Well-known traveler magazine National Geographic has selected Top 10 World Celebration Foods, including Banh Chung and Banh Day of Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet)...
Well-known traveler magazine National Geographic has selected Top 10 World Celebration Foods, including Banh Chung and Banh Day of Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet).
The magazine writes, “Celebrating Vietnam's most important holiday requires a hopeful outlook—Tet marks the arrival of spring-and a strong appetite. Celebrated the same day as the Chinese New Year, Tet is a time of family reunions and feasts. Roasted watermelon seeds and dried candied fruits are typical small bites, but rolls of sticky rice and meat or bean fillings (wrapped in leaves) are the ultimate Tet food. These banh chung (square packets, which symbolize Earth) and banh day(round packets, which represent sky) are figurative and flavorful foundations of the feast.”
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Other foods in the list are Bread of the Dead (Mexico's Day of the Dead), Hákarl (Iceland's Thorrablót - Mid-Winter Festival), Moon Cakes (China's Mid-Autumn Festival), Hamantaschen (Jewish Purim), King Cake (Mardi Gras), Besan Burfi (India's Diwali), Kahk (Egyptian Eid al-Fitr), Haggis (Scotland's Burns Night) and Pastelitos del 25 de Mayo (Argentina’s May Revolution).
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