VN Vietnames Cuisine

Food and eating habit are one of criterions to value anation’s culture, life as well as living standard. To some people,value a dish isn’t simple to measure the nutritious level, to see thedecoration or to know its taste but to find out the relation betweenfood itself and natural characters of the place where people live.

In general, there is something incommon and differences between Vietnamese cuisine in the North, theSouth and also in the Middle. Materials, spices, way of cooking, aswell as serving are dominant characters which flexibly changed fromplace to place in this country.

Vietnamese food has long been appreciated in France, yet, it was the U.S residents whodiscovered its fine features. Vietnamese chefs like to refer to theircooking as "the nouvelle cuisine of Asia." Indeed, with the heavyreliance on rice, wheat and legumes, abundance of fresh herbs andvegetables, minimal use of oil as well as treatment of meat as acondiment rather than a main course, Vietnamese food has to be amongthe healthiest on the planet.