越南北部中部南部 Regional Vietnamese: Three Distinct Cooking Styles
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Origin
Vietnam's long, narrow geography (1,650km from north to south — roughly the distance from London to Athens) produces three distinct regional culinary traditions that Vietnamese food scholars identify as fundamentally different: the Northern tradition (Hanoi — the oldest, most Chinese-influenced, most subtle), the Central tradition (Hue — the most elaborate, the former Imperial capital), and the Southern tradition (Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City — the most diverse, the most herb-rich, the most recently developed).
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Description
The three Vietnamese regional traditions — their defining characteristics.
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The Thread
—China's regional diversity (same north-south cooking divide — Cantonese south vs Shanghainese and Northern), Thailand's regional cooking (same north-south divide with equivalent characteristics — Nort
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