Wrap & Roll

You remember my post "from the Hell to the Heaven"?
It seems no lines between street food and food served in fancy restaurant.

Wrap & Roll is the same. Easy to buy from street stall as a quick meal.
And we order it in the restaurant with curiosity, how good they are in fancy place ?

Wrap & Roll. It's about many dishes when we eat or prepare, we put some filling on rice paper (bánh tráng). Then we wrap! We roll! We dip it in sauce! And we enjoy!

Most famous. Most desirable. Our fried spring roll. We call "chả giò" in the south, "ram" in central and "nem"  in the north! I don't know why "spring" ? It would originally come from our big neighbor!

Deep fried spring rolls (chả giò) 

Variation of fried spring roll in Quảng Ngãi - ram! 

 The fillings for deep fried chả giò is usually a  mixture creatively imagined by the chef!
 What to put ? How much to put ? What kind of rice paper ? It makes different!

Street snacks (quà vặt) Part One

If you ask me how many street snacks we have ...
I may not have a correct answer for that question!

Vietnam is developing, our food culture is also facing challenges and opportunities at the same time!
We are in process to gain something new but also to lose something old & traditional!
Some of street foods have been sweep by new trends, new items from overseas.
And at the same time, it could be a good time to promote the old, the traditional... in new form, as an extreme make-over to survive in Saigon - a big hub of food culture!

I'm really curious to collect, as much as I could, unique street snacks that we still see today but it could disappear someday!

Bánh tai yến (swift's nest cake!) 

Bánh tai yến (literally swift's nest cake!) originally from Mekong Delta, a mixture of rice powder, tapioca starch, coconut milk, sugar. Deep fried cake!
The name "tai yến" probably comes from the cake's form which reminds a nest of swifts! Special taste but a bit oily! There is one street vendor in Lý Tự Trọng street, in front of City's library, she's always there from morning till afternoon! 5000 VN đồng for one piece, and it's quite big!