The Brand-new dishes cause attention among young people in the early this year

  At the beginning of 2015, some strange snack dishes attract young-age people at the first look.

1    1.      Liquid Mochi cake

Looking like a giant water drop, this kind of mochi cake got a lot of young-ages’ attention at the first sight, this is a good-looking as well as delicious sweet dish. To enjoy the dish completely, you should eat within 30 minutes from the first serve. Some places have this dish that you can find in Sai Gon: Watcha Coffee – 28/1 Ton That Tung, District 1, Curry Shika – ¼ Nguyen Van Trang, District 1, Cornology – 233 Tran Binh Trong.

Liquid Mochi – A special tumult sweet dish from Japan

2    2.      Jelly Kiss – an eatable glass of frappe 

With a “sexy” name, Jelly Kiss – a glass of frappe made from jelly, you can drink the frappe and eat the glass also. Because Jelly Kiss is hand-made, it is limited, hence, there are about 90-100 glasses a day but it’s still not reach the demand of the diners. The only place to enjoy this strange and good beverage is Sai Gon Juice: 343/66 To Hien Thanh, District 10.

Eatable glass of frappe with a sexy name “Jelly Kiss”

3    3.      Cheese Jelly

As a sweet dish from jelly, cheese jelly is interesting the teenagers with the greasy and flavorful cheeses inside the clear nice looking jelly. A pretty full order of cheese jelly is just 20,000 dong so it attracts many students. Address that you can have this sweet dish is Tra Chanh Com Tron Maika – 35B Nguyen Kim, District 5. Besides, you can enjoy a lot more “super-hot” snacks: mixed rice, peach tea, Thai seafood vermicelli,… with affordable price there.  

Cheese Jelly- an attracted sweet dish at the first sight

4    4.      Mustard ice cream

The spicy contrasts with the sweet of ice cream, this causes many young people finish this ice cream half way and will never order it once again. However, if you can pass the first ice cream, feel the mystery hot hided in the cold of ice cream running straight to your nose, then melting on your tongue, you will recognize this spicy quite exciting and want to eat more. The place you can have this spicy ice cream is: Yamamoto Matcha Cafe – 84 Tran Hung Dao, District 1.  

 Mustard ice cream – the ice cream with the weird spicy flavor got many contrasted comment from young people

5.      Cotton ice cream

As a strange kind of ice cream, with the utmost new combination between the fresh modern ice-cream and cotton candy in the past, you just slightly bite and the candy’s layer will melt on your tongue. What a memorable delicious ice cream that remind us about our childhood. Address you can have this ice cream: Start up Coffee – 38 Tran Hung Dao. You can also enjoy super delicious bee net ice cream there.

Cotton ice cream –Modern ice cream reminds about the childhood

6    6.      Macaroon “exhaling smoke”

As well as colorful macaroons, but with a special technology, you can enjoy a super cold cake that there is vapor when you are talking, this cake is exclusive and available at only Italian restaurant Jcat – 345 Nguyen Trai – an European restaurant with the price only from 30,000-80,000.

Smoking Cake – freezing Macaron

*Taro**

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CHÈ KHOAI MÔN (Taro and tapioca sweet gruel)

This kind of che (sweet gruel) bring you the limber light sweet taste and taro flavor.

Ingredients:

-          450g taro

-          250ml coconut cream

-          100g sugar

-          110g tapioca (small white ball)

-          A pinch of salt

Directions:

-          Hew the taro’s skin, soak in salt water, clean with water and boil until cooked.

-          Crush ½ taro, slice in 1-inch cubes for ½ taro

-          Soak the tapioca in water. Add tapioca in a water pot and boil. Add more water when it begins to boil for the tapioca to be cooked through. Remove from heat and lid on in 15 minutes when the tapioca cooked.

-          Put another pot on the heat, add ½ crushed taro and coconut cream in. Stir well, then add sugar.

-          When the sugar melted all, add the tapioca in and lightly stir. Boil again, then remove from the heat.

-          Serve it when it’s still hot.

