Rice noodle rolls: about 1kg Fresh vermicelli: 400 g Beef: 400 g Onion: 1 piece Cooking oil Fish sauce, pepper, chili, vinegar, ginger, sugar, lemon, garlic. Chinese coriander, bean sprouts, marjoram, lettuce, basil Illustration. Doing: Step 1: The raw vegetables pick up the deep leaves and then wash them, soak them in a basin of water mixed with a little salt. Then remove them, drain. Peel ginger and garlic, wash and chop finely. Peel the onion, wash it, and then chop it. Beef is washed and thinly sliced, when buying meat, you should choose the sliced ​​tenderloin, gradually the meat will absorb the spices and when eating, the meat will be softer. Then marinate the meat with ginger, spices and a little cooking oil for about 15-20 minutes for the meat to infuse and bring up the traditional flavor. Step 2: Put the pan on the stove, pour in cooking oil, heat and fry the garlic, then pour in the beef and stir-fry with the onions until cooked, then remove to a plate. To stir-fry beef well while stir-frying, you should pay attention to stir the meat quickly and on high heat so that the meat does not come out of water. Step 3: Spread 1 piece of pho on a plate or tray, put lettuce, a little vermicelli on top, beef evenly spread on the surface, a few stalks of raw vegetables and then gently roll tightly so that the meat does not fall off and The noodle piece was not torn. When rolling pho, you should leave the glossy side out so that the noodle roll looks more beautiful. Roll until the end of meat and cake, when arranged on a plate, you can leave the noodle roll whole or cut it into bite-sized pieces, when eaten with dipping sauce. Step 4: The sauce is also an important part of the dish. You mix the sauce with the following ratio: 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of delicious fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice, about 5 tablespoons of filtered water. In the process of making dipping sauce, you need to taste it regularly to balance the spices to taste. Stir the mixture in the dipping sauce until dissolved, add a little minced garlic and a few slices of chili to the sauce. The dipping sauce will have a sour, spicy, salty, sweet taste of spices and a little spicy of chili. Have a good time!

In each region, the roll dish has its own characteristics, the taste depends on the taste of the local people as well as the fresh ingredients available. Roll dishes in any land are cherished and processed with the mind of the cook, because anything can be overdone, but the dish must be clever and delicate. Pho roll – the elegance of Hanoi people This dish is always on the list of must-try specialties when you arrive in Ha Thanh land. Pho cuon is a blend of dipping sauce with fresh ingredients, moreover, it carries the typical flavor of the capital’s cuisine for generations. Pho cuon looks simple, but to cook it in the style of old Hanoians, not everyone can do it. The beef should not be cooked, but must be re-rolled and stir-fried so that the spices are absorbed into each fiber of the meat. Vegetables in pho roll include lettuce, coriander, Hanoi basil and a few mint leaves. Vegetables must be fresh, preferably vegetables picked within the day and then soaked in brine and washed. Pho is different from other rolls in the taste similar to Hanoi rolls. Thin, square-shaped rice paper is just right to wrap herbs with beef. Each roll of pho is dipped with fish sauce, all blended to create an eternal delicacy of the capital land. Pork rolls Rice paper rolls with pork bring the flavor of Da Nang city to all parts of the country and quickly become one of the favorite dishes. This dish has three main ingredients: rice paper, pork and raw vegetables. Rice paper must be dew-dried but still fragrant with rice, having a certain softness so that when rolling it does not crumble. Pork can be boiled or roasted, but it must be a piece of lean fat interwoven, both greasy and chewy. More special than pho roll, this dish has dozens of herbs, the vegetable plate is the one that takes up the most space. Eating rice paper rolls with special pork should not be rushed, gently place the pork with herbs in the rice paper and roll it gently so that the pieces are just right. Roll rice paper dipped in a bowl of viscous sauce and bring it to your mouth, slowly enjoying the fresh taste of each ingredient will make you eat forever. Southern spring rolls Goi cuon is available almost everywhere, but the most delicious and rich flavor must be the Southern salad. Like other popular rolls, spring rolls have an outer layer of rice paper made from rice flour, the cake must be soft and wet to make it easier to wrap and eat more delicious. The filling is quite special, including many ingredients such as peeled boiled shrimp, boiled meat, and pork ears. The herbs of the spring roll also have many types, the most typical are shallots, lettuce and basil. Add a bit of vermicelli to make the wrap more beautiful and easier to eat. The dipping sauce of spring rolls depends on the taste of the eater, be it black sauce, seasoning sauce, garlic chili fish sauce or peanut butter soy sauce all have their own delicious taste that makes up the brand of the salad. According to the opinion of culinary experts around the world, the measure to evaluate a good or bad dish is not only how attractive it is to the locals, but also to the taste of the diners. come from elsewhere. Vietnamese rolls have done that great thing, it not only pleases Vietnamese people but also makes tourists admire and praise.

Illustration The filling of this dish is not too picky. I usually grind the shoulder meat with dried onions, then mix it with finely chopped scallions, marinate some delicious fish sauce, main noodles, and pepper. If you want to add more “taste”, we should mince a little more young leaves mixed with meat. After letting the filling soak in the spices for a while, we can wrap the patties. There is an interesting thing, both guise leaves and river bones have different color characteristics of two-sided leaves. One side is dark green, one side is lighter in color and the petiole is quite hard. When wrapping the rolls, we should turn the light green side in, and the dark green side out so that the patty has a nice color. Spread a leaf, we put the spoonful of filling just enough with the leaf and then roll it evenly. After rolling the patty, the smart housewife often takes the leaf stalk to tighten the patty so it doesn’t fall apart. Put the pan on the stove, wait for the oil to be hot, then gently put the fried rice in it. Note that you should put the part with the edge of the leaf rolled in first. Remember to fry on low heat and turn it over with your hand so that the patties are evenly cooked. When the sausage is cooked, take it out on a plate with greaseproof paper and place it on a flat plate. Lot leaves, river bones eaten with rice and vermicelli are all suitable. Pick up a piece of golden, stretchy spring rolls, dip into a bowl of fish sauce mixed with lemon pepper and chili, we slowly enjoy. The flavor of the fragrant patties brings up the taste of the guava leaves, the river bones, the soft and fatty texture of the meat… it’s a real treat. If eaten with vermicelli, the dipping sauce is as light as the bun cha dipping sauce. Some people prefer grilled basil leaves because they don’t like the characteristic scent of river bones. However, with vermicelli with fresh bamboo sticks, the river bone cake is really delicious. This is also the “attractive” dish of some bun cha restaurants in Hanoi. In addition, river bone pork rolls are also combined by housewives with rice paper soup. The bowl of rice paper soup has a completely new flavor and color when it is dropped a few pieces of pork loin leaves on top. Cha la lot, river bones are not only made with pork, mothers also create a cute variation with beef patties. To make the patties sweeter and softer, we should blend pork with beef or mix diced pork fat into the filling. After rolling cha with guise leaves, river bones, we can bake it on a charcoal stove. When the leaves turn yellow, the meat is soft, and the fat is secreted out of the patties. Remove the patties from the blister, soak in a bowl of sweet and sour dipping sauce and pickle, we enjoy with vermicelli. If eaten with rice, beef patties with guise leaves, river bones just need to be dipped with salted fish sauce sprinkled with pepper. Although it is a simple dish, it has its own special flavor. Sometimes, I ask myself, does anyone still remember the taste of the dish with guise leaves and river bones?

RESOURCES – Peanuts 200g – Sesame (sesame) 100g – Chao 50g – White granulated sugar: 2 tablespoons – Fish sauce (usually eaten); Soy sauce (vegetarian) – Chili powder (for spicy people) is enough to use – Garlic (usually eaten); Check (vegetarian) – Cooking oil: 3 tablespoons – Fresh lemon or cultured vinegar PREPARATION – Peanuts roasted until golden (half smashed), – Golden roasted sesame (mashed with half of the remaining peanuts) – Add hot oil, put crushed garlic / persimmon into the frying pan until fragrant (do not burn) let cool and use gradually. – Spice mixture including sugar, 1 teaspoon fish sauce/soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cooled boiled water, beat until creamy. – For chao (a meal of 4 people 10-15g), chili powder (if spicy), fish sauce/soy sauce, spice mixture, beat well with chopsticks, add beans and sesame paste, mix, and add water Boil and cool, beat a second time into a bowl of thick sauce. – Before using, add some crushed beans. Lightly salty add soy sauce or boiling water, squeeze a little lemon or vinegar so that when the dip is evenly adhered to the vegetables. HOW TO USE – Eat with salads, mixed raw vegetables, boiled/steamed and split with your fingers, cucumbers, melons eaten raw with little cinnamon or herbs, with a few slices of star fruit will be very delicious. do not mix just dot directly) – It’s great to eat without hot rice TIP YOU: make a paste, reserve pre-processed ingredients, just enough to use and eat right away. Have a good meals!

Chef Tuyet Pham created Quang noodles that are loved by the people of 3 regions and international friends. If the love of Quang noodles was passed on by her mother, the philosophy of Quang noodles was entrusted by Tuyet Pham to her little daughter Abby. The love of cooking like an underground circuit flowing through 3 generations has become a story that Tuyet Pham carries with him in every step of his journey. Master chef has cooked standard Quang noodles according to the philosophy of instilling love. The ingredients for the dish include: – 1 kg of Quang noodles, 300 g of chicken fillet, 500 ml of chicken bone broth – 1 tbsp spring onion – 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder, 1/2 teaspoon of cashew powder – 2 tablespoons 3 Mien anchovy dipping sauce (divided evenly during cooking) – Lettuce, basil, baby cabbage, scallions, cilantro (can add banana buds depending on preference) – Rice paper, roasted peanuts, 100 ml of peanut oil (peanut oil) – Spices: seasoning, sugar, pepper, paprika. The familiar, rustic ingredients make delicious Quang noodles. The processing steps are as follows: Step 1: Chicken fillet marinated with a little dipping sauce 3 Mien, add a little chopped onion to create fragrance. 3 Mien anchovy sauce marinated chicken to help Quang noodles more flavorful. Step 2: When the pan is hot, add the peanut oil and onion until fragrant, use chopsticks to stir until golden brown before adding the chicken. Stir well until the chicken starts to hunt again. Add turmeric powder and cashew powder. After the color dissolves, add 3 Mien dipping sauce and stir with your hands so that the meat is absorbed into the fish sauce to create a characteristic aroma. Chicken color, smell up with 3 Mien anchovy dipping sauce and spices. Step 4: Continue to season with salt, sugar, seasoning in the ratio 1:1:1. Adjust the heat to low so that the spices infuse the meat. Continue to add some pepper and chili powder. Step 5: When the tenderloin is seasoned and cooked, add the chicken broth. Wait for the broth to boil, the spices in the chicken come out and mix with the broth. Step 6: Season to taste. Put Quang noodles in a bowl, serve with chicken, fill with broth, add peanuts and green onions. Raw vegetables presented on the side, served with chili lime and a cup of 3 Mien dipping sauce. Sweet chicken broth for delicious Quang noodles. In his recipe, chef Tuyet Pham cleverly added 3 Mien anchovy dipping sauce as a special “trick”, helping diners from 3 regions and international friends feel the delicious taste and flow of national cuisine. Loving family in a bowl of Quang noodles. With passion and culinary knowledge, Uniben constantly researches the taste of traditional dishes, explores and refines the characteristics of 3 regions to bring delicious products imbued with the essence of moisture. real Vietnamese. Including 3 Mien anchovy dipping sauce with ingredients from pure anchovy fish sauce, specially prepared according to its own secret to produce a traditional standard sauce. 3 Mien dipping sauce has a golden brown color, a mild aroma, is both delicious and convenient for all dishes from stocking – stir frying – cooking to using as a dipping sauce without mixing, giving the dish a rich and delicious taste Traditional flavor saves cooking time.

On these days of social distancing, foodies should order food delivery services to limit gathering in crowded restaurants. Vermicelli, shrimp vermicelli, spring rolls, shallot soup, banh xeo, grilled spring rolls are culinary suggestions not to be missed during the time you work from home. Don’t lie The specialty of Cha Lui originates from the land of La Gi (Binh Thuan). The main ingredients include rice paper which is cut into small rectangular pieces, wrapped in shrimp paste with minced meat. “Lui” is a word used to refer to the practice of skewering bamboo sticks through a piece of cake and baking it on a charcoal stove. Crispy fried rice is often served with rice paper rolls with cucumber, lettuce, mango and herbs. The dipping sauce is made from sweet fish sauce mixed with tomato puree, tamarind juice, and ground peanuts. Diners commented: Nguyen Vo: “The rolls are firm, the filling is full”. About Lang: “Fresh vegetables, crispy spring rolls and delicious spring rolls. The price is quite affordable”. Citastyfood: “I ordered a meal consisting of grilled beef with guise leaves, grilled spring rolls, fried spring rolls, vermicelli, raw vegetables with attractive dipping sauce. Only about 100,000 VND, you have a full meal for 2 people.” Rice vermicelli, shrimp vermicelli Rice vermicelli and shrimp vermicelli are famous dishes in Binh Dinh. For vermicelli, a bowl of pounded rice with broth is usually served separately, and the vermicelli is served separately. When eating, people add rice water to the vermicelli little by little, adding herbs, roasted peanuts, broken rice paper … Shrimp noodles are impressed by the taste of the broth, the sweetness of fresh shrimp, fragrant from pepper and crispy of rice paper. Diners commented: Foodee_nh3e8e7i: “Brilliant rice vermicelli, frugal shrimp vermicelli. The restaurant should fry the fish cakes with less fire, it will be better”. Citastyfood: “The special bowl of rice vermicelli has a combination of vegetables, grated cucumber, peanuts, fish cakes, fried rice nuggets with rice rice soup. Strange taste, fat, mix the ingredients to create harmony. , cool bar. Vermicelli with shrimp, beef, fish cake and fresh squid. The price is suitable for the quality”. Pancakes Quang Ngai pancakes are small in size, crunchy or soft depending on customers’ requirements. The filling usually contains bean sprouts, green onions, shrimp and meat. During the time at home to avoid the epidemic, you can enjoy the dish with your loved ones by spreading rice paper, adding pancakes, cucumber, green mango, raw vegetables and then rolling it up and dipping it with chili garlic fish sauce. Diners commented: Hang Lam: “Quang Ngai style pancakes, white rice flour, not mixed with turmeric or coconut milk. The fish sauce is a bit salty. Each cake includes 1 shrimp with a little bacon, bean sprouts. Raw vegetables served with gotu kola, strange mouth. and less bored, but not very clean.” Thao Tran: “I have ordered here 3 times and the quality of the dish is stable, the right style of Quang Ngai pancakes, less oil, so I don’t get bored”. Hukha.foodaholic: “The cake is not eye-catching but fragrant, the shell is slightly burnt. The filling consists of small shrimp, meat, bean sprouts, dipped with salty fish sauce. Overall the dish is not too excellent, the shell is not very crispy.” Chives soup cake Shallot soup cake is a rustic specialty in Phu Yen. The right dish for you to recharge during “work from home” days. The broth is cooked from fish bones for a sweet taste, not much fat. Fried fish cakes, quail eggs are indispensable ingredients in a bowl of green cake soup. Diners commented: Thu Huyen: “The bowl of banh chung is full of shallots but the taste is not pungent. The filling includes fish cakes and mackerel, dipped with sweet and sour sauce, fragrant with lemon leaves. The rice flour noodles are mixed with the broth to taste.” Tran Hanh: “The restaurant uses Phu Yen chives in the soup cake. These chives have small stalks, fragrant but not pungent. The lemon peel dipping sauce is quite delicious.” Lien Khong: “The noodles are small, clear and flexible. The portion is full of green chives, sweet taste, delicious fish cakes, mackerel and quail eggs. When eating, guests can dip the fish balls with a thick green dipping sauce. the restaurant’s features. The price is right.” Baked rolls Grilled spring rolls are a specialty associated with the land of Ninh Hoa (Khanh Hoa). On hot sunny days in Saigon, a piece of thin rice paper rolls with fragrant grilled spring rolls with herbs, cucumbers, mangoes, bananas… and mixed with fish sauce, bring a culinary flavor that attracts all diners. Diners commented: Tran Thanh Gia Huy: “Delicious spring rolls, delicious dipping sauce, clean vegetables”. TrucQuynh Junmi: “Crispy hot spring rolls, lots of meat, not mushy like many other places. Rich vegetables with chives, lettuce, mango salad, chili, garlic, rice paper. The fragrant peanut sauce is the highlight. emphasis of the dish”. Make a rich cauliflower salad for dinner Cauliflower or cauliflower is a food that contains many healthy nutrients. Housewives can refer to the method below to have a new broccoli salad for the family.

