8 Dishes Visitors Should Try In Viet Nam

When you have an opportunity to travel in Viet Nam, ten street dishes that you should not miss including fried dough, bread, spring rolls, pancakes, rice noodles, beef rice noodles, kebab rice noodles.

Fried dough

To do this dish, chunks of rice flour dough are fried in a large wok until crispy and then an egg is broken into the mix.

Once cooked it's served with slices of papaya, shallots and green onions, before more flavor is added with pickled chili sauce and rice vinegar.

It's Ho Chi Minh City's favorite streetside snack, fried dough is popular with both the afterschool and the after-midnight crowd.

Bread

In the north in Viet Nam, chefs stick to the basic elements of carbohydrate, fat and protein—bread, margarine and pate—but head south and your banh mi may contain a more colorful combination of cheese, cold cuts, pickled vegetables, sausage, fried egg, fresh cilantro and chili sauce. It's very delicious if you have an opportunity to eat it one time in Viet Nam.

Spring rolls

These light and healthy fresh spring rolls are a wholesome choice you've khi được indulging in too much of the fried food in Viet Nam.

The parcels are first packed with translucent greens salad, a meat or seafood of Slither and a layer of coriander, all before being neatly rolled and dunked in Viet Nam's favorite condiment - fish sauce.

Pancakes

A good luck is a crispy crepe balls bulging with pork, shrimp, bean sprouts and, garnish of fresh herbs plus the characteristic of most được authentic Vietnamese dishes.

To enjoy one like a local, manageable slices cut Into it, roll it up in rice paper or lettuce leaves and dunk it in whatever the chef has special sauce mixed up for you.

Rice noodles

It's almost impossible to walk a block in Viet Nam's major cities without bumping into a crowd of hungry patrons slurping noodles at a makeshift rice noodle soup stand.

This simple staple consisting of a salty broth, fresh rice noodles, a sprinkling of herbs and chicken or beef, features predominately in the local diet.

It's one tasty dish and widely available at all hours.

Beef rice noodles

This bowl of vermicelli noodles - widely popular in Ha Noi - comes sans broth, keeping the ingredients from becoming sodden and the various textures intact.

The tender slices of beef mingle with crunchy peanuts and bean sprouts, and are flavored with fresh herbs, crisp dried shallots, and a splash of fish sauce and fiery chili pepper.

Eggs Coffee

In Ha Noi, follow the tiny alley between the kitschy souvenir shops at 11 Hang Gai into the clearing, and up several flights of increasingly dicey stairs to pair your coffee eggs with an unbeatable view of Hoan Kiem Lake.

Vietnamese "egg coffee" is technically a drink but we prefer to put it in the dessert category.

The creamy soft, meringue-like egg white foam perched on the dense Vietnamese coffee will have even those who don't normally crave a cup of coffee licking their spoons with delight.

Kebab rice noodles

Rice noodles might be Viet Nam's most famous dish but bun cha is the top choice when it comes to lunchtime in the capital.

Just look for the clouds of meaty smoke after 11 a.m. when street-side restaurants start grilling up small patties of seasoned pork and slices of marinated pork belly over a charcoal fire.

Once they're charred and crispy the morsels are served with a large bowl of a fish sauce-heavy broth, a basket of herbs and a helping of rice noodles.

Kebab rice noodles sets often come with the delicious nem cua be -- fried crab spring rolls.

It's very interesting when U.S. president, Barack Obama ate it during his night out with Bourdain.

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