In the culinary culture of the Vietnamese people have a lot of processing, performance, expressed differently, to generalize into nine featured below.
1. Harmonious diversity
Vietnamese easy to acquire food culture of other nationalities, other regions and then make them become their. This is also the culinary highlights of the Vietnamese food culture from north to south.
2. Low fat
Vietnamese dishes are mainly made from vegetables, fruits, tubers should be low in fat, do not take a lot of meat like European, American…, and does not use much oil as of Chinese dishes.
3. Charming flavor
When Vietnamese food processing often use fish sauce to taste, combined with a lot of other spices … so very charming dishes. Each different item corresponding sauces suit taste.
4. Synthesis of many substances
Vietnamese dishes often include many kinds of food such as meat, shrimp, crab with vegetables, beans, rice. There is also a combination of sour, spicy, salty, sweet, fleshy fat …
5. Tasty and healthy
The phrase “Tasty and healthy” was packed delicious Vietnamese food spirit. Vietnamese food is a combination of items, taste to create a separate points. Cool food like duck, snails usually made with warm spices such as ginger, laksa leaves … It is very interesting to balance yin and yang, the only see in Vietnamese people …
6. Using chopsticks
Pick up is an art, pick so smart, tight do not let fall … chopsticks are at every meal with the family, even when turned baking, the Vietnamese also use a fork to spear food less as foreign people.
7. Community
Community is clearly in Vietnamese food culture, meals ever bowl of sauce put together, or draw out each small bowl from the common bowl of it.
8. Hospitality
Before each meal Vietnamese habit invited that express social, emotional, hospitality, respect other people concern …
9. Moved into wheels
Vietnamese people have the habit of prepared dish, clean dishes in a meal at the same time, not like western foods to eat new dishes out.
