Culinary site TasteAtlas has released a list of 76 Southeast Asian dishes made mainly from rice (or sticky rice), featuring numerous entries from Vietnam, including broken rice and banh tet.
Broken rice is a popular street food among Vietnamese people and international tourists. Photo: Thuan Kieu broken rice.
Com broken rice, a signature and widely popular dish in Vietnamese cuisine, especially in the southern region, holds the second spot on the list. It is also Vietnam’s most internationally renowned rice dish, so its high ranking in TasteAtlas’s list comes as no surprise.
In its introduction, TasteAtlas describes: “Broken rice is a traditional Vietnamese dish often sold as street food. It’s made from broken rice grains, which were previously discarded during the milling process but are now a defining feature of Ho Chi Minh City’s cuisine.”
The culinary platform further explains that broken rice is typically served with various toppings, such as grilled pork chops, fried eggs, shredded pork skin, or fried fish cakes. It is often paired with sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled vegetables, scallion oil, and fish sauce.
Previously, broken rice was ranked 40th on TasteAtlas’s list of the 100 most enticing street foods in the world, published in May.
Meanwhile, nasi goreng ayam, a traditional Indonesian fried rice dish, claimed the top spot. Besides Indonesia, this dish is also popular in Singapore, Brunei, and Malaysia.
Indonesia’s nasi goreng ayam fried rice took the top spot. Photo: TasteAtlas.
Another Vietnamese rice-based dish, banh beo, ranks 14th on the list. This popular steamed cake is made from finely ground rice flour and topped with shrimp and pork, served with fish sauce. Diners can enhance its flavor with roasted peanuts and fried shallots. In addition to the savory version, TasteAtlas highlights a sweet variant of banh beo, almost exclusively found in Hoi An.
Traditional banh beo is steamed in small porcelain bowls and eaten with bamboo spoons. Some refer to it as a “Vietnamese version of tapas.” It is said that a perfect banh beo should have a small dent in the center to hold the flavorful toppings.
Ranking 17th and 18th are banh tet with mung bean or pork filling—iconic dishes of the Lunar New Year—and fried rice from Ninh Binh. The fried rice dish is usually made with white rice, garlic, salt, and pepper, although diners can add a variety of ingredients to enhance its flavor. Square-shaped banh chung also made the list, securing the 25th position.
Green rice flakes also made the list. Photo: local-insider.
Other Vietnamese dishes featured in the ranking include Com Lam (30), Xoi Ga (31), Com Chay (33), Xoi Muoi Muoi (43), Xoi Gac (44), Xoi Com (46), Banh Te (52), Com Hen (54), Com Nam (58), Com Coi Tom Rang (62), Xoi Ngu Sac (63), Xoi Vo (66), and Com Ga Tam Ky (70).
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, TasteAtlas is known as a global culinary map showcasing the best local dishes from around the world. Its rankings are based on reader votes, aiming to promote local delicacies and spark curiosity about cuisines travelers may not yet have tried.
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Source: Vietnam Insider