The most common Vietnamese word for food has the basic meaning of "cooked rice" (com). Vietnamese has many words for rice, depending on whether it is husked or unhusked, cooked or uncooked, plain white rice or sticky (glutinous) rice. At...

Vietnamese cuisine (cuisine translates to ẩm thực in Vietnamese: ẩm: drink and thực: food) is known for its common use of fish sauce, soy sauce and hoisin sauce. Vietnamese recipes use many vegetables, herbs and spices, including lemon grass,...

Home cooking predominates in Vietnam, particularly in the thousands of rural villages. There is no such thing as home-meal replacement for the nation's dense population of 75 million people. Yet roadside stalls and restaurants with no names abound. Roadside meals average 1...

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