Hue people are delicate in the food, from the selection of raw materials to processing and decoration. Arriving Hue in the early morning, you will meet the image of street vendors with rustic but poetic dishes.
MUSSEL RICE
It is a simple dish, filled with countryside flavors made from a material in the heart of the poetic river of Hue. Rice with small mussels that captivates the tourists. The most mussels in Hue is in Con. The mussel is the principal material of mussel rice, fried with rice noodles (vermicelli), dried bamboo shoots and pork. In addition, some fresh vegetables made of banana or banana leaves cut into fiber mixed with mint, carrots, and scallops, sometimes with the addition of yellow marigolds that make the dish of rice more colorful and fragrant.
VERMICELLI WITH PORK LEGS
Noodles are everywhere, even in Hanoi food tour, but each form of vermicelli is different in different regions. Coming to Hue, the tourists should try this dish to feel the delicious taste of Hue.
Along the road in Hue, you will encounter the very simple but very crowded vermicelli restaurants… A bowl of noodles with pork legs or vermicelli with beef is attractive customers thanks to the sweet and aromatic broth.
The vermicelli is hot, the strands of white vermicelli are prominent with the pink meatball (from pork and crab meat), the soft pork legs, and a bit the white bean sprouts and green vegetables. Enjoying with some fatty water accompanied by a little lemon chili sauce, you will find extremely interesting: spicy, hot with the sweetness of the meat and the broth running into the esophagus.
SWEET GRUEL
If Hanoi has 36 streets, Hue is impressed with a 36-course sweet gruel menu. With the sweet taste of the type of sweet gruel from luxury to popular so visitors tasted once will remember forever. The taste of this sweet gruel of Hue is different from this of Vietnam food tour.
In Hue, there are dozens of sweet gruel, luxury and popular. Each sweet gruel has its own special flavor. Hue people are skillful, sophisticated, delicate in the processing of many strange, delicious and tonic sweet gruels.
There can be 36 different kinds of sweet gruel, attractive enough in the hot summer evening when walking on the banks of the Huong River. Every sweet gruel gives us special pleasure.
There are high-quality sweet gruels such as lotus seed sweet gruel, longan sweet gruel, pomegranate tea, Sweet Taro Pudding with coconut gruel, roast gruel, … Some common gruels such as corn sweet gruel, millet sweet gruel, rice ball sweet soup, green beans sweet gruel, red beans sweet gruel, cassava Gruel, White cow-pea with coconut gruel, black beans sweet gruel, mixed sweet gruel, sweet potato gruel, …
HELL RICE
Visitors to Hue heard this strange rice dish can be startled but with the people here, it is a familiar dish much sold at the restaurant and the roadside rink. Hell rice is a popular dish but is presented very eye-catchy. White rice in the middle, around the food set including bacon, cha lua, shrimp, spring rolls, omelet, herbs, cucumber … that make 7 brilliant colors.
The materials of the present-day Hell rice may vary according to the needs of the guests, but must be sufficiently colored, symbolizing the first seven steps of the Buddha.
It is said that the Hell rice restaurant open at night, so this dish is named as hell rice. Nowadays, you also have a chance this strange dish when taking food walking tour.
VEGETARIAN DISH
It is a deficiency to say much about Hue culinary without remembering vegetarian dishes. Vegetarian dishes are as sophisticated and delicious as other dishes. For Buddhist families in Hue, inviting friends to eat a vegetarian meal is a way of expressing affection and respect for the guests.