Vietnamese Spices and Herbs
Vietnamese spices and herbs are important things when you want to cook the real Vietnamese food. Come to Vietnam, foreign tourists are not only impressed by a small country with shape of S but brave, but also by Vietnamese people’s culture from clothes to behaviors, etc. and especially cuisine of people here. They are surprised by and interested in Vietnamese’s types of food. A simple reason is that Vietnamese dishes’ flavor is different from theirs. The Vietnamese use not only flavors such as salt, sugar, pepper, onion, garlic but use herbs- a plant whose leaves, flowers and seeds are used to flavor food for pleasant smell, for dishes. There was a French Newspaper “decode” distinctive flavor of Vietnamese dishes. It gave an explanation for why Vietnamese’s dishes were loved by tourists: The other countries usually use spices to cook, but none of country use herbs to flavor for dishes like in Vietnam”. Herb is one of main spices in Vietnamese food recipes. Besides, herb is al...