Bún - A Precious Word in Vietnamese

The bowl of noodle soup is the first picture in many Vietnamese people’s minds when they think about their homeland’s food. The noodle dishes bring the picture of a certain land in people’s memories. For example, when they see a bowl of Pho, they will recall Ha Noi city in winter, a bowl of Bánh canh (saltwater fish noodles) reminds them about the image of the sea in the Coastal South Central, a bowl of Hủ tiếu, a dish localized from Chinese food, is a demonstration of Mekong delta.

Bún bò (Source Internet)

Vietnamese family meals (rice and daily dishes) might be cooked by vegetables, meats, spices sought in other places, even abroad, but all types of Vietnamese noodles just could be enjoyed authentically in Vietnam. Most of the noodles are made from the rice reaped from the Vietnamese fields. Just fresh noodles made within Vietnam would be a fundamental part of creating the original taste of Vietnamese noodles.

The top of the famous Vietnamese dishes list such as Phở, Bún bò Huế (beef noodles), Hủ tiếu, Bún chả, Bánh canh, Mì quảng and Bún riêu all are the types of noodle dishes. It is mostly true to say that Vietnam is the kingdom of noodles. In “Eat at least a bowl of noodle soup before you leave Vietnam '' - that is one thing you should do when enjoying the authentic life in Vietnam - one of the kingdoms of noodles around the world.

Mì Quảng (Source Internet)

In terms of Vietnamese words, the name of a kind of noodle is the name of dishes. There are many names to refer to noodles in Vietnamese such as bánh, nui, mì, miến and specially “BÚN”. “Bún” - an original kind of Vietmamese noodles, is the name of fresh rice vermicelli noodles. Bún also is a precious name in Vietnam, because when Vietnamese people say the word “bún”, its sound is relative, touching and very Vietnamese.

Bún is a memory of many Vietnamese people who used to live in poverty, because they usually ate Bún with fish sauces for a daily meal as their parents did not have rice and food to cook a good meal.