Vietnamese Fried Rice Cake with Egg Street Food (Bot Chien)

Fried Rice Cake with Egg is one of well-known Vietnamese street food and is also sold in stores Dim Sum. Little pieces of fried rice cake with egg made of rice flour form the base of the dish. The doughy squares, along with a generous amount of oil, turn golden and crispy on the hot skillet.
 

 

Vietnamese people are familiar with fried rice cake with egg from a long time by the vendors on the street. Each ingredient in this simple dish plays an essential part in the overall flavor. The eggs enhance the dough with texture and body. The fresh vegetables cut the dough’s oiliness. And the soy sauce provides a deep saltiness that ties all the ingredients together.

 In Saigon, fried rice cake with egg does not depend on the morning or afternoon, patrons of this Vietnamese street food mostly students, pupils, who like eating with the cheap price.

 

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Ingredients

• 1 bag of rice flour
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 3 scallions, sliced
• Some papaya, sliced
• 3 tbsp cornstarch
• Salt, sugar, optional
• 2 tbsp oil
• 7 cups of water
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• Soy sauce or fish sauce

Process
 

*** Heat a pot of water to steam the cake. Once hot water, pour mixture in a pan and steam for 30-40 minutes until done.
 

*** When insert a chopstick in and it comes out clean then it is done.
*** Cut into 1-inch by 2-inch rectangles rice flour.
 

 

*** Use a bit of oil to fry the rectangles on both sides until golden brown and crispy.
*** Add 3 sliced scallions. After that, add 3 beaten eggs. Break up the egg a bit and stir-fry so the rice flour absorbs the sauce.
 

 

*** Mix everything together and stir. Continue frying both sides
 

Finally, you finished one of delicious Vietnamese street food. It’s better to serve with soy sauce and hot sauce, decorating with some scallions and papaya sliced. Plate and enjoy while crispy.

Wish you satisfy with this delicious Vietnamese street food like being in Saigon. Good Luck.

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Grilled Squids with Chili Powder Street Food

Vietnamese Street Food is developing quickly day by day. Today, I will tell you one stunning dish which I really love eating in these days. It is grilled squids with chili powder. Squids with white slices, crispy, spicy which combine together will create an amazing flavor for you.
 

 

Squid is a popular seafood which usually can cook to many ways. Now, I can tell you some popular processes here: grilling, stuffing with meat, frying or even steaming. Each way will bring a different flavor for you.

And one of popular street food about Squids, it is Grilled it with Chili powder. It is really easy to cook but can create a stunning flavor for anyone who has a chance to taste it. The process of making grilled squids with chili powder is not difficult.
 

 

Firstly, you have to choose fresh squids. Clean and slice them. However, you can use whole squid to grill, but you have to cut some line on the surface of squids to marinade spices as salt, pepper, garlic, sugar,chili powder, oyster sauce and sesame oil. Next, bring them to grill, remember you should change faces of squids when grilling to make them are not burned.
 

 

You can use it with pepper salt sauce or chili sauce. If you love vegetable, you can add some sliced tomatoes and cucumbers on dish. Its flavor is really amazing. That is the reason why I really love this Vietnamese Street Food.
 

 

To sum up, in Ho Chi Minh, you can enjoy this dish at seafood restaurants from cheap to expensive ones. However, if you have a good stomach and want to discorver about life in Vietnam, you should enjoy this Vietnames Street Food on streets, of course. Their prices only around are 50,000 VND (2,5$US) to 100,000 VND (5$US). Hope you and your family will have an amazing trip in Vietnam.
 

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Vietnamese Street Food at Thanh Da Market

Two popular Vietnamese Street Food in Thanh Da Market are Fried Chicken with Boiled Broken Rice and Grilled Pork with Vermicelli. Most Vietnamese, especially young people really love it. It not only is cheap, but also is delicious.

This is the main place for selling of Thanh Da people. In market, there have many food stores. They are really cheap but I have to admit that the flavor is delicious as well. And for me, fried chicken with boiled broken rice and grilled pork with vermicelli are most amazing.

*** Fried Chicken with Boiled Broken Rice

This food store stays at the main street of market. There always have many customers come to eat. Chicken Meat is marinated by fish sauce, sugar, honey. It is the secret recipe of store. When it is done, the face of chicken meat has a yellow color with the delicious flavor. Moreover, the price of most Vietnamese Street Food is really cheap. With this dish, you only just pay about 20,000 VND (=1$US) and you can have a big dish with boiled broken rice, fried chicken and vegetable (usually is fried Ong Choy and sliced cucumber).
 

