My name is ricenoodle but I vote for the summer rolls






My order
1. Rolls
2. Noodle soups
3. Leaf cakes
4. Chả/giò/nem
5. Pancakes, pastries and seafood



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pictures for each category is below


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Change the topic title from 'Most significant food in Viet cuisine' to 'Discussion about Viet cuisine'
as suggested by katana300

So.........
talk about whatever thing in Viet cuisine

That picture's making me hungry, and it's midnight. Must get midnight snack...

Yum... post some pictures of Cha/Nem yeah?
I love Nem. Can eat a whole box on my own free will.

Post pictures of each type. It'll be easier to choose if we remember how they look/taste.

There are 2 many food within each category to post all.

I just got back a few hours ago from Thanks Giving dinner with my family. But those pictures are making me hungry again!

In all seriousness, I think Vietnamese food is going to be the next big wave. Vietnamese sandwiches at McDonald's maybe?!

Pho or Feu.

This thread will be doomed without pictures.

Here we go


Category 1: bánh lá

Cakes made from a variety of rice stuffed with fillings and wrapped in leaves

Examples:

Banh chung - Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh_ch%C6%B0ng


Banh giay


Banh la dua


Banh tet


Banh com


Banh nam


Banh u


Banh gio


Banh tro


Banh gai


Banh la nep


Banh te


Banh phu the


Banh it



Banh chuoi nep nuong


you name more

CATEGORY 2: NOODLE SOUPS

No need to explain.
It's noodles in soup of course.

Subcategories of Vietnamese noodles are bun, pho, banh canh, hu tieu, mien, mi, and lau


Bun - wiki: http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BAn

bun rieu


bun bo


bun thang


bun cha ca


bun mam


bun canh


bun ca


bun moc


you name more


Pho - wiki: http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F

pho bo


pho ga


pho tom


pho ngan


pho sot vang


you name more


Banh canh - wiki: http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh_canh

banh canh cua


banh canh tom


banh canh gio heo


banh canh bot loc


banh canh nam pho or banh canh ca loc


banh canh cha ca


what kind of banh canh is this?



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to be continued

continue CATEGORY 2: NOODLE SOUPS


Mien - wiki: http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%E1%BA%BFn

mien ga


mien ngan


mien luon


mien cua


mien mang





Hu tieu

hu tieu my tho


hu tieu sa te


hu tieu bo kho


hu tieu ca vien


hu tieu suon


hu tieu tom muc




Mi - wheat noodles

mi quang


mi vit tiem - this thing is from the Teochew


mi hoanh thanh - this thing is from the chinese also


wheat noodles aren't traditionally Viet
no wonder we don't have a variety of wheat noodle soups

CATEGORY 3: WRAPS AND ROLLS


goi cuon



nem nuong



pho cuon



bi cuon



banh cuon



thit chien cuon



cuon so diep



nem cuon tom



cuon tom chu Hue



cuon tuong



cuon diep



xa lach cuon



cuon tai heo



oc cuon



nem chua cuon



nem cuon thit quay



goi cuon vit quay



ca cuon la


banh uot cuon thit nuong


bo la lop



you name more

CATEGORY 6: CHẢ, GIÒ, NEM

chả, giò, and nem are all minced or chopped (and fried or grilled) meat
they can be translated to english as 'sausage' though its not really accurate
are they different? yes
what's the difference? sorry I don't know
u know sometimes the same thing are called with different names in different regions
eg: 'cha lua' in South VN and 'gio lua' in North VN, 'cha gio' in South VN and 'nem ran' in North VN


cha ca


cha com


cha lua or gio lua


cha que


gio bo


gio tai


cha trung cua


cha chien


gio bi


cha tom


cha trung


cha ngheu


cha ga


nem nuong


nem chua


nem ran (cha gio)



'k u name more



(oops cha, gio, nem is number 6 on the poll. sorrie)

last time i saw nem in one of those sushi boxes. do they have nem in japan too? i hope that ppl wont misinterprete it as something japanese.

