Cơm bình dân translates as “rice for the common man”. You will find it as street food, in small restaurants or at bus stops when traveling long distance. It is cheap and served fast. I wish we could have cơm bình dân in The Netherlands instead of the ubiquitous snackbar where you will not find a vegetable of any kind.

Below rice and three dishes served on one plate at the busstop halfway Hà Giang and Hà Nội.