Chopsticks date from around 1,800 BC. At first, large chopsticks were often used for cooking. By about 200 BC, chopsticks began to become common utensils in Eastern meals. Traditional Vietnamese chopsticks Traditional Vietnamese chopsticks are mainly made of wood, have a round body for carpentry, are not painted or decorated, and the tip of the chopsticks is usually not too small, but somewhat longer than Japanese and Korean chopsticks. And in Vietnam alone, chopsticks also have certain differences between regions because of cultural characteristics. The northern countryside is associated with the image of the bamboo ramparts at the top of the village, so people often use old bamboo stalks to make chopsticks. Usually chopsticks in the North are somewhat shorter than in the South. In the South, where there are many rivers and rows of coconut trees, chopsticks are also made from coconut. More than an everyday item, chopsticks contain many cultural meanings Chopsticks are not only a permanent item in every daily meal, but also contain deep values ​​about Vietnamese people’s thoughts, feelings and culture. In the past, grandparents used to use the phrase “Learn to eat, learn to speak, learn to pack, learn to open” to teach children the basics of life. Accordingly, eating does not just stop at the instinctual aspect but also contains the rules people need to learn. At the beginning of the meal, it is necessary to compare the chopsticks and pay attention to whether the tip of the chopsticks is placed in the correct direction. Besides, in traditional meals, to show care and share in a subtle way, people use clean chopsticks to pick up the inviting food “a round” around the tray. During a meal, when you want to pick up food for someone else, it is usually polite to turn the end of the chopsticks to pick it up with the other end. After a meal, chopsticks should be put down neatly, should not be staggered or skewed. If you can’t hold the chopsticks properly, also pay attention to your fingers, don’t straighten your index finger when holding the chopsticks because it looks like you’re pointing directly at the opposite person. Besides, children are also taught not to suck and suck on chopsticks because this shows impoliteness on the table. When picking up food, don’t rummage through the whole plate to find something you like. When conversing during meals, do not talk while chewing, holding chopsticks while dancing and telling stories. When dipping food, you should also pay attention not to let your chopsticks touch the dipping sauce and do not let the dipping sauce get dirty on the table, nor should you use your chopsticks to stir the sauce or stir it into the soup bowl. These things are small but show the sophistication and culinary culture of the Vietnamese people. In addition, according to folklore, Vietnamese people believe that knocking chopsticks during a meal will cause hungry ghosts to come and disturb them. For a country with a long history and diverse cuisine like ours, chopsticks no longer stop at the aspect of serving food, but above all, it contains many cultural stories. hereditary life.

Rolled rice paper 1 m A restaurant in the alley of Truong Chinh Street, Tan Binh District, serving curious dishes, rice paper rolls 1 m. Different from regular rice paper rolls, this giant version is for 2-3 people to eat, priced at 30,000 VND/piece. The roll is full of traditional toppings such as dried shrimp, mango, laksa leaves, avocado, and eggs. In particular, the accompanying sweet and sour sauce is the highlight of this unique dish. Photo: Ho Nguyen Linh Phuong. Many diners expressed their enjoyment when experiencing this dish. Food blogger Tebefood shared: “You’ll know after you go, it’s even longer than imagined. One part consists of 3 pieces of rice paper put together, can eat about 2 people. The rice paper is a bit dry, those who like to eat sticky can love it. The house sauce is sour and sour, especially the owner gives a lot of butter, so it’s quite fat.” The restaurant has local delivery. In addition to 1 meter long rice paper rolls, you can order shrimp and meat salad rolls, dried papaya salad with black beef, beef… here. Noodle salad with vermicelli A small noodle shop hiding in an alley for 16 years on Nghia Hoa Street, Tan Binh District is the place to serve this attractive salad. The taste of traditional vermicelli noodles is wrapped in compact salad rolls. Different from the hot noodle dish, the vermicelli roll salad is cool and suitable for cooling off in the summer. The layer of rice paper is dipped in the broth to make it soft and flexible, then add the familiar ingredients of the capital noodle dish such as fried tofu, boiled water spinach, spring rolls, crab sauce… Fried onions are sprinkled on top of the spring rolls. , served with tamarind fish sauce. Dipping salad rolls in tamarind sauce, diners will feel the sweet and sour taste, strangely fragrant. In addition to spring rolls costing 5,000 VND, you can buy and take home vermicelli and noodle soup here. Photo: Thuy Van. Black dish from bamboo charcoal The dishes made from bamboo charcoal attract foodies because of its strange black appearance. From desserts to savory dishes, you have a wide selection of black dishes in HCMC. Originated from Quang Ninh mine land, bamboo charcoal bread impress diners with the black crust and filling. From 20,000 to 45,000 VND, you can enjoy “dark bread” with fillings such as squid rolls, broken crab, shrimp shumai, grilled chicken, grilled beef with cheese and roasted pork… Nguyen Thai Binh Street ( District 1) and Pham Ngoc Thach (District 3) are the places to serve this dish. Photo: Ruahaman, lien_lieng. Attractive from appearance to taste, bamboo charcoal sandwich with salted egg sauce is a strange and delicious snack that is loved by young people in Saigon. Crispy sandwiches, strangely filled with bamboo charcoal, combined with fat, fluffy salted egg sauce. The food court in Ho Thi Ky market is the place to sell this dish for 10,000 VND/piece. Combo “dark cuisine” including fish balls, chicken cartilage, pudding attracts diners. The restaurant on Le Van Sy street, Phu Nhuan district, serves this dish for 59,000 VND/meat. With a mysterious black color, bamboo charcoal cake is an upgraded version of Vung Tau street food. Cake flour is mixed with bamboo charcoal to help create color, basic fillings such as crab sticks, eggs, oysters, shrimp. Sweet and sour fish sauce, raw vegetables help diners not get bored. A mixed dish costs 55,000 VND, sold at a restaurant on Tran Dinh Xu Street, District 1. Bamboo Charcoal Pearl Coconut Ice Cream attracts foodies with its impressive fatty taste. Coconut ice cream with bamboo charcoal flavor, greasy taste, served with chewy pearls. The address on Le Thanh Ton Street, District 1, is the place to sell this unique dish. Noodle milk tea Vermicelli, a common ingredient in noodle dishes, is found in the novel milk tea drink. The shop on Ta Quang Buu Street, District 8, is where you can enjoy this type of milk tea. Milk tea is mixed with Taiwanese style, combined with black pearls, thread pearls, vermicelli… Vermicelli is made from coconut jelly. When eating, diners will feel the crunchiness and fat. A special feature of this milk tea is that when enjoying, in addition to a straw, diners have to use chopsticks to pick up the vermicelli topping. Photo: Luu Anh Khoa.

Water spinach soup, tomato pickle with soy sauce… Every year, after the season of plucking the peanuts and pressing the oil, Dad uses those oil cakes to make soy sauce. Banh Dau sauce is made from the carcass of peanuts after pressing all the essential oils. The bean carcasses are packed into round, thick cakes. When making soy sauce, three chop the oil cake into pieces and then pound it, sifting to get the fine powder. The flour is roasted, mixed with hot rice, granulated sugar and salt, finely ground and incubated for fermentation, forming soy sauce. The stages of making Banh Dau sauce are not difficult, but perhaps the secret, or it is often said, that the person who has the best hands in making the best soy sauce in the village is only three.
One of the secrets of my father, I know, when making soy sauce, he never used well water but only rain water from the cement block in front of the house. This is also the type of water used to make tea, offer rice on the occasion of the full moon, or the death anniversary. In summer, it usually rains for two or three days. Rainwater from the jackfruit tree makes a faucet catch the lake, carefully covered around it. Giap weekly change the water so that it does not get dirty, swarm or leaves fall in. The most oppressive tree on the summer side, when the wind blows, only a few leaves are considered as water damage. Banh Dau sauce has a brown color of cockroach wings, fatty, aromatic taste, at first glance similar to fish sauce, but the taste is lighter and the fragrance is very characteristic.
In those years, life was still very difficult, fish and shrimp paste was not like it is now. I remember sometimes carrying fish from the sea across the sea to follow in the footsteps of thousands of women, every house buys a little bit called… to eat for fish. In order to have a more sustainable meal, many families have to pack bags and tin boxes to cycle for dozens of kilometers down to Hoi An to buy fish incubated with fish sauce to eat all winter.

At that time, my house was at the top of the village, right at the foot of the mountain. After the liberation from the North, his father spent months in the forest cutting trees to build a spacious 4-room wooden house. On the porch, close to the wall facing the rising sun, put two jars of earthenware, a jar of soy sauce and a jar of salted eggplant. Ba Bao ketchup is like a plant, it needs sunlight to be delicious. With soy sauce, each meal can be scooped into a cup and then cooked in the rice cooker when it is exhausted. Changing the taste can de-oil making the sweet potato dipping sauce great, and the pickled eggplant is also delicious.
Every day, when there is pork divided into seasonal rice, my father shows off his ability to store meat with soy sauce, which is very interesting. Pork cut into small slices, marinated with a little seasoning, sugar, main noodles, onions, garlic for about fifteen minutes for the meat to absorb the spices. Lemongrass washed, cut the white part, chopped. Heat peanut oil and then add lemongrass and stir until the lemongrass turns yellow and fragrant, then add the meat and stir-fry. When the meat is cooked, add the soy sauce and stir. Then, add a little warm water, simmer on low heat for the meat to infuse. When the water in the pot is completely exhausted, the slices of meat become dry, a layer of brown soy sauce, emitting a fragrant aroma is okay. You can also add a little roasted sesame to braised meat, rub off the silk skin to make the dish more flavorful. In particular, this delicious dish can also be preserved in a glass jar and eaten gradually for a few days and still retains its delicious taste.
Soy sauce is also used to pickle pickled tomatoes. The fish is drained, soaked with seasoned soy sauce, and eaten very well. Biting a piece of coffee, it sounds like a crackling sound, no matter how tired people are, they want to wake up. The sweet and fatty sauce mixed with the tray taste of the eggplant settles down on the tip of the tongue, it is difficult to resist when picking up the first egg, the second and third are hard to resist. And always, the ketchup meal ends with a cup of water spinach soup, or a new bowl of boiled vegetable juice. Reading “Love and miss the twelve”, writer Vu Bang once sang “how disgusting that the beloved North Vietnamese country is not richer than anyone else, not as luxurious as anyone else, but how can it produce a delicious eggplant, melon, soy sauce, and fish sauce? “The devil cries so much”.
Please tell me, the Central region of my hometown is also inferior, especially the dish of ketchup, boiled sweet vegetables dipped with soy sauce on every summer occasion that my father makes. But that’s also true, delicious food doesn’t have to wait to be rich. And then the writer and author of “Hanoi delicacies”, “Stranger dishes of the South” confessed: “Oh, it’s the compassion of people, many things don’t produce anything “dead” that they can do for themselves. But remembering the turmeric eggplant or a piece of tomato and soy sauce to eat right in the summer, it’s not just about missing coffee, it’s about remembering the wife of Cao Khang…”.

Hue also stores more than 1000 typical dishes of the ancient capital, including the good dishes of the Nguyen kings, from everyday dishes, folk dishes to delicious dishes. Among them can mention 10 most typical basic dishes that when coming to Hue, no one can ignore. Bun Bo Hue Bun Bo Hue is a famous and popular dish of many people. The first dish when coming to Hue must be the beef noodle soup. The dish carries the flavor characteristics of Hue, so this place name is attached to the dish as a proper noun of the dish itself. The main ingredients of the dish are beef, pork leg, and pig blood. Some other ingredients are rare beef, crab cakes. The dish is usually served with herbs, banana flowers, bean sprouts. The broth of beef noodle soup in Hue is often seasoned with a little fish sauce to create its own unique flavor. The broth has a characteristic red color, sweet and rich taste to the last drop. Bread flour The cake is made of tapioca starch filtered, with a filling made of shrimp that have been marinated with spices. The filling can be made with pork or both shrimp and meat. The crust is wrapped with banana leaves. The cake is cooked by steaming or boiling. The cake is served with dipping sauce to add more flavor. The filter cake is both tough and chewy due to the outer layer of cassava flour, and the fatty flavor of shrimp meat with the inner layer. Banh beo Banh beo is usually served in small bowls. Just the size of a bowl of dipping sauce. The main ingredient of banh beo is rice flour. The top is covered with a layer of onion oil and greased. The highlight of this dish is the fish sauce. If you just eat it, you will only have the fat taste of the fat and the aroma of onions. Even the food was pretty bland. But when combined with the dipping sauce made from shrimp broth combined with fish sauce and a few slices of chili, it brightens up the taste of the dish. Nam cake Also a typical Hue traditional cuisine similar to flour cake, banh beo. Banh Nam is made from rice flour, the filling is made of green beans or shrimp, minced meat. Cake served with diluted chili sauce. The cake has a fragrant, fatty taste that seems to melt immediately when placed in the mouth. Because the cake is very fragile, when eating, diners should use a spoon instead of chopsticks. Put the cake on a plate and peel the cake, then pour the dipping sauce on the surface of the cake, then take a spoon to remove the cake from the leaves and eat. Wet cake The crust is made from the main ingredient of rice flour coated in a thin layer. There are wet cakes such as wet cake with grilled meat, wet cake with sour shrimp, etc. The cake is soft, hot, and wrapped with wood ear, minced meat. Top sprinkled with dried onions, served with dipping sauce, herbs. Mussel rice and dishes from mussels For only 10 thousand VND, diners can enjoy a bowl of Hue-style mussel rice. You will be surprised when with only tens of thousands of dollars, you can get a rice bowl full of mussels. This is the type of rice mixed with ingredients including: white rice, fried mussels, tofu, fried onions, herbs… Season with a little fish sauce, fish sauce to make the rice more fragrant and then mix well. The sticky rice is mixed with the salty taste, the spicy taste of spices, the crunchy fat, the sweet taste of mussel juice, the chewy sweetness of mussels creating the unique character of the dish. Hue tea Coming to Hue without enjoying tea is extremely flawed. One of the famous tea shops in Hue is the alley tea on Hung Vuong Street. The shop is located deep in the alley, quiet space, inside there are a few small wooden tables close together. At the counter, there are rows of tall glasses filled with tea of ​​all colors and flavors, neatly arranged. Diners just need to add ice to enjoy. The tea has flavors to choose from such as corn tea, purple potato tea, water drifting tea, green bean tea, é seed tea, bean curd tea, red bean tea, roasted pork filter powder tea,…. In which, roasted pork powder tea is the most unique dish that everyone wants to try. Transparent filter powder wrapped inside is a square piece of roast meat with skin. Tea has both sweet and salty taste, both crispy and greasy. And purple potato tea is the dish that pleases the most diners because of the gentle purple color mixed with greasy, fragrant coconut milk. Vegetarian vermicelli Called a vegetarian dish, vegetarian vermicelli is not inferior to any other savory noodle dish. That must be the sophistication in the culinary culture of Hue people. Still the eye-catching red-yellow color, still the rich sweetness of the broth, but the ingredients are completely free of the presence of animal fat. Ingredients are used entirely from nature, usually vegetables, tubers, fruits and mushrooms, skillfully combined with spices to form a nutritious, safe and unique dish. Mixed duck eggs The restaurant only serves the evening, located on the sidewalk with about 3 plastic tables but crowded with customers to eat and customers to buy and take away. Diners can order a dish of duck eggs or they will be given a whole egg, accompanied by a plate of pickles. Or order mixed eggs, the hostess will perform the “mixing” stage before bringing the finished product to diners. The ingredients of the mixed egg dish include: shelled duck eggs, melons including figs, green mango, Thai chi, laksa leaves …. Combined with clever spices to create a dish that is both strange and familiar. The spicy, crunchy, and strangely sweet flavors create the attractiveness of the dish. The price of the dish is only about 7k / fruit. Salt Coffee If Hanoi has the famous egg coffee, Hue has salt coffee – a specialty of the ancient capital. Talking about salted coffee, people will mistakenly think that coffee has the salty taste of the sea, but that cannot fully describe the flavor that this coffee brings. Salted coffee still has the charming aroma of coffee, the greasy taste of fresh milk, the salty taste of salt, the bitter taste that remains at the end of the coffee. Diners can choose to drink hot or add ice. This is probably also the unique point of salted coffee when it can be enjoyed hot or cold but still retains the same taste without fading.

The cuisine is rustic but attracts tourists from all over the world. 1. Fish sauce 584 Nha Trang The product is used as a condiment for marinating, seasoning and as a dipping sauce directly contributing to the flavor of the dish. To choose a good fish sauce, you should pay attention to the color of fish sauce. Bottles of fish sauce will be yellow-brown without cloudiness, do not choose fish sauce with gray-green color. If you want to check properly, you should put the fish sauce bottle facing the light source. 2. Mango Cake Nha Trang mango cake is made mainly from naturally ripe mangoes (mangoes are mainly grown in Cam Ranh, Cam Lam, Ninh Hoa). Mango cake should choose the type of yellow cockroach wings, not too dark black or bright yellow. The cake is soft, chewy, easy to tear. The surface of the delicious mango cake is smooth, slightly smooth but not too smooth. If it is too smooth, it means that the cake has been mixed with a lot of flour during processing. 3. Ninh Hoa spring rolls Ninh Hoa spring rolls include sour spring rolls and grilled spring rolls. You can enjoy grilled spring rolls on the spot, and spring rolls bought as gifts for family and close people. 4. Lemon chili salt If you have been to Nha Trang, you will surely know the thick green sauce used to serve with seafood with an unforgettable spicy flavor. When you taste it, you must see the harmony of flavors, the sauce has a characteristic thick and spicy consistency. 5. Nha Trang fish cake Cha Ca is a famous specialty in Nha Trang, so you should buy it as a gift after traveling, because it is the crystallization of fresh fish such as sardines, mackerel, boneless cod or has little bones to make up. The fish cakes are delicious, soft and slightly chewy. Fish cakes are divided into 3 types: fresh, steamed, fried. Delicious fish cakes when eaten will have a sweet taste from fish meat, slightly chewy and crispy, when chewing, there is no dry feeling, no friable and residue. Delicious fish cakes will have a natural toughness due to being pounded for a long time and evenly. 6. Dried Seahorse Seahorses are often sold in pairs of equal sizes. You can buy a male – a female or by kilogram. Seahorses are divided into many sizes with different prices. Good quality seahorses, when dried, must have a ball, have a light aroma, and have no strange smell.

