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Yummy Seafood Soup! - Ho Chi Minh City
Yummy Seafood Soup!
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Eat & Drink like the locals: Chao Tom- Steam Prawns in Cane Stick
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  • Chao Tom - Shrimp And Sugar Cane Rolls Ingredients: 1 lb Shrimp, shelled and deveined mam) 1 tb Vietnamese fish sauce (nuoc 1 tb Toasted rice powder 1/4 ts Black pepper 2 ts Sugar 2 Shallots 2 Garlic cloves 2 ts Salt 2 tb Ice water but it is better if you just buy it since it is also available at street stalls and it is a very excellent food! it costs 20,000 VND at street stalls and 40,000 VND at pricey restaurants!

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Canh Do Bien-Sea Food Soup!
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  • this south vietnamese sour and slightly spicy soup is execellent and is available here at pricey vietnamese restaurants like Vietnam House Restaurant. Prive is 50,000 VND an order.

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Fresh Springrolls wrapped with Rice Paper!
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  • Love the fresh spring roll with dipping sauce! - Ho Chi Minh City
    Love the fresh spring roll
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    (Goi Cuon) or fresh spring rolls are cheap and available everywhere, it cost 2000-10,000 VND depending on the area you buy it. Ingredients: 1 Large Cucumber (slice into thin 3 inch long, 1/4 inch wide) 3 tbsp Peanut butter (thinned with 1 tbsps of hot water) 2 cloves Garlic (minced) 8 oz Prawns (devined & cooked) 1 package dried rice vermicelli (rice noodle) 1 head leaf lettuce (cut 1/4 inch wide cross leaf) 12 mint sprigs 12 cilantro sprigs 8 oz fresh bean sprouts (rinsed and drained) 1 pack 10" Rice spring roll sheets 1/2 cup roasted peanuts (crushed

    Preparation: 1. Cook rice vermicelli in pan with 4 qtz of boiling water for 5 minutes. Add 1/4 cup of cooking oil to pan and mix for 30 seconds. Drain rinse vermicelli from pan and immerse in cold water. Let vermicelli cool, then drain. 2. One at a time, immerse a rice sheet in a bowl the warm water to soften the sheets for handling. Work with only 4 sheets at a time. Quickly remove it and spread flat on a dry towel. Do not let the sheets touch each other. 2. Place lettuce, bean sprouts, vermicelli, mints and cilantro sprigs, prawns onto the rice softened rice paper (quantity as desire but not too much because it will be hard to wrap). 3. Fold up the bottom third of the rice paper. Press filling together tight. Fold one side of the paper over the filling, then the other side. Roll from bottom to top to completely enclose the filling. Continue until all of the filling is used. 4. Serve with peanut sauce mixed with crushed roasted peanuts or Nuoc Cham.

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Rice Flour with Shrimp Crackers
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  • Similar to philppine Okoy! - Ho Chi Minh City
    Similar to philppine Okoy!
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    Ben Tranh or Rice paper is not only used for spring rolls, they also add other flavors and spices and ingredients to it to make for a tasty snack like what you see in the pictures. Assorted Rice paper crispies and crackers which costs 10,000 VND to 25,000 VND for small to big sizes. Try it, it is really crispy and delicious!

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Vietnamese Grilled Dried Bananas (Chuoi nuong)
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  • Women Selling Bananas to be grilled! - Ho Chi Minh City
    Women Selling Bananas to be
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    Chuoi nuong (Raw grilled finger banana) 1,000VND and Chuoi nep nuong (Grilled finger banana wrapped in rice and banana leaf) 2-3000VND and are dee licious! they are available everywhere in Sai Gon!

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Vietnamese Medicinal Wine!
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  • The local liquor, traditional tonic or medicinal wine can be a concoction of awk rice, corn, herbs, cassava or fruit. Despite the low price, the local liquors are often nothing to turn your nose up at either. For beginners, Vietnamese liquor can be broken into three general categories: quoc lui of the Hong (Red) River Delta; ruou can in the Northwest and Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and ruou de (rice wine) in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta. This is one of the Ruou de or rice wine or even called medicinal wine. A 500 ml of the wine cost 40,000 VND and is usually drank with honey and lime as chasers.

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Cua Lot- Deep Fried Sof Shelled Crab!
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  • I Love Soft Shelled Crabs! - Ho Chi Minh City
    I Love Soft Shelled Crabs!
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    Cua Lot is vietnamese deep fried soft-shelled crab served with a sweet vinegar vinaigrette sauce and is an appetizer but can also be as a main course since it is crunchy! they only gathing crabs when molting season starts wherein the crabs lose their hard shell anf grow new ones and it takes 4 days for it to hardened hence it is during this time that these crabs are gathered. it cost 40,000 VND an order at nightmarkets and hawker centers and 75,000 VND at pricey restaurants like Vietnam House Restaurant.

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Go Hai San- Seafood Salad!
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  • It is a dried rice noodle with snow crab, shrimp, scallops, and bean sprouts and is an appetizer or a snack in south vietnam. Also a must try since it is really good! price is 35,000 VND an Order!

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: CoConut Candy (Kẹo Dừa)
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    Available in Different
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    Kẹo Dừa-Coconut Candy. Bến Tre means Bamboo Port. It is a small province of Vietnam, located in the Mekong Delta. Bến Tre is famous of its coconuts and coconut candy Kẹo Dừa (Coconut Candy) is made by: Fresh grated coconut is squeezed to obtain coconut milk. Coconut milk is then mixed with sugar and boiled until the soft crack stage. The candy is then cooled until cut into thin strips. The thin pieces are then cut into smaller pieces of candy. Easier said then done. The candy hardens when it cools, thus the candy must be cut while still warm. Being warm means it's extremely sticky which requires a very shape knife to cut. Through the long cooking process the coconut milk converts into oil which helps give the candy a nice shine and nutty flavor. There are many versions of Kẹo Dừa, some places add durian, others add pandan. However, i would suggest you buy it in Saigon Supermarkets than in the province since they have a 100% Markup! it cost 20,000 VND for a 200 gram pack of coconut candy there while in Saigon supermarkets, a 450 gram pack costs only 11,800 VND!

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    Eat & Drink like the locals: Vietnamese Fried Spring Roll Paper! (Banh Tra)
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  • Another version of Fried Spring Roll Paper, costs 5,000 VND for Medium and 10,000 VND for large, available in supermarkets.

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