Thursday, February 3, 2011

Vietnamese Exiting New Year Food Ideas

 In Vietnam, Tet Nguyen Dan, Tet for a shorter name is the chief festival to be celebrated in Vietnam . It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar, a lunisolar calendar .

 The celebration itself, with being the center on their country comes along with important foods to have.  For the course of the year and during Tet, foods are identified on the table.

 The most essential cuisine that Vietnamese New Year Food should have and must be prepared earlier is the special rice pudding .  Mung beans and pork are what made up of banh chung or banh tet or rice pudding.

 Vietnamese New Year Foods gives importance to fruits like oranges, coconuts, grapefruits and other seasonal fruits, most especially watermelon aside from preserved sweets, beef, chicken, and fish. For the Vietnamese, Watermelons holds much importance, as its flesh is red in color, melons are considered lucky .

 Vietnamese Culture are highly respected that they pay reverence in the forms Vietnamese New Year Food.  From its rich form, glutinous rice or rice is the most valuable of all from the foods.

It started way back a Fairy appeared before a young prince to make his father happy .  The earth is symbolized from the rice itself .

And that’s when every New Year, Vietnamese would include rice foods like Banh Chung and Banh Day and use them as a special offerings to their ancestors .

Typical dishes that would complete the Vietnamese New Year Food are varieties of Vietnamese Rice Cakes .  Because they highly regard Rice Cakes that they make up assortments from a single dish .

 Banh Chung is the core of Vietnamese New Year Food and the soul of Vietnamese New Year .

 From the shapes of the rice cake, round shape symbolizes the sky and the square Chung cake symbolizes the Earth .  Vietnamese New Year Food gives so much importance to its special meaning and delicious taste that it has been traditional to have these base from the legend .

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