Vietnamese Food Recipes

Vietnam is a paradise to eat with many different tastes and specialties. Despite Vietnams diverse landscapes all dishes have a great balance of aroma warmth sweetness sourness and fish-sauce. As with other Asian dishes it is all sweet and salty cold and hot fresh and fermented. The food in southern Vietnam is generally sweet. More palm sugar is used in salty dishes and those popular taffy-like coconut candies with coconut cream. It is very difficult to talk about Vietnamese food without mentioning the French colony which began in the 18th century with missionaries and did not end until 1954. This clearly had a lasting impact on the country people architecture land and flavors. If you travel all over Vietnam you will find two special dishes which are rice and fish sauce. Vietnam is the second largest rice exporter in the world. The Vietnamese National Spice Dip Sauce is made with fish sauce that is slightly diluted with lime juice sugar chili and garlic sprinkles. Vietnamese food makes extensive use of fresh herbs spices and aromatic substances. So lets start with various Vietnamese food dishes.