Vietnam food – Vietnam traditional food – Viet traditional meal

In this past, I don’t know what I should say about first because there are many things to say about Vietnam traditional food. Then I am going to talk about traditional daily meal of ancient Vietnamese people and its characteristic.

Viet traditional meal

Vietnam food - Vietnam traditional food - Viet traditional meal

Viet traditional meal

Formula of the Viet ancient meal of Professor Tran Quoc Vuong is: rice, vegetables, fish.
Vietnam is a country which has many rivers, lakes and ponds so Vietnamese people grow wet rice.
Normally, Vietnamese people do not eat sticky rice, eat ordinary rice. Sticky rice is only used for a few special dishes on some special days. Rice is present in all the meals or products made from rice as noodles. Rice is an object for worshipping in many temples of Vietnam. It is said to start from the Mother Godness Worshipping, the most long–standing belief in Vietnam. Rice is really a big thing out here. The very first written characters constituting the word “Happiness” in ancient Vietnamese is the image of many rice plants and a square symbolizing a paddy field. Rice is not only happiness, it really forms Vietnamese.
In ancient Vietnam, vegetables is always boiled, no oil, no fat it is good for health and help the body cool.
Finally, why ancient Viet people ate fish in their meals because Viet people lived with water. I mean, There are many rivers which include many fishs and freshwater fisheries. They have high protein and low fat unlike meat.
Everything is processed with cool and fresh way to balance the hot weather of the tropics.
All things make the frugality of the Vietnamese cuisine. Vietnamese food now today is nearly same to before. May be have many spices, but always soothing and delicate.