Vietnamese Mixed Rice Paper Street Food (Banh Trang Tron)

Mixed Rice paper (Banh trang tron) is one of well known Vietnamese street foods. It is also appropriate with every ages, this dish attract kids and people around Vietnam, it were sold in many school canteens, and usually had a few different varieties. 

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Core ingredients of Mixed Rice Paper (Banh trang tron) usually involved: Rice Paper (in 1 round piece or shredded), chili powder, dry shrimp, and seasoned fried onion. Rice paper then was not the normal type we used to wrap spring rolls. They had those tiny shrimp or scallion on them, and the combination tasted…. wicked. That is the reason why this food becomes one of best popular Vietnamese Street Food for young people.
 

 

A packet of flavoring agents that includes chili powder and oil mixes with fresh Vietnamese coriander; some mango chopped fiber and hard boiled quail eggs. Mixed Rice paper (Banh trang tron) is covered by a plastic bag with two skewers serving as makeshift chopsticks. I do notthink any of the kids were not addicted to the thing.
 

 
 

They are sold on some sort of rolling metal cart is sold exclusively by conical hat-donning women carrying weighty baskets over their shoulders.
 
The price of Mixed Rice Paper (Banh trang tron) is absolutely cheaper than another Vietnamese street food. Just pay less than 10,000 VND for 1 serving. Moreover, it is sold in some snacks restaurants; it is easy to find this dish in some large department of Vietnam.
 

 

There still have many other Vietnamese Street Food in our country. From South to North, you can find them easily. Do not miss any chance to taste it when you visit Vietnam. Hope you will have a happy trip with your family and friends.

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Vietnamese Sea Urchins

Vietnamese Sea Urchins with Rice soup or grilled sea urchin even eat it alive is delicious all. It is really good for health as well and many people really want to enjoy it. And it is one of delicious Vietnamese Street Food for everyone especially foreign tourists.
 

 

Vietnamese Sea Urchins which one of popular Vietnamese street food, has many ways to call from popular to science names. It is Ginseng of the Sea because it has many useful effects. From some researches, it is really good for kidney, improve men’s health and increase Calcium for body. 

In Vietnam, Sea Urchins usually live in Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Phu Quoc beaches. There are many ways to create food from Vietnamese Sea Urchins as eat alive with green field cabbage, mustard sauce, cooking with rice soup or grilled it with spring onion. Now I will introduce 3 dishes which cook with this amazing ingredient.

1) Sea Urchins with Rice Soup: This dish is really tasty and healthy. Many people, who tasted it thinks that this seafood is an amazing gift from the Sea to Human. It is really easy to cook. However, you only have the best Sea Urchins with rice soup when you get fresh sea urchins. There are many meat and eggs inside sea urchins. Using knife or spoon to separate meat and eggs out of it, embalm with multi flavor. After that, you fry it on pan from 1 or 2 minutes. Next, pour it all into the boiling rice soup, taste it again and enjoy your delicious dish.
 

 

2) Eating Sea Urchins alive: Like other Vietnamese Street Food, we have one really simply process to make it. Most people eat it with green field cabbage and mustard sauce or just enjoy it with salt pepper lemon sauce. After catch sea urchins, you separate it in half and clean it. Get the meat into the bowl, add a little lemon and mustard sauce, stir recently and enjoy with green filed cabbage. With someone who cannot use mustard, they can use salt pepper lemon sauce instead.
 

 

3) Grilled Sea Urchins with Spring Onion: who fall in love with grilled seafood, they cannot skip this delicious dish. Its process is really quick but it can bring an amazing taste ever. After you clean this seafood, separate it in haft by scissors put a little olive oil and spring onion. Next, you grill till it turns to yellow color with amazing aroma. Add a little salt pepper lemon sauce to make dish more taste and flavor.

 

 

In addition, you can enjoy Vietnamese Sea Urchins food any place in Ho Chi Minh, especially in street food restaurants. Welcome to our Beautiful country and enjoy this delicious dish as soon as you can.

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3 Vietnamese Delicious Octopus Street food in Saigon.

One of delicious Vietnamese Street Food is octopus. There are many ways to process this ingredient from steam to fry with many adding other ingredients. In recent day, many delicious dishes from octopus have appeared from street restaurants to famous ones. They are popular specialty dishes not only of Sea people but also of young Vietnamese.
 

