Tet
is the biggest and most important holiday to Vietnamese. It is the chance for
family union and enjoy the traditional dishes. In this aticle, Vietwind Travel
would like to introduce you some typical Vietnamese Tet dishes. If you visit
Vietnam on Tet holiday, don’t miss the chance to enjoy and make it for yourself
to wholeheartedly experience the atmosphere of Vietnamese Tet.
Chung cake
1. Chung
cake
Banh Chung" (Chung cake) is a traditional and irreplaceable cake
of Vietnamese people in the Tet Holidays.For the Vietnamese, making
"Banh Chung" is the ideal way to express gratitude to their ancestors
and homeland. In the ancient conception, the Earth is square, hence Chung
cake's shape is square, too, to reflect the Earth shape. Besides, it emphasizes
the important role of rice and nature in water rice civilization.. Main
ingredients are sticky rice, pork meat, and green beans wrapped in a Dong
leaves that will give the rice a green color after boiling. Making Chung cake
is time-consuming and requires the contribution of several people. In
making bánh chưng, all members of the family gather with different tasks, from
washing the dong leaves, mixing the pork with spices, preparing the green beans
and most important wrapping all ingredients in square form . Boiling the cakes
takes about 6-8 hours. When sitting
around the warm fire, all members in the family tell one another the past
stories and are ready for a New Year with wishes of best things. It is always
the typical memory to each Vietnamese about Tet.
2. Vietnamese sausage (Gio Cha)
Vietnamese sausage
Gio Cha is a very traditional fine dish of Vietnamese
cuisine. Although culinary taste differs from the North, the Middle and the
South of Vietnam, people have a common dish on a traditional Tet menu. Gio Cha is a must have item. It is served along with
Chung cake in almost dining table of Vietnamese families
Vietnamese
sausage is made from very simple ingredients but in fact it requires lots of
experience to select the finest ingredients.
3. Vietnamese Pickled onions ( Hanh muoi)
Vietnamese Pickled onions
Picked onions is the dish sour, fresh
and low-calorie to balance among the various dishes on Tet especially Tet in Northern Vietnam . And for many Vietnamese generations, pickled onions have
been a cannot-be-missed dish during Tet holiday. Vietnamese pickled onions also
serve as a natural medicine for better digestion after high protein
meals. The typical aromatic, crispy and sour taste of pickled onions going
with fat jellied meat and tasty sticky rice cake awakens the Tet atmosphere in
every family dinner.
Vietnamese Dried pig skin
It is a kind of soup in Vietnam which is made from dehydrated fried pork skin soaked in
a broth sweetened by dried mushrooms, prawns, and fresh vegetables.
5. Spring roll (Nem ran)
5. Spring roll (Nem ran)
Since long time ago,
Spring roll has been a familiar dish on the menu at all household during Tet.
Its ingredients comprises mince pork, sea crabs, eggs, vermicelli noodles,
mushroom, dried onions, pepper, salt, fish sauce. The mixture is then rolled in
flat rice cakes and fried in a pan until crispy. Spring rolls are eaten hot
with fish sauce is diluted
slightly with a splash of lime juice, sugar, chilies and garlic. Papaya and a
few fresh scented vegetables are added.
Dried Bamboo soup
It is an indispensable dish during the feast for Tet of people in
northern Vietnam. The dish shows the culinary cultural features of Vietnamese
people who often make dishes from materials found in the forests and
mountainous areas.
7. Candied
fruits- Mut
Candied fruits
Mut Tet (Tet jam) is
not a food to serve in a meal during Tet holiday, but more like a snack to
welcome guests in this special period. Mut is always kept in beautiful boxes
and placed at the table in the living room, and it is the main food for the
owners and guests to taste when they’re talking, enjoyed over a cup of tea.
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