Bac Lieu ancient longan garden attracts many tourists to visit and experience. Photo: HUU THI Giong Nhan belongs to Hiep Thanh and Vinh Trach Dong communes of Bac Lieu city, about 10km from the city center, towards the sea. This is a coastal land, high sand dunes, suitable for growing longan, so hundreds of years ago, longan gardens were immense and luxuriant in this country. The name Giong Label also comes from there. So of course, Giong Nhan’s specialty is longan, but not ordinary but ancient longan. Dozens of ancient longan gardens running along Giong Nhan make visitors sink into the beautiful natural scenery. There are roots of longan with more than 200 years of age that still regularly bear fruit in the homeland of Da Co Hoai Lang. The original large label with the hand of an adult, imprinted with the traces of time with rough shapes, winding wood grain, one after another will help visitors get beautiful photos. Bac Lieu longan is sweet, crispy, succulent, very fragrant. In order to exploit this indigenous cultural resource, the People’s Committee of Bac Lieu province has developed and implemented a project to preserve ancient longan associated with tourism development, creating good changes. Also on Giong Nhan route, visitors will admire the “mango” nearly 340 years old, still lush, this season is bearing fruit. The mango tree is over 15m high, the canopy is over 300m2, the trunk is up to 6 people’s arms. This mango tree was recognized by the Vietnam Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment as a “Vietnam Heritage Tree” in 2015 and has been declared over 334 years old. The elderly in this country also do not know when this mango tree has been planted, by whom, only know that it is pride and sharing with tourists near and far. Around the ancient mango tree, there are many stories about the time of reclaiming and establishing a hamlet, expanding this Giong Nhan land, making visitors even more fascinated. A few hundred meters from the ancient mango tree is Xiem Can pagoda, which has been ranked as a national relic. This is a hundred-year-old Khmer ancient temple with magnificent and sacred architecture. This land has the cultural interference of the community of 3 ethnic groups: Kinh, Hoa, and Khmer, so the name Xiem Can pagoda in Chinese means “bordering the water”, because of its location near the sea. This temple is always the priority destination of tourists when returning to Bac Lieu. The majestic and attractive architecture blends with the cool, shady green space. Just off the main road, turning to the entrance to the temple, visitors have walked through the shaded trees, with the gate, the architectural images of the Khmer pagoda keep leading the way to the peaceful place. A new but famous attraction near and far on Giong Nhan street is the wind power field of Bac Lieu, not far from Xiem Can pagoda. In the midst of the immense sea and sky, the wind turbines rotate like giant pinwheels curled in the air, above are white clouds, below are blue seas. Visitors just need to stand on the bridge, tilt at any angle, pose for a beautiful picture, as if standing in Europe. “Virtual living paradise” is how young people often call this wind power field. If you go out to your heart’s content, you should sit back and enjoy Giong Label’s specialty, which is banh xeo. Giong Label pancake is so famous that everyone must eat it once. There are also people who say to themselves that “Banh xeo is not like that anywhere” and they have found themselves “wrong too wrong” when once enjoying Giong Nhan specialties. The skin of Giong Label pancakes is much thicker than regular pancakes but is quite crispy. Meat and shrimp are spread evenly on the skin of the cake, not focusing on the filling like the usual way. The filling of Giong Nhan pancakes is also made with fresh seafood from the sea of ​​Bac Lieu, and added with vegetables from the field, garden vegetables, etc., mixed with dipping sauce with a characteristic concoction flavor. All rolled up, dipped in dipping sauce and leisurely enjoyed. Crispy, greasy, sweet skin of seafood, a little sour – acrid – bitter – strong of vegetables and salty – sweet – sour – spicy of dipping sauce, all make up a memorable smell. Without going far and not moving too much, visitors had a memorable day when going out to Giong Nhan. Another option that many people experience is to take advantage of the day to visit two more places just over ten minutes from Giong Nhan by car, which is to visit Mother Nam Hai (Quan Am Phat Dai) and Don Ca Tai Tu Memorial Area and musician Cao Van Lau.

Although not a coastal city, Ho Chi Minh City is still home to many addresses serving snails that are highly appreciated by diners. Snail Ghe, Saigon Snail Kitchen, Mother’s Kitchen… with various prices of 100,000-300,000 VND/person are suggestions for you. 1. Snail shop Suggested dishes: Grilled garlic snails, fried lentils with coconut, sapo duck tongue, Hong Kong salted roasted pork… Characteristics: – The menu is diverse, besides snails, there are fish eggs, shrimp, hot pot – The price is acceptable, the quantity of each portion is quite small – The restaurant is crowded, the tables and chairs are arranged close together, so it’s quite noisy – The minus point lies in the service staff who are not enthusiastic and friendly Diners commented: Ngoc Nguyen: “I have eaten twice and have some comments. The food is well seasoned, the sauce is delicious, each portion is only suitable for 2-3 people, 10 people order about 3 servings to be enough. The menu is diverse, there are snails, fried dishes, grilled dishes, hot pot… the price is not too expensive compared to the area in District 1. The service staff is slow, not enthusiastic with customers”. Jessica: “The four of my family went to eat it, it was delicious. The grilled snail dishes were a bit greasy, but the seasoning was just right, not salty, the sauce was separate, so it was interesting. The squid fried dish was too oily.” . 2. Saigon Snail Kitchen Suggested dishes: Stir-fried woolen snails with coconut, fried fat snails with butter, blood cockles with satay sauce, squid teeth with salted egg sauce, steamed clams… Characteristics: – The snail shop has a spacious garden with many trees – Located in an alley so it’s quite quiet – The menu is not rich, the taste of the food is highly appreciated Diners commented: Do Tran Trung Kien: “I used to love eating snails, but I was extremely afraid of food hygiene. Come to eat here once, I was impressed because the space is clean, located in the center. Although the dishes are not very rich but fresh. Service staff are enthusiastic”. Thanh: “The space is cool and clean, but the snail seasoning is a bit salty”. 3. Cuckoo snail Suggested dishes: Stir-fried horse snails with fish sauce, fried coconut snails with garlic butter, fried cotton snails with fish sauce… Characteristics: – Small restaurant space, serving snails at an affordable price – Friendly owner, enthusiastic to introduce dishes to customers Diners commented: Hong Phuong Nguyen: “The restaurant is a bit small but the snails are fresh. The price is not cheap but not too high, about 170,000 VND / plate. The minus point is that many dishes do not have a clear price.” Windluz Luz: “My favorite dish is fried snail with greasy coconut, each baby is big, fried with salt. My group of 7 people ate around 900,000 VND, cheap compared to District 1. Meet the owner. The shop is cute, we ordered whatever you remember.” Tuan Bao: “The restaurant has a few dishes of raw snails that are quite eye-catching in front of the door. When I don’t know what to choose, the owner suggests Thai steamed clams, grilled scallops with cheese, and fried nail snails with water spinach. Cheap dishes. price is 50,000 VND”. 4. Mother’s Kitchen n Suggested dishes: Stir-fried lentils with coconut, steamed clams, snails with papaya salad, salted egg scallops… Characteristics: – The restaurant serves buffet style, time limit is 90 minutes – Diverse menu with 20 kinds of sauces Diners commented: Kenny: “I went to the snail restaurant, waited for a long time before the restaurant served 3 dishes, then ordered more and had to continue to wait. The service time was too long, making me unsatisfied”. Ngocdan.foodie: “In general, the buffet here is quite good, I can eat a lot of snails, the space is clean and cozy, the decor is vintage style. The buffet menu has 14 types of snails with different sauces, stir-fried scallops. Salted eggs, fried nail snails with garlic butter, snails fried with tamarind are the best”. 5. Sister snail Suggested dishes: Snails with salted eggs, fried snails with coconut, scallops… Characteristics: – The space has many beautiful angles to take pictures, and the food is beautifully decorated – Diverse menu, many ways to cook – The price is high and the taste of the dish is not too special Diners commented: Heohaman: “My favorite is the snail with super-fat salted egg sauce, dipped in crispy bread here. Steamed clams are spicy and spicy, the water is not pale. Stir-fried seafood noodles, fried nail snails with water spinach, fried chicken cartilage good fish sauce. Because it’s in the center, the price is quite expensive compared to other shops.” Loan Nguyen: “The menu is in English, which is a suitable address if you want to introduce international friends. In my opinion, around 18:30-19:30 is the peak time when the food comes out quite quickly, customers do not lose their mood. when you have to eat a dish and then wait.”

Here are the delicious breakfast restaurants that I had the opportunity to experience in my trip to Dalat. Banh Butter Commercial Can Tho Banh can is a dish not to be missed in my culinary journey in Dalat. Located right under the avocado tree on Tang Bat Ho Street, this bakery is a familiar address for many mountain street diners. I arrived early in the morning, when the store just opened. The dining space is quite narrow, at first glance nothing outstanding. However, the hot cans, crispy gold, combined with bold dipping sauces are the true catch for diners. Here, banh can has only one type of egg filling. The peach-shaped quail egg cake is my “guts” every time I go to the restaurant. Diners who are accustomed to eating multi-filled cakes such as beef, seafood, I think this is not the ideal choice. Each piece of cake has the same price of 35,000 VND. The soul of the dish lies in the sauce. The mixture includes fish sauce or seasoning fish sauce, added with onion fat, satay, bringing a rich, spicy, unforgettable taste for the first time to enjoy. Compared to the cake cans I tried in Da Lat, the restaurant has a flavor-catching sauce, eating less because the small commercial is not too fat, greasy. Moc broken rice As a familiar street food of Ho Chi Minh City, broken rice in Dalat still has its own attraction to many culinary devotees. A restaurant on Nguyen Van Troi Street is a place I often visit whenever I miss the taste of Saigon cuisine. Searching on Da Lat culinary sites, this is not a famous place to eat broken rice. Modern design, neatly decorated is my first impression when arriving at the restaurant. The menu here is mainly grilled ribs broken rice with fried eggs, rolls or squid. The portion of the rice is not too much meat, but it is quite good quality. The grilled meat is soft, fragrant, adding onion fat and creamy crunchy fat and a few slices of tomatoes and cucumbers to create coolness. The fish sauce is thick, sour, salty, and sweet. When eating, diners can add chili to make it spicy. Each piece of broken rice will have a cup of vegetable soup. Rice dishes are priced from 45,000 to 55,000 VND. A delicious, full breakfast here makes me satisfied. However, the minus point is that it takes a long time to order, about 40 minutes. Pho Uyen I found Pho Uyen in a chilly early morning on the outskirts of the mountain town. Over nearly 3 decades, the pho restaurant has kept the essence of Ha’s cuisine into a rustic wooden space with old hand-painted signs. Coming here, I was like going back in time to Dalat many years ago. Shop owner Nguyen Thi Thuc (71 years old) shared: “In the past, my husband and I taught, economic problems were a bit of a problem, so we opened a new noodle shop. Pho Uyen was named after my daughter”. Not only a simple dining place, Pho Uyen also reminds the image of old Dalat. Ms. Thuc said all the signs, paint colors and pictures of the shop were chosen and designed by her husband. “My husband, although teaching foreign languages, has a passion for painting, wants to keep the beautiful memories of old Dalat”, she added. Pho here is cooked in the southern style, the broth is characterized by fat scum. Soft pho stalks, submerged in a fragrant herbal broth. Above are the types of meat such as ground beef, encrusted beef, beef balls with scallions, a little spicy pepper. I was recommended by the owner of a special noodle bowl, including poached eggs, beef, balls … The broth is fragrant, rich in flavor, however, the greasy cream above makes me unfamiliar. Each bowl of pho here ranges from 35,000 to 40,000 VND. Doan Vien steamed beef noodle soup In an early wandering on Tran Phu Street, I stopped at Doan Vien beef noodle shop because of a curious food sign. This is the first shop to use a rock form to make a bowl of beef noodle soup in Da Lat. This type of stone is used a lot in Korea because the food in the bowl will stay hot longer than usual. Different from my image of steaming beef noodle soup, the dish is served in a stone bowl, but it is not “boiling hot”. The restaurant said that diners can instruct staff to prepare hotter dishes if they want. A special feature of the restaurant is that the spices are left on the table for customers to taste according to their taste. The dining table is fully decorated with spring rolls, spices such as fish sauce, satay … and yogurt cheese dessert. There are 2 types of beef noodle soup here: traditional (ceramic bowl) and premium (Korean stone bowl). The menu has many flavors for you to choose from such as vermicelli beef ribs, corn, crab rolls, pork rolls, beef ribs, beef marrow … I ordered a vermicelli beef ribs 45,000 VND. Bar broth, those who like to eat bold can add shrimp sauce, fish sauce. After eating beef noodle soup, I was given hot pea flower tea for free. After breakfast, I combine to explore many check-in points on this route such as Con Ga church, Dalat station … Bun Nga (Restaurant 77) Food Street Nguyen Van Troi concentrates many delicious food, especially water dishes such as vermicelli, pho. Quan 77 is located in an easy-to-find location, and is loved by diners because of its varied breakfast menu. The owner is a Dalat, said he has 25 years of experience selling vermicelli. Bun rieu and beef noodle soup are fixed dishes of the restaurant. In addition, the menu changes by day, including many other dishes such as duck noodle vermicelli, chicken vermicelli, beef stock, Quang noodles … I ordered a bowl of mixed rice vermicelli 40,000 VND, full of rolls, crab, blood, beans, spring rolls, tomatoes … Quite quality meal with large crab sticks and crab sticks, beautiful red brick broth eye. Served vegetables include banana corn, shredded cabbage, bean sprouts … Having breakfast while watching the peaceful streets of Dalat in the morning is an unforgettable experience for me.

When eating a squeezed lemon, then put it in the dipped rice paper, add raw vegetables including vegetables such as: bananas, dill, herbs, lettuce and some sweet and sour mango fibers … Water Undeniably, soya sauce is mixed with lemongrass chili and spicy garlic and fragrant pureed soybean paste. A person skilled in making fish salad for more than 20 years in Quy Nhon said that fish salad is one of the popular and famous fish dishes of this region. The shellfish is similar in shape to anchovies, but has a thinner, scaled texture. The apricot fish has a sweet, crunchy, and non-fishy taste, so it is very suitable as a salad. Depending on the size of the fish, the person takes the bone. If the fish is as big as two fingers, the bones must be removed. If smaller, only the half of the bone in the abdomen is needed, leaving a bit of the tail bone nib. The fish must be really fresh, each fiber still shines the color of the sea to reach the first “standard” to have a delicious salad. The most cleverness of the apricot fish maker is exposed at the fish bone removal process. The fish that is only a little bigger than the tip of the chopsticks must be removed by hand so that when eaten, it does not feel crushed and crushed. After the head, intestines, scales, bones are removed, the fish is soaked in cold water mixed with granular salt to make the flesh more firm and rich. The preparation of spices, sauces, and vegetables is also quite meticulous. Usually, fish salad with 2 cups of sauce is soy sauce mixed with lemongrass, chili and soy sauce. The most difficult way is to process soy sauce with roasted pureed peanuts and simmer with tomatoes, large chili, and spices. The dish of apricot fish salad will be different without a plate of colorful vegetables with banana flowers, young banana, star fruit, raw mango, green tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, sesame buds, giang leaves … By taking raw, ripe rice paper, pick up vegetable chopsticks, fish pieces mixed with lemons, spices … wrapped in soy sauce or prepared soy sauce. Currently a plate of apricot fish salad is sold in seafood restaurants in Quy Nhon priced from 75,000 to 100,000 VND / plate depending on the custom. Quy Nhon is a place where natural scenery blends between majestic mountains and vast sea, creating a mixture of diverse ecosystems, providing extremely rich and attractive regional products. domestic and foreign tourists visit. (According to GiadinhNet)

Serving 3 people 1. 200g live rolls 2. Ground meat (lean and fat) 300g 3. Purple onion 2 bulbs 4. Garlic 1 bulb 5. Lemongrass to marinate 1 tree 6. Pepper 1 teaspoon 7. oyster oil, cooking oil, cashew oil each 1 tablespoon (15ml) 8. Unroasted sesame seeds and flour each with 1 tablespoon (15g) 9. Lemongrass to bake with 10 plants meat 10. Raw vegetables, optional 11. Noodles with optional dishes 12. Dipping sauce Water, fish sauce, sugar, lemon, garlic, chili, chopped pineapple, pepper 13. Rice paper 1 file Mix well the mixture of raw spring rolls, ground meat with shallots, garlic, lemongrass, pepper, oyster oil, cooking oil, cashew oil, and sesame seeds. Then add the flour and continue to mix well. Lemongrass trees wash, remove the bark and cut short. Then hold the meat on each citronella tree. Put spring rolls in an oil-free fryer, set at 165 o C for 15 minutes. If your pot does not cook on both sides, turn the spring rolls over after cooking for about 10 minutes. * Mix the sauce with the ingredients: Water, fish sauce, sugar, lemon, garlic, chili, chopped pineapple, pepper and seasoning depending on taste. With raw vegetables you can choose lettuce, coriander, mint, basil … as you like. Don’t forget to combine it with chopped carrot, cucumber and serve with fresh noodles too! Arrange herbs, arrange vermicelli, and finally spring rolls on rice paper. Roll it all up and dot the sweet and sour fish sauce, sweet and mildly delicious. PV (St)

