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The main features of Vietnamese Cuisine
Cuisine in the country with more than 100,000,000 people differs strikingly between the north, south and central regions, but two key (1) (a) stand out.
Firstly, (2) (b) plays an essential role in the nations diet as it does throughout Southeast Asia. Humorous speaking Vietnamese is noodle-crazy. You have seen regularly the (3) (c) of noodle in their breakfast, lunch and dinner, in homes, restaurants and at roadside stands. Noodles are eaten wet and dry, in soup or beside soup, and are made in different shapes and thicknesses of wheat, rice and mung beans such as bun cha, Cao Lau, Hue beef noodle, bun rieu... Rice also a main (4) (d) for making banh chung, banh bao, banh xeo, banh beo, xoi...Secondly, no meal is complete without fresh vegetables and (5) (e) . Thanks to the tropical climate, fresh vegetables are (6) _____________ all the year round. As the result, dishes with fresh vegetable become (7) _____________ with every family, especially with poor people in the old days. Some popular dishes are canh, goi ngo sen, nom du du, rau muong, caphao... Viet Nam can also be considered as a tropical paradise of (8) _____________ and beverage with che, sugarcane, fruit smoothies, bubble tea...