Quang Ninh specialties – A series of delicious dishes that ‘catch the hearts’ of tourists

Traveling, tourists not only want to see beautiful scenery but also want to enjoy and discover regional specialties. Coming to Quang Ninh is not only famous for many beautiful bays, but it is also famous for many delicious dishes that attract tourists.
Ha Long squid cake

Illustration The famous Ha Long squid cake with delicious taste is hard to compare with anywhere. The process to make the squid balls has a natural yellow color, a strong aroma right from the frying pan, rich sweetness, and fresh toughness. It is impossible to ignore the extremely sophisticated processing, the squid used to make the cake are not big, fresh cuttlefish caught in the waters of Ha Long. After preliminary processing, the squid is put into a mortar and pounded, seasoned with fish sauce and pepper, then molded into bite-sized pieces, dropped into a pan of boiling oil and fried until golden brown on both sides, giving off an attractive aroma. And indeed, once you have tasted Ha Long squid cake, you will never forget the taste. Nowadays, people have many ways to make squid rolls, but to keep that famous delicious taste, only the hand pounded squid cake is still the best. Sam Quang Yen Illustration This child also has a strange name for many people. Sam Quang Yen is one of the very popular Quang Ninh delicacies. Sam meat is fragrant, has a cool sweetness, moderate toughness. To make dishes from Sam, it is always necessary to take a pair of sam (one male and one female) and process them into dishes such as sam soup, sam soup, sam salad, sweet and sour fried sam, grilled sam’s thighs, and spring rolls. Sam, fried sam, sam sam cooked with eggs, sam hot pot… Ha sea Illustration The oyster is shaped like an oyster, but smaller, and has a cooler taste. The way to cook Ha of Quang Ninh people is usually to make tomato sauce (eat it thickly, dip it with raw vegetables, or add it to rice or vermicelli) or cook sour soup (more water, eat it as a soup, suitable for cooking). served with salads and herbs of all kinds. Sometimes chopped, cooked with eggs, added a little fragrant coriander to have a delicious egg dish. Ha can also be used for hot pot dishes, dipping as dipping of all kinds. If you have small children, chop Ha Ha to cook porridge for the children, you will have a bowl of nutritious, sweet and cool porridge. Chicken on Tien Yen hill Illustration. Tien Yen is not only famous for its ancient houses but also known for its specialty “hill chicken”…with the adage: “Mong Cai pig, Dam Ha girl, Tien Yen chicken”. The chicken here has fragrant, sweet and special meat, firm but still crispy, not chewy; You can cook all kinds of dishes, but the most delicious is still boiled chicken. Sa Sung Van Don The specialty of the land of Van Don, Quang Ninh, visitors should probably not ignore and enjoy the famous and delicious samosa dish, Sa worm is a premium specialty that can process a lot of delicious dishes, which is also used as a medicine to increase vitality in men. Illustration The way to prepare dishes from Sa worm is relatively simple, but the most important step is the preliminary processing step. Fresh Sa worm brought home, selected large ones, washed many times to clean the sand. When preliminary processing, turn the intestines out, pay attention to peel off the tiny intestine like a light red blood vein, as small as the tip of a needle, running along the body of the worm. This is the part of the intestine that is also contained inside the sea sand, making it easy to eat when eaten. Sa worms belong to the phylum of angiosperms, which live only in coastal sandy beaches where the high and low tides create sand dunes. They are shaped like a giant colorful worm. When fresh, worms have a length of about 5 -10 cm, and some are up to 15 – 40 cm long. In the waters of Quang Ninh, sa worms are abundant in Hai Ha, Co To, Mong Cai… But big and delicious, they must be mentioned in Minh Chau and Quan Lan islands (Van Don).