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Just in VIETNAM
BANH MI
Banh mi is a unique French-Vietnamese sandwich that’s great for when you’re in need of a quick meal. Priced between VND 10,000 and VND 15,000, it consists of a toasted baguette sandwich, pickled vegetables, pate, butter, soy sauce, cilantro, chillies, and hot peppers. Most banh mi sellers also offer a wide range of meat fillings, including heo quay (roasted pork belly), trung op la (fried egg), thit nuong (grilled pork loin), cha ca (fried fish with turmeric and dill), cha lua (boiled sausages), xa xiu (Chinese barbecued pork), and thit ga (poached chicken).
Banh mi Huynh Hoa
26, Le Thi Rieng, P.Ben Thanh, Q.1, Tp.HCM
BANH XEO
Similar to a crepe or pancake, banh xeo is made of rice flour, coconut milk, and turmeric, which you can fill it with vermicelli noodles, chicken, pork or beef slices, shrimps, sliced onions, beansprouts, and mushrooms. Most roadside stalls, local markets, and restaurants sell a platter of banh xeo for about VND 15,000 to VND 25,000, which usually comes with a side of fresh lettuce or rice papers. Eat like a local by wrapping your banh xeo in mustard leaf, lettuce leaves or rice papers together with nem lui (lemongrass pork skewers), mint leaves, basil, before dipping in fermented peanut sauce.
274, Ngyuen Van Giau, P.BInh Thanh, TP.HCM
Banh Chung
Stuffed sticky rice cake” is one the most traditional special foods for the lunar new year in Viet Nam. It is made of sticky rice, pork and green bean, all ingredients are wrapped inside a special leaf which calls Lá Dong. The rice and green bean have to be soaked in water for a day. The pork is usually seasoned with pepper & salt for several hours. Banh Chung is boiled for 6 or 8 hours. Nowadays, families in villages still maintain making stuffed sticky rice cake before the lunar New Year but people in the cities do not. They don’t have time to make it and usually go to shops to buy it
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BanhTet
While Vietnamese in the North have square - shape sticky rice cake (Chung Cake), in the Central and the South, banh Tet is the traditional one. Tet Cake is wrapped in banana leaves in the shape of a long cylinder, which is cut into small and beautiful slices for eating. Beside the typical salted taste (which is made from glutinous rice, crushed green bean and pork, similar to Chung Cake), the Southerners creates the sweet one with banana and green bean stuffed.