"Beer" - the cultural characteristics of Saigon

Saigon is known as the "sleepless city". Because the early morning until late at night, sounds of bustling buyers, sellers still noisy, bustling. Rich country is famous for its rich cuisine, modern culture. "Other" is the cultural characteristics of Saigon, not to be confused with anywhere.

Cuisine Saigon Vietnam very diverse and rich, the street food, community, racing coming up with hundreds of unique dishes. It is not too gimmicky and flowery land of flowers to give the name of this "Golden Land of culinary establishments in Vietnam." Drinking culture of Saigon brought a separate definition, generous, vibrant and gorgeous unlike the thoughtful, gracious, elegant grape of northern origin, or a cautious, thoughtful of the central region.

The Saigon with professional apart, that demonstrated by the appearance of hundreds of frantic great pubs, far exceeding in size and quality. Fashionable pubs are the most popular is the restaurant garden with wide space, chair, window open and simply decorated space, strange, known by the names are called as "village grill "," green garden "," garden "," forest green, red sea "...

Has called the culture, no one outside the influence of its days, pubs mainly concentrated in the central districts, where public servants work and business, is now spread out all the suburbs and poor together, no less.

Drinking style of Saigon very clear, very simple, sometimes just a simple pot, a few plates, cups crushed into meal and drinking wine spectacular, so they raise the drinking area is the enthusiasm , and truly unite rather than formal in food and drink.

Speaking to the impartiality, perhaps the Saigon also the number one, not fussy, not ritual, they lived hard and drinking hard well, with the adoration of drinking lasted from morning to night, to have the adoration of drinking last night to morning.

It seems that people drinking all day, all week, no matter what the occasion. There are hundreds of reasons to go to discuss their drinking, long time friends met to celebrate the hand started drinking; funerals, weddings, anniversary pace together; have funny stories, sad again; all hours of the same industry together to relax together; a visitor to your home then ... Talk to strangers drinking, drinking before you know later on, who does not want another, is considered "playing not very", "not in the same boat", of a kind "need to prevent" ...

The Saigon drinking is also a way to express emotions, culture, their lifestyle. Anyway, pull together people together and make life more meaningful, better understood the value of life they deserve.

Not only men but also women, drinking no less. In the table, women also aggressive, well separated equally, not shy or humble as Northern girls, their fun and joy of the men were drunk as drunk hard.

Even students, students nodded at a table wine, with full reasons: birthdays, pass, find work and of course more stories ... lovelorn, failing again. People write, artists often drunk, partly for the fun, relieve stress, partly due to seeking information, pick up the material life, finding inspiration and ideas around the table together, there arose a while back works of art.

Saigon was still very young though, how old look young, dynamic and rapid development of an industrial city "tirelessly" to make tourists from everywhere here are quick rhythm, and if Saigon to understand how drinking please visit projector, you'll see ... a man like Saigon.

New Year's food Saigon Vietnam

Air New Year started from the fair early December until New Year's Eve to take. Everything of goods under the streets of west and central to the city dump bring flavor to tingle Year hearts. All houses are lo prepare New Year shopping.

The Saigon Vietnam Tet are not picky as Hanoi or Hue for Tet but spend very expensive. Saigon's cuisine is simple. They only drink alcohol rai future. By taking the items targeted to future rai lot. So many stores often buy these types of dried food such as dried fish, dried shrimp, dried meat, processed Greek sausages to delectable New Year, every time you are baking up alcohol for public support.

Like the central and southern provinces, in addition to bread jam, the shop also does a lot of melon seeds to bite for fun and hospitality. Food is no abdominal tet cakes, how busy the business, trade, put bread in the shop or buy at the market. Many packages also rich tet cakes seem picky, of bread add sausage, dried shrimp. Tet in Saigon trays always have bread tet, meat stock, coconut litter, paper packaging, melon reviews ... Cucumbers with salt prices are boiled and sliced ​​bamboo shoots, sliced ​​tubers procession, peppers, chopped tomatoes and carrots. Paper packaging is made of boiled pork and bacon fried golden state only, then mixed with spices hearing. Rice paper rolls with vegetables rolling, dotted with chili sauce, garlic, tomatoes accompanied the procession. There are also casseroles from pig thighs as with some of the tunnels for medicine, food to eat and not play with rice. The other dishes are meat storage vessel (actually a ship in Cholon not eat this dish popular). People use bacon (bacon) cut to pieces, square, each approximately 4 cm to the surface in a dry to a Siamese coconut meat that is sweet scented stock. Meat is often the most difficult water storage vessels, ripe meat, fat, but not crushed, and food in their mouths like yourself that cool and it melts in your mouth. Many also added a dozen duck eggs boiled in a pot with meat stock. Meat stock usually ships served with cucumber and melon prices has long procession just crispy, tasty but not sick.

Vegetables, there's a very popular and common item prices melon, watermelon other than the Northern, Central pickled. As dessert dishes have to be watermelon. There are like a basket of fruit to meat, thick, soft, fresh cells. Cucumbers have added, the whole security whiz decent knife, meat iridescent particles as fine sand road. Who amending watermelon out early on that the sad pale bowel has destroyed the confidence that the new campaign in the red! It is a remnant of superstition to fortune early melons.

Tet, the food trays also have spring rolls. Rolls are dishes like spring rolls in the North but plants spring rolls here just to thumb, while eating is not cut in half or into quarters. Saigon duck who does not abstain because they conceived, ducks do not bring bad luck, so on New Year, have a meal as usual. Chicken feed is used to tear faults that are not tight. Bring boiled chicken shredded pieces, mix vinegar with banana flower, add thinly sliced ​​green cabbage, fragrant knotweed and other herbs. Most dishes are cool, the only dish braised leg with some medicine and food are bitter melon (bitter melon) cut the intestines stuffed with minced pork and then crushed into casseroles hot to eat.

In three days of Tet, the Saigon banh tet addition, watermelon, meat stock, paper packaging must also mention the type of jam, melon seeds and offered some cake.

Or worshiping worship grandparent's Eve, or his money supply is non-mandatory, with the flowers offered boiled rooster, red ripe peppers suck mine is split into many fields such as flowers. There are also many simple offerings as a tet-wheel drive, disc jam and cup of tea.

On the altar, tray of five fruits are always papaya, figs year-round demand for enough to eat, comfortable. Then the orange security Cai, breast milk Can Tho, Vinh Long Road tangerine, grapefruit, Bien Hoa, Cao mango and ... results mean that many, not five fruits! This was not the two sides expressed watermelon altar. On each fruit paste also more nearly scarlet paper for beautiful hands. There is a tray of five fruits again present in the desire to "bridge-Medium - Enough - Sai" ie four fruits "custard, coconut, papaya and mango" - told the Southern accent, which is coconut " medium ", mango is" spend ".

Entering the 4th Year, after eating meat stock, meat stew, Greek sausages were bored, we started changing dishes, or eat snacks belly, spicy digestion. They imply the fish porridge, fish noodle fruit, boiled chicken. The crowd offered many chickens for subsistence. There is a chicken soup with shredded chicken meat cutter. Fish soup cooked very well referring to loose track of raw fish and cooked porridge still uncovered areas (cooking reference). The food in the three day New Year much fat, eating berries 4 fish soup bowl accompanied referring squeeze chopped vegetables, banana saplings and herbs to gently add delicious belly.