List of Vietnamese ingredients

This is a list of ingredients found in Vietnamese cuisine.

Meat

Name Local name	Region	Usage	Description
Beef thịt bò		Phở, Gỏi bò, Bò lá lốt, Bò nướng hành	Beef is used less commonly, save for pho and the famed Bò 7 món ("Seven-course beef")
Chicken thịt gà
fish cá
goat meat thịt dê
Dog meat thịt chó
Frog legs đùi ếch
shrimp tôm
Pork thịt heo
Nereididae rươi	Hanoi	fried "rươi" omelette (chả rươi), fermented "rươi" sauce (mắm rươi), steamed rươi (rươi hấp), stir-fried rươi with radish or bamboo shoot (rươi xào củ niễng măng tươi hay củ cải).	ragworms
Turtle rùa	Cà Mau Province
Snail Ốc bươu		stuffed with pork (Ốc bươu nhồi thịt) or steamed and served with rice vinegar (ốc bươu hấp hèm)

Insects

Name Local name	Image	Region	Usage	Description
Lethocerus indicus Cà cuống				giant water bug

Grain and grain based ingredients

Name Local name	Image	Region	Usage	Description
Glutinous rice gạo nếp
Wheat gluten (food) mì căng or mì căn				meat substitute

Legume

Name Local name	Image	Region	Usage	Description
Black-eyed pea đậu trắng
Hyacinth bean đậu ván
Mung bean đậu xanh
Winged bean đậu rồng

Vegetables

Name Local name	Usage	Description
Allium chinense củ kiệu
Amaranth rau dền
Bitter melon Khổ qua, mướp đắng	Canh Khổ Qua (Bitter Melon Soup), Tea, Omlet with bittermelon. Leaves and young shoots can be used as in stir fries.
Bok choy Cải bó xôi
Cabbage Cải bắp, bắp cải
Carrot Cà rốt
Cauliflower Súp-lơ or bông cải
Ceylon spinach Mồng tơi
Chayote Su su
Centella asiatica rau má		pennywort
Chili pepper ớt
Colocasia gigantea (taro) bạc hà, dọc mùng	Canh chua, Bún bung, Bún móng giò	Giant elephant ear or Indian taro
Cucumber dưa leo
Garland chrysanthemum cải cúc or tần ô		Crown daisy
Daikon củ cải trắng
Eggplant cà tím, cà dái dê
Eleocharis dulcis or Water Chestnut củ năng
Water dropwort rau cần ta
Katuk Sweet leaf rau ngót
Joseph's coat rau dền đỏ
Telosma cordata hoa thiên lý
Water cress cải xoong
Water spinach rau muống
Grape leaves lá nho
Welsh onion hành	mỡ hành (chopped scallions cooked by pouring boiling oil over them to release their aroma), Bò nướng hành (strips of beef wrapped around a scallion)

Spices and herbs

Name Local name	Usage	Description
Bacopa monnieri rau đắng
Black cardamom bạch đậu khấu
Cleistocalyx operculatus
Dill thì là	chả cá and canh cá thì là
Elsholtzia ciliata kinh giới	typically used raw to accompany cooked foods such as grilled meats.	Vietnamese Balm, Vietnamese mint
Houttuynia cordata giấp cá or diếp cá		fishy-smell herb
Lemon grass xả or sả
Eryngium foetidum ngò gai		Long coriander/saw tooth coriander/culantro
Peppermint húng cây or rau bạc hà
Perilla tía tô
Rice paddy herb ngò ôm
Spearmint húng lủi
Thai basil rau quế
Turmeric nghệ
Vietnamese coriander rau răm

Fruits

Name Local name	Usage	Description
Acerola xơ-ri
Annona or Sugar-apple, na, mãng cầu
Apricot mơ
Buddha's hand phật thủ
Canistel trái trứng gà
Cherimoya mãng cầu tây
Chinese date táo tàu
Cam sành		green orange
Sugar-apple bình bát or mãng cầu		Custard apple
Dracontomelon sấu
Durian sầu riêng
Gac gấc	Xôi gấc - made with sweet glutinous rice and the aril and seeds of the gấc fruit	Baby Jackfruit, Spiny Bitter Gourd, Sweet Gourd, or Cochinchin Gourd
Chrysophyllum cainito vú sữa		Green star apple
Guava ổi
Jackfruit mít	Mít sấy - Jackfruit chips
Langsat bòn bon
Lime (fruit) chanh (chanh ta)	Chanh muối - salted, pickled lime
Duku nhãn	Chè nhãn
Lychee vải
Mandarin orange quýt
Mango xoài
Mangosteen măng cụt
Otaheite gooseberry chùm ruột
Papaya đu đủ
Persimmon hồng
Pitaya dragon fruit, thanh long
Plum mận
Pomegranate lựu
Pomelo bưởi
Rambutan chôm chôm
Sapodilla hồng xiêm or xa-pô-chê
Spondias
Spondias cytherea cóc
Soursop mãng cầu Xiêm
Star fruit khế
Syzygium jambos Rose apple roi in the North, mận Đà Lạt in the South
Tomato cà chua
Syzygium aqueum Water apple roi in the north, mận in the south
Watermelon dưa hấu

Others

Name Local name	Region	Usage	Description
Eryngium foetidum
Galangal
Garland chrysanthemum
Gnaphalium affine
Houttuynia
Jícama
Lethocerus indicus
Limnophila aromatica
Lolot lá lốt		a flavoring wrap for grilling meats (Bò cuốn lá lốt)	Piper lolot or lolot pepper
Luffa
Luffa acutangula
Luffa aegyptiaca
Mesona
Peristrophe roxburghiana
Phaseolus lunatus đậu ngự	Thừa Thiên–Huế Province	Chè đậu ngự	lima beans
Sapodilla
Sauropus androgynus
Sesbania bispinosa
Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania sesban
Sterculia lychnophora
Syzygium jambos
Syzygium samarangense
Volvariella volvacea

References

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