Traditional food of Đông Nam Bộ: 7 dishes

• 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.

• Gỏi cuốn · Snack · Southern Vietnam

  Gỏi cuốn are fresh rolls, not fried: rice paper is dipped in water and wrapped around boiled pork, prawns, rice vermicelli, lettuce and herbs such as basil, perilla and mint.

• 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.

Other regions in Vietnam

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• Traditional food of Bắc Trung Bộ: 5 dishes
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