No need for distant tastes, traditional Vietnamese dishes, associated with many people’s childhoods, will bring you a “happy stay at home” holiday.
With the current situation, people are advised to stay at home during the holidays to keep themselves and society safe. So, how to make 4 days off not boring if you just stay at home, eat rice? Together with relatives, we will start making Vietnamese dishes that are close, easy to make and familiar in the following 3 regions’ rice trays, we believe that family meals will be warmer than “travelling” out there.
Northern
Beef fried rice dưa
Beef melon fried rice is delicious thanks to the golden roasted rice seeds, fragrant fatty beef and a little bit of pickle as a highlight.

Photo: Annie.tran228
Cha Ca La Vong
Speaking of the North, La Vong fish is indispensable. The fragrant, hot fish pan will be even more suitable to enjoy with the family at dinner.

Photo: @hetmydiscovery
Grilled Pork Edge
This is a Vietnamese dish that is loved by many people because the pork belly after roasting is both soft and crispy thanks to the edges, served with a sweet and rich sauce.

Photo: @zen_asian_kitchen
Beef with wine sauce
Northern wine sauce beef is a family dish you should try on holidays. The sauce is thick, the wine flavor spreads gently, “breathing a new wind” into the home meal.

Beef with wine sauce looks similar to braised beef
Tomato scrambled eggs
If your family has many young children, adding this easy-to-eat, easy-to-make tomato scrambled egg to the table will make them more appetizing.

In many places, it is called fried egg, egg stir fry.
Crocodile soup with ribs
The broth is both sweet from the ribs and sour from the crocodile of this soup to help users enjoy, relieve fatigue, and purify the body during the holidays. The delicate sour taste from crocodile is truly the “treasure” of Hanoi cuisine.

The soup is familiar to Northerners
Central
In general, the typical Vietnamese dishes in the Central region, which often appear on the home rice tray, mostly come from Hue.
Bun Bo Hue

Hue standard beef vermicelli is not too spicy but sweet, full of beef, pork rolls and indispensable Hue unique fish sauce.
Sour cooked mussel soup
This is a quite attractive dish in summer days. Just add a few salted, salty eggplants and the meal will be more memorable.

Mussel soup – Hue specialty.
Central pancakes
The party at home will be no less spectacular than the restaurant with the Central Vietnamese pancake. Banh xeo in the Central is smaller than in the South, quite easy to eat.

Small Central Pancakes, just eaten. Photo: @saigon.district
Mussel rice

A portion of mussel rice consists of white rice, fried mussels on top, peanuts, tofu… served with filtered mussel broth.
Ceiling filter cake
With the family stirring the dough, shaping the cake, steaming the cake will definitely give you a different perspective on a holiday just at home.

The popular fillings are shrimp rimmed with fat, rim meat, salty green bean paste…
South
Braised meat with eggs

Needless to say, this is a ‘national’ dish on both Tet and weekdays of Southerners. Photo: @bongbe1990
Braised meat with coconut rice
Western delicacies in harmony between salty, sweet and fatty from copra will bring a memorable home meal.

If braised egg meat is too familiar, you can make braised meat with coconut rice.
Braised goby fish with pepper
On rainy days, with your family, enjoy a piece of spicy, spicy braised goby with a bowl of white rice, what’s better?

Photo: @1stbitefoodie
Sour and sour fish cotton lau
A trip to the West will be encapsulated in a bowl of hot and sweet cotton fish and sour soup.

Cottonfish is a specialty of the West because of its flesh and few bones. Photo: @_hahawonderland__
In addition, there are some popular dishes in all 3 regions such as stuffed tofu with meat, tofu with tomato sauce, grilled carp rolled in rice paper, braised meat with pepper, braised ribs with soy sauce. If you want a more lavish holiday party at home, you can prepare famous Vietnamese dishes with your loved ones such as pho, noodle soup, vermicelli, hot pot with fish sauce…

Hopefully, these familiar and traditional dishes will bring you a closer look and more affection with this holiday home meal.
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