Vietnamese Cuisine

Traveling to Vietnam be ready to try the extraordinary and exotic dishes, because Vietnamese cuisine is based on sea food and tropical fruits. Every part of the country: the North, the Center and the South has their own culinary traditions. Northern regions are famous for noodle soups, meat and seafood stir-fries, southern areas are known for more spicy food. For the first course Vietnamese usually prefer rice or noodles with soup. The dishes are usually not spicy. Very often they are accompanied with chili sauce, fish sauce and soy sauce. The most popular specialties of Vietnam are Nem (spring rolls) and Pho (national soup). Pho is usually eaten for breakfast. It is a large bowl of rice noodles flavored with sliced beef or chicken and fragrant broth. Sea-products are main ingredients of Vietnamese cuisine. Crabs prawns, crayfish and squid are in plentiful supply, not to mention hundreds of varieties of fish.