Saturday, October 24, 2015

8 naïve questions about Vietnamese cuisine

What tastes better-crab or lobster? What is the secret of the success of the famous fish sauce nuoc-mam? And what effect it has on the human heart eaten snake? On these and other issues in an interview with Chef brand answered Redigo chain restaurants VietSafe Tran Manh Hung. A beaming Cook of the Vietnamese city of Vinh (born near Ho Chi Minh City). All meals in the restaurant menus were invented by him. So, Hung talks about the intricacies of Vietnamese cuisine.

Than Vietnamese cuisine is different from Thai and Chinese?

And the Thais and the Chinese love to add to their dishes a lot of pepper. Eat and cry-Oh, how burn! Yet they are not indifferent to the kokosam is they have the most important ingredient, as well as nourish a passion for fried caterpillars and kuznečikam. We do to insects, fortunately, indifferent. But respect vegetables and adore Greens-Mint, coriander, Basil and lots of other types of herbs. The main principle of Vietnamese cuisine is the use of the freshest ingredients. Vegetables take straight from the garden, chicken for soup-from the counter where she cackles and waves his wings. Our dishes are suitable even for small children-because everything is fresh, healthy and not at all spicy.


Like other Asians, we love rice (one Vietnamese eats a year about 200 kilograms of rice-ed.), which is an important complement to most dishes. Much of what you taste in Vietnamese restaurants, it would be difficult to replicate at home. Firstly, don't find the right ingredients, secondly, would get annoyed: the Vietnamese love to hack and chop up in their concoction dozens of products, creating unique taste palette.

What is the secret of the success of the famous Vietnamese fish sauce?

-Fish sauce called nuoc-mam, we add almost all dishes-soups, noodles, meat. People literally pray to him, not only in Vietnam but also in other Southeast Asian countries. This sauce is, of course, is very specific. Its main property is that it is terribly vonûč. How awful it smell so wonderful it tastes. Those who our fish sauce like it will be very difficult to refuse!

Technology of making nuoc-mom is not difficult. Peresypannaâ salt small fish a few months languishing in barrels under the hot sun. Repeat this experiment at home do not advise, otherwise this scent will stay with you forever. It is better to buy the finished sauce is best done in a factory of the island of Phu Quoc.

Why the Vietnamese love soup Pho?



Pho soup is soup in Russia. Our most famous traditional dish. It was invented in Hanoi once upon a time, back in the 19th century, while the French like to say, that they brought into the country. But this, of course, only tales and attempts to grab a piece of someone else's fame. What is soup Pho? First of all-the rich beef broth, which according to the rules should be cooked for at least eight hours. That is why this Fd is almost impossible to make at home is too long in this lesson. In the broth are added to noodles, fish sauce, cloves, ginger, onions, anise, coriander and finely chopped meat. There are many varieties of soup Pho. With beef-Pho Bo, with chicken-Pho Ga, with mushrooms-Fd Teas and so on. The most delicious soup is done in restaurants in Hanoi.

What dishes worth will surely try in Vietnam?

-In addition to soup Pho to "best seller" Vietnamese dishes include crepes Nem. Without trying them, you cannot go away from my country-they are all menu, cafes and restaurants. Inside each roasted pancake made from rice flour can be up to 15 ingredients, ranging from shrimp and cheese to chicken and various vegetables. If you don't want to roast-grab your pancakes Baths of quon. In Vietnam, they are made from thick dough with a small amount of stuffing, Russians love to toppings was bigger, so Baths Quon in VietSafe we have changed slightly.

Vietnamese people can not live without herbs Rau Muong, which is roasted with garlic in oyster sauce and served with chilli. This is a good variant is snacks. And of course don't miss the Bun Bo Us Bo-rice noodles Bun with beef, vegetables and nuts. Especially tasty, it turns out, if you add in noodles sauce nuoc-mam!

What tastes better-crab or lobster?

Crab, crab and crab again! Crab meat softer and much tastier. Although lobster is also very good. About the seafood dishes I know not by hearsay-two years worked as a cook on the coast, not far from Hanoi. Therefore, sometimes very badly miss the good sifudu. One of the best places in Vetname, where you can taste the crab, is the resort town of Nha Trang. Almost any restaurant you can choose you liked crab and still alive, uvolokut cooking in the kitchen. The secret is in the freshness. If the crab though slightly reclining in the fridge-it can be disposed of, the taste is quite another. VietSafe menu you won't find crabs for precisely that reason-Cook frozen arthropod consider sacrilege. By the way, an experienced Cook to easily determine how cooked crab is alive or not.

What exotic stands sampled in Vietnam?

-Good Vietnamese Cook is able to prepare at least seven meals out of one snake. Cobra, Boas and vipers in our premium, although not cheap. I advise you to eat at least one of such dishes. I am not fond of snakes-certainly not in Moscow! (Laughter) But once drank in Viet Nam, the famous and very extravagant cocktail, when rice vodka mixed with the blood of the Cobra, and at the end add dergaûŝeesâ heart has just killed the snake. It is believed that this drink is very useful. An unforgettable experience! Crocodile meat is not eaten, although I know that you can cook very delicious. Highly recommend the turtle soup is delicious. And, you can decide on such a delicacy, as duck egg, in which there was already a fruit-i.e. inside sits the little duck. Duck eggs are eaten boiled with ginger and coriander. It is very tasty, although specific.

By the way, know what was for me the exotic in Russia? White bread, spread condensed milk! This was my favorite treat in the first months of life in your country. And I adore your desserts-cakes and pastries. They are, in my humble opinion, are flawless.

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