Tet Vietnamese New Year Food
Banh tet and banh chung include the similar.
Tet vietnamese new year food. These foods include bánh tét bánh chưng bánh dày canh khổ qua thịt kho hột vịt dried young bamboo soup canh măng giò and sticky rice. Essential foods for tet holidays vietnamese sausage. Welcoming visitors to your home is an important part of the tet festival. Also known as banh tet because of its association with the holiday this rice cake is made with sticky rice pork and mung beans.
Eating well is a key to celebrate tet. Boiled chicken thit ga. This type of cake is the spirit of the vietnamese new year days expressing the essence of the heaven and the earth through the skillful hands of humans. In vietnamese têt means the first morning of the first day so we celebrate on the first day of the lunar new year.
Vietnamese square sticky rice cake banh chung and vietnamese tube sticky rice cake banh tet. Although bánh tét or bánh tày are made and consumed during tết the vietnamese new year the tét in the food s name literally means sliced or split possibly referring to the fact that it is served in slices. Banh tet the cylindrical steamed cake. Banh chung sticky rice cake or chung cake.
The first and also the best traditional vietnamese new year food i. Some traditional vietnamese new year food in the north. One of the best vietnamese traditional food that every vietnamese people knows is sticky rice cake or chung cake. Xoi sticky rice is also a very important part of tet holiday in vietnam since the meals to.
Many vietnamese prepare for tết by cooking special holiday food and cleaning the house. Sticky rice xoi. Traditional food for vietnamese lunar new year delicacies for tet celebrations 1. Têt is always a fun time for my family because we get to spend time together sharing a meal and looking forward to what the new year brings us.
Guests are offered a selection. Banh chung the square steamed cake the most typical food on tet festival. This shows how important food and cuisine is to vietnamese new year. Bánh is used to refer to various baked and grilled food including small packages or cakes sandwiches crepes and spring rolls.
Dua hanh pickled onions. Vietnamese expats worldwide are celebrating the traditional lunar new year tet festival with art performance vietnamese traditional food and practice. It s also a time to celebrate vietnamese cuisine.