Sunday 30 September 2012

Vietnamese Street food at Thanh Da Market

Two popular Vietnamese Street Food in Thanh Da Market are Fried Chicken with Boiled Broken Rice and Grilled Pork with Vermicelli. Most Vietnamese, especially young people really love it. It not only is cheap, but also is delicious.

This is the main place for selling of Thanh Da people. In market, there have many food stores. They are really cheap but I have to admit that the flavor is delicious as well. And for me, fried chicken with boiled broken rice and grilled pork with vermicelli are most amazing.

*** Fried Chicken with Boiled Broken Rice

This food store stays at the main street of market. There always have many customers come to eat. Chicken Meat is marinated by fish sauce, sugar, honey. It is the secret recipe of store. When it is done, the face of chicken meat has a yellow color with the delicious flavor. Moreover, the price of mostVietnamese Street Food is really cheap. With this dish, you only just pay about 20,000 VND (=1$US) and you can have a big dish with boiled broken rice, fried chicken and vegetable (usually is fried Ong Choy and sliced cucumber).


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Saturday 29 September 2012

Vietnamese Coffee Drinks recipes


In Vietnam, Coffee is the most one of popular drinking of Vietnamese Dessert Recipes. There are many types of coffee, include hot coffee, hot latte, iced coffee, iced latte, iced milk and black coffee and eggs coffee. 
 
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Coffee Seeds
 
Before discover the difference between Vietnamese Coffee and foreign coffee, in this Vietnamese Dessert Recipes, I will show you the benefits of coffee.
 
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Process making Dried Coffee Seeds for using.
 
Firstly, Coffee has been known to stimulate the nervous excitement under the influence of caffeine. But has the effect of coffee is less well known. Example is sedative coffee. It has been shown that, if you go to sleep within 15 minutes after drinking coffee, you will have a deeper sleep, because of the better blood circulation in the brain.

In addition, Coffee stimulates people’s concentration and excitement.  You should drink coffee several times a day, each with a small sip, instead of drinking a cup of it to the morning. This is especially appropriate for those who have to work at night, so they will feel easier to stay up as well as get a higher concentration.

 
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Dried Coffee Seeds, before using, they will be ground.
 
Now, these are some popular kinds of Coffee and their Vietnamese Dessert recipes:

If you wanna see more info and photos, feel free to click here :)

Friday 28 September 2012

Grilled Squids with Chili Powder Street Food


Vietnamese Street Food is developing quickly day by day. Today, I will tell you one stunning dish which I really love eating in these days. It is grilled squids with chili powder. Squids with white slices, crispy, spicy which combine together will create an amazing flavor for you.
 
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Squid is a popular seafood which usually can cook to many ways. Now, I can tell you some popular processes here: grilling, stuffing with meat, frying or even steaming. Each way will bring a different flavorfor you.

And one of popular Vietnamese Street Food about Squids, it is Grilled it with Chili powder. It is really easy to cook but can create a stunning flavor for anyone who has a chance to taste it. The process of making grilled squids with chili powder is not difficult.

Thursday 27 September 2012

Husband and Wife cakes (Xu Xe cakes)


Husband and Wife cake (or called Xu Xe cakes) is Traditional Vietnamese food. According to legend, the name of the cake is determined by king Ly Anh Tong. In the legend, when the ​​king Ly Anh Tong fights, his wife bakes a cake to send her love to him. The King ate and feel well, he thought of husband and wife’s love, so he was named this cake is Husband and wife cake. Just because the name, therefore Husband and Wife cake are tied in pairs, represents the steadfast and faithful of husband and wife.
 
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Husband and wife cake is a specialty popular of Traditional Vietnamese food. This cake is in many places, but mostly in Dinh Bang village of Bac Ninh province, where keeping tradition of Husband and wife cake. In many places, people no longer see the yellow of Husband and wife cake anymore, but instead it is red, white square but round, soft, delicious ... and still contained in the notion of faithful message sent to the couple on their wedding days.

Wanna see more info and recipe for cooking it? Feel free to click my website here :):

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Vietnamese Lotus Stem with Pork and Scrimps recipe (Goi Ngo Sen)


One of best popular Vietnamese salad recipes in Southern is Vietnam is Lotus Stem with pork and scrimps. Sliced lotus stem is used usually in South area. This dish is really fresh and delicious in hot days. Moreover, it is really crispy. The process is easy as well. You only need 30 to 1 hour to finish. One point is you need prepare lotus stems 1 day before making dish.
 
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Ingredients

300gr lotus stems
50gr sliced carrots
200gr sugpo prawns
200gr half fat and half lean pork
Persicaria, dried onion, sliced chilies, fried peanuts.
White vinegar, sugar and fish sauce.

Vietnamese Seafood Pho recipe (Pho Hai San)

The most specific dish for Vietnam Pho Recipes is Seafood Pho, which is the traditional food and. When talking about Pho, everyone also think about Chicken Pho, and Beef Pho, but no one think that Phocan combine with seafoodStill using the specific flavor of Vietnamese Pho Recipes, the broth of seafood Pho is processed carefully with chicken bones and seafood, so that the broth have  the natural sweet flavor and good smell.


