Vietnam

🇻🇳Central Highlands, Vietnam

Cơm lam (Bamboo Cooked Sticky Rice)

Cơm lam

Com lam, sticky rice cooked inside a bamboo tube over fire, is a named highland dish and a distinct technique.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Cơm rượu (Vietnamese Rice Wine Dessert)

Cơm rượu

Com ruou, glutinous rice fermented into sweet boozy balls and eaten at Tet Doan Ngo, is a named seasonal dish.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Cốm (Green Sticky Rice)

Cốm

Cốm is young green glutinous rice pounded flat, wrapped in lotus leaf, and sold in Hanoi during the short autumn harvest.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Dưa hành (Pickled shallots)

Dưa hành

Dua hanh, pickled shallots eaten with banh chung at Tet, is a named preserve with a fixed festival pairing.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Goi Cuon

Gỏi cuốn

Fresh spring rolls with shrimp, pork, rice vermicelli, and herbs wrapped in translucent rice paper, served with peanut hoisin sauce.

🇻🇳Phú Quốc, Vietnam

Gỏi cá trích (Vietnamese Raw Herring Salad)

Gỏi cá trích

Goi ca trich, raw herring cured and rolled with coconut and herbs in rice paper, is the defining dish of Phu Quoc and a named regional speciality.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Gỏi ngó sen (Vietnamese Lotus Root Salad)

Gỏi ngó sen

Goi ngo sen, the lotus-stem salad with prawn and pork, is a named Vietnamese dish built on an ingredient found nowhere else in the file.

🇰🇭Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Hu Tieu Nam Vang

Hủ tiếu Nam Vang

Southern Vietnamese noodle soup with pork, shrimp, liver, quail eggs, and garlic chives in a clear pork bone broth, garnished with crispy garlic.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Hue Savory Pancake

Bánh khoái

Bánh khoái is Hue's small, thick, crisp-edged pancake filled with shrimp, pork, and bean sprouts, served with herbs and Hue's rich sesame-peanut dipping sauce.

🇻🇳Mỹ Tho, Vietnam

Hủ tiếu Mỹ Tho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Pork and Shrimp)

Hủ tiếu Mỹ Tho

Hủ tiếu is a clear southern Vietnamese noodle soup with pork, shrimp, herbs, and rice noodles.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Khau nhuc (Vietnamese Marinated Roasted Pork Loin)

Khâu nhục

Khau nhuc, pork belly steamed for hours over taro with fermented bean curd, is a named northern-highland ceremonial dish of the Tay and Nung.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Kẹo dừa (Keo Dua Coconut Candy)

Kẹo dừa

Keo dua, the Ben Tre coconut candy wrapped in edible rice paper and bought by the box, is a named regional product.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lẩu cá linh bông điên điển (Ca Linh Fish and River Hemp Flower Hot Pot)

Lẩu cá linh bông điên điển

Lau ca linh bong dien dien, the hotpot of linh fish and sesbania flowers made only during the Mekong flood season, is a named dish with one of the hardest seasonal windows in the file.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lẩu mắm Châu Đốc (Fermented Fish Hot Pot)

Lẩu mắm Châu Đốc

Lau mam Chau Doc, the fermented-fish hotpot with dozens of raw vegetables, is a named regional institution.

🇻🇳Central Vietnam, Vietnam

Mi Quang

Mì Quảng

Turmeric-yellow rice noodles from Quang Nam with shrimp, pork, herbs, peanuts, and a small amount of rich broth, topped with sesame rice crackers.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Mien Ga

Miến gà

A chicken and glass-noodle soup, light and restorative.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Miến lươn (Cellophane Noodles with Eel)

Miến lươn

Mien luon, glass noodles with crisp-fried eel, is a named northern dish with dedicated shops in Hanoi and Nghe An.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Mè xửng

Me xung, the chewy Hue sesame-peanut candy sold in flat boxes as the city's standard gift, is a named regional confection.

🇻🇳Central Vietnam, Vietnam

Mắm nêm

A pungent fermented anchovy sauce, used as a dip in central Vietnam.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Mắm tôm chua (Vietnamese Fermented Shrimp)

Mắm tôm chua

Mam tom chua, Hue's sour fermented whole shrimp eaten with pork and herbs, is a named regional preserve.

🇻🇳Phú Quốc, Vietnam

Mực một nắng (Vietnamese Sun-Dried Squid)

Mực một nắng

Muc mot nang ("one-sun squid"), squid dried for a single day then grilled and torn, is a named coastal product bought as itself.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Nem chua (Cured Fermented Beef or Pork)

Nem chua

Nem chua, raw pork cured with garlic and chilli in a banana-leaf packet, is one of Vietnam's most distinctive foods.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Nem Lui

Nem lụi

Hue's grilled lemongrass pork skewers served with rice paper, herbs, and a rich dipping sauce.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Nem Nuong

Nem nướng

Grilled pork sausages seasoned with garlic and fish sauce, skewered and char-grilled, served with rice paper, herbs, and dipping sauce.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Nộm hoa chuối (Banana Blossom Salad)

Nộm hoa chuối

Nom hoa chuoi, banana-blossom salad with chicken or pork and peanuts, is a named Vietnamese dish built on an ingredient with no other representation.

🇻🇳Northwest Vietnam, Vietnam

Pa pỉnh tộp (Grilled Freshwater Mountain Fish)

Pa pỉnh tộp

Pa pinh top, river fish butterflied, stuffed with mac khen pepper and herbs and grilled in a bamboo clamp, is a named Thai-ethnic dish of the northwest.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Pho Bo

Phở bò

Vietnamese beef noodle soup with flat rice noodles in a clear, slowly simmered bone broth, topped with thinly sliced beef, herbs, and lime.

🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Phá lấu (Vietnamese Offal Stew)

Phá lấu

Pha lau, the five-spice offal stew ladled from street carts with bread, is a named Saigon street dish.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Phú Quốc Fish Sauce

Nước mắm Phú Quốc

A protected-origin Vietnamese fish sauce made on Phú Quốc from salted fish and maturation, sold as a named bottled product rather than a generic fish sauce category.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Phú Quốc Pepper

Tiêu Phú Quốc

Phu Quoc pepper is a GI product bought as itself and picked on farm visits.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Phở chua (Sour Pho)

Phở chua

A rare sour pho from Lạng Sơn, with cold noodles, fermented sauce and herbs.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Phở cuốn (Pho Rolls)

Phở cuốn

Pho cuon, sheets of fresh pho noodle wrapped around grilled beef and herbs, is a named Hanoi dish invented on Ngu Xa street and is not a pho permutation.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Pâté chaud

Bánh patê sô

Pate chaud, the Vietnamese-French puff pastry with pork pate sold from bakeries beside banh mi, is a named local adaptation.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Quẩy (Vietnamese Crullers)

Quẩy

Quay, the Vietnamese fried cruller dunked into pho and chao, is a named item with a fixed role at the table.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Rau câu (Coconut Jelly)

Rau câu

Rau cau, the layered agar jelly often set in a coconut, is a named Vietnamese dessert with a distinctive form.

🇻🇳Central Highlands, Vietnam

Rượu cần

Ruou can, the communal jar wine drunk through long bamboo straws at highland ceremonies, is a named drink and a distinctive ritual.