 

One simple presentation dish uses with Vietnamese Dipping Fish Sauce will create a stunning flavor ever. From cheap ingredients but the quality is so amazing. In addition, boiled broken rice is cooked so soft and sweet. Chicken Meat is the most important ingredient for dish. The skin is crispy but inside is so soft, sweet and spicy. Really delicious.

 

*** Grilled Pork with Vermicelli
 

 

Next popular Vietnamese Street Food is Grilled Pork with Vermicelli. Not including many ingredients, however this dish is really amazing combine with fresh vermicelli, grilled pork, grilled meat roll with vegetable and Vietnamese Dipping Fish Sauce. One bowl of grilled pork with vermicelli is the combination of colors. The white of fresh vermicelli, yellow brown of grilled pork, green of vegetable and a little red from sliced chilies will create an amazing painting on dish.
 

 

To sum up, there still have other dishes in this place as rice spaghetti soup with fish balls, fresh vermicelli with fish balls, grilled pork boiled broken rice. You can enjoy any delicious Vietnamese Street food in Thanh Da market. At the right gate of market, go more about 20 meters, you go to the second food store in right hand. This store will open from 5pm to 22pm. Each dish is only 20,000VND (1$US).

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Vietnamese Goat Hotpot

One of amazing street food in Vietnam is Hot Pot. It is always a main dish of Vietnamese family meals. We love eating hot pot, especially in the winter. It is so warm and happy when every family member sits around the hot pot to eat and talk with others.
 

 

Vietnamese Goat Hotpot
 

In the big number of hot pot in Vietnam, Goat hot pot is well known as a famous due to its nutritious value and appetizing flavor. You can quickly see the Goat hot pot restaurants on the streets from North to South in Vietnam.

You might think that why one of famous hot pot likes Goat hot pot belongs to Vietnamese street food. The reason is Goat hot pot is usually sold with a reliable price and people like eating it the crowed atmosphere. So it attracts the big number of all type of citizens in the city.
 

 

Ingredients for Goat Hotpot
 

However, making this street food is not easy. The chef has to force the goat drinking the wine to let their smell reducing. Then the goat will be burnt on the fire until well-done and pungent. Next, the bone and meat are separated and aromatized with a lot of flavoring spices before cooking it with medicine herbs in half of day. The bone is main element make the sweet and flavoring for the broth.

  

Pork Chop with Egg Noodle Soup. (Mì Sườn Heo)

 
 

 

Vietnamese Goat Hotpot
 

After that, all the meats are put on the clay pot with the broth on the coal cooker. Little by little, various veggie including fresh cabbage, water morning glory, carrot, celery and tofu are added into the boiling clay pot.
 

 

One type Vietnamese Goat Hotpot on Streets.
 

When foods are tender and imbued with sweet flavor of stock, it is time for enjoying the hot pot. Try using the special sauce of Vietnam which is called “Chao”. The sauce is made by soy bean. It makes the goat meat more delicious. Instead of “Chao”, the northern people use “Tuong” as sauce; it is well yummy as “Chao”.
 

 

Another type of Vietnamese Goat Hotpot
 

To sum up, each restaurant in my country has different recipes for spices, herbs and sauces. But all of them will bring a same flavor and you will not forget it. Hope you can enjoy all types of this wonderful street food. And have an amazing trip with friends and family.

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Four delicious Vietnamese street food from Sweet Snails.

When talking about Vietnamese street food, we can not skip one stunning and unique in this beautiful country. It is seafood, especially Sweet Snails. There are many ways to make this delicious ingredient. But they all bring one stunning flavor when you taste it.

Today, I will introduce 4 dishes about Sweet Snails, which is most popular ingredient from Vietnamese street food. Each dish will give a different interesting flavor. And most young Vietnamese people fall in love with it.

 

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*** Dish 1: Fried Sweet Snails with Tamarind Sauce.
 

 

Clean Sweet Snails. Boil Oil, add minced garlic to fry until its color turn brown yellow. Next, add sweet snail and a little tamarind sauce into pan together. Fry about 5 – 10 minutes. Next add a little fish sauce and season to suit your taste. Continue fry until the sauce becomes thick. Turn off the heat and you can serve it. Remember, use when it is hot is better. Eating with Vietnamese Mint Leaves will bring to you a unique flavor from this ingredient.

*** Dish 2: Steamed Sweet Snails with Sliced Ginger.
 

 

Many people love sweet snails because even you cook it in any way, its natural flavor will not disappear. Steamed sweet snails wilth sliced ginger is one of amazing dishes like that. The combination between ginger, chili and sweet snails will bring an amazing flavor in your mouth. Meat of these snails still keeps the fresh, tough and sweet which will give you many interesting feeling when tasting it.