Yumm

They look so good. I think there are a lot more potential for Vietnamese food in the states. All we hear about is mostly bun and pho.
We need some more places specializing in Nem and Cha and Cuon. I love those. It can be much better than sushi in my opinion.

true true

when ppl think of Viet food they think of pho
c'mon pho is overrated by non-Viet peeps
I like other rice noodles, cuon, nem, and banh xeo better

CATEGORY 4: SOUPS AND CONGEES


this category includes all the broth, soups, and (non-sweet) porridges
we Viet peeps have broth in every at-home meal
so no doubt there's a huge variety in this category that no one can ever list all
'n imo these homemade broth are better than any american soup i've had

these are famous Viet broths known to every home


canh chua ca loc


canh chua rau muong


canh khoai mo


canh dau hu or canh he


canh bau


canh bi do


canh cai be xanh


canh trung


canh mung toi


canh ngheu


canh muop dang


canh muop ngot


canh khoai mon


canh cua


canh muc


canh mang


canh rau ngot


Visit this page 2 see another 101 'canh' http://www.vnnavi.com/dishes/mon_canh.html



sup mang cua



chao ca


chao long

Anyone else add steaks in the Sping rolls?? Or its just in my family??

My favorite spring rolls.
Cant find any pictures but close to this..
These slices.

<<<

my favourites 3 : banh cuon, banh hoi and hu tieu .

its just ur family

that pic looks like xoi ga
*cough* the meat in the pic is chicken, not beef

"Where there is food, there is katana300."
Geez, been away for such a long time, folks. How is everyone doing?
The most significant food in Viet cuisine probably are noodles.



Look at those tasty meat balls. YUM,YUM!!

My favorite is the sweet rice, and sweet porridge though.

CATEGORY 5: PANCAKES, PASTRIES, CREPES, CAKES

This category includes 'banh' that are not rolled, wrapped in leaves, or used as noodles

Definition of banh on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banh

This category can be divided into savory and sweet



Savory ones

banh xeo


banh khot


banh beo


banh bot loc


banh bot chien


banh uot


banh tom


banh ram


banh re


banh bao chien


you name more



Sweet ones

banh bo


banh bo nuong


banh duc


banh chuoi


banh da lon


banh tam


banh troi


banh dau xanh


banh khoai mon


banh khoai lang


you name more

Vietnam has a very rich authentic cuisine despite the small size of country. Its size is smaller than the Yunnan province of China yet its culinary art far surpasses many countries much greater than its size to rank among the top in the world.

Some addition to the pictures posted by ricenoodle

bun thit nuong


banh hoi


banh da cua


banh xep


com tam


chao tom


cua rang me


oc len xao dua (this is one of xigon's favorite, makes me miss her)

I think Vietnamese food has potential. Its only a question of time untill Vietnamese cuisine is as popular as Chinese or Italian cuisine. A matter of time and marketing. Hanoi was awarded one of the best food cities in the world. Once Vietnam is richer than I'm sure Hanoi or Saigon or even both will make it to the upper list regarding haute-cuisine.

i dont give a damn whether or not viet food will be popular with others or not ... one thing i know is that it is MY favorite food

it can be only benefiting for Vietnam

dude Viet noodle soups and summer rolls got so popular that many Thai restaurants adopted them in their menu

^^ True. Thai really stabbed into Viet cuisine.

Look at this interview of KPBS with a Thai chef about authentic Thai cuisine and her Thai restaurant. Ironically Vietnamese food got mentioned quite often in the interview. One of her customers called in and said his favorite food at her Thai restaurant is the Vietnamese noodles. When she is asked whether she brought some food for the audience, she brought out the "salad rolls" which she said is an adaptation from Vietnamese. I find it funny how the interview is named "Serving authentic Thai cuisine" and the chef herself criticizes people for mixing Thai food with other ethnic food because it "mar the authenticity of the way Thai food is cooked," yet she herself serves Vietnamese food to her customer

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/sep/21/servi...c-thai-cuisine/

RAY: How do I find out what’s – or is there a way to know what’s authentic Thai food?

YU: I think you need to have a friend who is Thai to cook for you because most Thai restaurants in America, in general, adapt their various dishes in order to please the customers so that they could be successful. And that sort of mar the authenticity of the way Thai food is cooked. And this is not just a problem here in America, it’s happening back in Thailand, especially in the bigger city like in Bangkok and so subsequently, you know, it changes people’s viewpoint of what Thai food should be. Basically, Thai food, when you order something, I think that people are attracted to the taste, flavor and aroma of Thai cooking. And this is the basic actually that got me started in this new book that I have written, and it took me about five years, because the reason why people are attracted to Thai food is because if you eat like a simple dish like Pad Thai, which everybody knows, which is the noodles that is cooked with dried shrimp, peanuts, sugar, vinegar or tamarind, and then it has very little vegetable, only just for crunchiness, like bean sprouts and Chinese chives and chiles and lime. And you take one bite of this and your mouth is burst with not only flavors but also contrasts of the peanuts and the dried shrimp, and it just boggles your mind. And so why you say, you know, that’s why people love Thai food. Curry, unlike Indian curry, unlike Ceylon curry, it is so rich in the various spices that even before you eat it, it comes up to your nose and just makes you so hungry. And so subsequently people got attracted to the Thai food itself because of all these wonderful philosophy and the basis and the foundation that the old-timers, you know, created this.

