Spring roll is brought to Hanoi from the Southern part of Vietnam. Rapidly, this food has become a favorite dish of Hanoi people. This is the reason why Spring roll has another name, “Nem Sai Gon”.
Vietnam is a country which has a life-long history. Because of this reason, the cuisine of Vietnam has been plentiful with many delicious dishes. Today, I want to recommend to my dear visitors a famous dish which is associated with Vietnam’s history and culture and has been become a symbol of Vietnamese food, besides “Pho” and “Bun Cha”. It is Vietnam’Spring roll.
Have you ever heard about this specilty food in Hanoi street food tour? Spring roll is one of our tradition food. Many people think that the origin of Spring roll is Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. However, Spring roll is brought to Hanoi from the Southern part of Vietnam. Rapidly, this food has become a favorite dish of Hanoi people. This is the reason why Spring roll has another name, “Nem Sai Gon”.
It is truth that Spring roll is one of the most complicated food in Vietnamese cuisine. To make this dish completely, the ingredients you need to prepare include many things and you must prepare enough to make a truly Vietnamese Spring roll:
Rice paper: it is the main ingredient which is used as the wrappers.
Rice vermicelli.
Cooked seafood (such as shrimp, or crab), or pork, beef and chicken, it depends on your taste. Nevertheless, the tradition Spring roll of Vietnam only contain boiled pork, rice vermicelli, carrot, beansprout and sauce with cucumber. Herb is used as the side dish. Remember before going to the next step, you have to peel, or devein and cut your ingredient in half. Adding eggs too to make this dish become greasy and more delicious. Dipping sauce: to make a good sauce, you need to prepare fish sauce, water, lime juice, crushed garlic, minced, white sugar, and chilli.
Here I write down some simple steps making Spring roll as Vietnamese always do:
Firstly, you have to boil the water, then put vermicelli in there to heat within 3 to 5 minutes. Then you put it out and let is drain.
Secondly, let is take another bowl of water to drip the wrappers. One small attention is that you only need a little water to soften this wrapper. Lay wrapper flat. In a row across the center, place a handful of ingredients which leaving about 2 inches uncovered on each side. Folding uncovered sides inward and make sure to tightly roll the wrapper.
Thirdly, making dipping sauce. It is the mixture of fish sauce, water, lime juice, crushed garlic, sugar, minced and chilli.
Forthly, all you need to do last is serving Spring rolls and dipping sauce.
Spring roll has many shapes, many versions, sizes and ingredients. It all depends on the differences in cuisine in each Asian country, likes in HongKong, people always consider Spring roll as Dimsum. Spring roll is the dish which is more available if you enjoy in cold weather, especially when it is newly fried. In Hanoi, there are some famous restaurants which serve the best Spring rolls in Hanoi street food tour such as:
Traditional Spring roll, or “Nem Ran Hanoi Truyen Thong” in Vietnamese at 74 Hang Quat Street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi. The price of this restaurant is 10.000VND for one roll.
Spring roll Bui Thi Xuan at 123 Bui Thi Xuan street, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi.