*** Dish 3: Grilled Sweet Snails Dish.
 

 

Here is one of my favorite Vietnamese street food. Using when it is still hot, with dipping sauce and Vietnamese Mint Leaves is the best choice for me in rainy days. The cover of them after grill turn yellow and you can not deny that its flavor is amazing.

*** Dish 4: Roasted Sweet Snails with Chili Salt.
 

 

Most young Vietnamese people fall in love with this dish. The process for making it is really easy. Clean Snails, next steam them about 5 minutes. Then turn off the heat, throw away water and wait to get cold. Next step, add a little salt, chili powder and necessary seasoning for this dish into pan, roast about 2 – 3 minutes, season to suit with your flavor and add more snails into pan, roast more 5 – 10 munite to absorb all seasoning. And finally, you can serve it.

To sum up, each ingredient you can create many different dishes for yorself, family and friends. One of them is Sweet Snails. If you have a chance to visit my country, you should try it at least once time, and I bet you will not regret. However, in your own country, you still can make these stunning dishes through ways I told you above. Good Luck to you.

 

 

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Vietnamese Ray Fish (Ca Duoi)

The ray dishes now become a popular street food in Vietnam, but I think the best way to enjoy it is coming to some beach cities like Vung Tau, Nha Trang, Long Hai, Da Nang.moreover, the best time for enjoying it is from January to the end of March of lunar calendar.

However, As I know, there are 3 main ways for cooking ray fish. Let us find out:

Grilled rays:
 

 

It is the easiest way of making rays but it is extremely delicious. All you need is a hot coal and some guise leaves. Putting the rays into the leaf and then put them onto the hot coal to grill. You just wait not more than 10 minutes to enjoy. The dish is tastier, if the rays are seasoned some ingredients, garlic, chili and lemongrass. The dishes are more fantastic if you drink some Vietnamese wine like Đế wine, Chuối wine. Some restaurant usually grilling the ray in front of the door to attract the customers, it is the reason this dish belongs to the Vietnamese Street Food.

Rays curry:
 

 

Cooking curry is easy, you only need eggplant. The eggplant is cut into small parts which are similar with the size of rays’ part. Curry’ rays is also a low price dish, you could eat it with rice or noodles. The fisher man like eating the ray curry due to it has good smell.

Rays hot pot:
 

 

Rays hot pot is one of my interests Vietnamese street food whenever travels to Vung Tau and Mui Ne. The flavors of rays are different with different vegetable and ingredients. In my opinion, the broth of rays is excellent when adding river leaf or tamarind due to it becomes sour and attracts the taste.

 

To sum up, different area has a different making the rays. The north area like eating the rays’ hot pot, the middle part like rays curry and the south people like eating grilled rays. Coming and enjoying one more street food in Vietnam in my beautiful country. Good Luck and Have an amazing trip.

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Vietnamese Goby Fish (Ca Keo)

One more street food in Vietnam is Goby Fish. Goby fish is living mostly at the Southwest Vietnam, especially in Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau and Can Tho. However, you can easily buy it from any market in Vietnam. When processing the fish, you just rub it slightly by lemongrass leaves in some minutes and then clean it by fresh water. One remember thing, do not take off any pieces inside or outside of goby fish because all of them are good to eat. Goby fish can be cooked into four main dishes:

+ Braised goby fish with pepper:
 

 

This type of dish is considered as a popular dish in south family meals. The fish are tastier when combined with pepper and chili and mixed with herbs, cucumber. This dish is served with hot or cold rice is still delicious.

+ Grilled goby fish with chili:
 

 

After fish are added many chilies, it will be grilled on the kitchen coal in some minutes. When you see the good smell, it is time for serving the meal on the table. If you once eat it, you will never forget the combined smell between fish and chilies. This type of cooking is one of reason goby fish becoming Vietnamese street food due to the fish are usually grilled on the street to attract the customers. They cannot take control when smell it and they will come the restaurant immediately.

+ Fried goby fish:
 

 

 This type of cooking is not less delicious as two above. There are some opinions that this type is more delicious than others due to it is used with tamarind sauce. One special sauce of Southeast’s citizens, it has sour, salt and sweet flavor are mixing together.

+ Goby fish hot pot:

 

 

This dish is the most popular street food and it is also my favorite food. The hot pot is usually cooked with one more favorite flavor of Southeast’s people which is River Leaves (La Giang). When the broth is boiled, the live fish will be added into the pot. You have to keep the pot carefully, because the fish will turn and struggle strongly to get away the boiled water. After the fish does not move, it is time for eating. You can add vegetables into the pot like spinach.

To sum up, you should take your friends with you to enjoy this street food when you have a chance to visit my beautiful country. Keep that chance and do not miss any Vietnamese Food from us.  Have a happy trip.

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