A 40-year-old Chinese-style porridge shop in Saigon is well-known for its unique topping: mangrove worms. The unnamed porridge shop in Tan Phu District sells porridge cooked in the style of the Teochew people, who originated in southeast China, which is served with shrimp, fish, pork intestines, and trung bien -mangrove sea worms.
Vietnamese dishes including bo kho (stewed beef), bo nhung dam (beef in vinegar hot pot) and bun cha (grilled pork meatballs with vermicelli noodles) have been named among the world’s 100 best meat dishes, according to readers’ votes of the TasteAtlas, the world’s most famous encyclopedia of flavors, traditional dishes, and authentic restaurants.
An Giang Province, which borders Cambodia in the upper Mekong Delta, has become famous for a beef dish that is more a neighborly fusion than a Vietnamese original.
