Celebrating the Lunar New Year Holiday

摘要

In the North, the menu includes pig trotters stewed with bamboo shoots, boiled chicken, carp cooked in salted sauce, jellied meat, stir-fried almond, papaya salad, cauliflower or onion fried with pig skin or lean pork, and green bean pudding. In addition, there are two other items that cannot be missed, square cake (Banh chung) made of glutinous rice, pork and green beans wrapped in leaves and boiled and pickled with scallion with facilitate digestion. Hue, the ancient imperial city in the central region of the country, is famous for its royal culinary art from the feudal times, with hundreds of dishes created for Tet for the kings and the royal family. Nowadays at Tet, every family in Hue has a round glutinous cake (banh Tet).