April 30: Coffee shop attracts tourists The first place the group visited was The Wilder Nest, a cafe located between 3 passes of Prenn, Sacom and Tuyen Lam. The shop is in the process of being repaired, does not serve water, but still allows visitors to freely take photos. The sunlight flooded in making the space here become majestic. Around 8am, some people started coming to check-in, the space became more bustling. The majestic space at The Wilder Nest. Utopia Dalat is a homestay suitable for those who like tranquility. Because of traveling during the holidays, I had to book a room 2 weeks in advance to get a seat. Room rates for 3 days and 2 nights are about 525,000 VND/person. The shop displays many beautiful small stone lotus pots. The hostess is friendly, sponsors the charcoal, the oven for the guests’ barbecue. The plus point of the accommodation is the giant bougainvillea in front of the house, just stepping out the door, you have a lovely picture right away. Around 3pm, we stopped at Bag Mo To. The wooden houses are designed in a vintage style that makes a strong impression. Each glass of water here costs 50,000-60,000 VND. I like the stone lotus house the most with many beautiful potted plants, eye-catching pictures. In the evening, we enjoy wet cake and go for a walk at the central night market. Because of traveling by private car, the group is quite proactive in terms of time. 1/5: Early morning cloud hunting experience mây From 5am, we were at the famous Da Phu hill to hunt clouds and watch the sunrise. You can walk up the hill or rent a car for a round trip of 50,000 VND/person. This thrilling experience like off-road racing is not for the faint of heart. After breakfast, the group bought tickets to visit Puppy Farm. This is a complex consisting of a dog farm, a flower hill, a strawberry garden, a stone lotus… with an airy and pleasant atmosphere. If you don’t like the crowded scene on the banks of Tuyen Lam lake, you can go deeper and stop at Happy Hill. This area is quite large, so tourists spread out to many places. The price of drinking water is about 60,000 VND/cup. Experience early morning cloud hunting in Da Phu and watch Trai Mat light up. In the evening, we went to eat hot pot. Tao Ngo é chicken hotpot is always on the group’s list of places to visit. The meal cost 400,000 VND, a lot of meat, just enough for 6 people. Vu Thi Village Coffee, beautiful view, watching Trai Mat light up, is a suggestion you can refer to. The group also visited the square to drink hot soy milk – a familiar dish chosen by many tourists when coming to Da Lat. The salesman here has a good sense of epidemic prevention, everyone wears a mask. Day 2/5: Da Lat returns to its quietness The next morning, I enlisted to clean up, check out and find a coffee shop when I returned to Ho Chi Minh City, back to busy office work. During 3 days in the foggy city, I had the opportunity to visit many coffee shops, in which, the space in Bo Hem was the most poetic. Perhaps many tourists take advantage of leaving early, so the shop is quite empty. A reasonable schedule is the secret for visitors to have a full experience. Before leaving, we had delicious and cheap broken rice at Ms. Thu’s restaurant 118 on Hai Ba Trung Street. The journey back to Ho Chi Minh City starts at 14:00. The section below the people of Bao Loc pass was still congested, so the friend took a shortcut to Binh Thuan. Great, we got home exactly at 10pm. For me, choosing a destination and schedule when traveling to Da Lat on holidays is quite important. Even in the midst of the “sea of ​​people”, the group still found valuable and unforgettable experiences.

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.

