Being called “pizza Dalat”, the grilled rice paper is a typical dish of Dalat that anyone should enjoy it when coming here.
The specialty of Dalat
Dubbed as the city of flowers, but Da Lat has not only flowers. Dalat also attracts tourists of Vietnam food tour with many delicious dishes that you cannot forget such as beef noodles, can cakes, rice noodles … and especially, when walking in Da Lat night market, visitors can hardly ignore the grilled rice paper from the red charcoal oven at the edge of the road.
The name of this particular “pizza” comes from the main ingredients that make up the dish is rice paper and eggs, added with a little scallion and dried shrimp. Not only in terms of simple ingredients, this dish is very simple in the way of processing that you can make yourselves in Vietnam cooking class. First, the rice paper is placed on the furnace bar, the eggs are beaten with green onion, dried shrimp and scattered evenly on the rice paper surface.
An authentic Dalat, the rice paper is very thin, made from very pure Vietnamese materials – The thin rice paper that is used to wrap spring rolls, circular and large.
In order to have a crispy but not burned, tasty and eye-catching cake, it requires the ingenuity of the baker.
First, the sellers put the rice paper on the charcoal stove to grill, then spreads a thin layer of egg on the cake. Their hands fast cut and put each type of material: fat onion oil, fried onions, a little meat and then well-looking golden eggs, then start spreading all over the face of rice paper.
The good thing is how to grill until the cake gets crispy without being burnt. To do that, when grilling you have to evenly rotate the cake on the stove. When the egg on the face begins to be cooked, The seller just bastes a little chili sauce, fold it and customers can enjoy the delicious dish.
It takes just over 1 minute to have a crispy rice paper. At this time, the seller quickly bastes them on a layer of dried beef and a little chili powder. The crispy cake is full of color, the yellow of eggs, mixed with the green of onions, and the red color of the dried beef.
It is said that, initially, Dalat grilled rice paper is just rice cake added eggs, then gradually added cheese, chicken, sausage, mayonnaise.
Wandering in the cold of the mountain city of Da Lat, walking around Xuan Huong Lake, exploring the night market and stopping at the warm stove, you can enjoy each piece of hot, fragrant and fatty grilled cake, mixed delicately from the scent of onion, chicken eggs, sausages, dried beef.
Although it is a specialty in Dalat, just when the teens Ha Thanh “catch the wave” this strange, attractive but cheap dish, grilled rice papers have become very hot. Tourist of Hanoi street food can find these following addresses.
Dalat grilled rice paper – 48 Hang Tre street
Being crispy, fragrant, and eye-catching, grilled rice papers are considered as Vietnamese pizza. The familiar dish of Da Lat has been presented in Hanoi recently by a pavement shop in Hang Tre street.
In the afternoon, even in hot weather, the cake shop in Hang Tre Street is still crowded from opening until late at night.
Da Nang grilled rice paper – 3 Hang Vai street
Not famous as the cake shop on Hang Tre, the cake here is certainly not inferior in terms of both quantity and quality. In addition to the familiar flavors such as dried beef, sausage, cheese, seafood, the cake also has a strange pate flavor. The main ingredient for making pate is pig liver, add a little chopped green onion to give aroma. The fat of the pate and the taste of rice cake makes a special flavor for this cake.
Tam Tac grilled rice paper – 118-C8 Giang Vo street
The cake consists of quail eggs, onion grease, minced meat, roasted peanuts and rice cakes. In the evening, just walking the streets with friends, while sipping the rice paper smelling onion scent, the pungent hot pepper is perfect.