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With shrimp, clams and squid featured which are three kinds of seafood lovers, along with the traditional Pho, seafood Pho made ​​an innovative dish from the familiar material. Seafood Pho with traditional recipes and exclusive design is also an important part of making one of best Vietnamese Pho recipes

Ingredients

1, 5 liters vegetable stock
1 onion, sliced
500g Pho noodles
2 tablespoon coriander
300g shrimp, cuttle-fish, white fish, basil clams (Optional)

50gr field Mushrooms
2 tablespoon chopped coriander.
Ingredients for Broth Pho: Black caradmom, green cardamom pods, cinnamon, star anise, coriander seeds, sea salt, fennel seeds, cloves

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Vietnamese Chicken Ragout recipe (Ragu Ga)


Today, my mom cooked one of amazing Vietnamese Chicken Recipes, it is Chicken Ragout. It is such delicious in rainy days. I have just come back home from work and enjoy one hot Chicken Ragout bowl with rice. Never betterThe natural sweetness from chicken meat is cooked with carrots, potatoes and green peas will create a spectacular flavor for your meal. Moreover, you can use with bread instead of rice, it is still good.
 
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Ingredients

1 small chicken (it depends on your members in family)
2 -3 carrots
2 potatoes
¼ bowl green peas
1 small pack curry flour
Fish sauce, salt, pepper, sugar, garlic, onion, spring onion
3 teaspoons Ketchup, 2 teaspoons corn flour
Rice/bread (Optional)

Vietnamese Katok Soup with Scrimp and Pork recipe (Canh Rau Ngot)


One of popular Vietnamese Soup recipes is Katok Soup with scrimp and pork. Katuk also known as star gooseberry, or sweet leaf, is a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. It is one of the most popular leaf vegetables in South Asia and Southeast Asia and is notable for high yields and palatability. The shoot tips have been sold as tropical asparagus. In Vietnam, the locals cook it with crab meat, minced pork or dried shrimp to make soup. 
 
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It is a good source of vitamin K and A, especially in freshly picked leaves, as well as high levels of vitamins B and C, protein and minerals. The more mature leaves, the higher nutrient content of the leaves.

Katuk is really fresh and sweet, cooking with scrimp and grinded pork. It is one of good Vietnamese Soup recipes for your family and friends.

Ingredient

-100gr scrimp
-150gr grinded pork
-A bunch of Katuk
-Salt, spring onion, pepper and sugar.

11 Vietnamese Fresh Fruit Smoothie Desserts Street Food


One of popular Vietnamese Street Food is Fruit Smoothie Dessert. Making fruit Smoothie is really easy. Because you just need to pour fruit into the Liquidizer, add a little sugar or milk if you love sweet, finally you will have an amazing fruit smoothie by yourself. Today, I will introduce to you 11 Fruit Smoothie Desserts in Vietnam.

1. Hoang Kim Fruit Smoothie Dessert: Hoang Kim is the mixture of three yellow fruits in Vietnam. They are Mango, Banana and Cantaloupe. Its flavor is really sweet naturally. You do not need to add more sugar or milk to this dessert.
 
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2. Mango with Jackfruit Smoothie Dessert: The strong sweet flavor of mango and jackfruit will be reduced by yoghurt and ice. One mango fruit and some sections of jackfruit can create a delicious dessert for yourself and family.
 
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Vietnamese Sandwich with Meat Balls recipe (Banh Mi Xiu Mai)


There are many Vietnamese sandwich recipes in Vietnam. One of popular recipes is Vietnamese Sandwich with Meat Balls. This dish is the mixture between Eastern and Western. It is born from Vietnamese Culture, including many quintessence and ways to process. Today, I will show you how to make this delicious and popular sandwich.
 
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Ingredients for Meat balls

1kg grinded pork
3 branches of sliced garlic
Fried Onion, Spring Onion (Only use white parts)
1 Cassava Fruit (220gr), sliced it small
1 egg, 2 table spoons sugar, 2/3 table spoons fish sauce, 1 tea spoon salt, 1 tea spoon pepper and olive oil.

Vietnamese Waxy Pumpkin Soup recipe with Pork and Scrimp Stuffing


One of Vietnamese Soup recipes which can help you feels more comfortable successfully is Waxy Pumpkin Soup with Pork and Scrimp stuffing. When you eat this dish, all exhaustions from working and studying will go away. Today, I will give you the recipe to cook this delicious dish.
 
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Ingredients

1 Waxy Pumpkin
200gr grinded pork
100gr scrimp
1 pinch of vermicelli
Salt, sugar, spring onion and pepper.

Monday 24 September 2012

Binh Chau Hot Natural Springs


One more Vietnam popular destinations for tourists is Binh Chau Hot Natural Springs. This is a tourist area with beautiful landscape ecology. It is located in the untouched forest and it has 70 hotspots connecting around one river. The temperature here is between 37oC and 82oC. Its water contain many substances such as silicon, nitrogen, sodium… it is seen as an effective treatment for many patients.
 
