10 dishes that Vietnamese people like, foreigners are afraid

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According to Lonely Planet, many Vietnamese favorites such as fried duck eggs, fried egg rolls, noodle soup with viscera … are things that tourists see hard to swallow.

Boiled flipped duck eggs can be eaten with coriander, chopped fresh ginger.  Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Flipped duck eggs are eggs with embryos that have developed into shape but have not yet fully formed duck. This is actually a dish with a higher nutritional value than chicken eggs and regular duck and is a popular breakfast dish. Boiled flipped duck eggs will be served with coriander, a little salt with lemon and chili, ginger. If you are too afraid of this big egg, you can try a smaller flipped quail egg, easier to eat when processed into fried tamarind quail, fried coconut … Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Chicken with traditional Chinese medicine is also considered to be nutritious, good for the sick, weakened and tired or pregnant women.  Chicken soup made from Chinese herbs, dried vegetables, fruits such as jujube, goji, and wormwood ... You can use regular chicken to stew with Chinese medicine, but chicken is more nutritious than the standard ingredient. to create a dish.  Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Chicken with traditional Chinese medicine is also considered to be nutritious, good for the sick, weakened and tired or pregnant women. Chicken soup made from Chinese herbs, dried vegetables and fruits such as jujube, goji, and wormwood … You can use regular chicken to stew with Chinese medicine, but chicken is more nutritious than the standard ingredient. to create a dish. Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Chicken feet is such a popular snack and drink that you can find it everywhere.  Both cheap and delicious, the chicken feet are very popular.  Chicken feet can be grilled, boiled with lemongrass ginger, or fried with chili sauce.  In addition, the chicken feet are also served with or cooked in a hotpot.  Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Chicken feet is such a popular snack and drink that you can find it everywhere. Both cheap and delicious, the chicken feet are very popular. Chicken feet can be grilled, boiled with lemongrass ginger, or fried with chili sauce. In addition, the chicken feet are also served with or cooked in hot pot. Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
Blood soup is not easy for tourists to find this dish at the sidewalk restaurants.  Often Vietnamese people will eat soup at home on holidays, special occasions ... This dish is not recommended to try, because if the chef cooks incorrectly, it will lead to the risk of infection.  Photo: Huffington Post
Blood soup is a dish that tourists do not easily find this dish at street stalls. Often Vietnamese people will eat soup at home on holidays, special occasions … This dish is not recommended to try, because if the chef cooks incorrectly, it will lead to the risk of infection. Photo: Huffington Post
The accompanying ingredients when making vermicelli, porridge, and pho in Vietnamese restaurants.  Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
In addition, if you go to the market or walk around the street, you will encounter a lot of goods selling vermicelli, porridge, pho accompanied by animal organs of chickens, ducks, pigs, cows like eggs, hearts, sausages, liver, kidneys. .. so that diners who want to eat more can choose. Because of the variety of offal types used for cooking, these vermicelli, porridge, and pho dishes do not have their own recipe. Photo: Fabienne Fong Yan
When hearing about snails in Vietnam, many foreigners only think of sea snails.  But Vietnamese people can make many dishes from snails, one of which is stuffed snail vermicelli which is very popular.  However, at the street restaurant, visitors will find countless other snails such as boiled snails, fried snails with coconut, fried tamarind.  Some of the common spices that are served with snails are ginger, lemongrass, minced chili, with kumquats and lime leaves.  Photo: Nguyen Chi
When hearing about snails in Vietnam, many foreigners only think of sea snails. But Vietnamese people can make many dishes from snails, one of which is stuffed snail vermicelli which is very popular. However, in the street restaurant, visitors will find countless other snails such as boiled snails, fried snails with coconut, fried tamarind. Some of the common spices topped with snails are ginger, lemongrass, minced chili, with kumquats and lime leaves. Photo: Nguyen Chi
Red jellyfish are a seasonal specialty and not always on the street.  Visitors only find sidewalks selling red jellyfish in Hanoi in the mornings of spring-summer delivery months.  The red jellyfish itself does not taste too special but Vietnamese people like to eat it because of its crispy texture and succulent, often served with herbs and shrimp paste.  Photo: Parsley
Red jellyfish are a seasonal specialty and not always on the street. Visitors only find pavement stalls selling red jellyfish in Hanoi in the morning of the spring-summer delivery months. The red jellyfish itself is not too special, but Vietnamese people like to eat it because of its crispy texture and succulent, often served with herbs and shrimp paste. Photo: Parsley
Fabienne Fong Yan, travel writer of Lonely Planet shared: The remarkable thing about this dish is shrimp paste, a fish sauce that is so strong and salty that Vietnamese people say that if you can eat it, you are like Vietnamese. .  Photo: Huong Chi
Fabienne Fong Yan, travel writer of Lonely Planet shared: The remarkable thing about this dish is shrimp paste, a kind of fish sauce that is so strong and salty that Vietnamese people say “if you can eat, you are like Vietnamese. there”. Photo: Huong Chi
In the south, people are more familiar with weevils, a deep nymph located in the trunk of a coconut tree that grows along the Mekong Delta provinces.  Unlike silkworm pupae, coconut weevils are often pickled with fish sauce and eaten raw.  The way to eat is to remove the tip of the weevil first to prevent it from biting its tongue.  Fabienne Fong Yan confessed that she was scared just hearing it.  Photo: Quynh Tran
In the south, people are more familiar with weevils , a deep nymph located in the trunk of a coconut tree that grows along the Mekong Delta provinces. Unlike silkworm pupae, coconut weevils are often pickled with fish sauce and eaten raw. The way to eat is to remove the tip of the weevil first to prevent it from biting its tongue. Fabienne Fong Yan confessed that she was scared just hearing it. Photo: Quynh Tran
Besides, among the larvae, fried silkworm pupae is a favorite Vietnamese dish because it is rich in protein.  Northern people especially liked the pupa of silkworms that specialized in mulberry to spin silk and fabric.  To prepare the food they fried up and reduced with salt or fish sauce.  Tourists easily see this dish when eating popular rice shops.  Photo: Medium
Besides, among the larvae, fried silkworm pupae is a favorite Vietnamese dish because it is rich in protein. Northern people especially liked the pupa of silkworms that specialized in mulberry to spin silk and fabric. To prepare the food they fried up and reduced with salt or fish sauce. Tourists easily see this dish when eating popular rice shops. Photo: Medium

Another delicious and exotic dish is grilled rice balls . This specialty is made from fried chicken (sea worms), fried eggs, ground pork. Vietnamese people love this dish because it is practically nutritious, especially good for people with bone and joint pain … You can sell it in the markets of fresh, seafood … Video: Great Big Story

Khanh Tran (According to Lonely Planet )

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