12 Vietnamese specialties make Western guests cry and laugh
Many dishes, which are considered specialties in Vietnam, make many Westerners cry, cover their noses, and run away the first time they see or enjoy them.
1. Coconut worms
Coconut worms are a specialty of the southwest region and are processed into a variety of dishes such as roasted and beef fried... But the most memorable thing is to eat it directly with fish sauce dipped. Even if a diner puts it in their mouth, the larvae that live in coconut jars will swing.
Those who love this dish will be impressed by the taste of fat that melts in the mouth. Coconut worms are often found on lists of the scariest dishes in Asia.
2. Duck eggs
Duck meat is a nutritious dish loved by Vietnamese and is often eaten with laksa leaves, ginger or wormwood. However, foreign tourists consider duck eggs to be the first of the 10 dishes on earth.
3. Durian
Durian is known as the "King of Fruits" and is popular in Southeast Asia. Many people think that the fragrance of durian is very seductive, with sweet and greasy golden yellow rice grains. But its smell is the obsession of many people.
In some places, many hotels prohibit tourists from carrying durian. Durian was recently listed as the world's horror dish.
4. Soup time
A bowl of red-blood pudding is a favorite dish of many Vietnamese, but when it comes to Vietnam, it is the horror of foreigners. Blood pudding is made from the blood of animals and poultry such as pigs, goats and ducks. After these species are slaughtered and cut, the blood is mixed with a little fish sauce or brine, lemon (kumquat), and then mixed with cartilage, chopped gizzards, sprinkled with vanilla and peanuts. Wait a while, wait until it freezes, and you can eat it.
Roadside restaurants often sell this soup. Many people are hospitalized for poisoning, but the subjective psychology still makes people often eat blood pudding without worry.
5. Mouse meat
In some parts of the north, rat meat is an essential specialty for every important festival. This dish not only frightens foreign tourists, but Also vietnamese sometimes dare not eat it.
Rat meat is also a precious dish, VND100,000/plate. There are more than 30 kinds of dishes carefully prepared with rat meat, such as rat meat rolls, lemon leaf steamed rat meat, fried pork meat with onion and garlic, fried rat meat, and salt-baked hamster.
6. Jumping fish salad
Sour shoot banana peanut fillet is a specialty of the Sanra Thais. Selected fish are caught, jumped and broken from streams, as small as an adult's thumb. An important step is to make the accompanying mixture, including banana cores, vanilla, and spices. Chop them all, mix well and pour in the sour shoot juice. Where the fish pecks, quickly fall into the mixture and make it smart so that the fish will still jump. Diners eat it raw, sweet and crispy, with no fishy taste.
7. Meatballs
Ray is a creature that lives in the salty water of the north and usually only appears in late September and early October. Rui is considered a nutritious food and is processed into many delicious dishes such as sautéed rice cakes, fish sauce, steamed lai, braised rattan, stir-fried radish with fresh bamboo shoots or white radish, and even some places even make radish soup... But not everyone has the courage to touch those rickety live turtles.
8. Medicinal alcohol
Medicinal liquor is a traditional wine in Vietnam. Winemakers can soak medicinal liquor in medicinal herbs or live animals such as insects, snakes, scorpions, lizards, etc.
Men love this wine very much because of its yang and physiological enhancement effects. However, looking at a wine jar containing creepy animal carcasses also makes many people shudder, especially Western tourists to Vietnam.
9. Dog meat
This dish has been around in Vietnamese cuisine for a long time. Today, however, Vietnamese restrict the consumption of dog meat because they consider the animal a loyal friend. Foreign tourists are also strictly forbidden to eat dog meat.
10. Snake Heart
Eating snake hearts alive with wine is a specialty of Hanoi's Kerim Lemat Village. Immediately after the heart is removed, it is poured into a glass of white wine for guests to drink. It is said that this specialty can enhance a man's courage.
Snake Heart Wine is so famous, but not everyone has the courage to drink it, and even foreign tourists who have drunk it are fascinated by the beating heart. Before that, director Kong: Skull Island and chef Gordon Ramsay plucked up the courage to drink the wine.
11. Shrimp paste
Shrimp paste is a common condiment in Vietnamese kitchens. Many people think that this is a rich spice that brings rice and is easy to cause crushing.
However, this is a picky dish because the smell is heavy and strong. Its unique taste makes many foreign tourists shudder.
12. Roast the bugs
Grilled bugs are a rather peculiar specialty in Sanluo. It doesn't sound very appealing, because if you haven't tried it once, then fried bugs with sour shoots are not something that everyone dares to eat.
But anyone who has eaten a roasted bug will definitely remember the crispy feeling, the unique taste of this bug. Every lychee and longan blossom season, people want to enjoy the crisp roasted insects that melt in the mouth, the sweet taste, the fat leopard print mixed with the feeling of numb pangolins, so that diners ignore the initial fear. Stop chopsticks.