Fish sauce mixed with salad To make sure chili garlic floats, put the garlic chili in the bowl first, squeeze 1/2 of the lemon in to separate. Mix sugar with fish sauce and boiled water to cool it down, to dissolve the sugar to taste, then pour the garlic and chili in and taste the sweetness again to taste. Garlic should be chopped dry and minced so that it will always float to avoid getting wet. Seafood dipping sauce Perform Step1: Take 1 lemon, rub a little peel, then squeeze all the lemon juice (filter out the seeds if any), chili, kumquat (kumquat), chopped lemongrass. Step 2:
Add the main ingredients to the blend, including: 300g white sugar, lemon juice (you can adjust the amount of juice to suit your taste), 20g salt granules, less lemon peels, 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate (Can not give if not eat).
You should add less salt and a lot of sugar to avoid making the salt too salty, if it is salty, add a little sugar or lemon juice to dissolve the spices. Step 3
Use a meat grinder or blender to grind the entire original salt mixture for about 5 minutes, so that the salt is a bit cloudy, gummy and smooth.
If you do not have a blender, you can use a chopstick or a whisk to beat the mixture, but using the blender will be smooth and delicious. Step 4 After you have grinded the lemon salt mixture, add the finely ground salt to a large bowl. Then, add other ingredients such as kumquat, lemongrass, and chopped chili and mix well. Step 5 Once finished, the seafood salt has just eaten. Served with seafood dishes such as shrimp, squid, octopus, snails … or other boiled dishes such as chicken feet, boiled meat … are also very delicious. This is another great suggestion for family party dishes, friends on weekends. Snail sauce Delicious fish sauce + cool boiled water + mixed sugar, then boil it on the stove to melt the sugar to cool. Then add ginger + garlic + minced chili + lemon juice and mix well. Sprinkle coriander, finely chopped lemongrass and mix well. If you like spicy food, you should add spicy chili or chili mashed in it will taste much better. Ginger fish sauce Perform Peeled purple onion. Chopped 1 bulb, the other bulb sliced ​​thin. Chopped chili. Roasted peanuts, rub the shell, put in a mortar to crush. Heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Add the sliced ​​onions, cook the yellowish slightly, then pick them up in a small cup and set aside. Continue to add the chopped onions, stir well. Onions, add 5 tablespoons of black soy sauce and mix well. Add 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of MSG, 4 tablespoons of water, and mix well. When you see the mixture is homogeneous, just cook while stirring for about 2 minutes and then turn off the heat. For soy sauce to hold. Sprinkle with onion, peanuts, minced chili again. Thai shrimp paste with fruit sauce Step 1 70gr dried shrimp soaked with warm water to soften, take 1/2 of the dried shrimp and puree. Melt 150g of palm sugar over low heat, then add 50ml of fish sauce, pureed dried shrimp and 10 grams of shrimp paste. Stir well for all blending. Wait for the sauce to boil again, you add 1/2 of the remaining baking soda, cook for 1 more minute, then bring it down. Step 3 Pour the fish sauce into the bowl, add thin sliced ​​scallions and chopped chili and stir well. So the sauce is ready to dab with fruits already. If you are afraid of the pungent onion, you should put the scallion in one turn with the dried shrimp in step 2. I think this Thai fish sauce dish is more special when the pungent flavor of the onion is still undercooked. . Step 4 Thai sauce is a very hot sauce recently, used to dipping sour and sour fruits is delicious. Fish sauce is predominantly sweet, featuring a strong aroma of fish sauce and the pungent pungency of purple onions and chili. Dab at a piece of mango just know how to rub, inhale forever. In addition to the traditional way of dipping, I also learned that Thai people pour sauce directly on the fruit, which is also insanely delicious. Black soy sauce rolls Prepare pre-ground garlic peppers or crush them. Then put the ground chili in the bowl, which has the ground garlic available. Next, add 10 tablespoons of white sugar. The amount of sugar can be reduced according to the salad you make. Mix well with a spoon. Then squeeze the juice of 5 lemons in, the amount can also decrease according to taste. Next is to add 3 tablespoons of fish sauce. Use a spoon to stir the water to mix the salad. Seasoning according to the taste of each family to match the salad. So the salad dressing is finished, sour and sour, sweet and delicious. You can mix basil beef salad is the best! Sauce for pillow cakes, fried cakes Vinegar and sugar dissolve in 1 cup. Next, add fish sauce to the mix. Next, add cucumber, chili, and onion and mix well. Finally, add the roasted peanuts to the mix. Tasting a sweet and sour taste is okay. Dipping powder filter cake sauce Crush the chili and add the fish sauce and some lemon juice. If you do not want the sauce to be too harsh, you can add water or sugar as needed Shrimp sauce with bean vermicelli, boiled meat Making Measure the amount of shrimp paste to eat in a bowl / cup in advance, add sugar (and monosodium glutamate) and beat until the sugar dissolves. Taste again to see if the sweetness has satisfied with the taste in order to further reduce the sweetness. With 3-4 people eating, measuring about 100 ml of shrimp paste (6 tablespoons of noodles) and beaten with 60g of sugar (3 tablespoons of rice) is just fine. Place the pan on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, wait for it to be hot, then add a little purple onion to the fry, turn off the heat. Immediately pour hot oil into shrimp paste, stir well to make the sauce ripe, remove the strong smell of raw shrimp paste, then add lemon juice. Use chopsticks to beat shrimp sauce to foam, turn light purple. Taste again to reduce salty – sweet – sour to taste. Before eating, add chili, garlic as you like. Soybean sauce rolls Making Soak tamarind in a bowl of boiling water for about 15 minutes to make the tamarind sour, then filter the tamarind juice, remove the residue. Put 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in the pot, wait for it to be hot, then add the garlic to the fry, then add all the black sauce, peanut butter and tamarind juice, stir well. After boiling for a while, the sauce will gradually thicken, at that time, stirring your hands well while seasoning with MSG and sugar to taste. If it’s flat, add a little black soy sauce, not fish sauce or any seasoning. When the tamarind sauce has reached the desired level, turn off the heat, use 1/2 of the pounded peanuts in the pot, mix well, then pour the sauce into the cup, add pickles and spread the remaining 1/2 part of peanuts. surface Note: Tamarind sauce when dipping the spring rolls should not be too thick, tired, not too loose, it won’t taste good. If you want to eat spicy, you can add a little chili powder when not garlic or add the minced chili to the bowl when eating. Ginger sauce with duck sauce Put sugar, fish sauce, filtered water in a pot, boil and let it sit for about 5 minutes for the fish sauce to slightly match (called candy fish sauce). Wait for the candy fish sauce to cool completely, then let the ginger – crushed chili to stir, taste again to taste. If you like the ginger fish sauce has a mild sour taste, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.

Hanoi specialty shrimp cakes in the perception of many diners are golden pieces of shrimp wrapped with shrimp, served with sweet and sour sauce like the sentences described by Thach Lam in the book “Hanoi chopped six streets”: “The intestines tightened first, we watched the cake gradually yellow, gradually yellow, the shrimp shrank, the sweet potato hatched, and the cake curled up a little hotly, wanting to lie on the plate. A faint scent floats into the air, which we take in a refreshing breath along with the cold north wind … ” Looking for the taste of Hanoi shrimp cakes in Ho Chi Minh City, I happened to know that Bom Gastronomy restaurant also serves this cake, but it is an alternative version, out of the shape of the original dish. Not following the traditional processing steps, the shrimp cakes at this restaurant have been completely redone thanks to a new cooking method called: Molecular Cuisine. Bom Gastronomy has refreshed the shrimp cake by shrinking and consolidating the ingredients from the powder coating, to the shrimp filling, dipping sauce and raw vegetables, the small ingredients in the palm of the hand. That fusion is one of the techniques of a modern cooking method called: Molecular gastronomy. This method is a cross between cuisine, science and art. In each dish, the chef will apply the rules of physics and chemistry to the processing, altering the structure of the dish, providing an alternative culinary experience. Compared with the traditional version, the ingredients for shrimp cakes in the molecular cuisine version are almost unchanged, including fresh shrimp, eggs, flour, fried flour, fish sauce, purple onion, garlic, herbs. Sharing about the difference between traditional cakes and molecular-style shrimp cakes, Mr. Do Bao Duong, founder of Bom Gastronomy restaurant, said that the traditional cooking method is somewhat relative, the cook tasting based on experience and senses. For example, dipping sauces are mixed not according to specific quantities, taste can change at salty, sometimes light. On the contrary, molecular cuisine is about the precision when weighing ingredients, which is one of the rules of this cooking method. Each ingredient in the culinary version of shrimp cakes is calculated to balance the flavor and nutritional value. Some diners may not be familiar with the recipe-based accuracy, as each person’s taste is different. “Bom introduces molecular cuisine into traditional dishes, using familiar ingredients to suit a wide range of Vietnamese diners. The restaurant also wants young guests to feel the traditional taste from a modern perspective. The dishes here apply basic techniques so that customers can easily receive and learn about this interesting culinary trend ”, Mr. Duong shared about the innovation of traditional dishes by processing methods. modern. “The kitchen becomes a miniature laboratory when chefs create dishes according to the method of molecular cuisine”, Mr. Duong said. At the “laboratory” in Bom Gastronomy, chefs apply desconstructed and faux caves techniques to create the modern version of shrimp cakes. First of all, it must be deconstructed. This is a technique that changes the structure and shape of the original dish, creating a completely new version but still ensuring the original taste. When applied deconstructed, the chef does not wrap the whole shrimp in the dough but chopped and divided it into 2 parts. The base of the cake is minced shrimp coated with crispy flour, the top layer is sautéed minced shrimp. In the traditional version, the sauce is the liquid in a bowl to add seasoning. To the molecular culinary version, fish sauce is condensed into a fixed gel layer directly onto the cake thanks to the faux caves technique. Here’s how to make a solution in the form of a liquid glue. The liquid is held by a thin, viscous, non-melting gel film. Instead of dipping shrimp cakes with their own sweet and sour fish sauce, the molecular cuisine version has fused the sauce with the other ingredients. To make fish sauce gel, the chef uses normal fish sauce, adding gelatin to thicken. The ingredients are carefully weighed so that the gel layer is not too loose or too thick, has a transparent texture, a deep yellow honey color. This way of processing is completely different from the traditional shrimp cake making steps. The original dish consists of 3 separate crust, filling and sauces. When processing, the chef will prepare the ingredients in pieces, the cake is wrapped in dough and then fried until golden crispy. Cake is served with sweet and sour fish sauce. In the molecular culinary version, the chef prepares fresh shrimp, peels and then purees it. Shrimp meat is mixed with eggs, purple onion, garlic, salt and pepper spices, shaped into a flat circle, rolled over the deep fried dough and deep fried until both sides are golden. The remaining ground shrimp meat is also rounded, flat, steamed, then sautéed golden. Separating 2 parts of shrimp is lettuce. The top part is carrot and perilla leaves. All are fixed with a bamboo toothpick. The dish’s molecular culinary spirit lies in the fish sauce gel droplets decorated on the perilla leaf layer. The innovative version of the shrimp cake is simply decorated with layers of ingredients stacked on top of each other. The crust is the crispy fried shrimp, followed by the rounded lettuce layer, followed by the pan-fried shrimp. The top layer is perilla leaf dotted with 3 drops of honey-colored, transparent fish sauce gel. The fish sauce gel drops on the perilla leaves make the dish more prominent, stimulating the taste buds. The chef instructed me to eat by holding a bamboo toothpick, bringing the whole piece of cake into my mouth in one go. If chopped or eaten separately, it will be difficult to recognize the flavor of this dish like the original version. Even though it’s finger food (the appetizer is small in size), I found the shrimp cake to be quite large to eat in one piece. I cut the cake in half from the top with a knife, and fixed the falling ingredients with a fork. The chopped portion is still 2 layers of shrimp, raw vegetables and fish sauce gel. The taste of the dish reminded me of the times I sat down to eat shrimp cakes at the West Lake sidewalk restaurant. This time I also eat shrimp cakes, but in a more luxurious place with dark space, yellow lights, on a table with candles, knives and forks, there is a attentive service staff. Unlike a plate of golden yellow cake on a plastic plate, with a basket of raw vegetables and a bowl of garlic and chili sauce, the shrimp cake at Bom Gastronomy is placed in a polite white ceramic plate, neatly trimmed vegetables, dipping sauce. are beautiful gel drops. Before enjoying it, I expect the taste of the dish to be similar to the original version. However, this cake does not have the traditional sweet potato so the new flavor lacks sweetness. In return, the shrimp meat tastes well even though it has been minced. Deep-fried shrimp coated with flour, pan-fried shrimp reminds me of fried dishes. The dish does not create a greasy feeling because raw vegetables balance the flavor. In the traditional version, the delicious shrimp cake or not depends largely on the dipping sauce. Likewise, the fish sauce gel portion forms the soul of a molecular cuisine version of shrimp cake. This gel layer has a strong taste of salty fish sauce, clear the smell of garlic and chili spices, adding sweetness of sugar. It is this gel sauce that makes me feel similar to traditional shrimp cakes. It is difficult to judge which version of the cake is better because each type of processing has its own characteristics. If you like the feeling of eating hot cakes, biting crunchy dough blended with sweet potato pulp, chewing intact shrimp with fish sauce, you should choose the original version of shrimp cake. If you are curious about the modern culinary trend, want to experience a dish that exceeds the standards of traditional rules, dine in a luxurious space, you should immediately try shrimp cake in molecular cuisine. For diners who choose to enjoy the taste of modern cuisine, chef Bom Gastronomy suggests that after appetizing with shrimp cakes, diners can order more Bom Iberico, Mushroom Ravioli and a glass of Bom signature cocktail. These are all typical dishes of the molecular culinary approach. Iberico pork dish is served with sweet potato and melon jelly (cantaloupe jelly). This type of jelly was made from the edible paper method. Jelly includes potato powder, soybeans, fresh fruit color and flavor, creating a combination that is not ideal but the opposite flavor stimulates the taste of diners. The Mushroom Ravitol is the wonton soup of Italy. The texture of this dish is just foam. There is also another cooking technique of molecular cuisine called foam (sauce whisk). The foam has a fragrant, smoked, smoked meat flavor that melts right away when it touches the tip of the tongue. The chef introduces the restaurant’s signature cocktail, inspired by his trip to Da Lat (Lam Dong). The glass of water brings a familiar tamarind scent in the new wine taste, creating an attractive sweet and sour taste. In a modern space with traditional features from the image of Bom, mo fan to bronze drums decorated in the restaurant, Bom Gastronomy is the ideal place for diners to explore the taste of Vietnamese food, refreshing by modern cooking method.

In recent days, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Long in Thach That, Hanoi often sells on facebook some batches of ca cuong at an expensive price: 35,000 VND / head. On the surface, Ca cuong is no different from cockroaches, but they are sold at such a high price that startles many people. However, Mr. Long commented, the selling price of Ca cuong this year has decreased significantly compared to last year due to the Covid-19 translation. In previous years, the retail price of Ca cuong never fell below 5 million VND / kg and below 50,000 VND / unit. Ca cuong looks like a cockroach He shared that he imported Ca cuong from Laos or some areas in the South; After that, bring them to Hanoi to sell to retail customers or restaurants selling snacks. In the North, there are very few Ca cuong because people abuse plant protection drugs in the field, so Ca cuong almost rarely appears. Explaining why this thin-bodied insect resembling cockroaches and stink bugs is bought by many people, Mr. Long said: “Ca cuong lives both on the banks and ponds, under water rice fields, but carries essential oils. rare. Therefore, many customers who buy Ca cuong will wash them and then put them on the grill. Then, they cut into small pieces and put directly into the sauce or use gradually “. Or for more convenience, many customers buy Ca cuong to extract the essential oil and store it in a sealed jar. Each time they eat, they just need to bring 1-2 drops into the bowl of sauce. Due to the expensive price of Ca cuong, most retail customers only buy a few to a dozen. Particularly for the rich, the house with conditions or the restaurant or restaurant has just ordered 0.5kg to 1kg. This man added, 1kg Ca cuong usually consists of 80-100 children, depending on the big or small. Calculated, 1kg Ca cuong costs about 3.5 million. One day, Mr. Long sells at least a few dozen to 200 ca cuong. But inside the body they contain special essential oils Many customers like Ca cuong, imported goods go anywhere “On Tet holidays, Ca cuong is asked by many customers to soak fish sauce, use essential oils to spice up festival dishes such as rolls, bun cha, vermicelli … Roasting coffee stalks as bait. However, due to the scarcity of goods, our house is not much for sale. Customers who want to pick up must book at least a week to return the goods ”. In addition to selling whole fresh Ca cuong, Mr. Long also imported a few other products extracted from Ca cuong at a price that is not cheap, such as: Whole Ca cuong fish sauce (soaked 10 males) 500,000 VND / bottle Ca cuong essential oil 300,000 VND / bottle, Ca cuong wine 1.2 million / 2 liter bottle. As a construction engineer, Mr. Tran Van Kien in Cau Dien, Hanoi has just ordered 0.5 kg of male Ca cuong to soak in wine and soak fish sauce. Although their prices are expensive, he is very fond of this insect. “Male Ca cuong has an essential oil smell like cinnamon. When taking the essential oils out, my wife often let her husband soak fish sauce or wine. Eating at the dipping country house always has a familiar tomato cuong taste. Because the tomato sauce has the slight scent of cinnamon and banana oil, now without the tomato cuong, the sauce is very bland, “Kien said. Mr. Kien said that his family has Ca cuong essential oil to eat almost all year round. Therefore, when friends come to his house to eat and drink, the bowl of tomato sauce and tomato wine has an unusual smell, complimenting him because this is a unique and strange dish that few people know.

