Rice Vinegar - Vietnamese

Vietnamese

Rice vinegar is called dấm gạo or giấm gạo in Vietnam. A variation of rice vinegar is spicy sour giấm bỗng made from nếp cái hoa vàng rice (the most notable origin of this kind of vinegar is Vân village, Vân Hà commune, Việt Yên district, Bắc Giang province) and is an ingredient of vịt om giấm bổng, bún riêu, bún ốc. Another rice vinegar is light sour hèm, used in ốc bươu hấp hèm, gà hấp hèm which is a speciality of Hóc Môn district, Ho Chi Minh city. There is also a kind of rice vinegar, namely mẻ which is strong sour, used in trâu luộc mẻ- a speciality of Cần Thơ city.

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