Vietnamese New Year Food
This sticky rice is called xôi gấc.
Vietnamese new year food. Year after year during tet holiday southern families enjoy this tet cake the central dish of the southern tet celebration. To make this food they use rice papers soaked in water until becoming soft wrap the mixture of pork peeled shrimp or crab meat mushrooms wood ear onions bean sprouts eggs pepper salt spices then fry them until they become gold in a hot pan with cooking oil. This shows how important food and cuisine is to vietnamese new year.
Tết nguyên đán or simply tet vietnamese lunar new year is the most festive time of year in vietnam as well as the busiest due to the amount of preparation required. In vietnam ăn tết eat tet is understood as to celebrate tet. A vietnamese idiom said.
Boiled chicken the traditional food in tet. Legend has it that these cakes originated during the hong bang dynasty thousands of years ago when a dying emperor had a cook off to choose which of his 21 sons would inherit his throne. Vietnamese new year hue festival vietnam visa culture living best of vietnam vietnamese culture moving to vietnam study work money matters information vietnam a z news events travel videos photo gallery food restaurants recipes cuisines restaurants food culture.
Vietnamese people make gio from lean meat added fish sauce and covered by leaves then boiled for hours. In the vietnamese language to celebrate tết is to ăn tết literally meaning eat tết showing the importance of food in its celebration. Some of the food is also eaten year round while other dishes are only eaten during tết.
Vietnamese square sticky rice cake banh chung and vietnamese tube sticky rice cake banh tet ask anybody in vietnam which food comes to their mind first when talking about tet. This simple to make dish is one of the most popular vietnamese new year food dishes which are enjoyed especially in the north region in vietnam. Gio cha vietnamese ham sausage is another traditional food in tet holiday and usually served with xoi sticky rice and banh chung.
The yellow boiled and skin perfect chicken represents the good beginning of the new year. There are many varieties but the most popular is a banana leaf brick filled with glutinous rice cooked mung beans and ground meat. Bánh tét tet cake or vietnamese round glutinous rice cake if bánh chưng is an indispensable part of northerner s tet bánh tét plays the same vital role in central and south vietnam.