RAY: Really? I have to be perfectly honest with you, I love Vietnamese food and if I have – In the past, if I’ve had to make a choice between going to a Vietnamese restaurant and going to a Thai restaurant, I’ve always chosen the Vietnamese because the Thai food I’ve found has more oil than I like, traditionally, and the Vietnamese does not.

YU: Well, that’s because you eat Thai food here. If you eat Thai food at my house, you don’t see any oil.

RAY: Ah, okay. All right. Well, I’ll tell you what, let’s go right to the phones. In Taos, New Mexico, Mike, is that correct? Good morning. You’re on These Days.

MIKE (Caller, Taos): It is correct and I’m an old San Diegan so I’m well aware of her restaurants and my favorite, funny that you just said that, my favorite at her restaurant is the Vietnamese noodles. So I wanted to ask about those noodles and then I also want your opinion because I’m a hunter so I’ve got a bunch of chanterelle mushrooms and grouse, and I was wondering if she could give me a recommendation on some wild game.

RAY: Well, this would be the start for your next book.

YU: Well, it’s wonderful that you asked that question because I had – I just actually went to a book that talked about all these supposedly men in Thailand who cooked and they would go out hunting and in order to tenderize their meat they just kind of threw in a little bit of white lightning and kill off the meat itself so that they could actually tenderize it out in the forest. Answer to your first question’s in regards to Vietnamese noodles, that came about because my daughter used to live in San Francisco and we went to this little hole in the wall that supposedly was a favorite of Julia Child and my daughter Angela ordered this dish, and I said, you know, I could use this in my restaurant. The noodles is very interestingly made because it’s made with rice noodles and rice flour and oil and a little bit of water, and they’re rolled out in a very fine sheet. And sometimes they add chives or dried shrimp and then they rolled up this thing so it gave you the texture more than anything else. And then you add on various ingredients, again with textures. And because it’s Vietnamese, they love their little sweet-sour, light sauce, which is made with vinegar, chiles, sugar. Vietnamese cooking, unfortunately, uses a lot of sugar. And then they kind of doctor the whole thing up with some fresh herbs.

RAY: Hmm.

YU: So that’s the Vietnamese noodles. As far as your, oh, God, chanterelle, I’ll kill for it right now, I think to do a green curry with those two ingredients would be absolutely wonderful or a masaman curry. And I will, if you want – I think that if I were you, I would take the time to pound the spices myself instead of buying ready made store because you have such wonderful ingredients. And add in maybe a little bit of apples to kind of enhance the flavor from the meat and also to have that kind of smooth – after the apples cook is a little bit soft. It will play with the chanterelle mushroom.

...

RAY: You brought some things here. And before…

YU: Yes, I did.

RAY: …we get too far along and I don’t get a chance to have a snack, can you tell me what it is we’re—we’re—sharing here?

YU: Well, I brought you four kinds of salad rolls, which we sell. This is adaptation of Vietnamese things. And each of them represent the earth, water, wind and fire. The earth one has avocado in it. The water one has pineapple because the sour taste is good for water element. And the wind has lots of mint, which is very good for wind element. And the, lastly, the fire one, has jicama, which is very cooling.

RAY: Umm.

YU: And then I make you five different sauces and each of them, again, matched: earth, water, wind and fire. I brought you a curry that is a red curry with lots of bamboo shoots which is very good for the respiratory system and also for the muscles, and also has eggplant. And there is a new fried rice that I’m going to start in October that is made with red organic rice from Thailand and less rice but more vegetables.

noodle soup is on the lead
equally followed by rolls and leaf cakes

cu noodle lam gi ma thang lon azntiger sua nhu la con cho vay

you đang nói thằng lèo thối giả danh người việt đó hả?
nó đang sủa ở đâu sao tôi chả thấy

the vietnamese noodles mentioned here
doesn't sound like pho
what kind of noodle is that?

Viet foods my favorite Vietnamese dishes have to be com tam, bun cha hanoi, bo luc lac, pho, banh nam (that sh1t is good) lol and more but i cant name them all. I have to say Viet food is very popular..more pics pleaseee

uhm, thang cho de do la leo chu nguoi Viet gi, no noi no la nguoi Viet tai gi nguoc leo la con khi gi ma choc duoc nguoc khac . thay thang do viet o trong cho leo chu cho nao

Correction: I meant slices of Beef not steak. lol

@ricenoodle, googled black pepper beef and I got the picture.. Not chicken dear..

thằng này đếch thấy nó sủa 1 mình
nó đang sủa bè cho savan màn phở thịt chó trong lèo chat đó

hôm qua bên viet chat vừa câu cái topic này lên dc vài phút
thì bọn bên kia nó câu cái màn phở thịt chó lên

u all should post up pics of dish that u like

CATEGORY 7: SEAFOOD DISHES


Clams, snails, oysters...