 

Octopus is also called master squid. The process to make this ingredient is really easy and fast. The meat of octopus only is delicious when it is fresh. After that, clean octopus by scraping with a little salt and lemon. Next, clean in water for several times, let it dry, cut to short pieces and does process it. Today, I will show you 3 delicious dishes from octopus, one of popular street food

Dish 1: Grilled Octopus with Chili Sauce

- After cleaning octopus, it is embalmed with multi-flavor. When customers orders food, each octopus will be brought to grill. When it gets medium cooked, the delicious smell will spread out. After it is grilled, the seller uses scissors to cut into small pieces and bring to serve for customers. The sauce of this dish usually is the combination of salt, pepper and lemon. I suggest you should eat this delicious Vietnamese Street Food on An Duong Vuong street, district 5 (Opposite the gate of Su Pham University) or Gia Dinh Park, Go Vap district.
 

 

Dish 2: Steamed Octopus with Ginger.

- When octopus is cleaned, seller will steam it with several sliced ginger, spring onion and chili. It will be cooked about 10 minutes. Steaming octopus can help to keep its fresh flavor. It is really sweet and enough tough. The sauce has a little sour, sweet and hot to drown the stinking smell from octopus. You can eat this dish everywhere in Saigon, especially on street seafood restaurants.
 

 

Dish 3: Octopus with raw fish and vegetable.

-Raw fish and vegetable is the easiest cooking dish in Vietnamese Street Food. After cleaning it, slice to small pieces and steam to get a medium cooked. Next, mix it with onion, chili, fried spring onion and persicaria. The sauce is made from mixture of first water of lemon, sugar, pepper and chili sauce. Wait about 5 minutes and you can enjoy this dish. You can make it at home or step by 3^rd street block 26 Go Vap district to eat or bring back home.
 

 

There still have other delicious Vietnamese street food in our beautiful country. I will show you more on next post. Hope you have one happy trip with your family and friends.

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11 Vietnamese Fresh Fruit Smoothie Desserts Street Food

One of popular Vietnamese Street Food is Fruit Smoothie Dessert. Making fruit Smoothie is really easy. Because you just need to pour fruit into the Liquidizer, add a little sugar or milk if you love sweet, finally you will have an amazing fruit smoothie by yourself. Today, I will introduce to you 11 Fruit Smoothie Desserts in Vietnam.
1. Hoang Kim Fruit Smoothie Dessert: Hoang Kim is the mixture of three yellow fruits in Vietnam. They are Mango, Banana and Cantaloupe. Its flavor is really sweet naturally. You do not need to add more sugar or milk to this dessert.
 

 

2. Mango with Jackfruit Smoothie Dessert: The strong sweet flavor of mango and jackfruit will be reduced by yoghurt and ice. One mango fruit and some sections of jackfruit can create a delicious dessert for yourself and family.
 

 

3. Strawberries Fruit Smoothie Dessert: This is one of most popular Vietnamese Street Food of young people. They usually order this dessert when hang out with friends. Moreover, it is really good for your skin if you use it usually. It can reduce acnes and make your skin is smoother.
 

 

4. Orange Juice with Raspberries Fruit Smoothies Dessert: In hot days, never better if you can enjoy the dessert from raspberries and orange juice. Put some leaves of basil on the top to décor your dish.
 

 

5. Agar with Mango Fruit Smoothie Dessert: It is a combination between of the sweet of mango and the crispy of agar. With many Vietnamese Street Food that you not only can buy on streets, but also can make at home.
 

 

6. Yoghurt with Pineapple and Mango fruit Smoothie Dessert: If you love eating Pineapple, this dessert is the best choice for you. There are many ways to make Pineapple Fruit Smoothie. It can combine with many other fruits. And this dessert is the combination with mango.
 

 

7. Strawberries with Banana Fruit Smoothie Dessert: A little sour from strawberries with the sweet from banana will bring a comfortable feeling for yourself and family. Moreover, you can add yoghurt non-fat to your dish; it will create the best dessert ever.
 

 

8. Apple with Raspberries fruit smoothie Dessert: Raspberries contains high fibrous and water lever. It is really good for health, especially for diabetics. With 100gr of raspberries each day, you can apply enough fibrous for your body.
 

 

9. Banana Fruit Smoothie Dessert: Banana not only can provide energy for your body, but also can make your skin more beautiful. In addition, it is really good for your digestive system. Hope you can choose to make this dish once time, you will not regret about the decision.
 

 

10. Pumpkin Smoothie Dessert: There are many benefits from pumpkin. It prevents the stress and body breakdown. In hot summer, weather changes irregularly, this dessert is really useful to improve your health. Enjoy it with some cookies in breakfast meals can help your new day perfectly.
 

 

11. Mixture of fruits and bulbs: this dessert is one of popular Vietnamese street food which not only can is fresh, but also is really good for health.
 

 

To sum up, when you feel hot inside or you want to protect your skin, fruit smoothie dessert is the best choice. Many Vietnamese Street food not only is cheap, but also is really good for health. Moreover, with these desserts, they can provide more Vitamin C for your body and skin to prevent the UV of the sun.

