Top 7 Vietnamese Rolls You Should Try
When it comes to Vietnamese cuisine, you cannot miss out on the various types of rolls. The diversity of Vietnamese rolls originates from traditional ones, which later were creatively developed by Vietnamese chefs, resulting in numerous unforgettable flavors. Among the wide range of Vietnamese rolls, SVietnam Travel introduces to you the 7 most delicious Vietnamese rolls that you should try when visiting Vietnam. Let’s get started!
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Fresh Spring Rolls (Nem Rolls)
Fresh spring rolls, also known as Nem rolls, is a dish easily found in many bustling markets or restaurants in major cities across Vietnam. It consists of pork, shrimp, fresh vermicelli, and aromatic herbs wrapped in rice paper and served with a dipping sauce, either sweet and sour or a more concentrated sauce made from liver and meat.
The highlight of enjoying Fresh spring rolls is savoring the delicious combination of all the ingredients, from the meat and shrimp to the aromatic herbs, blending with the distinctive dipping sauce. As a refreshing and light dish, fresh spring roll is favored by many, especially foreign tourists. According to culinary experts worldwide, it is also a healthy, nutritious, and safe dish.
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Pho Rolls
This is a characteristic dish of Hanoi and is almost exclusively found there. It is a famous dish made from simple ingredients. Each Pho Rolls includes a soft and elastic layer of rice paper outside, wrapping a filling of stir-fried beef, lettuce, herbs, carrots, etc., and finally dipped into a sauce made from fish sauce, lime, garlic, chili, and sugar.
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Lemongrass Pork Skewers
The most delicious and distinctive Lemongrass pork skewer is found in Hue, leading the list of tempting rolls. It is made from minced pork, pork skin, and pork fat, marinated with salt, pepper, sugar, toasted rice powder, and when grilled, it emits a very characteristic aroma. The tasty Lemongrass pork skewer is best enjoyed while hot, with its aroma, rolled with rice paper, fresh vegetables, carrots, and pineapple, served with a meticulously prepared dipping sauce.
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Pancakes
Pancakes is a beloved dish that is popular from the South to the North, similar to the crepes in the West, but the outer crust is crispier due to quick frying in a hot pan or a special mold. You will be captivated by the chef’s skillful action, as they quickly pour the batter to create golden and crispy pancakes, then add shrimp, pork, beef, bean sprouts, and fold the other half on top. When eating, you cut the pancake into small pieces and wrap them with rice paper, fresh vegetables, and dip them into the meticulously prepared dipping sauce.
Steamed Rice Roll
Steamed rice roll is made from rice flour and filling, thinly rolled on a round cloth placed on a boiling pot of water. To make the rolls, the seller creates a thin layer of dough for the outer layer, then sprinkles minced meat, shrimp, and wood ear mushrooms, and then rolls it into thin slices. Steamed rice roll is also eaten with a sweet and sour dipping sauce, though milder than the dipping sauce for Kebab rice noodles. It is also served with some fresh herbs to enhance the flavor and promote health. This dish is often sold in many provinces in the northern region of Vietnam.
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Spring Roll
Spring roll is a popular and familiar dish in Vietnamese meals. The main ingredients include minced pork, shrimp, mushrooms, glass noodles, eggs, etc., all finely chopped and mixed with ingredients such as spring onion, pepper, and fish sauce.
What sets this dish apart from other rolls is that after mixing the ingredients, the chef uses rice paper to wrap them tightly so that the ingredients don’t spill out. Finally, the rolls are fried until golden and crispy.
Rice Paper Pork Rolls
This dish is most famous in Da Nang, and later, restaurants all over Vietnam added it to their menus.
This dish might look simple, but the preparation is quite intricate: The rice paper must not be too hard, and the pork can be boiled or roasted, but it must have enough intermingled fat and lean meat to be fatty and crispy. What’s special is the combination of over 10 types of herbs that make this roll enticing.
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Ultimately, whether Rice paper pork roll is delicious or not depends on the dipping sauce, which is a type of sauce prepared according to each shop’s special recipe, bringing out the difference when eating at different places.
Conclusion
The various rolls can be said to be a characteristic of Vietnamese cuisine, where you can roll anything, such as meat, fish, shrimp, and vegetables. However, what truly defines the distinct taste of Vietnamese rolls is the dipping sauce, which cannot be replicated elsewhere. If you come to Vietnam, be sure to try the rolls we have listed above.
