Mussel rice Mussel rice has become a very familiar dish for every Hue citizen, a popular dish associated with the daily life of the people here. It is not known since when that mussel rice has become a typical culinary mark of Hue, just know that when coming to Hue, all visitors are impressed by the wonderful taste that this dish brings. With the main ingredient is mussels and accompanying ingredients such as deep-fried fat, fish sauce, raw vegetables, banana flowers, bean sprouts, finely chopped white taro stems, roasted peanuts… have created a dish with unforgettable taste. Bun Bo Hue As a dish that is too famous for people all over the country, Hue beef noodle soup is the culinary feature that promotes the culture and people here. A full bowl of Hue beef noodle soup includes pork legs, beef, blood, crab cakes… served with raw vegetables. All are combined with a sweet, aromatic broth that makes any gourmet nod in praise. Bun bo Hue has become a childhood dish, an unforgettable memory for every citizen here. Hue tea Besides the extremely famous savory dishes, Hue also contains extremely attractive cooling dishes, typically Hue tea. Referring to Hue tea is referring to a feature of royal cuisine that has become a cultural mark. Hue tea has many kinds of delicious tea such as: corn tea, millet tea, potato tea, bean curd, yellow wax mon tea, cotton areca tea, roasted meat filter powder… mixed with anywhere. Nem lui It is often said that to eat spring rolls properly, come to Hue. That’s right, Hue is famous for its delicious food because of its unique processing unlike anywhere else. The skewered spring rolls are the ingenuity of the chef. Each spring roll is the crystallization of the culinary culture of a capital land with unique cultural imprints. Hue cake Illustration. Hue, in addition to dishes such as vermicelli, tea, spring rolls… is also famous for cakes. Hue cake includes many delicious and attractive varieties such as ram cake, filter cake, beo cake, nam cake, wet cake…. Each type of cake contains unique flavors that make you enjoy it only once. It will also make an unforgettable impression. If you have the opportunity to visit Hue, do not forget to enjoy these wonderful cakes.

Traditional cakes The tradition of using leaves to wrap food of the Vietnamese people is shown most strongly and clearly in traditional cakes. Banana leaves are the most popular, but sometimes they can be replaced with coconut leaves, dong leaves… but the trend of using natural leaves for wrapping cakes remains unchanged. No matter how deep the history of Vietnamese cakes, the leaves have accompanied them for such a long time. The oldest can mention banh chung. Right from the first appearance in the legend, it was also introduced as a cake wrapped in dong leaves. According to the development of Vietnamese cuisine, in turn, other leaf wrap cakes gradually appeared, not limited to a certain region but almost any cake, specialties of any region will be wrapped in leaves. . From far away, from gai cake, honey cake of the North to Hue cakes such as Nam cake, filter cake. In the Southern region, we have banh ú and little cakes that are also associated with the leaves picked in the garden. Spring rolls, spring rolls, spring rolls All dishes made from meat and to be eaten for a long time, gradually eaten like spring rolls or fermented meats like spring rolls are wrapped with banana leaves. This is an old way of doing things, because banana leaves have the ability to keep fresh very well and can help preserve food in conditions where there is no refrigerator. The spring rolls and spring rolls that we often prepare during Tet holidays are wrapped in leaves. On the other hand, some spring rolls, small rolls such as spring rolls, sweet rolls… are also meticulously wrapped with banana leaves into pretty small packages. It can be seen that, even if it is a large size of spring rolls or tiny pieces of spring rolls, grandparents do not change their ways because of a word “convenient”. They still take the time to carefully wrap and tie each spring roll, one by one. Sticky rice and rice dishes No matter what kind of rice is sticky rice, what color, served with beans or coconut or savory dishes, sticky rice with banana leaves is almost never changed. Currently, there are many places that use styrofoam boxes to store, but the image of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves – lotus leaves is so familiar that we all prefer such traditional sticky rice shops. Snacks, snacks Not only in traditional cakes, spring rolls or sticky rice dishes. Grandparents also used leaves in “seafood” dishes, such as pandan tube cake, baked sticky rice, banh xeo, and molded cake… In addition, do we have a “theorem”? The official is: any dish eaten with mam, rattan basket, that dish must be lined with banana leaves such as bean vermicelli, cakes… Along with the long history of cake culture in Vietnam, the leaves have contributed significantly to creating a delicious and close taste. It has wrapped and protected the cake to keep the perfect color, smell and taste that very few people notice.

