Local Vietnamese dishes?

Question

I am flying to Vietnam soon and would like to know – what would be some of the typical cuisine I would encounter? Popular dishes, traditional things, etc... foods that would normally be found in a Vietnamese restaurant, or different?

Answer 1

Pho - the beef and rice noodle soup is everywhere light refreshing and absolutely delicious, the perfect pick me up

Answer 2

It is very common to have stir fried vegetables, vegetables & meat, cooked chicken, squid, fish, snails, various soups (vegetable, veg & meat / fish, light, heavy, thick, thin). There is almost always fruit of some kind for dessert as well.

The variety of foods here is amazing. Things tend to get spicier as you go south. People in Ha Noi are not overly fond of hot chili, the food in the central part of the country has a lot of zing!

Some may take a bit of time to get used to, but I find almost all the foods I have had over the last 4 years that I have lived here to be very good!

Answer 3

Yes! You should try their Pho. Their Vietnamese Beef Noodle.

I love their dark sauce soup version.

Besides that they are famous with their salad wraps. There are various version & maybe you can try those too. If you can't take the fish sauce, you can ask them what's the food & maybe not put so much. U can use your finger to dab a bit of the sauce to taste prior to that. Usually they will teach u how to mix & wrap it.

Most if not all their dishes includes a lot of fresh lime, where usually they will squeeze the juice on the plate/dish before eating it.

Their fish soup are often cooked wth loads of veges & even fruits like papaya.

Other thn. that you must try their Vietnam Coffee. It can be pretty strong! So try not to drink it at night unless you don't plan to sleep.

Some of their local desserts like the soya bean pudding wth ginger are pretty nice.

Besides that their French influence in some of the upper towns of Vietnam are pretty obvious thus you can try the mixture of French + Vietnam dishes. Thus some of the price pretty costly.

These depends on this location you're heading to.

Answer 4

try Vietnamese pancake too really good