Tet provides an excellent opportunity for visitors to sample some of Vietnam’s more exotic culinary creations.

This is one of the most delicious hotpot found by locals in the Mekong Delta, which shows an ideal combination of eel and banana flowers.

The travel guide website of Lonely Planet has listed out 10 most unusual dishes of Vietnam which are loved by locals but horrified by foreign travelers.

Cha Ca La Vong, or La Vong grilled fish, incorporates turmeric powder, ginger, dill and shrimp paste, offering special favor to provide one of the specialties of Hanoi.

Banh hoi long heo (rice vermicelli served with pig heart, liver and intestine) is a specialty in Quy Nhon City in Binh Dinh Province. Herbs, the dipping sauce and garlic chives sautéed in oil make the dish tastier.

Hanoi street foods have become a nostalgia for travelers who have once enjoyed them.

Bun mam, or a noodle soup cooked with fermented fish, boasts one of the Mekong Delta’s specialties.

Sauce is a staple of almost every dish in Vietnam. A Vietnamese meal without particular sauce is considered incomplete.

Linh (cirrhinus jullieni) fish and dien dien (Egyptian riverhemp or Sesbania sesban) flowers are omnipresent in the Mekong Delta during the flooding season. The hotpot incorporates the fish and the flowers is such a dish having a special rustic taste found in this land of rivers.

Pho rolls is a well-known dish of Hanoi. Easy to make, this dish has its unique taste from the stir-fried beef inside and the dipping sauce.

Bun Thang, or Hanoi-style rice vermicelli soup, is a peculiar dish showing a delicate culinary style of Hanoians. This is a perfect combination of colors and flavors.

Xoi (sticky rice) has a long-standing history in the Vietnamese cuisine.

Rice noodle soup with pork is a specialty in the Mekong Delta but well known across the country.

As chilling wind blows through Hanoi streets, it’s the time for Hanoi’s drink connoisseurs to enjoy a cup of rich flavor piping hot drink - the “cà phê trứng” or egg coffee, a Hanoi specialty that nowhere else in the world could be found.

VOV.VN - Tourists visiting Ho Chi Minh City will have the chance to take part in a new pilot training tour at a cost of VND4.39 million (US$191), following which they will be given a certificate confirming their completion of the course.

VOV.VN - Here is a list of some of the delicious street food that can be purchased for less than VND100,000, equivalent to US$4.3, per person on Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in Ho Chi Minh City.

A street stall “ragworm-pie” in Hanoi’s hectic Old Quarter earned its fame among local and foreign visitors.

Fish paste is a specialty with a distinctive flavor in the Mekong Delta. Locals use the special ingredient to make a unique fish paste hotpot, known locally as lẩu mắm.

Bun oc, escargot vermicelli soup, is a homespun dish in Hanoi. To some, nothing is better than enjoying a bowl of spicy escargot vermicelli soup in cold weather in the capital city.

VOV.VN - Bay Ho, bread stand 61, Hong Van, and grilled meat 37 are among the most popular places to purchase bread for local people in Ho Chi Minh City, with each establishment developing its own taste over many years.

With only a price of VND15,000 (US$0.65), banh mi featuring Vietnamese national flag has become the “patriotic banh mi” in the local community recently.

A fish noodle soup from the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang offers diners an interesting culinary delight as it has a taste different from counterparts in Khanh Hoa, An Giang and Soc Trang provinces.

VOV.VN - With the arrival of cold weather, this part of the year represents the perfect time to sample hot street food. Let’s visit Hanoi these days to taste these special dishes and enjoy an unforgettable experience.

Gia Lai is a mountainous province which boasts a distinctive culture and a cuisine embracing traditions and modernity. Among the specialties symbolizing the local cuisine, Gia Lai-style banh canh (rice noodle soup) should be the first to come.

Rice paper roll with small rice-field prawns served with herbs and a small bowl of spicy fish sauce is a local rustic dish which wins the heart of many food lovers.

CNN channel’s Great Big Story listed the eel soup and porridge in Nghe An province among seven breakfast meals in the world. Among the dishes featured: “Vietnam’s sup luon” a spicy eel soup.

Dien dien (Sesbania sesban) is a yellow flower found in the Mekong Delta during flooding season.

Jellyfish noodle soup is popular in some central coast provinces like Binh Dinh, Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa. The specialty wins the heart of diners with its fresh taste of the sea.

Boasting signature Thai cuisine, these six Saigon eateries serve up a fusion of traditional and modern flavors.

Pho burgers, shrimp paste pizzas and sweet soup with roast pork are some intriguing culinary innovations in Vietnam.