What Is Your Favorite Vietnamese Dish

What is your favorite Vietnamese food?

Shrimp!

What is your favorite Vietnamese dish to cook?

There are a lot of delicious Vietnamese foods out there, but many of them tend to be difficult to make or take a long time to make it perfect.So, my personal favorite Vietnamese dish to cook is Bún chả. This dish consists of well-seasoned pork meatballs (it is also possible to do it with thinly sliced pieces of pork too and will be just as delicious), thin rice noodles, pickled carrot and green papaya, greens, and a sweet and tangy dipping sauce (fish sauce, lemon juice/vinegar, sugar, garlic, peppers). It is a really delicious dish that former President Obama enjoyed on his trip to Hanoi a few years back.This is Bún chả. (image taken off Google)I like this dish because it isn’t too difficult to make… there are some parts which are time consuming such as making the caramel sauce for the meatballs. However, I have heard this can be store-bought in some Vietnamese markets. Preparing the meat is the most time consuming portion. Blanching the rice noodles is quick, and making the dipping sauce is easy too. The pickled vegetables take a little bit of time, but I can prepare them in advance and then enjoy leftover ones with other dishes. Best part about this dish is that the flavors are just so good that it is totally worth making. I recommend it!

What is your absolute favorite Vietnamese dish and why?

My answer to my own question.Personally, I have never eaten anything that surpasses the delightfulness of Gỏi cuốn. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Gỏi cuốn is this:The first time I ate it, which was when I was 4 (At least the first time I remember eating it), the dish was like this savory sensation. I personally love fresh foods, and I might be minority here, but I also love fresh herbs. As a child growing up, my mother would always make me these as she knew it was my favorite; of course she makes it better than anyone else in the world (totally not biased, hehe), and definitely better than overpriced store brought ones here in the US. She would make it so fresh, so many herbs, added to the rice Noodles, nuts, assorted meat, shrimp, and the outer laying rice paper, this dish always made my day.I guess part of the reason I enjoy my mother’s cooking is because I know she is very busy, yet she manages to spend time to make me my favorite dish (and Gỏi cuốn takes quite some time to make properly mind you), she just does it with so much love.I don't know about you but I prefer eating my Gỏi cuốn a certain way. The sauce for example, has to be Pho Sauce (I believe is what it's called), sprayed over with nuts, and nothing else, I personally dislike chili.Now, the taste of Gỏi cuốn is just, dazzling. It's almost hard to describe. There is this fresh, kinda goo-y, shrimp, meaty, sensational taste. It honestly tastes better than anything else there is in my opinion. It's really different, not spicy, not sweet, just, perfect!I mean seriously, just looking at this:Has gotten my mouth watering.And since I'm nice, in case you are interested in making it yourself, here's an online tutorial:

What is your favourite vietnamese food?

1. Vietnamese Grilled FishThis is an iconic dish of Hanoians. A meal of Cha Ca is made of a few key ingredients: chunks of turmeric marinated white fish meat usually of snakehead fish, cold Vietnamese vermicelli noodles and a few condiments such as peanuts, chopped spring onion, parsley, fish sauce and red chillies.After your order has been placed, a sizzling pan filled with fish and dill will arrive and continued to be cooked by the staff at the table. The herbs will infuse extra flavor and fragrance into the otherwise salty tasting fish.2. PhoPho is a well-known food in Hanoi. There are many pho stalls at the vendors or in the restaurant, and even in the coffee shop. Hanoi people eat Pho daily in the morning; it is a traditional and one of delicious foods of Hanoians. For those of whom traveling to Hanoi, Pho would be the breakfast that gives you unforgettable experience. The following article HERE will introduce some best Pho stalls in Hanoi, some located in the Old Quarter, quite easy for you to find and enjoy.I suggest you some good place to eat "Pho Hanoi": 5 Best Pho Restaurants in Hanoi You Should Eat 3. XoiXôi is a sweet or savory Vietnamese dish made from glutinous rice and other ingredients. There are many version of Xoi come with different topping such as: shaved pork skin (ruốc), fried shallots, dried mung bean shavings…4. Vermicelli noodles with grilled pork / Bun chaBun cha is served with grilled fatty pork (chả) over a plate of white rice noodle (bún) and herbs with a side dish of dipping sauce.5. Vietnamese tofu dessertThis dishes is a famous dessert in Vietnam. It included tofu pudding and ginger syrup, soy milk and sugar syrup. Hanoians often eat this on hot summer days.Do you think about it? Please come to read at my blog: Top 5 Local Foods In Hanoi You Must to Eat and let me know!

