Nom hoa chuoi (Banana blossom salad) once a popular dish in rural parts of the country, is now a specialty of Viet Nam cuisine.
In Ha Noi, pancakes have become a cheap and tasty breakfast made and sold at stands. Although there are so many kinds of pancakes, Thanh Tri pancakes remain the most popular ones.
Ha Noi is famous for its speciality green rice flake cakes which are sold in Hang Than street. Hang Than is just among more than 20 culinary streets in Ha Noi which has about 70 streets with their first name of Hang.
In Viet Nam, winged yam is a very familiar food, and the soup cooked from winged yam is definitely a favorable dish with most Vietnamese people.
Rice balls sweet soup (or 'che troi nuoc' in Vietnamese) is one of popular traditional Vietnamese food consisting of balls made from green bean paste wrapped in a shell made of glutinous rice flour.
When summer comes with rain, the Truong Son Mountain Range area in the nation’s central region becomes home to different species of frog and toad.
The excellent combination of the fragrant and glutinous rice seeds with the greasy taste of cassava as well as fried onion has created such an attractive snack.
In the cold of the northern upland, tourists to market sessions of ethnic minority communities in Bac Ha District, Lao Cai Province may be attracted to hot round cakes in green, black and white.
Thua Thien-Hue Province is known for a variety of delicious cakes. Among those cakes is banh goi, a type of dumpling wrapped in dong (phrynium placentarium) leaves. This traditional cake has distinctive flavors of Hue’s authentic cuisine.
Different from other kinds of glutinous rice cake, Hai Duong’s Long cake has a light flavor, sweet-smelling, buttery and hot taste of puffed glutinous rice, ginger, roasted peanuts and sugar.
Insects including crickets, worms and locusts have always been favorite ingredients in the cuisine of Muong people in Thanh Hoa province. When the weather gets cold and wet, it is a perfect time for Muong people to start their favorite 'sau mang' (bamboo worms) collecting.
Nestled between a mountain and a river, the mountainous commune of Thung Nai in Hoa Binh Province’s Cao Phong District draws a large number of tourists every year for its gorgeous scenery, tranquility and food specialties, particularly grilled fish.