Pressed cake. Pressed cakes are sold “abundantly” on every corner of Hue, but the taste of the cake is not the same as any other shop. The cake is small but contains many special things: the greasy, chewy taste of the cake, the crunchy sourness of pickled papaya, the aroma of green onions, meat, eggs… Pressed cake is actually an improved filter cake, not fussy in processing. The main ingredients include filter powder and many different types of fillings such as eggs, dried beef, bacon, meat, etc., depending on the style of each restaurant. All ingredients are processed individually. The cake is pressed between two pieces of cast iron on a charcoal oven. In turn, put the filter powder into thin press and then add the filling to press again. Its name is also derived from this way of processing – pressing the dough in a cast iron plate. The fragrant aroma and the pleasant sound of the dough sizzling make diners waiting for the cake everyone wants to eat. Cakes are pressed or crunchy depending on the customer’s request. While waiting for the cake, the diners can make their own fish sauce, adjust the amount of spicy accordingly. Perhaps thanks to the time waiting for the cake to cook, adding homemade dipping sauce makes the dish even more delicious. The cake is more delicious when eaten hot and must be eaten with sweet and sour, laksa leaves, cucumbers, etc. The chewy taste of the filter powder, the fatty taste of the filling, and the freshness of vegetables and melons make diners eat forever until they eat. full but still not bored. In addition, pressed cakes also have a “dry pressed cake” version for customers to buy as gifts. Dry pressed cake at first glance, you will see it looks like an omelette but the ingredients and taste are completely different. Fat meat is spread evenly, add a little scallions and crunchy, served with very flavorful chili sauce. There is a very interesting way to eat dried pressed cakes that is to spread a little pate and chili sauce on the cake and sandwich it together. When eating, you will feel the crispy taste of the cake, the fatty taste of the pate, the spicy taste of the chili sauce.

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.

Noodle soup Noodle vermicelli is located at the beginning of alley 76 Hai Ba Trung. The shop always attracts diners because of its fragrant flavor. The eye-catching dish with the orange-yellow soup of the crab stick. A bowl of vermicelli is full of blood, rolls of silk, crabs, snails, beans … The dish is attractive with the sweet taste of the broth and the fat leopard of the side dish and the strong flavor of the fish sauce. However, the crabs here are not completely pure. Photo: Mitsfoody, Chiecbungdoi.foodlover, Nhanrec, Tebefoody. Diners reviews: Mitsfoody: “A noodle sale is only 25,000 VND. The tasting taste is quite delicious. I eat lunch, so I don’t know the specific selling time. Just keep the boiler with a little bit of it, it will taste delicious, usually it will not taste very strong. ” Fried dough The fried dough in this alley is quite famous. The dough is cut into square shape to fit the mouth. Breaking one more scrambled egg on top will make the dish more fatty. Traditional fried dough, served with shredded papaya and diluted soy sauce. The attraction of the dish is that the fine plastic powder is eaten without causing damage and the price is 25,000 VND for a full, reasonable box. The fried flour here is quite famous. Photo: Tebefood, Lenkycungkhoa. Diners reviews: Nguyen Minh Tu: “The fried flour is very crispy, the food is very tasty, affordable for a place in the city center.” Luu Anh Khoa: “Pretty much, the sauce is also delicious. There is a crunchy grease too. ” Hue cake For those who love cakes in Central Vietnam. A row of cakes with all flavors such as banh beo, filter flour, cake nam… has enough. A portion of cake is only 20,000 VND and can be ordered depending on what you like, but the best part is a mix with spring rolls, rolls. The casual cakes with supple flour, filled with homemade fish sauce and crispy crispy bread served with appeal. The shop sells a full range of Central Vietnamese cakes. Photo: Intofood_, Tebefood, Damanfood. Diners reviews: Intorfood: “Look at the tray is very attractive. The 20,000 VND mixed portion is also complete but the taste is very normal, the fish sauce is not very strong, the filter powder is a bit clumsy, the taste is a bit pale. Fat molded cake, fragrant coconut water. In short it can be eaten. ” Thai fried rice Thai fried rice is definitely not to be missed when coming to this alley. A fairly plump rice set with chicken skin, grilled skewers meat, kimchi, cucumber, tomato … Especially the fragrant soft and fragrant fried rice, attracting a lot of culinary devotees. Photo: Tebefood, Lanwiththi. Diners reviews: Nguyen Mai Khanh: “A box full of mounds has 25,000 VND only, with grilled meat, chicken skin, kimchi, cucumber, fried rice is very soft, hot, grilled meat is seasoned to taste, chicken skin is also crispy. Also, eat more kimchi to help relieve boredom. ” Luu Anh Khoa: “The day we went, the rice was quite dry, the kimchi was really sour, the pork skin was not very crisp. But in return, the barbecue is still delicious, it is delicious. ”