Is your favorite Vietnamese meal a type of Pho?

I Can't say it's a “favorite.” Usually people who don't know how to eat Vietnamese food would only choose pho. I grew up eating Vietnamese food, Chinese food and American food. For Vietnamese food I usually order pho when I was young, but as I grew up i also chose variety tasting different things. I could eat porkchop with rice, spring roll noodles, spring rolls, summer rolls, sandwich, porkchop, and egg patty with rice, there's something from Vietnam which my family makes at home which no Vietnamese restaurant has in NY until recently. There are also desserts, soybean milk, plum lemonade, fresh squeezed orange juice, angel hair with a beef. There's something in Vietnam that they don't have in NY yet call bó bảy mon(sp?) with 7 types of cooking beef in the meal. too much to list. There's also banh cuon, etc…

What are your top 5 Vietnamese dishes?

There is no pho (phở) in my list here. These dishes, while not widely known by foreigners, are extraordinarily delicious.You have been warned. Read at your own risks!1. Bún chả: Rice noodle with grilled pork and meatball, served with fresh vegetable and special dipping sauce made from fish sauce, warm water, chili, pepper, garlic and vinegar. Some restaurants also offer spring rolls with grounded pork and sea crab. Amazing.(Obama approved)2. Bún đậu mắm tôm: Rice noodle (again), fried tofu, various topping like boiled pork, spring rolls, meatballs, blood sausages, etc. Featuring dip sauce from shrimp sauce. I admit it smells bad, even for Vietnamese. But it’s like a bit of blue cheese on a beef steak, once you get through its smell to enjoy its taste, you find yourself in heaven.Highly recommended in hot summer days. Yummy!3. Congee with various pork organs: Gordon Ramsay once get amazed by how Vietnamese cook different parts of the pig into delicious dishes, and this is one of them. Pork organs, including stomach, small & large intestine, liver and blood sausage are served with congee, resulting an amazing dish.My favourite dish in cold winter days!4. Miến lươn: miến (I don’t know how to call it in English, imagine that this is just transparent noodle) is served with hot broth and eels. You can choose fresh eels, or fried eels, or even better, a mixture contains both of them!5. Bánh mì: do you know that English dictionaries has a word for this dish, and guess what it is? It’s “banh mi” as well! This dish is one of the Vietnamese trademark dishes, along with phở and bún chả and so on. Originated from French’s baguette sandwiches, but with our own modifications. We have a thin layer of butter at first, then a layer of French paste. After that, we can add fried meat, sausages, and other various topping, before putting some fresh cucumber and coriander. Jesus, this is my breakfast for more than twenty years, and I’ve never even felt bored!PS: Gotta go get a banh mi now!

What is the Vietnamese national dish ?

I don't believe there is an official national dish. Each region of Vietnam (North, Central, and South) has its own sub-cuisine. However, there are a couple of dishes that every Vietnamese person knows. Pho - a combination of different beef cuts, herbs, vegetables in a broth with rice noodlesCa kho to - fish stew in sweet soy sauceBanh Mi - grilled meat, cucumber, pickled carrots and cilantro wrapped in a baguetteBun thit nuong - grilled meat with chopped peanuts, pickled carrots, lettuce in vermicelli and fish sauceand many many more

What is a good non-spicy Vietnamese dish?

A2A. Like others have said, most of Vietnamese dishes are not spicy. However, these dishes also are usually served with minced chilies. So, skip the chilies. Those consumed with sauce - usually they have both spicy and non-spicy sauces.And here is my list of recommendation:Bún thịt nướngBún mọcBánh cuốnBún riêuBánh khọtXôi mặnCơm tấm

What Vietnamese dishes aren’t really Vietnamese food but is more of a Chinese influence?

I don't know about "aren't really Vietnamese food", but all rice noodle dishes, noodle soups and all rice paper dishes are undoubtedly of Chinese origin or based on Chinese cooking techniques.In fact the Vietnamese word "bun" for rice noodles is a loan word from Chinese. The pronunciation matches the pronunciation from the Chaozhou area of China where many migrants went to SE Asia.Fish sauce, the ubiquitous seasoning for Vietnamese food came from China as well.