Posts Tagged ‘Cuisine’
Down the road all the way from Ho Chi Minh City – a replacement of the city which was originally named Saigon – we seemed to realize that half the population of this town his job cooking and selling food, while the other half is the consumer. Such traits also appeared in Bangkok and in several Indonesian cities. Selling food is a kind of business it seems that most people first think of any Asian. You see, everyone must eat, right?
However, traders class food vendors in Saigon and Bangkok so much more variety and types compared with what we see in Indonesia. In Indonesia, we often see a road filled with boiled and roasted corn sellers – all the same and rows. Or along the street all selling fried bananas. If it is to the Jakarta Fair, for instance, my own bingungDi cities Thailand and Vietnam, the trafficker is smarter to understand diversity. In one short segment near Ben Thanh Market, for example, we easily find dozens of different types of food. Seller fruit slices, roasted corn, corn on the cob, Juhi (dried squid that is burned and then ditokok-tokok with a hammer), carrot cake (cake kark char), various types of lemper or lemang (main ingredient of white rice and black rice, but different contents kinds, such as: red beans, chicken, beef, pork, etc.), baguette (french bread) with various contents (shrimp, beef, roast duck, etc.), noodle soup, as well as much more. Read the rest of this entry »