United in the city of Tam Ky. (Photo: Phuoc Tue / VNA) Every April, the people of Huong Tra village in particular and Hoa Huong ward, Tam Ky city (Quang Nam) are generally very happy and proud of the blooming season on the 3km long road. Tam Ky river bank gentleness. At this time, every corner of the street is full of yellow flowers with a tender, seductive fragrance that captivates people’s hearts. Whenever it’s windy, flower milk flying through the space in the village, wearing tourists’ hair and clothes. According to Ms. Dang Tuyet Lan, Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Information, Tam Ky City, the flower festival takes place from April 3-17. It is expected that this year’s water flower festival will welcome about 8,000 visitors here to enjoy and have fun This year, due to the influence of the COVID-19 epidemic, Tam Ky city does not organize festivals but only implement some practical activities to serve people when they come to enjoy flowers, thereby contributing to promoting activities. tourism activities of the city and Huong Tra ecological village to become a tourist destination of Quang Nam. Visiting the flower season this year, in addition to being immersed in brilliant and fanciful yellow color, traveler also participate in meaningful and lively activities here. Visitors are lost in an old Huong Tra village because of the thatched houses built by the Organizing Committee on the Tam Ky river, displaying agricultural tools, typical handicraft products, artifacts reflecting the process of formation and development. of Huong Tra village from ancient times to present. Along with that, visitors will enjoy traditional traditional dishes of Huong Tra village and localities in Tam Ky city such as banh beo, banh nam, quang noodle , mixed mussels, mixed jackfruit, tea, rubbing … In addition, visitors can also find local people in Huong Tra village to make banh tet, banh chung, Quang noodles… and other popular dishes. In particular, visitors will admire the talents of the traditional Hong Lu blacksmiths; See paintings on tailors’ bags at Tam Thanh Community Art Village (Tam Thanh Commune) and weaving performances of Thach Tan sedge mat craft village. In addition, visitors experience many useful activities here: visit the orchid display area, write calligraphy, performance space for Song Choi singing, street music, watch the Men’s Boat Race- traditional women of Tam Ky city and the photo contest “A moment of the ripe flower season 2021,” “The road with conical hats,” Wishing tree … Mr. Phan Thanh Hai, a visitor from Quang Binh, said that the activities in this year’s Water Rose Festival are diverse, rich and unique, creating joy in discovering new and strange things for tourists. does not cause boredom and monotonous feeling like some festivals in other localities. According to the documents as well as the elders in the village, Huong Tra village was formed from the early years when the people established the hamlet in the reign of King Le Thanh Tong, opened the realm to the South in 1470. Legend has it that throughout. construction and development, in order to prevent natural disasters, floods, storms, landslides of river banks, threatening residential land, agricultural land, and crops, so villagers have used milk trees – a Good tree with hard characteristics, no termites, no warping … to plant on the road running along the bank of Tam Ky river. According to statistics of the People’s Committee of Hoa Huong Ward, currently, on this road there are about 180 trees of all kinds with the age of 40-500 years old. The people here consider the “specialty” of the village, so they are very conscious to protect, conserve and develop the number of trees in the village. The village has a convention to prohibit the cutting and exploitation of milk trees./.