Oc len xao dua


Ngheu xao la que


Chem chep xao rau muong


So huyet xao toi


Oc buou xao ot he


Oc huong xao


you name more



Shrimp, crabs

Cua rang me (crabs fried tamarind sauce) Recipe here: http://www.vietnamese-recipes.com/vietname...arind-sauce.php


Cua nhoi chien


Tom xao nam


Tom nhoi dau hu


Tom bao ran or tom lan bot


Chao tom or tom bao mia


Tom rang


you name more



Squid

Muc xao chua ngot


Muc sot ca


Muc nhoi thit


Muc sot tieu


Muc ro ti


Muc chien gion


Muc nuong xien



For more dish about squid, visit this page http://www.vatgia.com/home/listudv.php?mod...t&iCat=2264

continue Category 7: SEAFOOD

I know not all fish come from the sea
but who cares?
they all come from water
blame english for not having the word water-food (thuy san)



Fish

I'm 2 lazy. There are 2 many to list
There are recipes for some 62 Vietnamese fish dish in this blog http://blog.timnhanh.com/thaiviet83nt/comm...a.35AA979B.html
Help urself

But still need to post pics



Ca kho to. This can't be missed in any Viet family



Ca thu kho mia. Tutorial video here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1...60190415900972#



Ca tai tuong chien xu. Tutorial video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5649344216880698797#


Ca nuc kho


Ca nuong la chuoi



Ca com chien


Ca keo kho


Ca sot chua ngot


Ca ran sot hat huong duong


Ca trung nuong muoi ot


Ca thac lac nhoi


...

We should change the name of this topic to Discussion about Viet cuisine.

CATEGORY 8: SWEET RICE AND SWEET PORRIDGE


Sweet rice or xôi is a sweet (ngọt) or savory (mặn) Vietnamese dish made from glutinous rice and other ingredients
wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%B4i

Sweet porridge or chè is a Vietnamese term that refers to any traditional Vietnamese sweet dessert soup or pudding.
wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A8


sorry im gonna plagiarize from wiki

Xôi (Sweet rice)

Sweet ones

Xoi gac - made with the aril and seeds of the gấc fruit


Xoi nep than - made with black glutinous rice


Xoi la cam - made with the magenta plant and mung beans


Xoi la dua - made with pandan leaf extract for the green color and a distinctive pandan flavor


Xoi vo


Xoi dau phong



Savory ones

Xoi ga


Xoi thap cam


Xoi chien


Xoi cha muc


others savory ones








Chè (Sweet porridge)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A8

Che thung


Che hat luu


Che dau trang


Che chuoi


Che hat sen


Che thap cam


Che troi nuoc

^ mouth watering.

How can we promote all of these tasty, yummy, delicious food? People need to know that the Viet cuisine has more than just Pho. Geez, talking about food, I want to eat these wherever I go.

Chè hột é

This is my favorite. I remembered buying cups of hột é at the end of everyday when I was in elementary school. Good Ole memories.

seriously in australia

u cant get bored of pho and bun bo hue...thanks 2 the tasty taste of the beef market.

no offense, i reckon pho in australia > vietnam

oh mine
thats 1 of my fav drinks

I want some hot e now

No way , If I eat pho everyday, I'll be bored to death man. I can't live without the variety of Viet cuisine.

hahahaha man i can live wif pho but i always swap between pho and bun bo hue =] for the extra spice

i can eat others as well but pho and bun bo hue is always up there if i was given more options hahaha

Good luck with that! Man, these kinds of topics always make me hungry. I want to buy something to eat now, but it's too dark outside.

com tam

Is this only a Vietnamese thing?

I always thought my mom was just being different when she added those into my drinks.

We really need some more Vietnamese restaurants over here in the states. I'm hoping each restaurant specializing in a different category of Vietnamese food so they'll be all quality made. Most of our restaurants here are a little too simple. We need a little more classy/modern and more Vietnamese feel.

All I see are Pho after Pho, Bun after Bun, Com Tam after Com Tam shops.

haha, I just finished eating Xoi La Cam. Coincidence.

Man, you left out nem chua! Way better than nem nướng IMO.