This is a crispy roast meat vermicelli that I prepared myself with my own recipe, using an oil-free fryer. The main course of the meal is crispy roast meat served with cucumber, herbs and leaf vermicelli. The meat dish is more attractive thanks to the dipping sauce. I mix the dipping sauce with ingredients including 1-2 teaspoons of water, soy sauce, sugar, and lemon. The finished product from my recipe is the charred meat on the outside, the skin is crispy, the meat is still fat, the lean part doesn’t dry out. In order for the food to be delicious, the meat needs to be carefully selected. The bacon must only have the ratio of fat, lean evenly, the layer is about 1.5-2 cm thick. To make the food, I prepare about 1 kg of meat, a bowl of white salt. I cut a lot of fat and bring the fish stock. The rest have lean layers, fat evenly rotated. First, the meat is soaked in boiling water until it is ripe, then blot dry with a paper towel. I used a hairdryer to dry all over my skin for about 5 minutes, taking a sharp knife diagonally around the skin. Next, I covered the meat with aluminum foil, just exposing it. Note the foil is wrapped higher than the tare to spread salt on it. In the next step, the meat is placed in an oil-free fryer and sprinkled with salt to cover the skin. Salt has the effect of drying and exploding without making the meat salty. The oil-free fryer is set at 200 degrees C and cooked for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, the salt will dry again and form a block. I removed the salt from the skin. The skin is dry and roasted at this time. I replace the foil, put it around and under the meat, leave the cuticles, continue to fry at 200 degrees C for 40 minutes. My fryer has a capacity of 1,700 w. If the fryer capacity is higher, you should reduce the heat accordingly. Note, this second time should not open the pot during frying. After 40 minutes, the result is an attractive roast pork piece. The tender flesh is sweet, fragrant, the skin is crunchy, has a salty taste of salt, and an eye-catching dark yellow color.

Charcoal-grilled thorns snail makes it attractive. Thorns snail seems to be the number one grilled dish, there is no way to make the thorns snail fragrant and eat as delicious as the grilled thorn. To process delicious grilled snails, before baking we need to soak the snails to release all the dirt, especially sea sand for about 1 hour or so, it is best to soak the snail with water to wash the rice thoroughly. out of hotel. If the snail has a lot of moss sticking around the shell, it should be beaten clean. Normally when the snails are cleaned, we can take them to grill too, but according to the experience of Mr. Pham Van Giap – a chef of a restaurant specializing in seafood in Tien Yen district, let the snail roast fragrant. then we should steam a snail with lemongrass and a little beer. Lemongrass is cut, crushed, then put in a pot of water, add about half a cup of beer and then boil, let the snail steam for 3 minutes, the aroma of lemongrass and beer will blend into each snail, so when roasting the thorns will have a fragrant aroma. especially. Moreover, this way of steaming the snail will help keep the fresh water of the snail without losing it like when we boil it. Before bringing the snail to roast, we need to have one more step that is to remove the shell, doing so to avoid when roasting the snail will stick to the shell when eating, we may not get it. out of snail meat. Grilled spiny snail will be very round when dipped with sour and spicy snail sauce. Finally, set the charcoal fire to reddish and then put the snail on the grill. Because the snail has been steamed lightly, we just need to see that the mouth of the snail is dry and no more bubbling, the snail is ripe. The finished product of the steamed snail steamed with lemongrass charcoal is the fragrant snail with the smell of lemongrass and beer with a yellowish shell, when enjoying, just pick up on the plate and use it when hot, accompanied by a spicy and sour sauce. mixed with delicious snail meat is a dish that becomes irresistible.

In the summer of 2019, after six years I went back to Copenhagen, Denmark, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ulla-Stina and Jorgen Nilsson, my big friends. From the airport, just getting off the Frederiksberg metro station, was bewildered when I saw Mr. Jorgen, tall and skinny, with his back cuffed slightly, coming. His face was gentle, his eyes were smoky green, his hair was rippled with white clouds. He opened his arms to welcome me, lovingly said: “Hello Little Na, welcome home!” (Hi Na, welcome home!). I rushed forward, hugged him, my chest choked with love. My grandparents called me Na, the name that my parents and those closest to me would call me. With Mr. Jorgen and Mrs. Ulla, I have always been the little Na. I met my grandparents more than ten years ago at Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam, Hanoi. Grandparents are tourists, visiting the Temple of Literature right on Vietnamese Poetry Day, buying my book “Thorns in Dreams” at the bookshop. At that time, “The Thorns of Dreams” was the only book of bilingual Vietnamese-English poetry on sale. When knowing that the author of the book is also present at the Temple of Literature, Mr. and Mrs. Nilsson expressed their wish to meet. Fate has allowed us to become old friends ever since, through poetry. Mr. Jorgen is quite old, his ears cannot hear well, he has to use hearing aids. He was much slower, but still grabbed me my suitcase all the way from the metro station, going home two bus stops, up four floors. Your apartment has three bedrooms, airy, many windows, at 17B Pile Allé Street, in an old house without an elevator, the front facing the street, the back facing into a spacious courtyard, with garden Flowers and fruit trees were scattered along the gravel paths. Mrs. Ulla had her hair cut neatly, her eyes were pure brown, her smile was bright, her figure was still quite agile, but these three years had begun to forget. Last time I came to play, I still spoke English comfortably with her about all kinds of things in the world. But this time, there were very simple words, like “breakfast”, but she kept thinking about it, so she said “the meal of the morning”. Everything during the day, she recorded in the little notebook in the black leather wallet, she took it out from time to time. That year, she turned eighty, on July 13. He turned eight and six, on August 29. But the Sunday I was there, August 25, grandparents’ daughters, Mette and Lotte will hold a special birthday party, shared for parents, with about twenty guests. That is why I traveled a thousand miles to be in Copenhagen. The “mine” room in the house has a west-facing window overlooking Frederiksberg Park and the Danish Royal Summer Castle. Ten thousand young trees planted in a large pot next to the bookshelf a few years ago, was still small, now it has spread its branches and leaves all over the wall, all over the bed, giving me the feeling of being lost in the middle of a hanging garden. On the chair, Mrs. Ulla left me towels and nightgowns, and on the table there was a book “Tales From Moominvalley” by Tove Jansson – a famous Finnish female writer, a family album, a map of Copenhagen and a card. old. I realized that it was the card I sent to celebrate Jorgen’s birthday in 2014. In the album, I saw a lot of my photos – the photos I emailed every year, printed by my grandparents, stuck next to the pictures of the city. Take family members carefully, as many parents do. My eyes were suddenly stinging, but my heart was comforted, relaxed and peaceful. After all the tiring, I know, I always have a place in this warm house. With my grandparents, I often go to the kitchen to make some Vietnamese dishes such as fried spring rolls, bun cha, dried beef salad, rolls, chicken pho … Mrs. Ulla said, Vietnamese cuisine is attractive by freshness and boldness. Natural flavor momentum, which is extremely delicate. Grandparents are very impressed with the sweet and sour, sweet and sour sauce used in the dishes I’ve cooked. I decided this time to make Nam Bo beef noodle soup, which also needed a sweet and sour sauce. Called “Nam Bo Beef Noodles”, but I heard it was not a Southern dish, but was created by a woman from Hanoi several decades ago. This woman opened a noodle shop on Nam Bo Street (now Le Duan Street) in Hanoi. Then she sold more vermicelli with grilled beef, raw vegetables, sweet and sour fish sauce, pickled papaya. Over time, the dish changed, adding bean sprouts, roasted peanuts, scallions and stir-fried beef, as the version I know. Although the origin of this dish is still debated, it is one of the most popular Vietnamese dishes outside the border because of its refreshing taste and the harmonious blend of ingredients that make it. In the morning, Mrs. Ulla and I were walking leisurely along Vesterbrogade, a busy shopping street, which led up near the Central Station. Behind the station is an Asian store, a Vietnamese saleswoman, with a soft southern accent. There are nearly everything in the basics of cooking, but not as varied as the one at Tang Frères in Paris, and the price is much more expensive. For Mrs. Ulla, the Southern Beef Noodle Soup is too sophisticated and laborious. She asked me if this is for special occasions. When she knew it was a daily dish, she was very surprised and admired the patient meticulousness of Vietnamese women. Beef mixed into medium pieces, thinly sliced, marinated in oyster sauce, fish sauce, pepper, sugar, garlic and chopped lemongrass; When preparing to eat, stir-fry the meat. When the meat is cooked until it is curly, it will be straight ahead, lest it overheat. This dish uses the most delicious beef tenderloin, soft but firm, sweet and rich. Beef is soft everywhere, but pale. With beef, need to be thicker, when stir-fried will not be crumbled. Chopped dried onions, fragrant non-yellow; Roasted peanuts, scrubbed off the skin, crumbled, broken, do not pound well, so that when sprinkled in vermicelli, you can still enjoy the crispy crunch. Carrots, papaya, kohlrabi or cucumber, cut into flowers into beautiful leaves, shock with a little salt and soak in vinegar, sugar, chili to gobble. The process of mixing the sauce is very important, no matter how fresh and delicious the beef, the sauce lacks a bit of sourness, a little sweetness, or a lack of a bit of boldness, the dish will miss the beat, will “show” like the wrong singer. music. I often mix and taste, but do not have a specific quantitative ratio, because it depends on what kind of fish sauce and vinegar to use. To make the sauce bowl look attractive, beautiful, chili garlic must be dropped in the end, so that they will float like tiny white and red flowers floating on the smooth “lake surface”. And even though the vinegar is acidic enough, you should still squeeze a few drops of fresh lemon juice to make the sauce smell of nostalgic. Nam Bo beef noodle dish has a cool taste thanks to the combination with bean sprouts, lettuce and herbs of all kinds. All chirping, kicking up like a joyful bass note, merging into a full spectrum. We had a simple, cozy dinner, full of smiles, and a lot of tears. I do not put everything in the bowl, mix it up as usual, but set each item separately on a small plate. Each person took a little leisurely into their own bowl, sprinkled with sauce, and then enjoyed. Because the dish contained beef, Mr. Jorgen opened a bottle of Bordeaux wine from the line of Cabernet Sauvignon lightly. Slowly feel so many flavors tangled together, in the old wine yeast, how interesting it is! I feel at home. Mr. and Mrs. Nilsson are close and dear like my parents. I soaked, then translated the meaning for grandparents to listen to the song: “Who has ever been sweet and sour / Salty spicy ginger, please don’t forget each other”. Grandparents touched my hand touched. Mrs. Ulla said: “Na, you are like my wife’s third daughter. Thank you for this delicious dinner. Thank you for coming back, for being with us! ”. I drank quite a lot the night before, but I stayed up forever. I got up very early, opened the window, heard birds chirping from the canopy of trees in the park. The air is cold and pure. Looking down, Pile Allé is still quiet, quiet or someone bicycling, or a bus soars. The city is stirring, stretching and waking up … I buried my cheeks in a thin wool scarf wrapped around my shoulders, leaned over the windowsill, watching the sky blush. The sun began to slant from the east, across the intersection between Vesterbrogade and Pile Allé, gently covering the city with a dreamy golden glow. A new day really begins. I heard rattling in the kitchen, it was Mr. Jorgen making coffee. Then the sound of tiptoes softly walked toward my room. Mrs. Ulla knocked on the door, softly called: “Na, let’s get up for breakfast!” – “Yes, I’m out right now!”. Down the road, people passing by were more crowded. Sunny flooded all the way. The scent of coffee and toast caressed the air. This city has become so familiar to me! Here Mr. and Mrs. Nilsson gave me a roof, a warm kitchen, where I could return anytime …

Resources: Pig ears: 2 Green beans: 100 grams Soybeans, fragrant rice: 50 grams Salt: 1 teaspoon Fish sauce: 2 tbsp Monosodium glutamate: 1/2 teaspoon Sugar: 1/2 teaspoon Lemon juice: 2 teaspoons Chili: 20 grams Galangal: 50 grams Vegetables served: fig leaves, guava leaves, cloves, washed lemon leaves, drain. Making: – The pig ears are cleaned, washed with salt, put in a pot of boiled boiled water, then picked up and soaked in a bowl of cold water to make the pig’s ears crispy. – When the pig’s ears cool, use a knife to cut into thin fibers. – Green beans, soybeans, rice are fragrant washed, roasted crispy on the stove, let cool. Put in a fine mill to make a hearing. – Lime leaves cut thread, chili sliced. – Galangal peeled, chopped and put in a blender with a little water. Squeeze the juice. – Put the pig’s ears and hearing in a large bowl. – Season with monosodium glutamate, sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice, galangal juice to taste, mix well. – After that, add lemon leaves and chili to mix again for the same ingredients, enough seasoning to penetrate the pig’s ear. – Roll the spring rolls into a plate, sprinkle with lemon leaves and chili on top. – Spring rolls served with herbs and sweet and sour fish sauce will add a great taste. Salad roll with shrimp and meat Resources: 500g shrimp 700g bacon
1 roll of rice paper
500g of fresh noodles
Soybean sauce
Roasted peanuts (crushed)
Some types of vegetables: lettuce, raw vegetables, herbs, chives …
Some other essential spices: salt, wine, sugar, shallot, garlic, cooking oil, peanut butter, chili sauce, vinegar … Making: First, you remove the roots and leaves of the vegetable portion and wash it with diluted salt water, keep on the basket to drain. Then, you wash the shrimp several times with water, put the shrimp in a bowl and marinate with ½ teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon alcohol, 1 teaspoon sugar. This step will help you limit the fishy smell of the shrimp and bring you a delicious spring roll. Next, you put shrimp in a pot, boil it on the stove, note, you should cover. When the shrimp turn red, take the shrimp out, then peel, split the shrimp in half along the back to remove the black thread on the back. You put shrimp on a plate. Next, you shave the bacon you just bought and wash it several times with water. You put the meat in a pot of water with 1 crushed purple onion, then boil it on the stove for 20 minutes. When the meat is cooked, take it out and put it in a bowl of cold water. Wait for the meat to cool, you cut into thin slices on a plate. Next, you put the rice paper on a plate, wet to make it easier to roll. You put shrimp, meat, vermicelli, and vegetables on top of the rice paper and roll them up. You perform them in turn for all the ingredients prepared above and presented on the plate. Then, you put the pan on the stove with 1 teaspoon of garlic, non-aromatic oil, crushed. After that, you add ground nut sauce, season with sugar, peanut butter, chili sauce to taste. When the sauce mixes, add a little vinegar to the stir fry and turn off the heat. When enjoying, you can add the roasted peanuts to the top to complete the way to make the spring roll sauce. Pig ears rolled with five spice Resources: 3 pig ears 1 crushed lemongrass branch; 1 tablespoon of cooking wine; 1/2 teaspoon five flavored powder; 1 tablespoon oyster oil; 2 garlic cloves; 2 anise petals; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 sliced ​​lemon leaves; 3 scallions; 1 piece of sliced ​​ginger; 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder; 2 teaspoons of pepper; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 1/3 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon brown sugar; 1 teaspoon black soy sauce; 500 ml of fresh coconut water with some dried chili (if any). Implementation part: Step 1: Pig ears bought to shave clean hair. Roll the pig’s ear from the outside to the inside, use the fastener to fix the pig’s ear. Step 2: Prepare a pot large enough to boil pork ears, pour in 1 liter of cold water with 1 tablespoon of white wine, 1 crushed lemongrass branch, 1 slice ginger, 2 lemon leaves, put on the stove, and cook. Boil about 5 minutes, then let the pig’s ears are tightly tied into the pot (note the amount of water must cover the pig’s ears so that the ears do not darken). After 10 minutes, remove the pig’s ear and rinse it with cold water. Step 3: Continue to put the scallions in the pot, add the pork ears with all the spices: 1/2 teaspoon of five flavored powder; 1 tablespoon oyster oil, 1 teaspoon seasoning powder; 2 teaspoons of pepper; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 1/3 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon brown sugar; 1 teaspoon black soy sauce; 500 ml of fresh coconut water with some dried chili (if any). Pour water into the pig’s face ginseng and cook over medium heat, keep cooking until the water is clear, the pig’s ears are brown, then turn off the heat. Pick the pig’s ear to a plate, wait for the pig’s ear to cool, then put it in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours (or overnight) (the purpose is to help fix the shape of the pig’s ears, the ears will be firm, when sliced, it will not be affected. unbent) After waiting enough time, the last thing to do is just take the pig’s ear to circle it and place it on the plate. Lime Resources: Goose meat: 2 kg Sesame: 100 g Lemongrass: 100 g Galangal: 1 small branch Ginger: 1 small branch Lemon leaves: 5-7 leaves Cucumber, green banana, sour star fruit: 1 fruit each Served with herbs: fig leaves, cilantro, herbs Sauce: poor soy sauce. Making: The ginseng meat squeezed with ginger salt and washed to sell less smell, filtered the bones to use in other dishes. Put the goose meat in a pot, boil it just to come with ginger, lemongrass, crush. Marinate the goose meat with a little spice and put in a pan of gold and then take out to cool and slice it thin. Preliminary processing of spices: Sesame roasted gold, peeled, crushed. Lemongrass, small galangal. Lemon leaves, ginger sliced. The basil and laksa leaves washed, drained. Put one tablespoon of cooking oil in a non-galangal pan and lemongrass is golden and fragrant. Pour meat into a bowl with fried cooking oil, add spices such as sugar, soup powder, lemon juice, sliced ​​chili, ground pepper, monosodium glutamate and mix well to infuse the meat and then spread out to a plate. . Steps to make sauce: Take half a bowl of kumquat, sugar, ginger juice to boil. Turn off the heat and add lemon juice, monosodium glutamate, minced chili to taste, let the sesame seeds roast and crush, stir well and then bring to the bowl. Cut star fruit slices around the plate and then let the lemon gooseberries soaked in the spices in the middle. Take another large plate lined the fig leaves down, above the display of cucumbers, star fruit, green bananas have been sliced ​​around, alternating with herbs for beautiful eyes. When eating rice cakes, add fig leaves, cucumbers, star fruit, green bananas each piece, a piece of white and herbs rolled into rolls and soy sauce. Tieu Bao (Synthetic) Photo: Collectibles

