Coming to Tuyen Quang, visitors not only participate in the Festival of Tuyen Quang – the largest festival of lanterns in the country, join the Festival Dao ethnic nation but also enjoy food specialties delicious of the province.
Five-colors steam sticky rice
If Hanoi street food walking tour is famous for the mixed steamed sticky rice, five-colors steam sticky rice is a typical dish of the Tay in Tuyen Quang often made during the holidays of worship.
The steam sticky rice is made of glutinous rice, very fragrant and has five colors: white, yellow, blue, red, purple; representing Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth; representing the soil, water, clouds, rain, sunshine.
The white sticky rice is made from ordinary sticky rice, the red from red rice leaves, the green from ginger leaves, turmeric leaves, the yellow from turmeric, the purple from violet rice. All of these materials are available in the Tay’s home garden. Tay people also use a special type of sticky autoclave made from wood. When making sticky rice, people often add some white liquor and place it in the autoclave, until the fragrant rice is cooked.
The sticky rice cake with ant eggs
Coming to the Tay people’s stilt house in Tuyen Quang, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the delicious and rustic dishes including the banh nep nhan trung kien (the sticky rice cake with ant eggs). The food should be enjoyed each small piece to feel the delicious taste of the sticky rice, the fat of the ant eggs mixed with onions and dill. However, some people may be allergic to this food because they are sensitive.
Corn liquor in Na Hang
Tuyen Quang is not only known for its natural beauty, but also for the sweet of corn liquor in Na Hang. The wine is made from maize and leaves yeast are selected from 20 herbs such as forest peppers, cinnamon, licorice and distilled by the traditional method of Na Hang people. These herbs have healing effects, are one of treatment of rheumatism.
Just trying a little corn wine, you will have a unique new feeling. Not as hot as the wine in the lowland as food walking tour, not as passionate as the champagne, but it brings a whole new flavor, the taste is a mix of Na Hang mountain. The sweet aroma of corn liquor little by little is absorbed into your body, making you feel like a stream flowing in your body.
Banh gai Chiem Hoa
Banh gai Chiem Hoa is made from gai leaves, glutinous rice, green beans, coconut milk, pumpkin jam, lotus seeds, banana oil, lard. Want to have a delicious cake to choose glutinous rice “yellow flower” (a type of good sticky rice), clean and soak in cold water for overnight, then dry and grind into the powder. Gai leaves are dried stripped leaf vein, chopped and boiled and mixed with flour and molasses to make cakes. The taste of gai leaves mixed with the aroma of sticky rice covered with banana leaves makes up the typical flavor of cakes.
Tuyen Quang is famous for its majestic mountains, with the romantic Lo river. Not only that, when coming here, visitors also enjoy the special flavor of their own, very unique and can not be found anywhere else even the culinary cradle – Hanoi cooking class. Therefore, let’s go to Tuyen Quang once, and enjoy the unique specialties here.