However it should be known that Vietnamese dishes served in restaurants have not been tailored to the American palette as Chinese food has. In America and European countries you will see dishes being served with recognizable ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, fish, seafood and of course vegetables. What you won’t see is the exotic and taboo side of Vietnamese cooking.
There is a saying that in Vietnam, everything is used and nothing is wasted. What makes Vietnamese food considered to be exotic are the ingredients that are deemed atypical in most countries. In Vietnam it is just a customary role in daily family dishes of all social walks of life.