The bowl of noodles has white noodles, a thin layer of raw shrimp, fragrant broth with seafood and a little onions, cilantro, and pepper. When eating, diners have to stir the shrimp cakes to cook evenly and mix the sauce from kumquat, salt, chili, and sugar to taste. The noodle bowl is impressed not only by the sweetness of the fresh vermicelli but also by the richness and chewiness of the seafood rolls, the spicy flavor of the dipping sauce. Photo: Tolunguyen. Herring salad is a dish with bold flavor of Phu Quoc island. The harmonious blend of raw fish meat with onions, purple onions, grated coconut … makes anyone experience delight. Enjoying the salad with rice paper, raw vegetables and dried coconut is highly appreciated by gourmets. Photo: Popăn.vietnam. Mackerel cake in Phu Quoc has a taste that is not mixed with anywhere else. The taste is sweeter and richer thanks to the preparation of fresh mackerel. In addition to the pieces of mackerel and fish ball, the bowl of banh canh has a rich broth from the bone and minced pork to awaken the taste buds. Photo: Nomnompaleo. The cake is made from wheat flour with many flavors of the cake such as coconut, green beans, taro … The cake has a soft sweetness, so it doesn’t create a feeling of boredom. This gift shows the sophistication and ingenuity of the local people, and is praised by many tourists and chosen to buy them for their loved ones after each trip. Photo: Tramanh.9591. The combination of thieu fish, fish sauce and Phu Quoc pepper and the sun and wind makes the typical piece of dried thieu fish of the island city. Dried fish in Phu Quoc has a soft fragrant meat, not chewy, not fishy, ​​so it is suitable for you to buy as a gift. Photo: Kikishop0203. Khai Hoan Phu Quoc fish sauce is announced by the Vietnam Record Organization in the list of 100 gift specialties (2020-2021). The mixture of fresh anchovies and sea salt is put in a barrel and kept for 12-15 months. The fish sauce with bottled fish sauce makes it convenient for visitors to buy as gifts. Photo: Quynh Danh. Trom latex is a type of latex filtered from the tree, very good for the liver. Pus Trom is mixed with jaggery with a bit of seeds to create a sweet taste. This is a refreshing drink that helps visitors cool off and dispel the summer sun on the pearl island. Photo: Daisy_quyen.

Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: Goose meat: 2 kg Sesame: 100 g Lemongrass: 100 g Galangal: 1 small branch Ginger: 1 small branch Lemon leaves: 5-7 leaves Cucumber, green banana, sour star fruit: 1 fruit each Served with herbs: fig leaves, cilantro, herbs Sauce: poor soy sauce. The ginseng meat squeezed with ginger salt and washed to sell less smell, filtered the bones to use in other dishes. Put the goose meat in a pot, boil it just to come with ginger, lemongrass, crush. Marinate the goose meat with a little spice and put in a pan of gold and then take out to cool and slice it thin. Preliminary processing of spices: Sesame roasted gold, peeled, crushed. Lemongrass, small galangal. Lemon leaves, ginger sliced. The basil and laksa leaves washed, drained. Put one tablespoon of cooking oil in a non-galangal pan and lemongrass is golden and fragrant. Pour meat into a bowl with fried cooking oil, add spices such as sugar, soup powder, lemon juice, sliced ​​chili, ground pepper, monosodium glutamate and mix well to infuse the meat and then spread out to a plate. . Steps to make sauce: Take half a bowl of kumquat, sugar, ginger juice to boil. Turn off the heat and add lemon juice, monosodium glutamate, minced chili to taste, let the sesame seeds, crush, stir, stir well, then bring to the bowl. Cut star fruit slices around the plate and then let the lemon gooseberries soaked in the spices in the middle. Take another large plate lined the fig leaves down, above the display of cucumbers, star fruit, green bananas have been sliced ​​around, alternating with herbs for beautiful eyes. When eating rice cakes, add fig leaves, cucumbers, star fruit, green bananas each piece, a piece of white and herbs rolled into rolls and soy sauce. Braised goose meat Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: Ngan: 700gr (about 1/2 chicken) Crocodile fruit: 200gr Taro: 500gr Purple onion, garlic Scallions, cilantro Spices: fish sauce, seasoning seeds, … Making: Buy goose meat, wash. Crush ginger and white wine to grind the goose meat for a few minutes and then rinse with water to remove the smell. Then, chop the meat into bite-sized pieces. Crocodile fruit peeled and washed, taro peeled, washed and sliced ​​to taste. Purple onion and garlic peeled, chopped, scallion, coriander picked up, washed, chopped. Before marinating the meat, you put the meat in a pan and fry it briefly so that the golden skin catches the eye and makes the dish more delicious. Next, add the goose meat to the bowl, add 1 teaspoon of minced garlic, 1 teaspoon of chopped onions, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce and 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds. Then, you mix well and marinate for about 30 minutes to infuse the meat. North pan on the stove, add oil and non-fragrant onion, minced garlic. Then, add the goose meat and sauté for about 5 to 10 minutes until the meat is firm. Next, you put the meat in the pot, fill the surface with water, then put it on the stove, set the heat to high and start brazing. When the meat is boiling, lower the heat to soften the meat. During braising, you should pay attention to remove the foam. When the meat starts to soften, add the crocodile. After about 15-20 minutes, continue adding the taro. You cook until sweet potatoes, season them to taste, then turn off the heat. You put the dish in a bowl, add scallions and coriander and enjoy, if you want to eat spicy you can add a few slices of chili. Boiled Ngan Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: 1 goose: about 2kg Fresh ginger: 1 branch Dried onion: 1 bulb Seasoning powder, soup powder Making: After buying goose meat, you will clean and remove odors with ginger alcohol. Then put the goose in a pot, fill the surface with water, add a little crushed ginger and then turn on the stove. When the water is boiling, use a spoon to remove the foam to make the boiled water clearer, add 1 tablespoon of flour, peeled dried onions (baked) and lower heat, cover and cook again for about 25 30. The minute is the meat will be cooked. Then take out to cool down, then chop it, add delicious fish sauce to enjoy.

Both cilantro and parsley are green in color and have long stems. They differ only from the appearance of the leaf. Cilantro has quite round leaves, parsley has pointed leaves. Taste and aroma If you find yourself confused when distinguishing between these two vegetables, pay attention to the flavor and aroma. Cilantro has a strong metallic odor and a very distinctive taste. Cilantro is said to have a mild citrus flavor. On the other hand, parsley has a very mild and mild fragrance. Using Cilantro is a vegetable that adds aroma and a fresh flavor to dishes. It has softer leaves and stems. However, you can shred both vegetables and add them to dishes. Cilantro can be used as a curry garnish, salad dressing and added to dipping sauces. Parsley is also used as an ornament. Parsley is added to soups, stews, and sauces. Parsley also has soft leaves, a slightly chewy stem and retains its flavor even when cooked. Health benefits of cilantro and parsley Both herbs help lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, prevent kidney stones, prevent blood clots, control blood sugar and are considered miraculous remedies for pain relief. To get the maximum amount of vitamin K from these herbs for your body, include them in fatty foods, such as olive oil, avocado or coconut milk. Vitamin K helps strengthen bones and prevents blood clots.

Easy but difficult Soybean ingredients include soybeans, glutinous rice and grain salt. The cooking season usually starts around March to May. Sticky rice is cooked, dried and molded. This stage of making this milestone seems to be easy but very difficult, it must be experienced by the similar workers to calculate how the milestone is reasonable. “Horizontal hand” that goes in makes it easy to damage like playing. Soybeans are roasted in gold and crushed, then soaked with water and salt. The soy sauce maker determines the “lean soy sauce” of the roasted soybean soaking water to calculate the process of pouring mold into soaking. After the mold has been poured in, make sure to make the jars of soy sauce carefully, cover with a ceramic lid. Everyday, open the sun to make the soy sauce ripen. After the drying process is to incubate for very carefully, very tightly. Just incubated like that for about 3 months, it is similar. Soy sauce is a special sauce and has many uses in meals. In the past, ca dao used to enumerate all three “national souls” of the nation in one sentence: “You go, I miss your homeland / Remember the water spinach soup, remember the tomato sauce”. There are many ways to combine soy sauce and water spinach. The simplest is water spinach boiled with soy sauce, vegetable broth brought with crocodile vinegar, and a meal with salt-cured tomato is enough. During the subsidy period, my grandmother used to cook ginger soy sauce morning glory soup. Water spinach washed, crushed. Vegetable cooking water add a little soy sauce and a little salt, crushed ginger root, drop into the water, when the water is boiling, drop water spinach in, vegetables are cooked, then turn off the heat. Water spinach cooked with soy sauce is usually very green, giving it its own flavor. It seems to be a dish of the past, now no one can cook anymore. What about ketchup? Previously, in the countryside, every home had to have a jar of soy sauce, a pot of rice, which are almost 2 indispensable things and look at it to be assured of the time when the seeds are in front. The eggplant here is a bowl of salted eggplant with the whole fruit pressed. During the coffee season, many people buy weights, peel off the nipples skillfully, release each nipple with a pinch of salt, then compress it tightly. Usually salted eggplant takes a month to eat and salty then… draw your tongue. But there is a new salt for long The traditional way of making tomato sauce is that the tomato is soaked in salt for 20-25 days to reduce water, then soaked in a soy sauce jars for a few months. Currently in Tam Hiep, Phuc Tho still has many families producing this specialty. Sometimes sell up to 50 thousand VND / fruit. Specialty of … country Usually, families who want to eat tomato sauce will do it in a very quick way, when the salt is cooked, then tear it into small pieces. Now, there is a way of taking a knife and slicing salt into pieces (in the old days, the tools only tear their hands). no sugar is fine). Just soak for a few hours to make the soy sauce infused. In addition to water spinach and tomato, tofu is also very delicious if combined with soy sauce. Boiled tofu with soy sauce is a very affordable dish for the hot season. Crispy tofu with soy sauce is always the number one dish from generation to generation. During the subsidy period, my grandmother used to store tofu with soy sauce. Braised beans are white beans, not fried, cut into pieces, put in a pot, pour a little soy sauce, add some lard or grease and simmer on the stove, until the soy sauce is evenly adhered to the bean and is dry, then turn off the heat. Braised soybeans are both fatty and plump, eaten with rice very well. Now, when my grandfather has disappeared from the mountain, his family still maintains his old dishes. Once you came to the house and saw me stewed in the old style, you were very surprised because I had never eaten. Also somehow, this dish is less popular on a large scale, or it may also be the “personal initiative” of a housewife. Or maybe it was a dish from the subsidized and difficult times, now the society has developed, people are used to the full of high-quality dishes, so no one remembers. Referring to soy sauce, it is impossible not to mention the presence of this sauce in the stock dishes. The first to mention is the fish stock. Usually fish stocked with soy sauce is river fish, copper fish, mainly tilapia, crayfish, catfish, and carp. Rarely, people choose to store the carp with soy sauce. Crayfish eggs, a little bacon (choose the fatty part), a little ginger sliced ​​to the bottom of the pot, can store with a little star fruit, add a little water to make the fish beautiful. In the past, in many rural areas, rice husks were also cooked, and the way the fish were kept in rice husks made the fish make the bones but it was very fleshy. Talking about it, but forgetting to mention the castings is of course extremely flawed. The cake is made from non-glutinous rice soaked in clear lime water, the rice is ground into powdered water and then brought to the kitchen stirring with peanuts. Peanut molded cake is delicious, not crushed, but soft, flexible, crispy, without sticking to the hand. The molded cake is only suitable for the sauce, add a little fresh chili, eat both stick and cool. Along with the cake mold, there is also goat meat that cannot be delicious without soy sauce.

Vermicelli with stir-fried beef Nam Bo beef noodle soup is also known as stir-fried beef noodle soup. This is the form of vermicelli mixed with many different ingredients such as beef, green vegetables, roasted peanuts … When eating, customers just need to sprinkle sauce on the ingredients and mix well and enjoy. To have a standard bowl of Nam Bo beef vermicelli, beef ingredients must be thoroughly marinated with sugar, fish sauce, pepper and many other spices. When the customers order, the cook begins to cook the meat. After stir-frying beef, it must be kept soft, not chewy and has a natural sweet taste. A bowl of fried beef noodles attracts customers thanks to its eye-catching appearance and refreshing taste. Photo: Bababunbonambo. Address: Nguyen Thai Binh, District 1 Price: 65,000 VND / bowl Business hours: 7h30-20h30 Diners commented: Thao: “The price is a bit expensive, but the vermicelli is delicious, seasoning to taste, full of spring rolls, soft beef. The dish is carefully packed when ordering.” Quyen Nhu: “A bowl of stir-fried beef noodles with small noodles, soft and medium tender beef. Pickles, carrots, kohlrabi, peanuts, scallions and raw vegetables are also combined. 4 spring rolls for 30,000 VND, crispy but not evenly colored, somewhat scorched “. Bread pan Enjoy the hot pan bread, rich flavor with the combination of tiny trade, pate, cold meat, fried eggs, fish … and sauce will be the ideal suggestion for you to recharge. long day. Address: Calmette, district 1 Price: 30,000-40,000 VND / piece Business hours: 6am-12pm The bread pan filled with bread is a culinary suggestion worth trying in the morning. Photo: Biteallfood. Diners commented: Tebefood: “A mixture of many ingredients such as chili, fried egg, canned fish, cheese, pate, pickles, cucumber helps diners to avoid being sick. Especially, the shop uses crispy and fragrant cartilage in a few places. There is no thick cut, chewy cheese and light fat pate. Toast with a light sauce, you should add soy sauce and chili sauce for a richer flavor. ” Thai mixed rice noodles In Ho Chi Minh City, the noodle dish is varied with many unique flavors. In addition to types such as noodle soup combined with egg rolls, beef stock, fish … you have the opportunity to change taste with strange sour mixed Thai noodles. Address: Hoang Sa, District 1 Price: 40,000 VND / bowl Business hours: 7am-20h Mixed noodles have an attractive spicy and sour taste. Photo: Foodcollectionsmy. Diners commented: Foodcollectionsmy: “Thai mixed noodles include rich ingredients such as liver, kidney, pork, quail eggs, beef balls, squid, octopus, chives. The sauce is pre-poured, guests can add chili if you want to eat spicy. Rice noodles are medium to medium-sized, soft and chewy. You can order more crispy and greasy greases to make the dish more attractive. The minus point is that the dry-mixed noodles do not have a cup of soup to eat. Grilled spring rolls, fish cake soup If you want to enjoy the delicious dishes of Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa), fish cake soup, grilled rice noodles are the right choice. The noodle cake made from rice flour blends the natural sweetness from the broth and the fish cake slices with the rich taste of the sea. Grilled spring rolls conquer diners again thanks to each strand of fresh noodles, fragrant grilled spring rolls, fresh fresh vegetables. This cold vermicelli dish is usually served with sour food, crushed peanuts and chili fish sauce mixed with sweet and sour sauce. Address: Mac Thi Buoi, district 1 Price: 35,000 VND / bowl Business hours: 7am-14h and 16h-20h You can enjoy the taste of Nha Trang cuisine in the heart of Saigon. Photo: Foodcollectionsmy. Diners commented: Foodcollectionsmy: “Noodle bowl with extra crispy rice paper, mixed sauce is made from minced meat shrimp. The fish cake soup attracts diners thanks to its delicious broth. Chewy fish cakes, original sweetness, crispy aroma”. Phoholic: “The restaurant has a variety of menu, including grilled rolls, spring rolls, all kinds of vermicelli, spring rolls, fish cakes or banh canh … The sauce at the shop is quite delicious, I feel that the mix or roll is better. water dish “. Recipe for making noodles with beef, broccoli With just a few minutes of ingredients preparation and preparation, you can make a delicious bowl of beef noodles for the whole family.

