At Vietnamese families, sticky rice (glutinous rice, Com Nep or Xoi) is often cooked more on formal occasions or cooked to make votive food for spiritual offerings. But sticky rice can be found at restaurants in big cities for people to have breakfast daily. While you can have sticky rice for lunch and dinner but most Vietnamese don’t normally do it. Sticky rice is more nutritious and heavier food than normal rice that quite a few can not eat it that much and can not eat often.
Fried rice is more often served in restaurants than at home but families may have fried rice at breakfast which is cooked from the leftover steamed rice of the previous dinner.
Traditionally tea was once the most popular non-alcoholic drink in Vietnam, be it daily drink or at important occasions. Nowadays, quite a few youths switch to drinking coffee instead of tea, but tea remains the drink at important events like family meetings, weddings, funerals,...
There are some big brewing companies with brand famed in Vietnam and several microbreweries in all over the country.
Vietnamese popular alcoholic drink is rice wine which tastes horrible to most Westerners and which almost certainly guarantees a hangover after consumtion.
Coffee is said to have been introduced into Vietnam by French missionaries in the 19th century. Since then it has been a popular drink for an increasing portion of the Vietnamese population.
The wet rice civilization is known to have begun in Vietnam for thousands of years ago and rice has since been the staple food in the Vietnamese diet. In Vietnam to have a meal means mostly to eat rice with something else. Steamed rice is the foundation of the Vietnamese meals.
Traditionally the Vietnamese would drink more tea. With the introduction of coffee to the Central Highlands of Vietnam by the French, people in the Central Region and South of Vietnam would drink more coffee than tea while the Northerners would drink more tea.
Geographically the Vietnamese refer to their country as 3 regions: the North, the Central Region and the South. The Viet people in each of the 3 regions of Vietnam have a distinct version of the Vietnamese food. Say, food in the North tends to be fresh with steamed and boiled dishes; food in the Central Region tends to be spicy and food in the South tends to be sweet.
