Meat dishes

Bò kho (Meat Soup): A beef and vegetable stew, often cooked with warm, spicy herbs and served very hot with French baguettes for dipping. In northern Vietnam, it is known as "bò sốt vang"

Bò lá lốt: A dish of spiced beef rolled in a pepper leaf (lá lốt) and grilled.

Bò lúc lắc (Shaking beef): A dish of beef cut into cubes and marinated, served over greens (usually watercress), and sautéed onions and tomatoes. Eaten with rice.

Bò 7 món (Vietnamese seven courses of Beef): A less popular version is the Cá 7 Món, seven courses of fish.

Chả lụa: A sausage made with ground lean pork and potato starch. Also available fried; known as chả chiên. There are various kinds of chả (sausage), made of ground chicken (chả gà), ground beef (chả bò), fish (chả cá), or tofu (chả chay, or vegetarian sausage).

Gà nướng sả: Grilled chicken with lemon grass(sả). Lemon grass grilled beef and other meats are also popular variations.

Nem nướng: Grilled meatballs, usually made of seasoned pork. Often colored reddish with food coloring and with a distinct taste, grilled on skewers like kebabs. Ingredients in the marinade include fish sauce.

Nem Nguội: A Huế dish and a variation of the Nem nướng meatballs, these also come from Central Vietnam. They are chilled, small and rectangular in shape, and stuffed with vermicelli. The reddish meat is covered with peppers and typically a chili. Very spicy, eaten almost exclusively as a cocktail snack.