Uncle Le Khac Hoat, who is said to be the inventor of Cha key, said: “During a late-night delivery, I saw people baking sugarcane and my mouth watered. I came up with the idea of wrapping the sausage around the sugar cane.
Hai Phong has long been known for its unique culinary culture. Therefore, many tourists come to the port land with the desire to enjoy the food here. This place has many delicious dishes representing the port land such as crab cakes, Cat Hai fish sauce. One of the dishes that contribute to a Hai Phong culinary page is Cha key. However, the oldest and most popular brand is probably Ha Lung key cake.
Uncle Le Khac Hoat (57 years old, house number 130 Lung Market, Dang Hai Ward, Hai An District, Hai Phong City), who is said to “invent” the dish, said what makes the delicious taste. Especially and also to distinguish Ha Lung key cake from other types of rolls is dried squid. Uncle Hoat said: “My family specializes in making spring rolls. In a late-night delivery, I saw people baking sugarcane and my mouth watered. From here on, I came up with the idea of wrapping pork rolls around sugar cane. I tried to mix more things like beef, shrimp… but in the end I realized that just adding squid in one sun is the best.” According to Mr. Hoat, fresh squid in Hai Phong is not as rich as in Ha Long, so it is difficult to make delicious squid cakes like there. And Cat Ba has many and very good quality squid, the price is also affordable and especially it is imbued with the wind and sun of the sea. 
Just like that for more than 30 years, this simple but delicious dish has accompanied Uncle Hoat through many ups and downs and gently entered the hearts of lovers with the name “Ha Lung Cha key”. Ha Lung Cha key is made from 3 main ingredients: Squid, pork and sugarcane. Workers have to go to the market early in the morning, choose to buy or order in advance batches of pork that have just been slaughtered, fresh and clean, and then go home to filter out all the fat, take the meat to puree it, and make it into rolls. Squid must also be delicious, picky buy to Cat Ba, Cat Hai, then bring it back to small pieces, puree with lean pork, marinated with fish sauce, main noodles, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear, pepper … 
The famous Ha Lung bacon, no one knows, only, that village dish has become such a “specialty” that many tourists, when visiting the flower village and flower market, also have to buy it for the holiday. get a “unique” dish as a gift for relatives and family. Currently, Ha Lung key cake is being sold for from 280,000 to 300,000 VND/kg. (According to GiadinhNet)
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