Vietnamese Food

Vietnamese cooking is famous for its common use of fish sauce, although soy sauce and hoisin sauce are used widely as well. Its characteristic flavor is sweet, spicy, and flavored by a variety of mints. Vietnamese recipes use many vegetables, herbs and spices, including lemon grass and lime. The Vietnamese also have a number of Buddhist vegetarian dishes. The majority of the people in Vietnam are farmers. They grow the rice and vegatable that they eat. The Vietnamese generally eat from a bowl using chopsticks.

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Questions:

1. What is the most important food in Vietnam?

2. In Vietnam what two foods do people eat a lot of each day?

3. What are three types of meat that the Vietnamese eat?

4. What are two fast food places that you might find in Vietnam?

5. What food is eaten everyday for lunch, dinner, and sometimes breakfast?

6. People usually eat the following two foods for breakfast. Add more information to explain more about these two foods.

• Hot soup

• Bread

9. What are three food items made with rice flour?

10. What is Nuoc Mam?

11. What is Nuoc Mam is made from? There are two main ingredients in addition to the secret ingredients.

12. Add two facts of your own.