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Bun Bo Hue – food culture characterized in Southern of Vietnam

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Bun Bo Hue – food culture characterized in Southern of Vietnam

If you ever have been enjoying Pho, you would have known Pho is a combination of rice noodles, beef and beef soup boiled. But today we can talk about another beef rice noodle soup that is Bun Bo Hue.

Traditional Bun Bo Hue only has beef, a little onion and perilla pointed.
Traditional Bun Bo Hue only has beef, a little onion and perilla pointed.

Not long ago, in the latest episode of the series “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” by CNN, chef Anthony Bourdain is famous Americans had said that “Bun Bo Hue is the most delicious soups in the World “. According to him, this noodle dish taste very special and very attractive. Finish the sweetness of the broth is extracted entirely from cow bones, pork bones, and it still smelled faintly of wood and aromatic herbs served with this dish. Travel Indochina

Bun Bo Hue is originated in the city of Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam. Like traditional Pho, the broth of Bun Bo Hue is boiled with cow bones and a lot of spices such as ginger,  and other special spices create wonderful flavor of this dish. The main difference is that the broth is cooked with lemongrass and red chilies.

Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam
Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam

Bun Bo Hue
Bun Bo Hue

The special thing to make a delicious Bun Bo Hue bowl is the broth. Some people is very careful in choosing pig knuckles, hardened pig blood, and serve shrimp paste on the side as a condiment. Decoration on Bun Bo Hue bowl is a little onion, scallions, chopped lettuce to make an attractive dish.

Like some sort of noodle outside Hanoi or Saigon, beef noodle served with herbs to bring out the best taste of it: marjoram, price, perilla, banana cell … it’s a bit more in lemon, some chillies. Travel to Vietnam

Today, Bun Bo Hue becomes more complete than with lean pork, frozen pork or sausage foundations. But many places they have improved the beef noodle  when not only put more spring rolls pigs but also silk, baked rolls, beef rolls … Bun Bo Hue stylized brings a new feel to the guests, both of Bun Bo Hue taste traditional, modern medium flavor.

Bun Bo Hue stylized with beef, spring rolls pigs but also silk, baked rolls, beef rolls
Bun Bo Hue stylized with beef, spring rolls pigs but also silk, baked rolls, beef rolls

Not only in Vietnam but also flavored Bun Bo Hue spread to American, Europe…. For Vietnamese, traditional dishes are indispensable in the life of each person. So that despite the US in California, District 13 Paris in France or in the Sydney sun of Australia … where a large number of Vietnamese people live, the dishes like Bun Bo Hue is “the national spirit, national drug” of Vietnam.

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