Do vietnamese people have food taboos?!


Question: Do vietnamese people have food taboos?
Hi guys, I'm just wondering if Vietnamese people have any food taboos. I am Vietnamese myself and I cannot think of any restrictions my culture has on food.

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The only taboo (if you could call it that) is the way food is prepared. Many years ago, I decided to make shrimp cocktail. After cooking my (very large) shrimp, I iced them down and started eating them with my home-made cocktail sauce. My wife thought it was disgusting that I would eat cold shrimp. Another thing that people in Viet Nam don't eat is roast pork (unless it's heo quay). I have all the "American" cooking gadgets at my house in VN so I bar-b-que roasts, whole chickens and thick pork chops. My kids and Viet kieu friends love my bar-b-ques, but most of the native Viets are petrified of eating undercooked (ie. juicy) meat. I once bought a bunch of (Australian) rib eye steaks for a cook-out and I was the only one who ate it medium rare. My wife and our Viet friends cooked the things until they were shoe leather. lol



Actually, all cultures have food taboos. But only an outsider will tell it, because it's not the norm for them. What I like and think is a delicacy, will most certainly gross out someone else from a different culture (an example).



No.

http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Vietnam.html



They don't like to perform cunnilingus or fellatio ?!



Not that I can think of.




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