Vietnamese food

It’s aight.

I can't eat it. It's all got fish sauce in it and I can't eat seafood.

I think they have the best egg rolls of all the Asian cuisines.

[quote]They should just put the Oscars in the swag bags and hand them out first-come-first-serve.

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Love it! Delicate and intricate flavours. (I know that sounds wanky but yeah). Unfortunately there are few Viet restaurants offering vegetarian dishes on their menus so I haven't had Vietnamese food for ages.

I love the bun (however you spell it).. the cold noodle dish served with some sort of grilled meat, herbs and an eggroll

Yes---yes I do love it OP.

I love pho (the beef and rice noodle soup).

What is that in the OP picture? Looks yummy.

Of course. I am Vietnamese. I would eat it every day if I could.

I LOVE LOVE Vietnamese food. Pho is simply the best, period.

Adore it. Vermicelli bowls, hot and sour soup, pho, cold shaved beef, curry coconut chicken, lemongrass beef, bok choy, banh mi sandwiches. I could eat it twice a week.

How exactly does it differ from Chinese food? r12, I thought hot & sour soup was Chinese?

r13 - there is a hot and sour soup in Vietnamese cuisine as well (different than pho). Full of fresh vegetables and herbs, and usually a protein (chicken is the most common). Often has chunks of pineapple and tomato in it. Amazingly good.

Vietnamese food is delicious.

If you don't like, you're a racist!

If you do like it, that's cultural appropriation!

Vietnamese food is phenomenally good. It's practically impossible to have a bad meal in Vietnam.

R22, actually the most common protein for Vietnamese hot and sour soup is fish, primarily catfish. If you're familiar with the soup served with chicken--I wonder if there was some Chinese influence? My background is Chinese-Vietnamese and my mom would cook the soup with chicken. But in restaurants and many Vietnamese homes, it's catfish. I've never seen it in a restaurant served with chicken.

I used to follow my mom's recipe but now prefer it with catfish or shrimp.

I bet they eat a lot of dogs there.

I was sitting in a sauna on a cold day recently with several gay gentlemen when one of the lads announced he could go for a big bowl of “foe”. At that moment three of the other gentlemen shrieked in horror- “it’s FUH!”. The first gentlemen said “oh fuck off” and got up and left.

There used to be a Pho King restaurant that we middle schoolers would take great delight in pronouncing!

Some of the Viet-French fusions are wonderful. Of course the non-colonial stuff one gets now, even the Americanized versions, are good. If you don't have too much fish sauce mixed into them.

R13, u can think of Vietnamese as regional Chinese as the influence is undeniable. Just like the various regions in China use different ingredients indigenous to those respective regions, Vietnamese is basically the same.

Why are Vietnamese restaurants always named like Pho 75, Pho 79?

Well seeing as how they must be some of the slimmest people in the world, one would think that eating their food would not be a bad idea for a diet.

Love it

R25 Their food is low fat and healthier than Chinese food.

Is there MSG in Vietnamese food?

Yes!

Pho, Bánh mì, Rice Rolls - love it all

Pho-ck yes I love Vietnamese food!

MSG is "bột ngọt" in Vietnamese. Just say "no bột ngọt please", they will understand.

Love it.

I live in Nashville, and can name four Vietnamese restaurants off the top of my head. When I first tried to go to one several years ago, there was nothing vegetarian in any of them. In the last year or so, though, a few have added vegetable versions -- without fish sauce, even -- and there's one in particular that I go to fairly often. The food is incredibly fresh and delicious. If I had to say what the difference is between Vietnamese and Chinese food is, I would say that Chinese food tends to have all the ingredients mixed together, whereas Vietnamese food tends to keep the ingredients separate, so you can enjoy each flavor. The latter is also much fresher and less greasy.

Dear Lord in Heaven!

I have always preferred Vietnamese food to Chinese food. It’s generally healthier than Chinese food. I eat Vietnamese food at least once a week.

I love the cold spring rolls (Gỏi cuốn), sometimes called salad rolls or summer rolls. Served with either peanut sauce or hoisin sauce with chopped peanuts.

They also make good egg rolls (Chả giò), also sometimes called imperial rolls.

I also like the filter coffee mixed with condensed milk and served over ice (cà phê sữa đá). Heavenly, but quite a jolt of caffeine.

