Traditional Vietnamese New Year Food

Everywhere you look there are banners lanterns and flowers of the brightest reds pinks and yellows you ve ever seen.

Traditional vietnamese new year food. This dish called thịt kho tàu caramelised pork and eggs braised in coconut juice is one of the most popular traditional food served during tet in southern vietnam. Tết lunar new year in vietnam is a special occasion. This type of cake is the spirit of the vietnamese new year days expressing the essence of the heaven and the earth through the skillful hands of humans.

One of the most traditional special foods for the lunar new year or tet is banh chung or sticky rice cake. Gio cha vietnamese ham sausage is another traditional food in tet holiday and usually served with xoi sticky rice and banh chung. Boiled chicken the traditional food in tet 7.

Banh chung is made of sticky rice pork meat and green bean which every ingredient is wrapped inside a special leaf called dong. Nem ran or cha gio kinds of vietnamese spring roll. The food should be topped with the vietnamese coriander and eaten with the sauce including salt pepper and lemon juice.

Vietnamese people prepare a wide variety of food for tet the vietnamese lunar new year. The yellow boiled and skin perfect chicken represents the good beginning of the new year. A vietnamese idiom said.

Making the banh chung requires care and precision in every step. Gio is different from cha since gio is boiled and cha is deep fried. Making banh chung requires care and precision in every step.

Hungry on the father s death anniversary full on three new year days. Traditional special foods one of the most traditional special foods fortet is banh chung or sticky rice cake. But this celebration isn t just for the eyes it s also for the stomach.