If there is a word to talk about Vietnamese food, it can only be the “unpredictable variety”. Each region from North to South has some things to be proud of. In other way the Vietnam food is under the influence of Chinese and French culture during long time created more to the diversity of gastronomy. It is difficult to compare the specific features of food from each region since there is more than a origin of food in Vietnam. While, Hanoi supplies authentic and original cuisine experience, Hue haughty about its royalty and Ho Chi Minh City is proud that it is the most various place when people come for eating. You will have to discover it yourself and decide which you like the most?
Vietnam peasants used to have a lot of free time after the busy crop time past, and preparing some nosh to eat is a certain result of the circumstance. Sweet potato is a present for this case. It is considered the most popular thing in the village. You must know sweet potato, cassava and peanuts are the most popular Vietnamese snack – of course without salt or sugar added.
And if you have enough brave, there are million things to try in Vietnam. The best place to taste Vietnamese snacks is walking along street. You can try to taste “trung vit lon”_its mean fertilized egg at 4pm, this street food may scare you, but it is one of the most popular snacks here and is considered extremely nutritious.
Besides diversity of many kind of noodle, made from rice cakes, soups you may be to try a bowl of pig raw blood soups made from the raw blood of pig, duck, goat….
At present, you visit Vietnam, there many service to support you to discover Vietnam food easterly such as: vietnam food tours, food walking tour, Vietnam cooking class….
And in this post, I will show you about Hanoi street food in detail to make sure you understand clearly the various street food in a region of Vietnam, other region also has plenty of foods like that with special features of this region.
Starting to walking tour at Hanoi biggest market, Dong Xuan. Along the around of the market, there are a lot of street hawkers selling variety of goods from live seafood to fruits and spices. The seller (they can speak English fluently) will give you an insight into the complications and traditions of Vietnamese food and hanoi traditional food culture including details on material and historical dishes. At here, you can try to taste fruits and sampling snack from a street cart and see the various and colorful dishes. That can make you can breathe because of too many foods, it maybe is out of your mind.
The next is walking through the bustling streets that make to Hanoi’s Old Quarter where is near Dong Xuan market, so you can go by foot, you can see many burden street on streets you pass. You can see how they do to make this dishes, if you want you can offer to try do yourself. When you come here, you should try to taste: nem chua nuong, trung oc heo,ha cao, mien luon,chao long, nom bo kho, banh troi tau,Trang tien ice cream, banh gio,…. Continuing to go into, you will discover the life here, local people characteristic from the house, since, all of them creative a 1000 years city with special traditions. I call it as Hanoi’s style.