How to pronounce Gỏi cuốn

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɣɔj˧˩ kuən˧˥/. In plain English letters that is GOY KOO-un, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Gỏi cuốn?

Gỏi cuốn is a snack of Vietnam. Where it comes from: Southern Vietnam. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are seafood, pork and rice. It tastes fresh.

Where Gỏi cuốn comes from

Gỏi cuốn is one of 36 signature dishes of Vietnam on this map. See all dishes from Đông Nam Bộ.

• Bánh mì · Street food · Saigon

  Bánh mì first meant simply "wheat bread", the baguette the French brought to Vietnam in the 19th century.

• Bánh căn · Snack · South Central Coast

  Bánh căn are small rice-flour cakes baked over charcoal in clay or cast-iron moulds with many round hollows.

• Cơm tấm · Rice dish · Saigon

  Cơm tấm means "broken rice": fragments of grain cracked during milling, once thought inferior and sold cheaply.

• Bánh khọt · Snack · Vũng Tàu

  Bánh khọt are bite-size cakes of rice flour or tapioca, fried in a mould of small round hollows until the edges are crisp, each with a shrimp on top.

• Cà phê sữa đá · Drink · Saigon

  Cà phê sữa đá is iced milk coffee: dark-roast robusta drips slowly through a small metal filter, the phin, onto sweetened condensed milk, and is then stirred and poured over ice.

• Bánh tráng phơi sương · Snack · Trảng Bàng (Tây Ninh)

  Bánh tráng phơi sương, "dew-dried rice paper", is a speciality of Trảng Bàng in Tây Ninh province.

Food of Vietnam

Dishes like Gỏi cuốn in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Gỏi cuốn:

• Nam khao ແໜມເຂົ້າ · Snack · Vientiane, Laos

  Nam khao, also called naem Thadeua, is a crispy rice salad that originated in Tha Deua, a small Mekong port village in Vientiane, where the Friendship Bridge to Nong Khai in Thailand begins.

• Sai krok Isan ไส้กรอกอีสาน · Snack · Isan, Thailand

  Sai krok Isan is a sour fermented sausage from northeastern Thailand.

• Gao zha 糕渣 · Snack · Yilan, Taiwan

  Gao zha is one of the best known snacks of Yilan in north-east Taiwan: deep-fried cubes that are crisp outside and scalding liquid inside.

• Har gow 虾饺 · Snack · Guangdong, China

  Har gow are traditional Cantonese shrimp dumplings served as dim sum.