Bun (rice vermicelli), the origin for many Vietnamese delicious dishes! - Bun (rice vermicelli), the origin for many Vietnamese delicious dishes!

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Bun (rice vermicelli), the origin for many Vietnamese delicious dishes!

Bun (Rice vermicelli) is made of rice flour which isturned into small, circular and white threads wrapped up into smallcoils called Con Bun. Vietnamese rice vermicelli is a preferable as well as a popular dish!

The best rice noodles have onlytwo ingredients: rice or rice flour, and water. Rice vermicelli arethin, translucent noodles that are similar to cellophane noodles, withwhich they are often confused (rice vermicelli are made from rice;cellophane noodles are made from bean starch). There are differentvarieties of vermicelli depending on their shape: bun roi (stirredvermicelli), bun mam (twisted vermicelli), bun la (vermicelli paper),and bun dem tram (shreded vermicelli).

Rice vermicelli noodles are delicious and easy to prepare. Let’s see how rice vermicelli dishes are prepared step by step!

Beforecooking, simply soak rice vermicelli in warm (not hot) water for justtwo minutes. Then, in order to have a delicious bowl of rice, youshould add different kinds of ingredients and vegetables. You canchoose one of various ingredients that can be served with vermicellisuch as: grilled pork meat, fried rice cakes, snails, fried eggs, leanmeat pie, chicken, and crab soup, etc.

Bun cha

Donot be so surprised if you see that each region and locality, even eachrestaurant, has its own vermicelli dishes with their own recipes. There are a variety of ways to enjoy rice vermicelli, each dish having its own unique taste, for example: “Bun Cha” (vermicelli and grilled chopped meat), “Bun Rieu” (vermicelli and sour crab soup), “Bun Bo” (vermicelli and beef ), “Bun Oc” (vermicelli and snails) and so on.

Let’s try the very delicious taste of Bun Cha and Bun Oc! Bun Cha (Vermicelliand grilled chopped meat) includes rice vermicelli, grilled pork andspicy, raw vegetables and well mixed fish sauce. For a dish of Bun Cha,you take a dish of rice vermicelli, a dish full of vegetables and abowl of fish sauce combined with vinegar, sugar, hot chilly, garlic andpepper. The sauce will then contain all the essential tastes, sour,hot, salty and sweet. Grilles of well cooked pork would be opened andthe contents dropped into the bowl of fish sauce. There are

Bun oc

twokinds of Cha (grilled pork) used, depending upon the cut of the meat.If the pork is cut into small pieces, it is called Cha Mieng (piece ofgrilled pork). If it is minced prior to being shaped into small cubes,it is named Cha Bam (minced grilled pork). Bun Oc (Rice vermicelli withfresh water snail) has fresh water snails as mainingredient. These snails will have been kept in clean fresh water forabout ten hours before being boiled for the dish, to allow sufficienttime for the snails to release any organic matter they may have intheir shells. The boiled snails after being taken out of their shellswould be cleaned. The soup for the dish is made from the water in whichsnails have been boiled in. To the soup is added tomatoes and severalkinds of flavour and vinegar.

Rice vermicelli are a part of different Vietnamese cuisines.Walking along some streets and stopping at one rice vermicelli vendor in Hanoi or Sai Gon, you will have chances for tasting various dishes of rice vermicelli with unforgettable flavor!

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