Discover famous dipping sauces in Vietnam

Lime Sauce

Lime Sauce is a familiar sauce to rice paper or offal lovers. The rich sauce largely determines the deliciousness of the rice paper dish. The sauce has a variety of sour, spicy, salty, and sweet flavors with the prominent mild lime flavor coming from the ingredients: lime juice, white sugar, shrimp salt, chili sauce, green onions and can have more chili, shallots, cooking oil, peanuts, butter,... depending on each person making it.

Tamarind Sauce

Stir-fried duck with tamarind, stir-fried crab with tamarind,... are typical Vietnamese street foods that make your mouth water every time you think about them. The secret to these dishes comes from the legendary multi-purpose sauce - tamarind sauce. Tamarind sauce is extremely convenient as it can be used as a dipping sauce or marinade, giving the dish a slightly sour taste and a distinctive and attractive tamarind aroma.

Nha Trang Chili Lime Salt

Nha Trang's specialty Dipping Sauce is probably the most famous sauce in the list of pure Vietnamese dipping sauces. With the main ingredients including chili, lemon, sugar, this smooth sauce with eye-catching green color awakens the taste buds of seafood and grilled meat dishes. Nha Trang Chili Lemon Salt can be found at any street food stall, in addition, the sauce also has many other variations such as Nha Trang Chili Lemon Salt (using red chili instead of green Siamese chili), Nha Trang Chili Lemon Ginger Salt, Nha Trang Passion Fruit Chili Salt, to meet the diverse tastes and rich dishes in Vietnamese cuisine.

Dipping sauce/Dipping sauce/Peanut dipping sauce

Cheo is a sauce from the North Central region. Cheo is widely used in Nghe An and Ha Tinh regions. With just a few familiar ingredients such as peanuts, pork bones, pork belly... the people of Nghe Tinh have created a rustic, rich, fatty sauce that goes well with rice. In the past, Cheo was a familiar part of every tray of food and meal during Tet. Nowadays, Cheo is more popular in everyday meals, served with sticky rice, boiled meat, grilled vermicelli with grilled pork...

Chao Sauce

Spicy and aromatic fermented bean curd sauce is a harmonious blend of many familiar ingredients, especially the characteristic fatty and aromatic fermented bean curd. This dipping sauce is delicious for grilled meat and boiled vegetables or for preparing famous dishes such as Crab with fermented bean curd sauce, Chicken with fermented bean curd sauce,...

Chili Sauce

Originating from China, Satay Sauce has become a sauce associated with Vietnamese cuisine with many localized variations. Appearing in beef noodle shops, rice paper shops, or even in hot pot meals with family, spicy Satay helps the dish become richer and more fragrant. The most popular Satay Sauce is Red Chili Satay, followed by Shrimp Satay , Hoi An Satay , Vegetarian Satay ,...

Throughout the regions of Vietnam, the cuisine is extremely diverse and rich. Vietnamese Dipping Sauce is rustic, easy to make and easy to enjoy, associated with the constant efforts of Vietnamese people to explore and create. If your locality has any other typical dipping sauce, please introduce it to Dh Foods and the culinary community!