Food in Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine encompasses the food and beverage of Vietnam. Vietnamese always use a lot of different vegetables, herbs and spices, like lemon, lemon grass and so on. Due to the Buddhist faith, also have some famous vegetarian dishes in Vietnam. The most common meat in Vietnamese cuisine are chicken, pork, beef and seafood; however, duck and lamb rarely appears in Vietnamese.
Vietnamese cuisine can be divided into three cuisine. Norther Vietnam is the main source of Vietnamese culture, so that lots of famous dishes are derived from northern region. In addtion, dishes in northern region are more tradditional and the choice of spices, materials are more strict.
People in southern Vietnam was love sweet food. As a diversified area, it will use more different kind of spices than northern region.
There is a big difference in central Vietnam diet, south and the north, in central Vietnam, there has more small dishes that are very specy.