Many people believe that shrimp paste, a typical dipping sauce of Northern Vietnamese villages, is the best sauce to pair with tofu. But since I was a child, I have always preferred my tofu to be dipped in fermented soybean paste,…
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Tết Nguyên Đán or simply Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) is the most festive time of year in Vietnam as well as the busiest due to the amount of preparation required. You can easily get a sense Tet’s intense yet joyful atmosphere…
As in other Southeast Asian countries, the amazing diversity of regional cuisines in Vietnam depend greatly on the different flavours used in each location. Vietnamese cooks use a lot of fresh spices, herbs and locally grown vegetables. As the…
You may have wandered around Saigon, passing by stores or pushcart stalls selling plastic containers filled with multi-coloured beans, nuts, and other things you can’t really identify at first glance. Some of them look soupy, some look like pudding; some…
The history of Vietnam is as complex as it is fascinating. Travel back in time with us to the days of peasants and emperors, colonisation and revolutions to discover the lineage of some of Vietnam’s most essential dishes. Here’s how phở , bánh xèo and cà…
Desserts in Vietnam are generally different than most western desserts. Granted, you will find the occasional French baked item taken straight from the patisserie and made Vietnamese here. However, one set of desserts is inherently Vietnamese: chè. There’s nothing more enjoyable on…
Have you ever wondered what Vietnamese cuisine is like outside of Vietnam? There have been numerous articles about Vietnamese food in faraway lands, such as Australia and the United States, thanks to the large Vietnamese diaspora in these places. However,…
Which image first comes to mind when you think of Vietnamese phở? A hot bowl of rice noodles in beef-bone broth, served with various additives that differ depending on geographical origin? Well, there are far more wonderful dishes made…
Craft beer in Saigon is only a few years old, with Platinum and Pasteur Street among the pioneers in 2014. But these are Western-style lagers made by foreigners. Sometimes the ingredients are even imported. The owners of craft brewery Tê Tê reportedly import 95 percent of…
In April, a parliamentary working group was ready to publish a damning report on the health effects of unsafe food. The most serious accusation was not the food industry’s role in causing 26,500 hospitalisations nor its purported role in…