MUST-TRY FOOD IN NINH BINH (Part 2)
Let’s continue discovering some more must try food in Ninh Binh.
- Nem chua Yen Mac – A gift rich in flavor from the land of Ninh Binh.
The best way to enjoy Yen Mac sour spring rolls is to eat them with fig leaves, herbs, apricot leaves, and guava leaves dipped in lemon, garlic, and chili fish sauce. You can add more water to the dipping sauce mixture to increase the dilution, not too salty. Add a little spicy chili sauce to make it even more interesting.
To have such a delicious dish, the technique of making Nem chua of the people here is quite sophisticated, unlike other types of Nem chua. They are careful from the selection of ingredients to the individual small processing stages. To get batches of delicious, dry, fresh spring rolls that are still soft and of good quality, the meat used to make spring rolls must be lean meat from pork butt, freshly slaughtered and still warm.
There are some addresses for tourists to buy this flavor dish.
- Van Beo Store.
- Nem chua supermarket Yen Mac Ninh Binh: No. 70, Street 11, Van Giang Ward, Ninh Binh City.
- Nem chua Yen Mac Anh Quan: Yen Mac, Yen Mo, Ninh Binh City
- Nho Quan Wine.
The taste of Nho Quan wine does not cause discomfort or heaviness like other types of wine. The wine has a characteristic spicy, aromatic, slightly sweet taste and is best in the first wine countries.
The way to drink Nho Quan can be equally special: When preparing to drink, take a little cooled boiled water or mineral water and pour it into the wine jar, leave for about 10 to 15 minutes for the wine to infuse. The first water added to the wine is always delicious and sweetest. After drinking it all, pour in the next batch of water, at which time the wine taste will also fade. Many essences are poured into the first Nho Quan can wine.
Enjoy Nho Quan wine properly, not from a cup or glass. Local people will use bamboo stems that are hollow inside, stick them directly into the wine gourd, close to the bottom of the jar and then drink. In addition, drinking Nho Quan wine alone you will not be able to fully feel its true taste. Mixing with the bustling, crowded atmosphere, confiding and chatting together while drinking a sip of wine is truly the true love of life.
- Ant eggs rice.
Ninh Binh ant egg sticky rice is also known as a specialty with extremely attractive and unique flavors that no foodie can ignore. Coming to Ninh Binh and having tried a series of delicious dishes, many of you will be curious about Ninh Binh ant egg sticky rice.
Ant egg sticky rice is a unique dish created by people in the northern highlands. From the very wild and pure ingredients that the mountains and forests have given, local people have skillfully kneaded them delicately to create a dish that is both unique and mouth-watering.
- Paddy eel Salad.
Besides Ninh Binh scorched rice or Ninh Binh rock snails, paddy eel salad is also an extremely unique dish that you should try if you have the opportunity to come to the sacred land. Although the appearance is not very attractive, the taste of fish salad is no joke. The dish has the fleshy flavor of sticky rice, the sour taste of vinegar mixed with the hot and spicy taste of lemongrass, garlic, chili, ginger,… Therefore, it will be a “staircase” that will take you to explore many levels. different flavors. Tourists who eat once will remember it forever.
- Gia Vien shrimp paste.
Gia Vien shrimp paste is a famous specialty of the sacred land of Ninh Binh. People in Gia Vien have a purely agricultural life, all year round they sell their faces to the land and their backs to the sky. For a long time, because life is difficult, people have thought about storing shrimp to eat throughout the year, because the shrimp season is quite short, once the season is over, there will be no more to catch. Gradually, generations succeeded each other, creating traditional recipes for making shrimp paste – a dish that has become a specialty today.
This dish is prepared very simply, it can be used to season other dishes, or it can also be simply steamed or steamed with rice and then enjoyed immediately. People in Ninh Binh usually just eat it simply by adding a bowl of fish sauce, adding dried onions, sauteed garlic, then simmering the fish sauce, adding a little ginger leaves for aroma. So, when eaten with white rice, you will have a meal that is both simple and rustic but still extremely delicious.
If you travel to Gia Vien, you will see many places selling this traditional fish sauce dish. Gia Vien fish sauce brands are mainly brands of local people, so the taste is not much different.
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