*Taro*

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List of the Vietnam’s middle cuisine that addict tourists

The middle of Vietnam’s cuisine is always evaluated as unique and attractive dishes. There are many impressive dishes that you would never forget their flavor, once you tried

If you have any chance to visit the cities in the Middle, let’s find and enjoy the “humble” dishes as follow:

1.   1.   Stir fry rice vermicelli with turmeric

With the very simple ingredients: pork intestine, rice vermicelli, scallion, turmeric, basil…and Hue woman’s cooking, you will be serve an authentic cheap delicious bowl of  stir fry rice vermicelli with turmeric. Pork intestine, boiled vermicelli, fresh turmeric… mixed stir fry or stir fry separately, serve all the ingredient together, mix well and enjoy.

It’s easy to find this dish in Hue city because of its popularity

2.     2.  Hue sweet gruel

In Hue city, there are tens of sweet gruel which is produced delicious, attractively with tourists and even the natives. It can be listed some popular sweet gruel, from simple such as che bap (corn sweet gruel), che troi nuoc (sweet dumplings in sugar water with ginger root), bean sweet gruel (mung beans, kidney-beans, black-eye peas…) to elegant complicated one like che hat sen (lotus seed sweet gruel), che bong cau (skinless steam mung beans in dense vanilla sugar water), che nhan nhuc (longan sweet gruel). One popular ingredient in Hue’s sweet gruel is dried coconut. Thin sliced dried coconut in sweet gruel is still aroma and crispy to activate the diners’ gustation. 

Sweet gruel is an indispensable dish in Hue’s culinary culture

3.      3.  Bun mam nem (Rice vermicelli with fermented anchovy paste)

Mam which is the sauce to serve with rice vermicelli is diluted precisely. It must be not too salty, not to sweet, and still have the same flavor as Mam. The diluted ingredients include crushed garlic chili, a pinch of sugar to reduce the origin mam’s salty, can add a bit of finely chop pineapple and the paste depend on the diners’ taste. The dish is the combination of less fat pork ears, fresh vermicelli, vegetable and bean sprouts. The ingredients is left separately until being served. Mix all the ingredients and enjoy.

This dish is easily find at many cities in the Middle such as Hue, Da Nang, Nha Trang…

4.   Nem lui (Grill meat roll)

Grill meat rolls have the best taste when you eat right after you grilled it, but most of restaurants grill them in advance. Whenever diners come in, it will be put on the hot coals again to reheat (in case to reduce the waiting time for the diners). The way to eat grill meat roll to get the best "quality" that is: using exposed frost rice paper, then rolling grill meat roll with vegetables (mainly herbs), add a few slices of cucumber, green bananas and radish pickles. Sticky sauce, succulent, tasty is the key to making a special taste of this special dish.

Raw pork paste tasting spices, oblique into a bamboo stick then grilled. Da Nang, Hue… has the most delicious grill meat roll.

5.      Don

Don is quite like as mussel but smaller. There are a lot of Don along Tra River and Ve River (Quang Ngai), Ma River (Thanh Hoa). Don is washed clearly and boiled with water, stir well to have the shell opened. The Don’s boiled water is seasoned well, Don is left aside or stir fry with garlic. Filter the broth finely, add vegetable, and boil until ripe, put the Don on top. Don soup is cool and nutritious. 

Don soup is cool and healthy

6.      Bèo cakes:

In Da Nang, excepting from Beo cakes with torn-dried shrimp, you can enjoy Beo cakes with wet hatching made from shrimp and mushrooms.

Eating a hot Beo cake cup with little more salty and spicy fish sauce is probably a good choice in a cold day.

7. Hoi cakes with pig’s gut:

Hoi cake is rubbed with a layer so-called sauce which includes oil and shallot. Hoi cake is served with roast pork, boiled pork or pig’s gut. The accompanying materials can be listed as rice paper (used to roll the cake), baked roll, salad, sweet and sour sauce ... depending on how and where tastes.