Without any advance plan, two friends and I quickly booked a plane ticket to Hue on the first weekend of April. The ticket price at this time is quite cheap, the round-trip ticket plus our fees is about 1 , 2 million dong. Arriving in Hue, we stayed at the hotel to rest in the center and rented a motorbike for 120,000 VND / unit to explore the city. Besides visiting famous destinations, we also experience the delicious Hue flavor here. Breakfast with Hue beef noodle soup A friend introduced Bun Bo Loan restaurant on Phan Chu Trinh street, about 300 meters from my hotel. Around 8am, the shop was crowded with diners, I had to wait for the seating arrangement for about 5 minutes. Noodle cooking place is placed on one side of the door, the other side is the path leading to the dining table area. I am impressed with the rather fancy aluminum pot for making vermicelli. At first glance, it looks quite like a cot. The owner explained that aluminum is a good heat-retaining material, the pot has a large capacity, the mouth is small, so the broth will boil faster. An eye-catching bowl of Hue beef noodle soup costs 50,000 VND. We ordered 3 full bowl of Hue beef noodle soup. The meal is beautifully presented with a large crab pie, attractive meat. When enjoying, I can feel the bar broth, not too salty like some addresses in Ho Chi Minh City. Therefore, for diners with strong taste, the food here seems a bit pale, does not smell like fish sauce. My biggest questioning point is that the noodle here is small, unlike my experience and default of Hue beef vermicelli. As a follower of Hue beef vermicelli, in Ho Chi Minh City, whenever I hear delicious sounds, I come to try and sell big noodle almost everywhere. I have always thought, that is the characteristic of Hue delicacy until I enjoy it here. Asked some friends born and raised in Hue, I received a solid answer: “Must be a microfiber”. On forums or social networks, the question of small or large Hue beef noodle soup is still a matter of controversy. Overall, a bowl of vermicelli priced at VND 50,000 here is too perfect to start a new day in Hue. Lunch at Dong Ba market was not impressive After about 3 hours visiting Dai Noi, our group decided to stop by Dong Ba market for lunch. The market is introduced as one of the symbols not to be missed when traveling to the ancient capital. This place was formed in 1899 under the reign of King Thanh Thai. Walking along the side aisle, I went to the dining area and decided to stop at the stalls selling the most food, the most crowded, above which hung a check-in photo of chef Anthony Bourdain. Because there is not enough space, most customers will sit in the rows of chairs placed around the counter, choose dishes and chat with the owner. I ordered banh beo, cha, banh beo, spring rolls, but quite disappointed. The dish is not heated so it is chewy and loses its inherent flavor. The only bright spot is spring rolls made from pureed pork, seasoned, wrapped in a skewer and dotted with fish sauce. The meal is about 30,000 VND / person. Meal in Dong Ba market is cold and not delicious. Also during lunch, I moved to Mrs. Mung mussel rice shop located on Truong Dinh street. The restaurant is not too popular in the tourist community but is loved by the locals. Mung is 69 years old this year, selling mussel rice for 35 years. In addition to mussel rice, the shop also has bread of all kinds and Hue beef vermicelli. At noon, the restaurant is quite empty compared to the opposite brand. In return, we enjoyed delicious food, cheap price and enthusiastic service attitude. The dish is a combination of cold white rice, herbs, thai banana corn, chili, fat tart, crispy pork skin, pork belly, peanuts … served with a cup of hot mussel water is quite complete. Meals and drinks totaling 86,000 VND. Three servings of mussel rice, drinking water cost 86,000 VND. In the afternoon, on the way from Thien Mu Pagoda to the city center, I stop by to try Huyen Anh grilled meat rolls. This is famous as a long-standing restaurant, attracting a lot of tourists and local people. The space is spacious, the tables and chairs are arranged scientifically, so even though it is crowded, I still feel comfortable. We order a portion of wet cake and grilled pork vermicelli for 80,000 VND. Thinly coated wet cake, wrapped with vegetables and grilled meat inside, dipping with spicy fish sauce reminds me forever. Many people comment that the meal is a bit small and the price here is quite high compared to the general premises. Wet cake rolled with grilled meat dipped in a strange spicy fish sauce. Hue at night is not sad If you have time, you can enjoy the juices. 17-18h, the restaurant of Ms. Hue, located on Le Ngo Cat Street, is very crowded, we have to wait about 15 minutes before the food is served. As the name suggests, the cake is made from fresh filter powder, grease, onion, and egg pressed on a cast iron pan. I rolled cake with raw vegetables, sour food and dipped in sweet and sour fish sauce. The toughness of the pressed cake mixed with fragrant eggs, fatty grease and salty fish sauce made me fall in love. Snails, snails smoking with salty marinade and lots of chili, spicy ginger fish sauce is a night dish you should not miss. A snail like a photo costs 30,000 VND, suitable for sipping and watching the romantic Perfume River at night. Try snacks at night in Hue. We end our day exploring Hue cuisine with a cool, unique cocktail at Aura Mixology. Behind the soundproof glass doors, the cocktail bar on Tay Chu Van An street has a soft color that is completely different from the bustle outside. Around 22:00 we were the last guests at the restaurant. “Since it opened at the end of 2020 and during the outbreak, there is still a small number of people visiting the shop,” said a bartender, pouring drinks into a glass and said. In the dim light, soft music playing, I became relieved after a day of traveling quite a lot. The impressive Nguyen Dynasty Cocktail costs 140,000 VND. I chose a cocktail glass Nguyen Dynasty (Nguyen Dynasty) according to the recommendation of the staff. Drinks have a rather fancy form, a mix of modern and traditional when placed on a wooden tray, with a cup of Chuon village rice and incense. The drink leans towards the sweet, sweet taste that I like, not too heavy and with a hint of the familiar apricot flavor. The bartender likes to chat with guests, enthusiastically asking how the drink is. In a short day, I have not had the opportunity to try many dishes as well as to visit these famous attractions. However, with about 350,000 VND, I brought myself experience and kept my appointment to return to Hue at the earliest opportunity.

