Vietnamese Food.: Vietnamese Street Food Vietnamese to English Translations

This little book (easy to carry) provides translations of a variety of foods commonly found in Vietnamese street food and restaurants. In a country of street food specialization, with street restaurants concentrating on one or two types of food and passing the business down through generations, street food and the people's restaurants have achieved a high art. Cheap and crazy delicious - it is the best food in a country with an already amazing cuisine.With this book you can pretty easily look at a menu and figure out what is being offered. If you need to, you can point to the menu item or the book page item.The book is segregated in chapters based on foods, types of restaurants, etc.It tends to highlight the foods more often found around Hanoi (most areas have their own special foods and these are mostly not included), but there is enough in there that we got by quite well with it around the country.There is also a free interactive web feature but this did not work for me. I called kindle customer service and they promised to work on it.After your Lonely Planet or Rough Guide guide book, this is the next book to bring with you to Vietnam. I can't stress enough how much this little book will add to your trip. It will save you lots of money (you can stay out of the tourist restaurants), you will eat the real authentic foods like the locals (who venerate their food) and you will better learn from the culture and the people. There is nothing as great as eating in a street or people's restaurant.

FAT NOODLE VIETNAMESE FOOD is billed as The Street Foodies’ Guide and the authors - who reside in Vietnam - invite the reader to ‘discover the Vietnamese Street Food Culture and eat like a local for less than $2 a meal”.With over 600 street foods, this guide certainly has more Vietnamese dishes than I’ve ever seen or heard of, even with a surfeit of Vietnamese restaurants in the Australian capital city of Melbourne near where I live.There are some eye-openers (for me at least) such as noodles with snails, green banana and tofu, fried frog in butter and garlic, salad with jellyfish, and Evil Chicken which is described as a small special chicken with black feathers on its legs.Of course, the more conventional dishes such as spring rolls, grilled pork with lemongrass and chilli, and rice pancakes - are also listed. Just looking at the names of some of these dishes is enough to start your mouth watering.The book begins by giving the Vietnamese names for various foods. We learn, for example, the Vietnamese words for for boiled, sautéed, and fried - useful for when you’re facing a street stall menu scribbled in Vietnamese with no English translation in sight.You can also click on links to see what various dishes look like, and at the end of the book is a comprehensive list of recommended street food stalls operating at the time of publication.The only thing this book lacks is a guide to the pronunciation of Vietnamese names. This would have been useful, as mispronouncing words in a foreign country can have sometimes alarming results. Even the authors acknowledge how difficult it can be to get even a glass of water when you don't know the local lingo.That small reservation aside, Fat Noodle Vietnamese Food is definitely a book I’d want in my travel pack if I was heading for Hanoi any time soon..

I’m hungry now, and I looked up all the Vietnamese places in Richmond, and I’ve made my list. This weekend, it’s me and my Kindle – out on the town.This is a great book because of the way it is organized. The author, Fat Noodle, has listed the common foods and translations so you ask for these foods and understand what they are in a way that makes ordering very friendly.There are categories like Grill/Barbeque, Salad, Noodle Soup, Pasta Noodle, Hot Pot and so on. Then there are listings by cooking methods, and of course there are actual dishes and drinks listed from A to Z. Remember folks, this isn’t a cook book, but it’s a Street Food guide. You want to be able to look for a particular thing you like and buy it in a restaurant or from a street vendor. OR- you want to be able to see what a street vendor is selling or look at a menu and know if you are going to like what you order.I only wish I had this guide with me in my Kindle when I was in Dakar, Senegal in the Vietnamese district. The translations are phonetic and easy, and the descriptions are organized for ease of use. I just love the little sections after a food description that say "Try It" or "About It" and describe where you can go to get a particular dish (if you're in Hanoi, of course).I highly recommend this to anyone who likes dining out, trying new places, or who might be planning a trip to a French country or even to Los Angeles, or to any place with a high Vietnamese population. A must have book if going to Vietnam, of course.

This is going to be really useful for our holiday later on this year. I love the way it's written in sections so everything will be easy to find.

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