Translations:Vietnamese cuisine/91/en

Exotic dishes

Snake is one of Vietnamese varieties of rượu thuốc. The bottle on the left is a cobra wine (rượu rắn).

Thịt chó (boiled dog meat)

Tiết canh (blood pudding with cubed meat and herbs) is curing.

The use of ingredients typically uncommon or taboo in most countries is one of the quintessential attributes that make Vietnamese cuisine unique. While unusual ingredients can only be found in exotic restaurants in many countries, Vietnamese cuisine is deemed atypical in that the usage of these ingredients can play a customary role in daily family dishes regardless of social class.