The original point of Vietnamese cuisine is always rice. That simple ingredient is cooked in different styles to create fine dishes, from the aromatic bamboo-tube rice of the Northwest to the rice with mussel of Hue’s people or clay pot rice and rice with chicken belly of Southern people.
Banh Trang Phoi Suong
Distinctive bamboo-tube rice
Bamboo-tube rice is an indispensable dish in the daily life of mountainous people in Northwestern Vietnam. Each mountainous region features different flavors of bamboo-tube rice. The glutinous rice, which is often harvested from September to October lunar month, is grilled in bamboo tubes. In this season, the rice is viscous and aromatic.
Vietnamese rice
Bamboo-tube rice is often served with grilled chicken or bamboo-tube beef and sesame and salt. Travel to Northwestern Vietnam in the cold ambiance in the beginning of winter to sit by the campfire, sip the wine drunk out of a jar through pipes and enjoy the grilled bamboo-tube rice. In Hanoi, you can also try this dish when remembering the coldness of the mountainous area.
Com Lam Pac Bo
- 437 Au Co, Tay Ho, Hanoi
- Tel: 04. 3718 2017
Plain rice with mussel
Plain rice with mussel
Mussel has been a well-known dish of Hue’s people. Rice with mussel is as a mixed dish with various but simple ingredients(Vietnamese rice . Delicious rice is stirred with small mussels (mussel in Con Hen is the most delicious) and served with raw vegetables such as salad, basil, banana flower, sour star-fruit, knotweed, fried peanut, some slices of fried pork skin, onion and Hue’s shrimp paste. All are served as a cool dish, except for hot mussel broth.
Com Hen Restaurant
- 2 Truong Dinh, Hue
Original clay-pot rice
In the past, when products made of cast iron, aluminum and stainless steel were considered as luxurious things in meals, Vietnamese people in the Mekong River Delta often used clay pots. Therefore, clay-pot rice was a popular dish of ancient people.
Legend has it that when being served for kings of the Nguyen dynasty, the clay pot was broken after the Kings finished their meals in order not to reuse.
Com Nieu Sai Gon
- 59 Ho Xuan Huong, Ward 6, Dist. 3, HCMC
- Tel: (08) 3930 2888
Com nieu Saigon
Rice with chicken in Hoi An
Known as a popular dish of the ancient town, Hoi An’s rice with chicken has been a favorite dish of guests here with viscous rice mixed in the saffron water. Chicken of this dish must be soft and aromatic with thin skin.
Com Ga Ba Buoi
- 22 Phan Chu Trinh, Hoi An City
Com Ga Hoi An
- 1A Cua Dong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
- Tel: 04. 3923 3728.
Rice wich chicken
