Reflecting on Hue, perhaps we will think of a land with charming scenery, nestled on the romantic Perfume River, is the place of royal cuisine attracting many people. Today, Hue is always a charming and quiet scene, yet strangely peaceful and familiar. This emotion comes from a simple and unique gastronomic style that Hue dedicates to travelers on Vietnam food tours.
To Hue, we are easy to find a suitable stop to enjoy the food here. That may not be the luxury and expensive restaurants but are shops in the alleys, the roadside restaurants, rustic but very decent.
Hue beef noodle
Mentioning of Hue cuisine, we cannot ignore Hue beef noodle, the dish has become the brand, the pride of people in the ancient capital. In the flavor of these spices, we can hardly forget the spicy mildness of chili, the sour feeling of the lemon of Hue, with sweet broth from beef, small noodles fibers which wrap around simple type of vegetables including only a little-chopped banana and some basil leaves.
For the people of Hue, just a little bit of banana is enough to stimulate the taste. All blended together to create an excellent and special taste. Guests of food walking tour can visit the beef noodle shops in Hanoi, Tran Cao Van street to enjoy it!
Vermicelli with grill meat
A unique dish we should try if you want to understand of Hue cuisine is perhaps the vermicelli grilled meat, a dish with the resonance of many simple ingredients but still very attractive. Different from the southern style rice vermicelli with sweet and sour sauce, Hue vermicelli noodles are “accompanied” with broth – a legendary fatty broth with the fatty taste of peanuts and nutritious pate.
At each eatery keep a cup of fish sauce for customers to add in vermicelli to suit the own taste. A small suggestion for visitors is to visit the Huyen Anh – Kim Long noodle shop here to have full flavor.
This is indeed a creation in the culinary culture of Hue. The hands of the seller cleverly put the cake to the plate quickly, cut and peeled off to “show” white flour of cake, sprinkle a little soft grinding shrimp, it looks hot and extremely inviting. Travelers will probably never forget the sweetness of the bot loc cake with shrimp flavor, bot loc cake with fatty green bean, very interesting.
The sauce with this type of cake must be the fish sauce, not too salty but harmoniously sweet.
Visitors can open their leaves gently, feel the warmth of banana leaves and mild aroma. The thin and small cakes show the full style of Hue people – gentle but friendly.
For those who have ever visited Hue, once enjoying the Hue bot loc cake is comfortable, relaxed feeling.
Clam rice and verrmicelli
Vi Da is ancient as well as charming relied on Hen land always full of people. Here the famous noodle with clam and clam rice became the specialty.
There are the verses of a poet when visiting Hue which give the impression of hard to fade about folk cuisine here. Hue cuisine is simple but brings the sweet taste of the land, lagoons, mountain, river here.
Despite its simplicity, sophistication is hidden in its color, consisting of ten flavors: chili sauce, chili peppers, rousong, crunchy rice paper, roasted salt, roasted peanuts, roasted sesame, crispy fried pork skin, greaves, and MSG. vegetables are made from the body of bananas milled small and then mixed well, next to a bowl of hot clam soup. Each small clam is marinated precisely as the out all the rustic of dreaming Hue.
Gruel
After a time of fun and visit the landscape, why do not we stop resting and pamper ourselves with a bowl of gruel – Hanoi street food? Perhaps when referring to Hue, in addition to the rustic taste, the flavors the ancient palace was blown into each bowl of delicate and pure gruel.
Hue gruel is really a sweet addition to the cuisine here. Hue has several dozen different types of tea such as green bean gruel, red beans gruel, …
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