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Jan 27, 2017 / 07:21

Traditional dishes can not miss on Vietnamese Tet festival

Thu Minh

The Lunar New Year (Tet) festival is the most important and greatest holiday in Vietnam and there are many traditional dishes displayed on meals during the special days.

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Vietnam’s cuisine is very plentiful and diversified. Each region has the special  and featured food and dishes. Especially, on special festivals such as Tet, Vietnam also has unique and most typical dishes for that occasion.
On Tet holiday, there are many delicious and special dishes to enjoy on the special occasion. The traditional dishes of Vietnamese during Tet festival, which appear in every Vietnamese family on this special days, include the main foods as follows:
Chung Cake or Square Cake is the most popular dish on Tet holiday: The cake is made with glutinous rice, mung beans, pork and other ingredients. Then it is wrapped in green leaves (banana leaves or "dong" leaves), and is tied with a bamboo string to make square shape.
The Chung Cake symbolizes the Earth and is made from natural ingredients that represent the agriculture of Vietnam.
During Tet holiday, Chung Cake is a can not-miss dish that appears in the meals of all Vietnamese families and it is also the offerings to ancestors on the days of Tet.
Boiled Chicken is also the popular food on Tet holiday. It seems to be the simple dish but always appears in the meals as well as to show the worship to ancestors.
After the chicken is boiled, it will be chopped into small pieces, then displayed on the plate. The dish is often used along with sliced lemon leaves and salt-and-pepper-sauce. It is really a delicious dish on Vietnamese Tet festival.
Sticky Rice is the third popular dish on Vietnamese Tet holiday.  Vietnamese often cook sticky rice with "gac" fruits to make the red colour - the colour of luck and happiness. It is to make Tet more meaningful and colorful.
Beside Chung Cake and Boiled Chicken, Sticky Rice is one of the must-taste dish on Tet holiday.
Moreover, Vietnamese pickled onions is another dish on Tet holiday and it is also the special dish that no country in the world can make the dish as special and delicious as in Vietnam.
The dish is often eaten along with other dishes in the meals to make the balance between the dishes. In addition, the dish also helps people prevent from the sick as there are so much meat and other fatty foods used on Tet holiday.
Last but not least, Vietnamese sausage, spring roll and candied fruits often have in the meals of Tet holiday. Vietnamese sausage is often made with lean meat and it is eaten along with sticky rice.
Spring roll is a popular dish of Vietnamese and it also a cannot-miss dish on Tet holiday. The dish is made with a lot of ingredients including pork, fragrant mushrooms, ear mushrooms, dried onions, eggs, onion leaves which are mixed together and rolled in special rice paper, then it is fried in full of vegetable oil.
Candied fruits or Tet jam is also a favourite and special food only made on Tet holiday. Tet jam is not a food to serve in a meal during Tet festival, but more like a snack to welcome guests in this special period. Mut is always kept in beautiful boxes and placed at the table in the living room, and it is the main food for the owners and guests to taste when they’re talking, enjoyed over a cup of tea.
Currently, cake and sweet are slowly replacing jam in Tet period, but many people still love the taste this unique food – an angle of Vietnamese culture.
These are foods that can not omit on Tet holiday and make the tradition of Vietnamese Tet holiday.
Tet is the greatest and most important festival in Vietnam. It is also time to remind Vietnamese remember the country’s culture and custom as well as let internantional friends know more about the tradition and specialities of Vietnam. 

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