beef dipped in boiling water
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