There are a lot of aspects about culture such as: behavior culture, communicative culture, eating culture. And in this essay I will discuss Vietnamese eating culture and compare it with Europe eating culture. In Vietnam, family meals with many has been one of the unique cultural features. Since the ancient time, it has become a very familiar thing whenever they go far away, they think about it with high regard . Vietnam is well known as a nation which has a long history, so they have a distinct and unique of eating’s way. There are some characteristics in the way of eating of the Vietnamese. In the old days and even nowadays, meal is served in tray. Serving trays are of all kind shapes and materials. In Vietnam, a tray means something more than a physical itself. Tray can be seen in every house from city to town, in the poor’s cottage as well as the wealth’s house. It could be placed under the straw veranda at noon, put in the flowered mat in rainy day or placed on platform even on bed. Thus, tray or food tray adheres to the Vietnamese daily meals. On Vietnamese food tray, food is served simultaneously. Tray centre is a small bowl of fish sauce which is used to control taste of eaters. Surrounding it are dishes which are arranged on plates or in bowls: soup, meat (cut into small piece before cooking because Vietnamese people never use knife during meal), vegetables, fish, etc. One eminent point no body cannot realize that Vietnamese tray is harmonious combination with nature: brown soy sauce, yellow fish sauce and fried fish, green of vegetables, brown of meat cooked in fish sauce or red chilli,etc. Do not know much the meal is delicious or not. No one else can restrain their desire in front of a colorful tray. On the special occasions, bowls, plates are displayed. Along with them chopsticks, which are arranged on tray and panned out like sun rays on the surface of brass drum, make the food tray be more eye- catching. Putting tray in flowered mat, on platform, bamboo tray even on bed is Vietnamese habit and this dies hard. In fact, serving tray on the table is amended into the Vietnamese habit. But using table in Vietnam is rather different from Western countries. First, some families use both tray and table (placing tray on table). Second, tray is already replaced by table. No matter what serving food on tray or table, the order is stable (fish sauce is still in the centre). Vietnamese people have often gather together o eat dinner after a hard day's work . That's when their grandparents, parents, children, brothers and sisters