SALAD BLENED WITH VEGETABLES ( Xà lách trộn rau củ)

**Let salad blended with vegetables make your meal various. Ingredients: Some salads Some herbs that you like 1 carrot 1 small tomato 1 onion 1 cassava tuber 1 potato 200g corn seeds  2 eggs Mayonnaise 4 sausages 100g canned cucumbers    Instructions: Boil the materials: carrot, potato, corn, eggs and onion. Cut cube all of them. ( Cut the glair cube, put the...

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PUMPKIN AND PURPLE POTATO SWEET GRUEL( Chè bí đỏ và khoai lang tím)

 Summer with its terrible heat is coming, the pumpkin and purple potato sweet gruel is a good choice to febrifuge your family. Ingredients: 100g pumpkin 1 purple sweet potato 1/2 bow of oats 1/2 bow of sticky rice  1 ginger Instructions: Peel the pumpkin, steam and pound it. Peel the purple sweet potato, cut into small cubes. Mash the oats with water, then after a while get rid of the water. Put...

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CHAYOTE CHITS IN TAM DAO

The tourists to Tam Dao, besides being impressed by the cool fresh environment here, obviously everyone will be breath-taking by the nice-looking green of scaffold of Chayote cover all over the hills, house roofs and gardens, pathways. If the tourist lives near Ha Noi, they would bring some bunches of chayote chit home as gift. It is surprised that this simple kind of vegetable has become one of the souvenir attached to Tam Dao tourism. Chayote...

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Xa Dan “che bo” (avocado sweet gruel) – strange and delicious

Most of Ha Noi’s “che” stores have quite familiar menu, always include banana sweet gruel, jackfruit sweet gruel, taro sweet gruel,… But each store has their special one, which makes up their brand. For example, Dao Duy Tu store famous with banana sweet gruel, taro sweet gruel; meanwhile “Cho Gao lemon tea” has really famous “bitten sweet gruel”. Also a sweet gruel store but less popular than, however this store has a specialty that is very famous...

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Hue “Me xung” (sesame candy) – chewing and singing

Food is simply thought as a survival source. However, it reveals people’s characteristics in each area, each city… People can deny their skin, their hair color but always keep their own spirit in the cuisine. “Me xung” is a feature of Hue in Viet’s cuisine. “Sesame candy chewing and singing” is a poem sentence of a person who loves Hue so much, want to share his experience about this...

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“Kho quet” (Poached pork belly with fish sauce) – a delicious humble dish of Southern

The poached dish is a familiar with everyone such as poached fish, poached pork… However, not everyone knows “kho quet”. To Southern people, especially popular with the Western provinces. “Kho quet” is simple but its flavor is irresistible. “Kho quet” is basically a dish for poor people because of its salty from the fish sauce. Therefore, you can finish a meal with just a bit of “kho...

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THE OLD SAI GON’S STREET BEVERAGES

Once visited Sai Gon, you must have be so surprised and interested in the diversity cuisine culture here. Sai Gon’s weather is sunny and hot; therefore, with only street beverages are many enough to make you dizzy because of its variety. But did you ever imagine how it was like 50, 70 years ago? The lively pictures bellow will help you discover the Sai Gonese’s beverage culture. Sai Gon is hot all year round. Walking along Sai Gon’s street just...

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The ten irresistible dishes in Sai Gon (part 2)

6. Vu de nuong (Grill goat breast)             In Sai Gon, looking for dishes involving with goat, especially grill goat breast or goat hot pot, people usually head to Trung Son area, district 7. Grill goat breast eat with fermented tofu sauce, with a hot pot broth is so awesome. Grill goat breast usually served with water spinach,...

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