The new list of the 100 best street foods in the world, updated by the culinary site Taste Atlas in mid-May, mentions three Vietnamese dishes: Banh Mi, Pho, and Com Tam.
Vietnam’s Banh Mi ranks 6th out of 100, with a total of 4.6 stars out of 5. The experts at Taste Atlas also guide international visitors on how to pronounce this dish as “bun mee” and introduce it as a popular food among the locals. The main ingredients include crispy baguette bread, a legacy of French cuisine introduced to Vietnam, and various fillings including meat, coriander, chili, pickles, and aromatic herbs that reflect the taste of the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese banh mi
Com Tam is rated 4.5 stars and ranks 40th, a signature dish in Ho Chi Minh City. The rice is cooked from broken rice, a type of rice grain that breaks during drying, transportation, or milling. Broken rice grains are similar to regular rice grains, only smaller. The dish is served with sunny-side-up eggs, pork skin, grilled ribs, and tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, pickles, scallion oil, and sweet and sour dipping sauce.
Vietnamese “broken rice”
Pho is the third dish mentioned, ranking 54th with 4.4 stars and is described as the “national dish of Vietnam”, “a convenient street food that reflects the lifestyle of the locals”. Traditionally, the broth for Pho is made from chicken or beef boiling water, simmered with bones on low heat for at least 3 hours to achieve a natural sweetness. The addition of local herbs and spices to the dish is praised by Taste Atlas as “elevating Pho to a new level”.
Vietnamese pho
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