Dipping sauce for Hanoi style spring rolls

It's interesting that the way Hanoian makes the dipping sauce for spring rolls is different from Hochiminh style.

Garlic, Chilli, Pepper Powder
Main Ingredients and respective proportion: 1 spoon of dipping sauce, 1 spoon of sugar, 1 spoon of vinegar, 5 spoons of warm water.

Tips: just apply the same ratio of 1:1:1:5 no matter how many servings you are preparing.

Steps:
1. Prepare the sauce with above ratio using warm water.
2. Taste testing to make sure it fits your taste
3. Chop garlics well to make sure chopped garlics will float in the dipping sauce. Add garlics after dipping sauce tastes perfect.
4. Add pepper powder and chilli at last
Very simple, isn't it? In Vietnam, there is a very famous fish sauce brand, Phu Quoc fish sauce. This is one of the perfect fit to make dipping sauce.

Now dipping sauce is ready. Enjoy your meal!

Yum Yum!!! ^^

Vietnamese fresh shrimp spring rolls (Nem cuon) - Hanoi recipes

The Hanoi style for fresh spring rolls differs from the Southern style in both ingredients and how the dipping sauce is made.

Ingredients for Hanoi style fresh spring rolls:

Rice paper
Rice vermicelli
Thin omelete
Cooked shrimp (sliced into half)
Boiled Belly pork (thin sliced)
Vietnamese pork meatloaf
Vietnamese fermented pork roll


Lettuce
Cilantro
Carrot
Star fruit
Pineapple

Note: every ingredient (except for lettuce and shrimp) needs to be sliced into long thin shape of 5cm so that it will be easier to wrap and looks better.

The dipping sauce is different too and I will showcase in the next post. ^^

>> Omelete & Vietnamese pork meatloaf

>> Vietnamese fermented pork roll

>> fresh rice vermicelli









Yum Yum!!! ^^

Ingredients for fresh spring rolls in foreign country

Rice vermicelli


Safoco is a favorite brand for oversea Vietnamese people. Unlike the fresh beehoon you can buy from supermarket in Singapore, this rice vermicelli really tastes the same as that you can buy in wet market in Vietnam.

Just boil the vermicelli for around 5min, then take out and soak in cold water until the cooked vermicelli become totally cool.

Rice paper

This rice paper can be used for wrapping both fresh spring rolls as well as fried spring rolls.

Yum Yum!!! ^^

Vietnamese fresh shrimp spring rolls (Goi cuon) - Southern recipes

Ingredients

Shrimp

Rice vermicelli

Lettuce

Pork belly

Cucumber

Bean sprout

Chinese chives

Shallot
Rice wrapper

Get things ready

- Boil pork belly with 2 onions and 1 tablespoons of salt in 10-15min. Once cooked, take out and put into cold water to make the meat brittle

- Boil shrimps in 3-5min. Once cooked, remove skins and slide each shrimp into half

How to make the dipping sauce:

4 teaspoons fish sauce
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic chili sauce
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 teaspoon finely chopped peanuts  
 
 
Yum Yum!!! ^^