4 Vietnamese dishes voted the best in the world by CNN

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Orange cake is the latest dish of Vietnam that is included in the top of the best food that diners should try by the American newspaper.

Bread, orange cake, beef noodle soup and filter cake are dishes mentioned by CNN culinary experts on the list and recommended for visitors to try in 2022.

Orange cake

CNN has just released a list of the world’s best donuts and encourages visitors to try it when they have the opportunity to travel.

Orange cake is a representative from Vietnam on this list. The cake has a round shape and orange-like color, so it is named after this fruit. The cake is made from glutinous rice flour, sweet green bean filling, covered with sesame and then fried. In Tri Ton, An Giang , people often eat orange cake with soup cake, instead of a quart.

The cake has a round shape and orange-like color, so it is named after this fruit.  The cake is made from glutinous rice flour, sweet green bean filling, covered with sesame and then fried.  In Tri Ton, An Giang, people often eat orange cake with banh chung, instead of quart.  Photo: Cam Ly
At Tri Ton, diners are often served a bowl of chopped orange cake when served with Banh Chung. Photo: Cam Ly

Bread

In mid-May, CNN also mentioned bread in the list of the best sandwiches in the world. The American newspaper wrote: “A remnant of French colonial cuisine, baguette has been reprocessed by the Vietnamese according to their own taste. You can find them in every corner of the country, on food trucks with prices from 15,000 VND”.

Bread in the top 4 of the best sandwiches in the world
In 2021, SCMP ranked bread on the list of the best breakfasts in Asia. Photo: Spirit

Bread flour

In April, filter cake was the name mentioned when CNN praised Vietnamese cuisine. This is the most famous and typical dish of Hue cuisine. Like the filter cake dishes mentioned above, the filter cake is made from tapioca flour with shrimp paste and a piece of fatty meat to make the cake more fragrant and fat.

Wrapping the cake is usually dong or banana leaves, the aroma of the leaves also affects the flavor of the cake after steaming. When diners peel off the green leaves, it will reveal a soft, transparent cake and can clearly see the shrimp and meat inside.

In April, filter cake continued to be the name mentioned when CNN praised Vietnamese cuisine.  This is the most famous and typical dish of Hue cuisine.  Like the filter cakes mentioned above, the filter cake is made from tapioca starch (tapioca starch) with shrimp paste and a piece of fatty meat to make the cake more fragrant and fat.  Wrapping the cake is usually dong or banana leaves, the aroma of the leaves also affects the flavor of the cake after steaming.  When diners peel off the green leaves, it will reveal a soft, transparent cake and can clearly see the shrimp and meat inside.  Photo: Ngan Duong
There are many variations of filter cake, such as vegetarian, bare, wrapped and fried. Photo: Ngan Duong

Beef noodle soup

Beef noodle soup is the first name mentioned this year in the list of the most delicious dishes with water and is the most popular version of pho, according to the introduction from CNN . Beef noodle soup usually has two main types: cooked beef and rare beef. Cooked beef is pieces of beef that are boiled in broth, and rare beef is raw pieces of meat that are thinly sliced ​​and blanched quickly in boiling water. Then, the seller will arrange those slices of meat on the noodle soup, pour the broth and serve the diners.

At the beginning of the year, CNN put beef noodle soup in the top of the dishes with the most delicious water.  So far, beef noodle soup is still the most popular version of pho, according to an introduction from CNN.  Beef noodle soup usually has two main types: cooked beef and rare beef.  Cooked beef is pieces of beef that are boiled in broth, and rare beef is thinly sliced ​​​​meat, quickly blanched in boiling water.  Then, the seller will arrange those slices of meat on the noodle soup, pour the broth and serve the diners.  Photo: Phuong Anh
In Hanoi, the price of each bowl of beef noodle soup starts from 30,000 VND. Photo: Phuong Anh
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