These snails will have been kept in clean fresh water for about ten hours before being boiled for the dish, to allow sufficient time for the snails to release any organic matter they may have in their shells. The boiled snails after being taken out of their shells would be cleaned. The soup for the dish is made from the water in which snails have been boiled in. To the soup is added tomatoes and several kinds of flavour and vinegar. When being served these long tiny flour threads are cut into smaller pieces.
Rice is eaten together with a variety of different dishes.
Com is made from different kinds of rice. Typically fragrant rice is used, such as tam thom and Nang Huong . Consists of dishes of pork, fish, shrimp, and vegetable stirred in fat, as well as vegetable pickles, ect. In the pastt several years people in urban centres have begun to go out for lunch at pavement food stalls. Consequently there has been a proliferation of temporary food stalls along many street pavements or in other public places in cities.