How are dishes different from Tet in the three regions?

If the Northern Tet holiday has banh chung, the eastern meat, the Central region will come with a spring roll while the South cannot lack the braised meat and bitter melon.

In the book "Discovering Vietnamese traditional cuisine" published by the Youth Publishing House in 2010, Professor Ngo Duc Thinh - Former Director of the Vietnam Cultural Research Institute wrote: "Tet with the first tray is worshiped. Therefore, the dishes are prepared delicately, when being processed, must be clean, pure, then delicious. Vietnamese people have a habit of making offerings from 30 Tet to golden days, usually on the 2nd and 3rd of Tet. "

A tray of offerings for the year-end of a Northern family.

Talking about regional dishes, Professor Ngo Duc Thinh wrote that each region has "typical local cultural nuances" so the culinary culture and the use of spices are also very different. If chili is used, Hanoians use chili powder to dissolve and neutralize the welding properties of fish and shrimp. Hue people use many types of chili, green chilli to get fresh aroma, grilled chilli to get aromatic, chili powder mixed in to get color, fresh and sweet chili, bright red to decorate. The Southern people eat sweets with chili, add chili to sugar, they drink with young fruits with salt and chilli, sugar cane with salt and chili . Tet is also because of that, each place has a definition.

Northern New Year food

Talking about Northern food, Professor Ngo Duc Thinh identified the characteristics of diversity, sophistication, especially in Hanoi, Tet tray of bread brings the depth of a periodic land.

In the North, Tet trays usually follow a traditional principle: 4 bowls and 4 plates (excluding plates of sticky rice, dipping sauce, and pickled onions) symbolize four pillars, four seasons and four directions. The bigger the 6 bowls 6 dishes or 8 8-bowl bowls represents fortune and fortune. Today, Northern people still keep the traditional food. 4 basic bowls include: Drop soup, dried bamboo leg, mushroom and vermicelli. 4 plates including: Chicken, spring rolls, banh chung, spring rolls.

Tet in the North is indispensable for banh chung, boiled chicken and frozen meat.

Many families have added new dishes such as fried chicken, Western food but basically still cannot lack traditional dishes.

In addition, many families also cook frozen meat, mannequins to make the meal more delicious. When eating, the dishes displayed on the plate are usually served first, while the dishes presented in the bowl are used later. After the meal, desserts with lotus jam, blueberry jam, ginger jam . The dish is usually tasty, used right when it is still hot, with spices such as pepper, chili, ginger . because of the New Year's weather. North will be cold.

Chinese New Year Food

Located next to the North, the Central New Year has many similar dishes with "neighbors" such as banh chung and bamboo shoots. There are also typical dishes such as spring rolls, melon dishes, tré.

The central region of the country is arid, so people also suffer hardships, great-grandchildren, and food for that reason, which is simple and economical as human personality. Boiled chicken, boiled pork, banh tet, stir-fries are the dishes that are frequently present in Tet holiday of the Central people. Besides, the dishes are also favored by people here with a variety of variations such as ram rolls, spring rolls, wet rolls with grilled meat, rice paper rolls with pork .

The Central region uses banh tet instead of the banh chung, served with melon.

Along with the "playboy" dishes, Tet here also has many daily dishes served with white rice, sour soup such as shrimp, braised pork, Chinese meat, fried chicken, fried chicken, milling meat, spring rolls, tré, Meat soaked in fish sauce .

Southern New Year food

The South has a rich variety of products, favorable nature, and often has trade and interference with many East-West cultural flows, so the food is also diverse. From main dish to play dishes.

What conditions, such Nam ceremony, not many dishes are required to appear in the tray of Tet. Tet cake is a tradition of the Nam people. Not square package as Northern banh chung, banh tet are round and long packages with a variety of fillings such as green bean mixed with black bean, banana, coconut, salted egg.

Families here often cook bitter melon soup in the tray of the new year with the desire to overcome the suffering of the old year, to welcome the new year peace and happiness. Another dish that appears much in Tet tray is braised meat, depending on the family, it can be stored with boiled eggs, salted eggs, coconut rice . Besides the rice dishes, the Southern people display more cold dishes in the Tet holiday trays such as: lotus root salad, pickled pork ears, dried shrimp - palanquin, stuffed pork rolls, breaking rice, spring rolls, fresh Chinese sausage .

Southern Vietnamese Tet tray with Tet rice cake filled with banana beans, bitter melon soup, braised duck meat .

To make the meal more delicious in hot weather, the Southern people cook many kinds of soup with all the ingredients such as snakehead fish sour soup, sour fish flexible sour soup cooked with dandelion, sour eel soup with banana, sour soup goby .

People in the South eat sweeter than the North, so desserts in the South are also diverse with fruit jams such as coconut jam, tamarind jam, custard jam, sweet potato jam, sweet little cakes, low-quality candies and banana candy . In addition, rice wine is a dessert only used by the South.

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