Hoi cake with pig’s gut is a popular dish on the central strip, the best is in Phu Yen, Binh Dinh

8. Cao lau Noodles

In the past, this dish is just served for the kings. Unlike vermicelli or noodles, Cao lau noodles is more similar to a mixed dishes. The main ingredients is yellow noodles like Quang noodles, meat, pork, crispy pig ears, assorted vegetables and very little salty broth. You can add more sauce depending on your taste.

This is a dish that can’t be missed when you come to Hoi an.

9. Bánh xèo vỏ mắm nêm (Vietnamese pancake with fermented anchovy paste crust)

It is very easy to cook. In order to pour the pancakes, you need a specialized mold as small as a saucer. Rice after soaking overnight is blended with water until mix finely as liquid. Put the mold over a charcoal fire, lubricate the mold with a little oil and wait until it is hot enough to pour a sufficient liquid. After that, there is a sound “xeo…xeo…” on the mold, so people call “Bánh xèo” for this dishes.

Vietnamese pancake with crust is a delicious pancakes which is indispensable in the eating list of The Binh Dinh.

There are two kinds of sauce, sweet and sour sauce or fermented anchovy paste depending on taste, served with salad or bean sprouts. When it rains or get cold, all people gathering around the fire, serve right after cooked, the flavor cannot be compared with any others.

10. Bánh căn

 “Bánh căn” is a rustic dish that can’ be missed when you come to Nha Trang, Phan Rang or Phan Thiet ... It is delicious to serve well when hot. Therefore the diners have to wait to be served. For more delicious, in addition to the egg yolk, there's some patching such as shrimp, squid, minced meat depending on the preferences of each person.

Can cake is served with green mango, cucumber, salad, pig ears ... the broth from the meat or fish sauce, fermented anchovy paste, or soy sauce depending on taste.

Source: http://www.amthuc365.vn/t21964c176/mien-trung/2014/12/diem-danh-nhung-mon-mien-trung-lam-say-long-du-khach.html

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BÁNH MÌ (Vietnamese Baguette)

           “One of the famous and delicious street food in the world”, "The palatable sandwich ever" are those sayings foreign press favourably call Vietnamese Baguette. Surpassing thousands tasty dishes all over the world, Vietnamese Baguette is now becoming more and more favourable in both domestic and international tourists thinking to combination of three factors: Tasty – healthy – cheap. In order to catch up with the hasty pace of life day by day, residents throughout the country gravitate themselves to the lifestyle of eating healthy, nutritious food and saving time.

Bread with ham, pâté, pickled carrot and white radish, cucumber and chili

As a result, it is not strange with trolleys of bread along streets being crowded by customers in the early morning, that makes wonderfully beautiful and vibrant scenes. Vietnamese Baguette is not too big, normally a loaf of bread is served for person, but still ensures of level of nutrition and fills us up with energy during the morning. Skin of bread is always sparkling with eye-catching golden brown colour, buttery taste of a pate, pork, chopped meat but it do not make people’s appetite of any fever thinking to sweet-and-sour taste of pickles, elegant flavour, fragrance of coriander, and spicy taste with some small pieces of red hot pepper.Additionally, Vietnamese Baguette shows own special features with various types of sauces such as soy sauce, gravy beef or other traditionally special gravy.
         Behind all those tasty, attractive and eye-catching flavour, bread involves many stories of life, human beings’ sense of mercy, that is all about poor, unfortunate kids sharing with each other loaves of bread who always sparkle with beautifully innocent smiles. Or stories about those workers with perfunctory meals to be on time for their afternoon shift. And those loaves of bread, even more interesting, always associate with students, who have to save every dime and penny to follow and fulfil their dreams...That is why is said: Vietnamese Baguette as itself says, “Simple but not that is simple.”

Small sidewalk bakery in Vietnam

        With the  Vietnamese Baguette, we always enjoy completely fresh new flavour by all senses of tuition. It, without the doubt, is a big regret for those who miss this special dish when visiting Vietnam. And what are you waiting for? Give it a try then you figure out how and why  Vietnamese Baguette was, is and always be conquering even picky folks.

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