Summer food Located on Mac Dinh Chi street, Chinh Thang noodle shop is quite easy to find. Around 11am, the shop was full from the house to the sidewalk. Many guests have to wait 10-15 minutes to be served. The shop sells from 9am to 10pm, lunch and dinner time is the most crowded. According to Mrs. Vu Thi Chinh (66 years old), the owner of the shop, in the summer of 2000, when she saw diners mimicking their sweat to enjoy a bowl of pho water, she thought about changing a new dish. During the absence of guests, she rolled uncut noodles with beef and herbs. “When serving, customers like it. I have developed it until now. Rolled pho is like pho, but it is dry and suitable for summer food”, Ms. Chinh shared with Zing . Even though she is over 60 years old, Mrs. Chinh still blows away at her pho. Photo: Quynh Anh. In the early days of the business, the shop sold both cooked beef noodle roll and lemon leaf chicken noodle roll. However, customers who come to eat mostly love the rolled beef noodle soup, so she decided to only sell this type until now. Her noodle soup and bamboo noodle soup have been sold in Ngu Xa area since 1981. By 2000, the shop only sold pho roll and moved to Mac Dinh Chi to take the name Chinh Thang, which was taken from the couple’s name. Thanks to pho, she has raised 3 grown sons and both have master’s degrees. Currently, the youngest son has left his job behind to take over and succeed the family. Despite her high age, her pho manipulation is still very mature and fast. She boasts that she can roll 10 in just 1 minute. So when there are many customers, Mrs. Chinh still goes to the kitchen to help her son. To save time and meet a large number of customers at the same time, the owner must use a radio to order food with the staff in the kitchen inside. Depends on the dipping sauce With the carefulness in the cooking process and the selection of ingredients, each plate of pho brought to customers is always delicious and hygienic. “If the noodle bowl is important in the broth, the rolled pho needs a dipping sauce to balance it. Every family selling has a recipe for the sauce so my restaurant also has its own flavor. This is the result of a process.” I change to suit the taste of most diners “. A plate of pho roll of 10 is priced at 65,000 VND. Photo: Quynh Anh. Being a meticulous person, all the ingredients for pho roll such as pho cakes, beef, herbs … were ordered by Mrs. Chinh from longtime acquaintances. The shop owner said that the noodle cake must be tough and thin so that it does not break when rolled. If the cake is broken, the fried pho cannot be crunchy. The noodle roll only includes stir-fried beef with lettuce and herbs. Unlike other locations, the restaurant’s beef is a tender cutlet that is sliced ​​into a large size so it is not crumbled. Before the Covid-19 translation, the shop often welcomed many Japanese tourists. They often stop here after finishing their tour and discovery in Hanoi. Introduced by the owner as a regular customer of the restaurant, Mr. Huy Hoang (40 years old) said he had eaten at the restaurant for 7-8 years. “In the past, I lived in Hanoi every week. Later, I moved back to Quang Ninh, so today, I come here to work here and eat to help me eat.” Minh Ha (22 years old) knew about Chinh Thang noodle shop through the introduction of an acquaintance. At first, when she stopped by the restaurant, Ms. Ha thought like many other addresses. However, in the first time, she ate half a plate of pho by herself. “Pho rolled at the restaurant served is still warm, the sauce is rich. The space is clean, although eating on the sidewalk, the neighborhood is empty, so I do not find it inconvenient.” Currently, in addition to pho roll, coming here you can enjoy fried pho, crispy egg noodles, sour pho … with prices from 50,000 to 80,000 VND. Enjoying puffed pho with the restaurant’s dipping sauce will be more harmonious. Photo: Quynh Anh. Customer reviews: Ngoafood: “Compared to other addresses, the noodle rolls here are smaller, but the book is firm. The filling has enough beef and vegetables. The noodle rolls up quickly, but the fried pho serves slowly. I found it to be eaten, not very impressed. “. Ninheating: “A plate of pho roll consists of 10 pieces, served with sweet and sour sauce. The restaurant has fried egg pho, sour noodle is quite delicious”. Linh Le: “Sometimes the restaurant is crowded, the shop owner usually does not accept more customers. Rolled noodle is full, a lot of meat. Sour pho is full of scallion, delicious sauce. However, the restaurant is still slow to change.” Thao Chi Vu: “Rolled pho is quite small. Puff-fried pho and egg-fried noodles are very good. The price is quite good, about 60,000 VND / person is full”. Thuyseatbook: “Lunch and dinner is when the restaurant is quite crowded. The beef eaten with all dishes is sliced ​​into large pieces. The fried noodles are crispy outside, sticky inside”.

Wonton Hoanh Thanh has a shell made from wheat flour, the filling includes ingredients such as pork, shrimp, wood ear, green onion … finely sliced. Fried wonton dishes, soup or noodles have their own delicious taste. Regardless of the method of processing, the fragrant crust and rich meat filling remain the same. In the middle of the city center, you can stop to sip a large, fancy-sized wonton in the evening. A serving usually consists of 3 wontons combined with lemongrass or beef balls and stirred in hot broth. Address: Nguyen Thai Hoc, District 1 Price: 15,000-70,000 VND / piece Business hours: 19h-00h The giant Wonton causes curiosity to many first-time enjoyers. Photo: Leosnak, Mysteriousaigon. Diners commented: Do Do: “Wonton is too big so the shell is relatively thick. The taste is not very good, in return the meat is seasoned with rich purple onion, slightly different from many places I usually eat. The broth is sweet. , quite a mouthful “. Mai Phuong: “I ordered a bowl of wonton, a combination of beef balls and pork balls, and I ate it fast, but I got tired. The bowl includes 4 large sized wontons, the shell is a bit hard, the filling doesn’t stand out. Delicious chewy beef balls. The broth is quite salty. The quality of the dish is not commensurate with the price “. Fish cake soup Bread soup can be made from rice flour, filter flour. Natural sweet broth and slices of fish cakes with rich sea flavor. Pancakes can be made from the meat of sliced ​​fish, basa fish, mackerel, barracuda … bring fried. On the weekends, you should take the time to experience the hot soup bowl with a large size fish ball, different from the usual meals. Address: Hoa Hung, District 10 Price: 40,000 VND / bowl Business hours: 7am-22h Large, golden fish cakes make a highlight for the cake bowl. Photo: Bineating. Diners commented: Bineating_: “The home-made flour is quite delicious, the fish cakes are sweet, chewy and big”. Quyen Duong: “The noodles are not fully cooked. I personally feel the taste is a bit sweet”. Linh Tran: “Fish cakes are delicious, chewy, not powdered. The broth is naturally sweet, harmonious with the taste of fish cakes. Fresh and clean vegetables. You can add shrimp paste to the bowl of banh canh to taste. get boldness “. Baked rolls Grilled spring rolls is one of the dishes that many people love because of its natural sweetness and aroma. The ingredients for making spring rolls include pork, pork fat, onion, garlic, spices … This mixture is mixed well and the processor will shape the rolls into big round rolls into bamboo sticks. When baking, spring rolls must be turned over continuously so that they are cooked and golden evenly without being burned outside. In Ho Chi Minh City, you will have the opportunity to sip giant grilled spring rolls. Grilled spring rolls are also combined with vermicelli, spring rolls, and raw vegetables to create an ideal dish for a hot day. This cold vermicelli dish is usually served with sour food, crushed peanuts and chili fish sauce mixed with sweet and sour sauce. Address: Ms. County, District 10 Price: 45,000 VND / spring rolls Business hours: 11h30-18h30 Giant grilled spring rolls, golden ripe stimulates the taste buds of people. Photo: Doiratngon. Diners commented: Nguyen Thi Yen: “Grilled and delicious spring rolls, bigger in size than in other places, so eat well”. Ngoc Chau: “A portion of vermicelli costs 35,000 VND, including 2 attractive golden spring rolls, crispy spring rolls. Hidden under the vermicelli strands are lettuce, cucumber, pickles. Fish sauce is served to taste. Nguyen Nem tree with 6 pieces will cost 45,000 VND “. Eat, Play: “Nem is big but a bit greasy. The portion is quite small with vermicelli, salty fish sauce, no sour taste. The quality is generally not adequate for the price. Plus point is that the restaurant serves free iced tea. “. Ribs with green chili sauce Laeng Saeb (or ribs with green chili sauce) has a characteristic flavor of Thai cuisine. The dish features a main ingredient including boiled pork ribs and ribs that are stacked like mountains. In the heart of Saigon, you also have the opportunity to enjoy huge size ribs. The highlight is the sauce from bone broth so it is delicious and naturally sweet. Green chili, cilantro are also combined to create eye-catching color, aroma and spicy flavor. Address: Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3 Price: 120,000-680,000 VND / piece Business hours: 10am-23h Large size ribs plate, flooded with green chili sauce, hot and spicy. Photo: Localfoodguy_, Maryderoux. Diners commented: Iamfoodtester: “Ribs have 5 sizes, the smallest is size M and the largest is 4XL. We go with 2 people, so choose the L size for 240,000 VND, enough to fill your stomach. accompanied by a sour taste “. Biteallfood: “Spicy ribs size XL costs 320,000 VND / piece. Whole ribs are quite large in size but are stewed so they are cooked well and meat is tender, not chewy and not too fat. Around the ribs are soaked with green chili and onions. pureed leaves create the spiciness. Diners enjoy the large ribs with chili fish sauce “. Giant squid costs 4.5 million VND in Ho Chi Minh City Fresh squid weighing more than 10 kg is sold at a sidewalk restaurant on Ba Thang Hai Street (District 11) attracting food lovers. When customers call, the shopkeeper chopped the squid and processed it.

In addition to the traditional taste, the dish is also varied when grilled, fried or put in a bowl, sandwiched on bread … Break the coconut milk Address: Pham Van Hai, Tan Binh district Price: 20,000-100,000 VND Breaking coconut milk is a favorite flavor in Ho Chi Minh City. This is the type of white breaking, the outside of the broth is slightly cloudy, less strong in color. Do not use too much spices, the broth is cooked mainly from coconut milk, creating a characteristic aromatic fat. A small dish costs 20,000 VND, full of sugarcane leaves, honeycomb, star fruit, stomach, … Meal for 4 people 100,000 VND. The accompanying tamarind fish sauce will stimulate your taste buds. The shop does not sell bread, you can buy it to eat. The white dish is less eye-catching in appearance, but attracts diners because of its rich taste. Photo: Hukha.foodaholic. Destroy the sarcasm Address: To Hien Thanh, District 10 Price: 20,000-50,000 VND Coming to Aunt Minh’s restaurant, you will enjoy a new style of pig-busting dish. Items such as beasts, bubbles, tongues, ears, intestines … are cleaned, then served with fresh coconut water, Peppermint, garlic, cinnamon to soften and absorb the taste. Breaking water has a beautiful cockroach color thanks to the secret of adding Peppermint to the water. The accompanying sauce is mixed with Peppermint, Garlic, Salt … to create a highlight for the dish to play. The harmonious salty and sweet combination stimulates the taste buds of diners. Each dish is served with cucumber and bread. The shop is located in a small alley with few tables and chairs, so buying to bring will be the ideal choice. Peppermint is the soul of this kind of vandalism. Photo: Hetmydiscovery, ruahaman. Disruption Address: Nguyen Phuc Nguyen, District 3 Price: 159,000-229,000 VND Breaking Phoenix Thien attracts gourmet customers by its unique layout. A full set of 5 different types of eggs, served with hot sticky rice, pate, butter, scallion. Types of breakage using the same broth. Unlike the usual cooking method, the restaurant is cooked with coconut water, fresh milk, making the dish fragrant. Breaking the beef is the most popular dish among many people. Many customers of the restaurant believe that the dishes are quite oily, slightly dry pate sticky rice. A breakout suitable for 2-4 people to eat. Photo: An.eat.an. Break the baking dish Address: Nguyen Hong Dao, Tan Binh district Price: 29,000 VND Different from fried or water style, breaking the baking dish makes diners excited by the spread of complex aroma. Breaking water is marinated with satay so it is soaked with a pungent taste, dotted with sweet and sour tamarind juice to create harmony. You can eat with cucumber and okra to help relieve sickness. In addition to baked goods, the restaurant is also varied with many versions such as making hot pot, stir-fried with instant noodles, fried, mixed … The dry dishes here are more appreciated by customers than the type of water. Grilled pork belly is slightly crunchy, has a strong flavor. Photo: Lanwiththi. Breaking bread Address: Vinh Vien, District 10 Price: 20,000 VND The combination of two familiar ingredients that are bread and crackers creates a new but equally appealing flavor. The loaf of bread is filled with pork, pickles and sauces. Breaking down a bit of fat, reduced by sweet and sour pickled morning glory. The fragrant crispy bread, blended with the heart, the sour food and the rich sauce bring an unforgettable aftertaste for diners to enjoy for the first time. The loaf of bread has a harmonious taste of salty, sweet, fat, and bar. Photo: Mitsfoody.

Nha Trang’s specialties are all rustic, made from the local ingredients, so the identity of this land is imbued. Thanks to the ingenuity in human hands, Nha Trang’s specialties are famous near and far, making visitors from all over the world always want to enjoy and buy home. 1. 584 fish sauce Nha Trang Products used to make spices to marinate, season and use as dipping sauces directly contribute to adding flavor to the dish. Delicious fish sauce will have a golden brown color, not cloudy. Do not choose fish sauce with gray-green color. If you want to test it properly, you should leave the fish sauce bottle facing the light source. Price: 35-degree protein fish sauce, 500 ml capacity is priced at 48,000 VND, while 30 degrees is priced at 43,000 VND. Type 25 degrees capacity 1 liter costs 43,000 VND, 15 degrees capacity 500ml price 18,000 VND. Buying address: Vinh Hai Market, Phuoc Long, Ngo Gia Tu city Nha Trang. 2. Mango Cake Nha Trang mango cake is made mainly from naturally ripe mango (mangoes are mainly grown in Cam Ranh, Cam Lam, Ninh Hoa). The cake is meticulously processed into thin layers and exposed to direct sunlight. The mango cake should be selected with a yellow color, not too dark black or bright yellow. The cake is soft, tough, easy to tear. The surface of the delicious mango cake is smooth, slightly smooth but not too smooth. If it is too smooth, it means that the cake has been mixed with a lot of flour during processing. Price: 25 – 30,000 VND / bag. A bag usually has 12 pieces, if you want to buy more from 1kg to 5kg, it costs 100,000 VND / kg. Buying address: The shops at Cho Dam, Vinh Hai Market Grocery, New Hamlet Market 49 Ngo Gia Tu. 3. Nem Ninh Hoa Referring to Nha Trang cuisine, people do not forget to mention Ninh Hoa spring rolls, so they should try it when coming to the beach. Nem Ninh Hoa includes sour and grilled spring rolls. You can enjoy grilled spring rolls on the spot, while spring rolls can be bought as gifts for your family and loved ones. Eating spring rolls you will feel the aroma of the meat, the crispy and spicy sour taste blending together to bring an interesting feeling to the eaters. Price: A portion of grilled spring rolls ranges from 25 – 35,000 VND for 2 people. Buying address: Dang Van Quyen Nem Restaurant – 16A Lan Ong, Nha Trang Nem restaurant is right at the foot of Ball Bridge. 4. Salt with lemon chili If you have come to Nha Trang, you will probably know the thick green sauce used to eat with seafood with a characteristic pungent flavor that is unforgettable. Salt green chili is a wonderful combination of green chili, salt and lemon juice to create a fragrant dipping water color. When you taste it, you will see the harmony of taste with the combination of specialties, especially boiled and grilled dishes. Price: From 20 – 30,000 VND / bottle. Buying address: Dam Market Nha Trang, New neighborhood market in Nha Trang. 5. Nha Trang Fish Ball Fish ball is a famous specialty in Nha Trang so you should buy it as a gift after traveling, because it is the crystallization of fresh fish such as sardines, mackerel, and boneless cod. The fish cakes are delicious, soft and chewy. Fish cakes are divided into 3 types: fresh, steamed, fried. Depending on your preferences to buy 1 in 3 types of cha. In addition, you should note that buying is not suitable for the time you travel for easy storage. Fish cakes usually range from 150 – 350,000 VND / kg. Buying address: Phan Nha fish cakes, Dam market area. 6. Dried seahorses The dried seahorse in Nha Trang is one of the valuable gifts given by the sea. Seahorses after catching will be removed from the intestines and then dried or dried. People often sell seahorses in pairs of equal sizes. You can buy a male – a female or by sign. Seahorses are divided into many sizes at different prices. Price: Ranging from 200 – 350k / pair. Buying address: In the city center, famous markets such as Dam market, Xom Moi market, Vinh Hai market. 7. Dry squid in Nha Trang If you have traveled to the sea, you cannot ignore this attractive seafood dish, this is one of the most practical gifts for friends and family. You are still struggling to buy anything to buy as a gift, then a sunny day will be a good suggestion. Price: Dried squid is priced from 500 – 620k / kg depending on the type of ink. One sunny squid costs from 250 – 500k / kg, in addition to tamarind squid ranges from 25 – 55k / jar, seasoned squid prices 350k / kg. Buying address: New Hamlet Market in Nha Trang, Dam Market Nha Trang.

