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.