List of dishes that you should try when traveling to Vietnam part 5

Banh Da Cua 

Crab cake is a rustic but familiar dish of the people of Hai Phong port. A delicious and attractive bowl of crab rice paper must have all 5 colors: pink-brown color of crab bricks, dark brown rice paper color, green color of coriander, water spinach, green onions, bright red in chili and yellow. sprouts of dried onions.

Now a lot of places sell crab cakes, but if you eat Hai Phong crab cakes, people will feel different. Maybe it's "hometown flavor" but it is a fact that if only red rice paper and crab are not available, it is not possible to create the taste of Hai Phong crab rice paper because it also uses some typical secrets including : the secret to making red rice paper and the secret to cooking rice paper soup.

Crab cakes are sold everywhere in Hai Phong, however, delicious shops only sell 1 day: morning, afternoon or night, maybe it is a way to keep customers of the seller but make it difficult for diners from far away because they It's hard to find a good restaurant if you're not familiar with Hai Phong.

Quang Noodles

Quang noodles are not noodle soups, or fried noodles, but mixed noodles. Noodles are usually made from many different ingredients: shrimp, chicken, pork, snakehead fish, crab... There are vegetarian noodles for vegetarians as well. Depending on who likes to eat, there will be a bowl of noodles like that.

When eating noodles, it is indispensable to eat grilled rice paper, green chili, lemon slices, roasted peanuts and a plate of raw vegetables (water spinach, banana buds, thinly sliced young banana stalks, basil, lettuce, lettuce...)

Quy Nhon fish noodle soup

Cha Ca including steamed and fried spring rolls (fried rolls have 2 types: large cakes and small balls put in the broth) attracts diners by its "gentle", easy-to-digest, and delicious taste. Delicious fish cakes must be made from termite fish, fresh nettle fish, bottle fish, mackerel ... peeled and pureed and brushed thoroughly to make the cake tough and smooth.

Delicious fish cake is also not fishy, fragrant with spices and sweet with the sweetness of fish... The broth of a bowl of vermicelli is the water cooked from the bones and head of the fish after the minced meat has been sliced. This fish water is sweet and fragrant with the taste of fish and is light on the stomach. The pot of water adds a layer of brake oil with cashews to have a beautiful color.

Grilled chopped fish

Not really as famous as the above dishes, but Cha Ca is ranked 2nd by the famous CNN newspaper in the list of 40 most delicious dishes in Vietnamese cuisine. Nowadays, Cha Ca is no longer popular, but Cha Ca was once a street food, for wealthy families in big cities.

Cha Ca is a dish made from fish, similar to pork rolls, but instead of pork with fish. The most famous fish cake dish is La Vong fish cake. The origin of La Vong fish cake originates from Hanoi during the Indochina period. At that time, there was a family of the Doan family at 14 Hang Son who married the De Tham insurgent army at their house, often making a delicious fish cake to treat the insurgents. After that, De Tham and the insurgents helped the owner open a fish cake shop, both for the owner to make a living, and to serve as a meeting place for the army. In the restaurant, there is always a statue of Mr. La Vong - Khuong Tu Nha bent over fishing, implying that a talented person is waiting for an opportunity. The restaurant's dish became famous, called La Vong grilled fish.

La Vong fish cake has a relatively sophisticated way of making. The fish used is usually fresh lentils, sweet and fragrant meat, little bones. The fish is filtered by slicing from the sides, then marinated with esoteric spices with galangal, turmeric, batch, pepper, fish sauce... The fish must be soaked for two hours, then grilled on a red fire, turning it over and over again to the sides are equally golden. After boiling, put the rolls in the grease pan again, stir in the boiling fat, when fragrant, cut the dill and herbs, stir well, mix. Because of the sophisticated way of making, La Vong fish cake was once a gift for well-to-do families. Up to now, La Vong fish cake is still a famous dish in Hanoi.

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