Talking about Ha Tinh branded seafood, maybe Vung Ang dance squid is the top dish. Unlike normal squid in other seas, Vung Ang skipping squid is famous for being able to catch squid that is still swimming in cages, and still jumping in pots. The squid dance season usually starts from mid-February to the end of the seventh lunar month. The fresh cuttlefish are fished by skilled workers at night, stocked in boats with available seawater and then sold to restaurant owners on floating rafts. The squids are still alive when picked up from the seawater storage compartment. Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh – owner of a seafood restaurant in Vung Ang said, squid jumps best when picked up from the cage, washed so that the whole child is boiled, steamed beer or ginger warehouse. The sweetness and fat, the crispness of the squid is still fresh, making Vung Ang squid not mixed with other squid. The crisp, sweet, and fresh taste of Vung Ang squid is difficult to mix with the squid in other seas. For Vung Ang gourmet squid dance, salad is an indispensable dish in the menu when coming to floating restaurants here. The biggest, strongest swimming squids are chosen by the chef, removing all parts, only the body with transparent color to make salad. Squid salad dish served with herbs, special spices and sauces prepared by each restaurant makes diners pamper. Along with dancing squid, Ky Anh sea area also has a famous jellyfish dish. The fresh jellyfish was mixed by the people of Ky Anh with acrid flavored leaves such as leaves and dung leaves. These leaves are collected in the forest, washed, sun-dried, misted, pureed and then used to squeeze jellyfish to help the jellyfish become bright yellow, not stale. Jellyfish are marinated with dung leaves – a miracle dish of the Ky Anh. Photo: Thu Trang The preparation of leaves was meticulous, and the process of marinating jellyfish was also very meticulous. Jellyfish are separated from the body and legs, then cut into small pieces. Fresh jellyfish is pressed with watermelon leaves, crushed leaves for 2 days, then washed, continued pressing with dung leaf powder one night. When the jellyfish has turned yellow, achieving fragrant and crunchy is a successful jellyfish batch. As a typical folk dish of the Ky Anh people, but anyone who has once enjoyed the jellyfish sauce, jellyfish salad, jellyfish salad is hard to forget the crispy taste of the jellyfish, the pungency of the chili, and the fat. of crushed roasted peanuts and the aroma of the accompanying vegetables such as mango, marjoram, basil, and ham … The dish is rustic but enough to make people “fall in love”. Coming to the coastal waters of Loc Ha district, visitors will easily be “held on by the feet” by delicious opaque fish salad that is hard to resist. The meat is white and firm, and the opaque fish is favored by diners with many ways of processing, but to feel all the deliciousness of this fish, the salad is the best. The opaque fish chosen for the salad are fresh and delicious, neither too big nor too small, and their body still has sparkling silver scales. The fish is beaten clean of scales, head removed, gutted, washed to drain; use a knife to separate the flesh on both sides of the fish body. This meat will be marinated with lemon juice for about 20-30 minutes and then squeezed dry. Processed fish is mixed with onion, pineapple, green mango, sliced ​​carrot, roasted peanuts … Chisel fish salad in Loc Ha horizontal sea makes but fastidious diners also “fall in love”. (Photo: Tuy Phong). To make the fish salad flavorful and bold, Loc Ha people eat with a sauce made from nearly 15 different spices such as: lemon juice, minced garlic, purple onions, roasted peanuts, chili, herbs, fish sauce … This mixture is boiled, fully mixed with the sour taste, sweet salty. Fish salad wrapped in spring rolls of the same kind of water makes the most demanding diners also nod. For the first time to enjoy the opaque fish salad, Ms. Pham Mai Hue from Ninh Binh shared: “I rarely eat salad, but the time I went back to Ha Tinh to play, I was introduced to the opaque fish salad, so I tried it and was correct. is delicious. Next time I have the opportunity to return to Ha Tinh, I still want to re-enjoy that special dish ”. Hen Duc Tho is properly processed to keep its taste and sweetness from being crushed. ( Photo by Duong Chien). On the contrary to Duc Tho, the cool sweetness of La river mussels will certainly not make you regret it for tasting. After the flood passed, it left phytoplankton a natural source of food to help mussels flourish and have a characteristic taste, sweeter than other regions. After the mussel is caught, it must be soaked in water to release mud, pick up grit and trash; then wash and boil the mussels to release the intestines. When you boil the mussels, the heat should be high enough so that the water will just boil for a short time until the mussels open, but the meat is not tender. Both the gut and the shell of the mussel sink but the flesh is lighter than the shell. When the shell is submerged, the intestines will float on the surface, so just quickly push the intestines of the mussels to another basket. The taste of the mussel dish holds many children away from home. Hen Duc Tho is often processed into many dishes such as cooking soup, cooking porridge, stir-frying bean sprouts with rice cakes … Hen is a clean food, completely handmade and living in a natural environment, today, it has become a specialty in restaurants and hotels. Many people in Ha Tinh who go far away still cannot forget the sweet taste of home specialties, so Duc Tho mussel also follows people to many other provinces and cities. The delicacies from aquatic and seafood have contributed to the branding of Ha Tinh cuisine, hidden in which the cultural values ​​of each region are unique features that attract tourists from near and far.

Hanoi specialty shrimp cakes in the perception of many diners are golden pieces of shrimp wrapped with shrimp, served with sweet and sour sauce like the sentences described by Thach Lam in the book “Hanoi chopped six streets”:

“The intestines tightened first, we watched the cake gradually yellow, gradually yellow, the shrimp shrank, the sweet potato hatched, and the cake curled up a bit impatiently, wanting to lie on the plate. A faint scent floats into the air, which we take in a refreshing breath along with the cold north wind … ”

Looking for the taste of Hanoi shrimp cakes in Ho Chi Minh City, I happened to know that Bom Gastronomy restaurant also serves this cake, but it is an alternative version, out of the shape of the original dish.

Not following the traditional processing steps, the shrimp cakes at this restaurant have been completely redone thanks to a new cooking method called: Molecular Cuisine.

Bom Gastronomy has refreshed the shrimp cake by shrinking and consolidating the ingredients from the powder coating, to the shrimp filling, dipping sauce and raw vegetables, the small ingredients in the palm of the hand.

That fusion is one of the techniques of a modern cooking method called: Molecular gastronomy. This method is a cross between cuisine, science and art. In each dish, the chef will apply the rules of physics, chemistry in the processing, altering the structure of the dish, providing a different culinary experience.

Compared with the traditional version, the ingredients for shrimp cakes in the molecular cuisine version are almost unchanged, including fresh shrimp, eggs, flour, fried flour, fish sauce, purple onion, garlic, herbs.

Sharing about the difference between traditional cakes and molecular-style shrimp cakes, Mr. Do Bao Duong, founder of Bom Gastronomy restaurant, said that the traditional cooking method is somewhat relative, the cook tasting based on experience and senses. For example, dipping sauces are mixed not according to specific quantities, the taste can change when salty or light.

On the contrary, molecular cuisine is about the precision when weighing ingredients, which is one of the rules of this cooking method. Each ingredient in the culinary version of shrimp cakes is calculated to balance the flavor and nutritional value. Some diners may not be familiar with the recipe-based accuracy, as each person’s taste is different.

“Bom introduces molecular cuisine into traditional dishes, using familiar ingredients to suit a wide range of Vietnamese diners. The restaurant also wants young guests to feel the traditional taste from a modern perspective. The dishes here apply basic techniques so that customers can easily accept and learn about this interesting culinary trend ”, Mr. Duong shared about the innovation of traditional dishes by processing methods. modern.

“The kitchen becomes a miniature laboratory when chefs create dishes according to the method of molecular cuisine”, Mr. Duong said. At the “laboratory” in Bom Gastronomy, chefs apply desconstructed and faux caves techniques to create the modern version of shrimp cakes.

First of all, it must be deconstructed. This is a technique that changes the structure and shape of the original dish, creating a completely new version but still ensuring the original taste. When applied deconstructed, the chef does not wrap the whole shrimp in the dough but chopped and divided it into 2 parts. The base of the cake is minced shrimp coated with crispy flour, the top layer is sautéed minced shrimp.

In the traditional version, the sauce is the liquid in a bowl to add seasoning. To the molecular culinary version, fish sauce is condensed into a fixed gel layer directly onto the cake thanks to the faux caves technique. Here’s how to make a solution in the form of a liquid glue. The liquid is held by a thin, viscous, non-melting gel film. Instead of dipping shrimp cakes with their own sweet and sour fish sauce, the molecular cuisine version has fused the sauce with the other ingredients.

To make fish sauce gel, the chef uses normal fish sauce, adding gelatin to thicken. The ingredients are carefully weighed so that the gel layer is not too loose or too thick, has a transparent texture, a deep yellow honey color.

This way of processing is completely different from the traditional shrimp cake making steps. The original dish consists of 3 separate crust, filling and sauce. When processing, the chef will prepare the ingredients in pieces, the cake is wrapped in dough and then fried until golden crispy. Cake is served with sweet and sour fish sauce.

In the molecular culinary version, the chef prepares fresh shrimp, peels and then purees it. The shrimp meat is mixed with eggs, purple onion, garlic, salt and pepper spices, shaped into a flat circle, rolled over the fried dough and deep fried until both sides are golden. The remaining ground shrimp meat is also rounded, flat, steamed, then pan-fried.

Separating 2 parts of shrimp is lettuce. The top part is carrot and perilla leaves. All are fixed with a bamboo toothpick. The dish’s molecular culinary spirit lies in the fish sauce gel droplets decorated on the perilla leaf layer.

The innovative version of the shrimp cake is simply decorated with layers of ingredients stacked on top of each other. The crust is the crispy fried shrimp, followed by the rounded lettuce layer, followed by the pan-fried shrimp. The top layer is perilla leaf dotted with 3 drops of honey-colored, transparent fish sauce gel.

The fish sauce gel drops on the perilla leaves make the dish more prominent, stimulating the taste buds.

The chef instructed me to eat by holding a bamboo toothpick, bringing the whole piece of cake into my mouth in one go. If chopped or eaten separately, it will be difficult to recognize the flavor of this dish like the original version.

Even though it’s finger food (the appetizer is small in size), I found the shrimp cake to be quite large to eat in one piece. I cut the cake in half from the top with a knife, fixed the spilled ingredients with a fork. The chopped portion is still 2 layers of shrimp, raw vegetables and fish sauce gel.

The taste of the dish reminded me of the times I sat down to eat shrimp cakes at the West Lake sidewalk restaurant. This time I also eat shrimp cakes, but in a more luxurious place with dark space, yellow lights, candles, knives and forks on the table, there is a attentive service staff.

Unlike a plate of golden yellow cake on a plastic plate, with a basket of raw vegetables and a bowl of garlic and chili sauce, the shrimp cake at Bom Gastronomy is placed in a polite white ceramic plate, neatly trimmed vegetables, dipping sauce. are beautiful gel drops.

Before enjoying it, I expect the taste of the dish to be similar to the original version. However, this cake does not have the traditional sweet potato so the new flavor lacks sweetness. In return, the shrimp meat tastes well even though it has been minced. Deep-fried shrimp coated with flour, pan-fried shrimp reminds me of fried dishes. The dish does not create a greasy feeling because raw vegetables balance the flavor.

In the traditional version, the delicious shrimp cake or not depends largely on the dipping sauce. Likewise, the fish sauce gel portion forms the soul of a molecular cuisine version of shrimp cake. This gel layer has a strong taste of salty fish sauce, clear the smell of garlic and chili spices, adding sweetness of sugar. It is this gel sauce that makes me feel similar to traditional shrimp cakes.

It is difficult to judge which version of the cake is better because each type of processing has its own characteristics.

If you like the feeling of eating hot cakes, biting crunchy dough blended with sweet potato pulp, chewing an intact shrimp flavored with fish sauce, you should choose the original version of shrimp cake.

If you are curious about the modern culinary trend, want to experience a dish that exceeds the standards of traditional rules, dine in a luxurious space, you should immediately try shrimp cake in molecular cuisine.

For diners who choose to enjoy the taste of modern cuisine, chef Bom Gastronomy suggests that after appetizing with shrimp cakes, diners can order more Bom Iberico, Mushroom Ravioli and a glass of Bom signature cocktail.

These are all typical dishes of the molecular culinary approach. Iberico pork dish is served with sweet potato and melon jelly (cantaloupe jelly). This type of jelly was made from the edible paper method. Jelly includes potato powder, soybeans, fresh fruit color and flavor, creating a combination that is not ideal but the opposite flavor stimulates the taste of diners.

The Mushroom Ravitol is the wonton soup of Italy. The texture of this dish is just foam. There is also another cooking technique of molecular cuisine called foam (sauce whisk). The foam has a fragrant, smoked, smoked meat flavor that melts right when it touches the tip of the tongue.

The chef introduces the restaurant’s signature cocktail, inspired by his trip to Da Lat (Lam Dong). The glass of water brings a familiar tamarind scent in the new wine taste, creating an attractive sweet and sour taste.

In a modern space with traditional features from the image of Bom, mo fan to bronze drums decorated in the restaurant, Bom Gastronomy is the ideal place for diners to explore the taste of Vietnamese food, refreshing by modern cooking method.

Resources:

• 400 grams of commercially available rolled cake flour

• 300 grams of minced meat, be careful not to mince it too finely

• Cooking oil

• Wood ear

• Shiitake mushrooms

Onions

• Onions

• Spices: fish sauce, salt, seasoning seeds

• Cold water

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Making:

1. The core:

• Meat marinated with spices as follows: 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon fish sauce, 1 teaspoon seasoning seed, 1/2 teaspoon pepper within 15 minutes.

• Carpentry, mushrooms soaked, washed, chopped.

• Put the pan on the stove, add 1 teaspoon of cooking oil, fry the onion, then add the minced meat to the island, finally add the shiitake and wood fungus to the island for 30 seconds then turn off the heat.

1. Powdered part:

• Dilute water according to the ratio: 600ml of water for 200 grams of powder. This ratio helps the cake to be thin, chewy, and not crushed.

• After mixing the dough, season with 1 tablespoon of one tablespoon to make the crust bold.

1. Cake coating:

• Put a thin layer of cooking oil on the non-stick pan. When the pan is hot, put 1 tablespoon of flour in the pan and smooth it.

• Cover the pot again within 1 to 2 minutes, if the cake is clear, it is done. After that, quickly place the pan upside down so that the cake falls onto the tray and apply cooking oil to avoid sticking.

• Put the kernel in the middle and then roll it up. Do the same with the rest of the dough and multiply.

1. Flight:

• Slice 200 grams of dried onions, wash them with water, then dry them in the sun to wilt.

• Mix onions through a thin layer of flour, pour over the sieve to remove excess flour.

• Fry with cooking oil on a pan.

1. Sauce part:

Mix the sauce according to the following proportions: 1 fish sauce + 1 sugar + 3 water + 1 vinegar (lemon) + 1 chili.

6 important notes for delicious rice rolls

1. Do not let the pan overheat to coat the flour, otherwise the dough will cook quickly, the cake will dry, it is easy to pitting and burn, making the cake extremely difficult.

2. Do not let the pan get too cold to rinse the flour, the dough will take a long time to cook.

3. Do not apply too much oil to the pan, the cake dough will easily get hollow in the middle.

4. Do not leave the cake on the pan for too long, it will explode, overcook and not clear.

5. Use a cutting board to store the cake after it is done. Do not put the cake on the plate because the surface is not flat, very fragile.

6. When the cake is fully cooked, the cake will come out of the pan by itself, quickly place the cake face down on the cutting board.

1. Garlic is too white or dark in color

Many people when buying garlic often think that garlic has a very white outer skin, large, shiny bulb that is delicious and clean. In fact, the nutritional value of this type of garlic is lower.

In general, you should choose garlic bulbs that have a white outer skin with a hint of purple, or the whole skin is purple. This type of garlic has a relatively high nutritional quality and is very aromatic.

Note, if the peel of black garlic means that during storage, if not well preserved, the peel will start to get mold. Such garlic is absolutely not buying.

2.The garlic sprouted

Take a look at the top of the garlic, if you find it sprouted, I advise you not to buy.While sprouted garlic is not toxic, even has many health benefits, but overall, the sprouted garlic. When it comes to cooking, its taste is no longer as good as the un-sprouted garlic. Buying and preserving is also not beneficial, so when choosing garlic, you should choose garlic that is not crushed, does not sprout.

3.The garlic is too soft

When choosing garlic, we often hold the garlic bulb to gently squeeze to see if it is fresh and firm or not. Fresh garlic with enough moisture to touch will be very hard, if you see the tender garlic, it means it has been too long, losing moisture, smell. The taste is very bad … If it is saggy after being crushed, the garlic inside is definitely damaged, degraded, and should not be bought.

4. Garlic is broken

When buying garlic, it’s best to choose bulbs that are as intact as possible. Do not buy tubers with damaged or cracked cloves, as garlic contains a lot of bacteria and dirt, poor storage will degenerate and turn black, so if you want to have safe garlic bulbs, choose full tubers. regular, no shrimp spoilage.

It is also important to store garlic in a well ventilated, cool, cold storage place that can inhibit the germination of garlic.It can also be left in a net basket and hung on a balcony. in a well-ventilated place.

Refer to a few dishes from garlic:

GARLIC POTATO CHILI POTATO

Resources:

• 500gr garlic

• Chili: about 10 fruits

• 400ml rice vinegar (or fruit vinegar)

• 2 teaspoons of salt

• 1 cup old boiling water

Making:

• Garlic peels off the outer shell. Next, wash off the garlic cloves.

• Then prepare 1 cup of old boiling water and add 2 teaspoons of salt.

• Put the garlic in a bowl of old boiling water with dilute salt soaked for about 10 minutes. This will help the garlic dish soaked in vinegar always be crispy white.

• After soaking in boiling water, remove the garlic from the basket to drain.

• Put garlic and chili in a clean jar, followed by vinegar to cover the chili and garlic.

SWEET CHILLI GARLIC

Materials:

• 4 garlic bulbs (choose new and young bulbs, types with cloves)

• 6-7 red chili (frozen or fresh)

• 250ml white vinegar 5%

• 250ml of water

• 70g of sugar and 1 tablespoon of sugar used when soaking garlic at first

• 10g salt

Making:

• Peeled garlic, sliced ​​as thick as you want, remember to remove the inner core, which makes the garlic taste more pungent and not delicious.Pour 1 tablespoon of sugar in the same water just enough to soak for 10-15 minutes ( This step helps to remove the pungent odor of the garlic).

• Rinse several times with cold water, let it dry, spread out to dry in a windy place for the garlic to dry quickly, while waiting for the garlic to dry, cook the vinegar.

• Put vinegar, water, sugar, salt in the pot, boil it for about 5 minutes, then turn off the heat, let it cool. Those who are less fond of sweetness, remember to reduce the amount of sugar a little bit!

• Wash, dry, cut chili peppers to size

• Put the garlic and chili into the sterilized pot / jar, add vinegar, cover and refrigerate.

• About 2 days, the garlic is absorbent and delicious.

The shoots of chili served with pho, vermicelli, and shrimp noodles are all delicious.