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Vietnamese Seafood

One of best delicious Vietnamese Street Food is Fresh Seafood. From the reason that Vietnam has a long coast from North to South, people can eat Seafood day by day. Many types of seafood from fishes to snails live in Sea of Vietnam. They can bring many delicious dishes for people especially young Vietnamese. Today, I will show you some photos about Cooking Vietnamese Seafood Dishes in many ways.

 

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Firstly, best delicious Vietnamese Street Food about Seafood is Grilled Crab with Chili Sauce/Chili Powder.
 

 

Next, it is Alive Oyster with Lemon dish
 

 

Fried Blood Cockle with Garlic and Chili Sauce dish
 

 

Fried Blunt Greeper with Coconut Syrup dish, att some sliced chili and Persicaria leaves
 

 

Fried Mussel with Green Pepper, Red Chili and Garlic dish, use with pepper salt and some lemon drops.
 

 

Fried Periwinkle with Garlic, Peanut and Tamarind Syrup dish, use with Persicaria leave and pepper salt with some lemon drops. If you love spicy, you can add some sliced chili.
 

 

Fried Sweet Snail with Hot Chili Sauce dish, use with Persicaria leaves
 

 

Grilled Ark Shell with Spring Onion and Peanut dish, use with Persicaria leaves, pepper salt and some lemon drops
 

 

Grilled Scallop with Quail Egg and Spring Onion dish, this is one of my favorite Vietnamese Street Food
 

 

Grilled Hard Clam with Fried Onion dish, use with pepper salt and some lemon drops.
 

 

Grilled Scallop with Cheese dish, ise with sliced garlic and Persicaria leaves.
 

 

Grilled Scallop with Spring Onion and Peanut dish
 

 

Oyster Hot Rice Soup with Lemon Grass and Spring Onion dish, if you get hungry, you should eat this dish first. And then, you can eat seafood. It can protect your stomach does not get hurt. 
 

 

Hard Clam Hot Rice Soup dish
 

 

Steamed Hard Clam with Lemon Grass dish, best way to eat this dish is in Rainy Days.
 

 

Steamed Quail Eggs with Pepper Salt and Lemon dish.
 

 

Finally but not last one is Grilled Squid with Chili Sauce. You can grill it when seller serve to you.
 

 

To sum up, there still has other Vietnamese Street Food about Seafood dishes in our Country. I will show you the way to cook them in next entry. Hope you have an amazing trip in Vietnam.

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Fried Vietnamese Vermicelli with Meat Crab and Egg Street Food in Hanoi

Vietnamese Street Food is so amazing. They are not only cheap, but also delicious. One of them is fried Vermicelli with Crab meat and Egg in Hang Than, Hanoi. It is about 35,000 VND (=1.5USD). It is cheaper than restaurants and it makes you really full.

I suggest you can eat this dish, one of spectacular Vietnamese Street Food at address: 1 Hang Than, Hanoi. It is near Yen Phu dyke. This street small restaurant usually sells seafood as scallop, snail, oyster, clam … Beside of them, there still has a spectacular dish, it is Fried Vermicelli with Meat Crab and Egg.
 

 

There are 2 reasons to make this dish becomes hot. Firstly, it has an amazing process, really tasty. Secondly, the price is really cheap. This recipe is not strange or sophisticated with any Vietnamese. However, the chef cooks well from fry vermicelli to mix ingredients regularly. Vermicelli is not too soft and fried. It is tough enough and not much oil.

Most Vietnamese Street Food is not required too much skills. However, you have to know the way to combine of spices together. Meat Crab is fried really tasty, a little spicy from pepper but contains many flavors. Beside of these ingredients, the chef also adds more yolk egg into dish to increase the flavor.
 

 

If you call small dish, the price will 35,000 VND. With bigger dish, the price will 50,000 to 60,000 VND. From the experiences of customers, you should call the small dish. It is enough for whole dinner. When you go with group, you can call big ones. In the result, that is why this dish is really cheap.
 

 

However, with prissy customers, they easy to find out the reality is this price is not cheap much. On dish, there have much vermicelli on dish, not much meat crab and egg. But, the taste of vermicelli is really amazing so many customers still go back this restaurant. Moreover, compared with center restaurants, the price of this restaurant is still cheap and suitable with many people, especially young ones.

In conclusion, Vietnamese Street food is usually about seafood, noodle and vermicelli. There have many ways to create dishes from these ingredients. Besides eating, you can order more drinks as iced tea, milk shake, sugar-cane juice … You can buy and bring back home to enjoy.
 

 

And in my opinion, you should buy and bring home or park to eat it. Because there are many customers in this restaurant, the waiter will skip you even you ready to order food. Good Luck and Hope you have an amazing trip in Vietnam.

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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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