HOW TO COOK VIETNAMESE BRAISED FISH.

Braised fish is a popular dish in the southern of Vietnam. This meal is very tasty and easy to cook. Specially, it is very suitable to enjoy on cold days which like the raining season in South Vietnam. Due to this reason, it usually appears in Vietnamese family's meal. 

First, we must prepare:

• 500 g fish fillets (i used coral trout), cut into 3-4 inch pieces.
• Tamarind (like jam but no absorb with surge): 1 tablespoon.
• Chili, fish sauce, purple onion.

Instruction.

•  Cleaning fish- pieces in water added a little salt in 2 times and cleaning again with fresh water. Marinate with 1 teaspoon salt and wait in 30 minutes.
• Put tamarind into small bowl + 2 tablespoons hot water -> mix it well.
• Filter to get the tamarind water. Throw away the seeds.
• Heating the oil (2 – 3 teaspoons) -> fry minced purple onion until it is fragrant.
• Next, adding sliced fish and frying preliminarily.
• Then, putting fish on plate added paper napkin to absorb wasted oil. 
• Next, adding fried fish + chili into clay pot. Adding more fish sauce + sugar ->Cooking in large heat about 5 – 7 minutes.
• Then, pouring tamarind water in step 2 into clay pot. Seasoning with 2 tablespoons sugar and cook with small heat, do not cover the pot if you want to create a fantastic food.
• Continue to cook until the sauce of this food is nearly run out. Season again to suit your flavor and turn off the heat.

Yung Nguyen

VIETNAMESE SNACKS.

 Snacks are the most popular desserts in Vietnam. It can be said that everyone who is Vietnamese absolutely ate traditional snacks one time and completely love them. There are many kind of snacks but today, I just introduce five basic desserts you must eat when you visit Vietnam.

1. Chè (parsha)

From the northern to the southern of Vietnam, each area has special parshas. However, chè basically includes various beans, jelly, coconut milk, fruit and ice.

2.Đậu hủ.

 The dessert is a Vietnamese soy pudding with ginger syrup. Nothing could be greater than a bowl of this dessert when it is raining at the south Vietnam.

3. Bánh bột lọc.

It is a most famous dessert in Hue( middle area).

4. Bánh da lợn

Bánh da lợn ( pig skin cake) is a Vietnamese steamed layer cake made from tapioca starch, rice flour, beans, taro, coconut milk and sugar   

5. Nước mía.

sugarcane juice is one of the most popular drink in Vietnam. After crushing sugar cane in a mill with lemon or lime by a special machine , we can enjoy a delicious juice under hot weather of Vietnam.

Yung Nguyen.

TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE FOOD.

  Viet Nam has three areas: northern, southern and middle area. Due to the differences in the culture each area, speciality food of these regions is very various. If you travel to Viet Nam , you must try them.

In the northern: 

Phở 

 You can find a pho restaurant in anyplace in Viet Nam. They put the hot special soup, which is made by bolding pock bones for hours, into a bowl that is already have rice noodle and some beef or chicken pieces…. We enjoy Pho with vegetable with chili or fish source.

Bánh cuốn:

 Bánh cuốn is made from a thin, wide sheet of steamed fermented rice batter filled with seasoned ground pork, minced wood ear mushroom, and minced shallots.

In the southern:

Bún thịt nướng:

 This meal includes cold rice vermicelli noodle dish topped with grilled pork, fresh herbs and vegetables and a sweet sauce.

Cơm tấm:

Rice, grilled pork chop, vegetable and sweet fish sauce will give you a delicious meal for lunch.

In middle area:

Bún bò Huế: 

Vietnamese soup containing rice vermicelli and beef and this meal is very spicy

Bánh xèo:

‘Bánh xèo’ is Vietnamese style crepe with whole shrimp, thinly sliced pork and bean sprouts. We will eat this kind of food with vegetable and special fish sauce.

Yung Nguyen

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_dishes

 http://www.vnnavi.com/en/dishes/prawn_crepes.html