It's all

I love their coffee too.

Their French colonial masters taught the Vietnamese well in the culinary arts.

Yep, the coffee is awesome. It's like a Turkish press coffee with condensed milk on the bottom. it was great when I was working on my graduate thesis, up for hours all night.

R2 - the fish sauce is normally in a bottle on the table and you don't have to touch it. It's not normally mixed in with the food before it's served to you.

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[quote]actually the most common protein for Vietnamese hot and sour soup is fish, primarily catfish. If you're familiar with the soup served with chicken--I wonder if there was some Chinese influence? My background is Chinese-Vietnamese and my mom would cook the soup with chicken. But in restaurants and many Vietnamese homes, it's catfish. I've never seen it in a restaurant served with chicken.

r18, you're right. I've had it with catfish too. The best thing for a cold — even better than Jewish chicken soup.

I can't remember the Vietnamese name for the cold beef salad sliced razor-thin and served with razor-thin lemon slices, chopped onion and herbs — bo tai chanh? Is that right?

You were lucky to grow up in a home with so much delicious food!

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I hope the thin sliced beef is not raw.

i could eat banh mi (specifically with the baguettes used at Lee's Sandwiches) practically every single day if my bowels could handle it (tmi) i'm not the biggest fan of pho or vermicelli but when i'm in the mood i will beat down senior citizens to get to a viet restaurant.

There is another soup other than pho that I really like. I forgot the name but it's a more reddish broth. I like it more than pho.

No. No.

I love the brisket and tomato soup with lots of star anise

Love the pork chop and tomato rice

Love the lemongrass chicken

Love the Bahn Mi or chicken Bahn Mi

There's a great little Vietnamese Bakery next to a bottle-o on my way home from work...so a bottle of shiraz or cider and Vietnamese dinner, done and done

Gays like Korean food (cats). Normals like Vietnamese food (dog)

LOVE IT!

R49, bò kho is the Vietnamese version of beef stew. It's tastier than the American counterpart.

Bún bò Huế is my favorite.

Here is the cold beef salad — meat served very rare, dressed with lime juice, onions, and herbs.

I think it is the most complex, interesting, fresh, lively-tasting food of all the Asian foods I've tried. I'm a little bit obsessed with it, honestly. I could eat Vietnamese food a few times a week, quite happily. W

What a delight!

Yes! I toured Vietnam and thought the food was quite good. Especially the duck.

I imagine all Vietnamese food here is from the south. What's the north like? Both were great as I vaguely recall but that was before I became a foodie. I do remember an open air banquet on the banks of the Mekong though. It was nothing short of amazing.

The south is rural and considered the flyover. All the posh Frenchness was in the North.

I love pho!

That Vietnamese coffee certainly does the trick in jolting you awake!

I LOVE Vietnamese summer rolls, so delicious! Much better than spring rolls.

I love it. One of my favorite cuisine. Also French Vietnamese is pretty delicious.

Now if they would just invent fall and winter rolls.

I like it -- the cross pollination of Thai, French, Chinese, etc produces some delicious flavors.

R60 - Wrong! The south is where there is the most abundance of food - fruits, herbs, vegetables, meats, seafood, etc. Southern Vietnamese dishes are the most vibrant.

Most Southeast Asian food is good. Thai, Indonesian, Fillipino, and Vietnam food are all delectable.

I prefer Chinese and Thai. Chinese/ Thai >Indian>Japanese>Vietnamese>Korean food.

Malaysian Chinese (Nonna) cuisine is out of this world good. It's too bad it's not well represented in the US. The few restaurants I've tried have been mediocre to acceptable.

They eat dog

You can get a lot of good things in a Vietnamese restaurant.

Banh Mi sandwiches are TO DIE FOR.

Trứng vịt lộn

Grotty R32. You should be ashamed for having posted that sick pic.

Most of it I find to be delicious, however some of it has a peculiarly foul odour.

R32, WHO'S a good boy? WHO'S a good boy? You are! Yes you are!

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Summer Rolls are terrible.

Thanks to this thread I've just had a delicious meal of Pho. It will help stave off whatever virus I can feel lurking around me.

Vietnamese food looks poor people food

ADORE it.