The eight dispensable dishes in Lunar New Year!

Lunar New Year is the biggest event in Viet Nam each year. It is the time for people to reunion with their families. Depends on different part in Vietnam, people have different set of dishes to prepare for this occasions. In this blog, as I’m from Hanoi which is the north of VietNam, I will be telling you guys about the eight dispensable dishes that my families as well as other families have during this time of the year.

1.       Banh Chung

Banh Chung is the traditional sticky rice cake in Viet Nam. If you want more information about this cake, you could read my other post which is about “how to make Banh Chung”. The video link below is to show you how to make Banh Chung

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHXzHeMlaA

 

2.       Pork “jellies” :P

I don’t know how to call it exactly. You can cook this pretty quick. I also include the video link so if you are interested in this dish, you could try to cook it yourself. It tastes more than great!!! Yum yum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7WGKxid5eE

 

3.       Mixed onions

This mixed onions served with other dishes like Banh Chung or grill pork to give you more fiber, which is healthier!! ;)

 

4.       Sticky rice

People use sticky rice more than regular rice during this time of the year. And this sticky rice is served with any other dishes in New Year Festival

 

5.       Deep fried spring rolls

This is my favorite cuisine during “Tet” (another name for new year). Vietnamese people often mix pork, mushroom, eggs, crabs and vermicelli to make these spring rolls

 

6.       Steamed chicken

This is a simple dish but it simply tasty. People served this with salt mixed with lemon.

 

7.       Bamboo soup

Vietnamese cuisine is pretty creative.  They use bamboo to make soup with pork bones. You could different kinds of bamboo to make this dish. This video link below would help you to make it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9FncfVHx0

 

8.       Mixed vegetables fried

As I said Vietnamese Foods are really healthy, in each meal, people often include a vegetable dish; it could be steamed, boiled, or fried. In the Lunar New Year, they often do mixed fried vegetables: broccoli, carrot, baby corns, pepper, green bean and celery!

 

Images link: http://afamily.vn/an-ngon/8-mon-an-khong-the-thieu-tren-mam-co-tet-20130208090322753.chn

Those are the eight dishes that people often make for the New Year party! I hope you enjoy my post and dont gorget to like my facebook page and follow me on Twitter!! Thanks