Vietnam street food and street vendors are a unique cultural feature of the Vietnamese community. It reflects the lifestyle and social development in Vietnam. For a long time, street food has been a need of urban people. The development of street food is an inevitable need of society, bringing many conveniences to consumers.

Street food is becoming increasingly popular along with an urbanized lifestyle because of its positives to society:
It provides an affordable and nutritious food source that is typically rich in nutrients and has a distinctive flavor (due to the cooker's own experience).
- Convenient for consumers, diversified and attractive food sources play an important role in providing food for society.
- Creating a significant source of income for many people. Especially women, the main source of labor participating in street food services. This type of business has brought business opportunities, creating an initial step for those with little business capital.
- Sometimes street food is also the typical culinary culture of each region, each country.

Vietnam street food: "An essential part of life"

• The world is nowhere without street gifts.
• Small-scale family, large is an ethnic community that often likes to take the food, the sophistication of the food of our home, our country as its own pride because there is nowhere, sometimes food. rise to "soft power" in diplomatic and commercial relations.
• Street food is an indispensable part of Vietnamese life.
• Because if you think more deeply, the bag of vermicelli, bread cart, ice cream box, sticky rice basket, green tea cup ... is the livelihood of so many people and families, sometimes lasting for generations.
  
• Meeting the right period of industrialization, because living conditions do not allow, many people have to "rice, soup, soup" even though they really want to create family meals.
  
  

Vietnam street food is praised in the French newspaper

Vietnamese cuisine in general and Hanoi cuisine in particular has long been loved by tourists and appeared many times in prestigious newspapers.
And recently, the old French newspaper Le Figaro has just had a journey to discover 8 famous dishes of Hanoi.
- In the article in Le Figaro with the title: "8 great dishes to enjoy in Hanoi, Vietnam - the temple of street food", 8 attractive dishes are mentioned respectively: Pho , bun cha, rolls, crab vermicelli, bread, pillow cake, fish ball, egg coffee.
- Also according to the author of the article, wandering Hanoi, you do not necessarily need to go to high-class restaurants.
- You just need to experience the taste of food in the old town alleys, sometimes the roadside stalls ... can bring "treasure" of unique Vietnamese cuisine.

Vietnam street food - from travel perspective

Coming to Vietnam, visitors can easily encounter traditional and pure Vietnamese dishes without having to spend much time searching or having to step into luxury restaurants.
The most popular dishes for foreigners are pho, spring rolls, pancakes, beef noodles, grilled pork vermicelli, spring rolls, banh chung, banh gio ...
Many visitors share that they find it interesting to enjoy traditional Vietnamese dishes, through which they can learn more about Vietnamese culture. 
Vietnamese street food is famous around the world.
This really contributes to the development of the tourism industry.
Two popular street foods in Vietnam, pho and bread, have been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The unique features of street food contribute to the attraction for visitors.
In addition, the street food style of Vietnamese people also makes visitors feel interesting.

When enjoying street food, Vietnamese people often enjoy it together in a bustling, fun and airy atmosphere.
Tables and chairs are usually small, low to take up too much space on the road and easy to arrange.
In addition to using traditional chopsticks, when eating Vietnamese people also use a toothpick and hand to take food depending on the dish.
Through the media, visitors know more about Vietnamese street food.
And many of them want to travel to enjoy Vietnamese street food.
Or when they come to Vietnam, they need to explore street food.

Vietnam street food in the eyes of international visitors

- “Sometimes attractive Vietnamese dishes are the cheapest dishes that locals often eat on plastic chairs and tables on the market.

- A small country like Vietnam, but the food is incredibly delicate and varied.
- Every city, even every village has a specialty ... "

This is the general impression of many foreign tourists after enjoying the traditional Vietnamese dishes.

Even with many diners who like to "move", it also becomes the "beast" associated with all the countryside on the S-shaped strip of land.
Evidence is, in the international newspapers appeared many articles "heartbreaking" expressing the interests of those tourists.
To them, the experience of going out to eat in Vietnam is sometimes mentioned more than a matter of… food.
Everyone sat very close together, eating while watching the road.
Children play with each other, while the waitresses joke with each other while waiting for the customers to order more dishes ...

One particularly interesting thing about Vietnam street food vendors is the way they advertise.

- The voices are rhyming and poetic, sounding very melodic.
- In the digital age, many people advertise in a more modern way. They use pre-recorded radio speakers, but also use microphones to advertise, like they are singing karaoke.
- More and more world-famous chefs are coming to Vietnam because they love the taste of Vietnamese food - a particularly popular but attractive taste.
- Among them is Mr. Didier Corlou from France who is currently the chef of Metropole Hanoi Hotel.
- He loves to use fish sauce to prepare dishes.
- He also "loves" Vietnamese pho and rated pho as one of the best in the world, and Hanoi is one of the capitals with many of the best dishes in the world.
- Many international visitors to Vietnam have evaluated "Vietnam is a culinary paradise" with dishes that are not only unique but also unforgettable.

Conclude this article with comments on the American newspaper CNNgo about Vietnam street food:

“America gave birth to mobile restaurants, but Vietnam is the street food paradise.
Nowhere is there a diverse culinary culture like this place.
Through cuisine, a part of Vietnam's cultural identity has been preserved and promoted in the process of international cultural integration and exchange. "