Banh can: popular dish is very popular on the streets of Da Lat with typical images of “many holes” earth pots. Dalat cake can be poured in pairs, mostly filled with quail eggs or chicken eggs, soft, fragrant, fragrant with rice, especially delicious when served with fragrant chewy balls in a bowl of rich, green, green onion sauce. .

Wet cake with chicken heart: just the name is enough to excite diners. The dish is an impressive combination between the wet pieces of cake “placed on the lips, drifted into the intestines” with the chicken, sliced ​​with sweet meat, sliced ​​chicken (or pork belly), young eggs, herbs, onions. .. soaked in sweet and sour sauce.

Combo soy milk, cakes: not strange, but will bring a different taste when enjoying on the sidewalk one cold night in Dalat. Soy milk, green beans, hot peanuts, mixed with sweet and fatty condensed milk, served with cheesecakes, peppercakes or fragrant croissants are enough to warm your heart and juicy the story.

Avocado ice cream: the greasy taste of pureed freshly mashed butter blends perfectly with the cool ice cream, a little bit of durian on top, creating an attractive, unforgettable buttercream ice cream.

Cheese yogurt: Yogurt is creamy, creamy and smooth, with a bright yellow color on the surface. Yogurt with added cheese has a sweet and sour taste. This dessert snack is available in most cafes and refreshments.

Hot pot of all kinds: the hot pot seems to be better when sagging in the cold of the foggy city. You can choose a buffet hotpot with a variety of fresh vegetables grown in Da Lat, a changing chicken hotpot or a lumpy oxtail hotpot.

Strawberry shake: Strawberries are bright red, ripe specialties of the plateau, shake well with a little sugar or salt, which is easy to crush. In addition to strawberry shake, the Dalat night market area is also very popular with shakes of mango and fruits.

Grilled rice paper: it is thought that the baked rice paper originated from Da Lat. Not only has a delicious taste, but watching the funny salesgirl making cakes is also an interesting thing: the rice paper is crispy on the charcoal, spread evenly over the scent scallion, green green onions, beaten eggs, scooping. chopped chains, shrimp, dried shrimp, shredded chicken, sprinkled with chili sauce or colorful cheese.

Grilled skewers: chicken, beef, fish, shrimp, squid, marinated with all kinds of soya, chili salt, lime leaves baked on the charcoal stove until radiant aroma, hot, delicious.

Fruit jam: no need to wait for Tet, Da Lat always has sweet fruit-based jam dishes with the flavor kept almost completely by many different processing methods: plastic drying, drying, crispy drying, adding sour taste. plough,…

Artichoke broth: can only be found in the highland city. Special artichoke cotton with natural sweet stew carefully stewed with rich pork rolls create a dish that is both cool and nutritious.

Fresh vegetables: Da Lat is famous nationwide for vegetables, so if possible, visitors should try to go to the market to cook wonderful dishes with fresh, safe and unique vegetables in both quality and origin. models.

Coffee: Guests enjoying coffee in Dalat can satisfy their tastes by the rich coffee flavor characteristic of the Central Highlands and satisfy both eyes and eyes. The most beautiful cafes of the city have open spaces, stretching out to valleys, mountains, and even sipping coffee while visiting the garden, picking ripe coffee fruits.