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In 1928, Doctor Sally, found out this place and promoted to Dong Duong newspaper and it became a hot place for tourists. However, the war destroyed many place around there, and it turned into an isolated place for a long time. At the beginning of the 21 century, Saigon Tourist Company invested to this placeand made it quickly become one of Vietnam popular destinations.

You wanna see more this place and other beautiful destinations in Vietnam? Feel free to click here: http://www.vietnamesefood.com.vn/vietnam-attractions/vietnam-popular-destinations/binh-chau-hot-natural-springs.html

Pho Cuon (Vietnamese Rolling Pho recipe)


Pho Cuon (Vietnamese Rolling Pho recipe) is delicious and attractive dish for all ages, does not take much time to cook, both the rolls and interesting food, strange taste, used in the family reunion party, farewell the old year and welcome the New Year. It is a new style of Vietnamese Pho Recipes (Noodle Soup)
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Pho Cuon (Vietnamese Rolling Pho) from Vietnamese Pho Recipesconsists of a slightly cooked rice paper shell the same thickness as a Pho noodle. Inside this soft shell is a selection of herbs and greens - mainly cilantro, mustard leaf, and lettuce - and thinly sliced beef that has been cooked with garlic and generous amounts of pepper. It is served cold with a bowl of fish sauce, garlic, carrots, radish, vinegar, boiled water, chili and some sugar for dipping.

Vietnamese Banana with Coconut Milk Sweet Soup recipe (Che Chuoi)


Banana with Coconut Milk sweet soup dish is one of the most nutrient-rich Vietnamese Dessert Recipes. It has a sweet and fleshy flavor.You can eat bananas ripe or boiled bananas daily. But occasionally also it should change a bit. As a tour guide,  this dessert is one of the first item, always 'backpack'  tourists choose as their main dish, not only because of the strange taste but also make the stomach full for a longer time hygiene, because it is easy to cook and very cheap!
 
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If you are interested in Vietnamese Dessert Recipes in general, you should notice this delicious dessert which is a very neutral, sweet and soupy texture.

Ingredients

6 banana hook (banana)
1/2-1/3 cassava (tapioca) cooked, cut square
150g tapioca fiber
1/2-1/3 tapioca beads (small balls)
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup roasted peanuts and sesame.
Sugar, salt

My mom's bday with Vietnamese Street Food


Yesterday was my mom's bday. Bought many food, esp street food to create an amazing party for her. Today, I want to upload some photos and introduce a little about them. Hope you guys will love it. Firstly, we had a spectacular breakfast with Scrimp Wonton Soup and Chestnut Starch Sweet Soup. 

Scrimp Wonton Soup. Using when it's hot cause it can make your new day is better.

Then, enjoy one of delicious dessert. It is called Chestnut Starch Sweet Soup. Really fresh and good for health.

In the afternoon, we bought Vietnamese red dragon fruit and some fried clams with vegetable back home to enjoy. That restaurant was so full. So it did not have place to us to sit. LOL ~ 

Vietnamese Red Fruits. So sweet and really good for skin, esp face. I get some acnec on my face so want to eat this fruit. :)

Fried clams with vegetable. They are snails, blood cockles and mussels

My brother bought this dish on streets while we were waiting to order food. Grilled octopus and scrimps. Using with mustard :p

This is another grilled octopus and quail eggs dish.

In the evening, beside of bithday cake we bought for mom, we also used this dish for dinner. It is called Vietnamese Rice Spaghetti with Scrimps. So yummy. 


If you are planing to go to Vietnam and still does not know clear which place and food should try first. You can comment below this post. I will help you. Moreover, you can follow this http://www.vietnamesefood.com.vn/ to see more info usefully.

Thanks guys, nice day lah ~~~

Grilled Red Snapper with Lemongrass and Chilies (Ca Chi Vang Nuong Xa Ot)


Today, I will show another one of Vietnamese Fish Recipes. It is Grilled Red Snapper with Lemongrass and Chilies. My mother grew up eating Grandma’s grilled red snapper as a child and has now passed this family recipe on to me. Wrapped in banana leaves, the infusion of the lemongrass’s fresh,bright and grassy flavors on the delicate meat of the snapper, over the heat of slowly, fire charming coals is phenomenal.
 

 
Ingredients

1 whole big red snapper
2 cloves garlic
2 stalks fresh lemongrass
1 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 teaspoon sugar, 3 tablespoons peanut oil, 2 chilies

Vietnamese Roasted Chicken (Ga Ro Ti)


This post of Vietnamese Chicken recipes, I will show you another delicious dish, it is Vietnamese Roasted Chicken (Ga Ro Ti). This dish is rather simple for cooking. You can use it with hot rice bowl or dumpling is still amazing. And now, what you need to cook this dish is.

Ingredients

1kg Chicken Meat (I prefer using leg chicken)
4 bulb of purple onion
Coconut Juice (Optional)
Soy sauce, sugar, chili powder, salt, pepper.