The Vietnamese cuisine is known for its fresh herbs, soy sauce, rice, fruits and vegetables. The traditional Vietnamese dish is admired for its aroma and health. Almost all Vietnamese dishes come with one or two side dishes made of herbs of lemongrass, mint or long coriander. Apart from that, the meat, the popular ingredients of a Thai dish constitutes fish, chicken, beef and pork. But, what really satisfies the apetite without which a Vietnamese dish is incomplete is rice. Rice is one of the most important portion of the local cuisines.
In course of time, they have developed into a number of varieties and have even turned into sophisticated presentable and pretty authentic Vietnamese dishes. The food lovers will find a heaven here, if they pronounce it as “rice”. A huge range of it, with different varieties, aromas and cooking techniques are available here. The techniques turns unimaginable. They use bamboo sticks, clay bowl (which is broken as a procedure), hot cooking oil, pickles, condiments and a whole lot of mouth watering spices.
So based on personal experiences, choice and popular believes, presenting here is a list of 5 mouth watering, uniquely prepared, most delicious rice dishes from Vietnam.
1.The bamboo rice:
It derives its name from the procedure of cooking that utilizes bamboo to stuff the sticky rice with other ingredients, packed with banana leaves and lightly fried. It is the specialty of the minority mountainous people of Vietnam. You will definitely love the natural essence of the food.
2.The hell rice:
As it is popularly called. But do not go by the name. It is neither too spicy nor uneatable rather, there is some spiritual connection to it. According to locals, the seven colors of on the dish represents the first seven steps of lord Buddha and as far as the taste is concerned you will never forget this delicacy of the city “hue” of Vietnam. Made up of pork bologna, shrimp paste, spring rolls, egg rolls, cucumber and herbs it offers the perfect blend of nutrition and taste.
3. The beaten rice:
Yes! before serving it is really beaten with a small hammer to break the clay pot it is cooked into reveal the nice round shape of the rice inside. Since being cooked in clay, the material considered best for cooking by the Vietnamese, it comes with the mesmerizing aroma of clay blended with the aroma of rice. The rice is served with souse, fish and pickles. You will find it thrice tastier than a normal rice.
4. Ni rice:
Yet another traditional dish from the Vietnamese palate special of its ingredients and mouth watering taste. The rice is mixed with other ingredients and milk and boiled to give the perfect experience of a Vietnamse culinary specialized by the Chang people of the Giang province of Vietnam. Some times, grapes are also added into it to add flavor and taste. It is particularly served with “ca pua” a special dish made of beef. The culinary marvels taken together blends into your mouth to give the taste of milk, the aroma of rice, the nutrition of beef and sweetness of nuts.
5. Coconut rice:
Also known as Ben Tre in Vietnamese. It is a very simple local dish but a real authentic Vietnamese cuisine made up of broken sticky rice cooked on light flame with coconut milk and pinch of salt. So simple yet it is nowhere lesser to its counterparts and is highly popular among farmers to up town Vietnamese.