Not Thang Co or Au Tau porridge, this is a nutritious dish

As a border province, Ha Giang not only has many beautiful landscapes but also contributes significantly to enriching the culinary map of Vietnam. Coming to Ha Giang, visitors can taste many famous delicacies such as au tau porridge, thang co, men men, stream fish, sausage, black chicken floor, armpit pig… All of them have an attractive, attractive charm. Private guide to keep visitors occupied.

Ha Giang cuisine: Unique with a dish right from the name – Thang amaranth

The first time you see Thang amaranth, visitors will immediately think of banh troi, vegetarian banh mi in Hanoi, or banh chung phu in Lang Son, but Thang aran in Ha Giang is a little different. The cake is also made from glutinous rice flour, often filled with green beans, shaped into small balls, and is a cake often eaten in the winter that will definitely bring a feeling of excitement and warmth to every tourist.

Whether the amaranth is delicious or not depends on the bowl of broth, this is a mixture of sweet taste from sugar, fatty and spicy from coconut milk and ginger, heated and then scooped into a bowl, sprinkled with a little more or less peanuts. sesame so that visitors can enjoy the sweet and aromatic taste of the spices.

Ha Giang cuisine: Buffalo meat from the kitchen

As a province in the northern mountainous region, Ha Giang also has a tradition of making buffalo meat in the kitchen. Each piece of buffalo meat, after being fully marinated with spices, is skewered through a large stick and hung in the kitchen, leaving a unique, delicious flavor.

Because buffalo meat in the kitchen is a traditional family dish in the mountains, there will be no use of preservatives such as dried beef, dried chicken, etc. This Ha Giang specialty dish is often trusted by people to buy to make. Gifts for colleagues, family, friends,…

Ha Giang cuisine: Ha Giang sour pho

Sour Pho – a dish filled with simplicity, the main ingredients are fresh pho noodles, selected from fragrant sticky rice grains mixed with sweet and sour broth of Ha Giang people.

Sour pho is often eaten with fried pork, sausage or roast duck, eaten with papaya or cucumber and then sprinkled with broth. In addition, to increase the appeal, visitors should immediately order a bottle of corn wine. Make a few cups of sweet corn wine to eat with sour and sour pho in the morning, it is perfect.

Ha Giang cuisine: Underarm pork

Another delicious dish in Ha Giang that tourists should not miss is the armpit pig dish. This is a small pig breed, only about 10 – 15kg, raised freely so the meat is quite lean. Armpit pork is prepared in many ways: grilled, steamed or stir-fried, each dish is delicious in its own way. Steamed pork dipped in chili garlic fish sauce or lemon pepper seasoning also creates attractive experiences. As for grilled pork dishes, hot stir-fried with firm, rich meat, served with herbs, it is also no less competitive.

Ha Giang cuisine: Buckwheat cake

Around October to November every year, people often flock to Ha Giang to see and enjoy Ha Giang buckwheat flowers.

Buckwheat seeds are ground to make cake flour, helping the cake not to be dry and hard but to have a smoother crust. Usually, buckwheat cakes will be grilled on charcoal to have a fragrant aroma, the inside will be soft and spongy, making them a light, street food, you can also bring some home as gifts.

Ha Giang cuisine: Sausage in the kitchen

People here often make sausages and put them on the stove to preserve the meat longer. The main ingredient of kitchen sausage is unwrapped pork shoulder. The sausage filling is made from minced tenderloin, lean shoulder or lean rump, marinated with spices – sauteed finely chopped onions and mac khen seeds.

The meaty sausage has the strong smell of kitchen smoke and the delicious aroma of kumquat. To produce the finished product, people have to smoke it continuously in the kitchen for 12 – 14 hours for the spices to penetrate the meat.

Ha Giang cuisine: Black chicken hotpot

Black chicken hotpot is an easy-to-eat specialty dish, suitable for the taste of tourists from many regions. In Ha Giang, this hot pot dish is quite popular and favored by tourists. Not only is it delicious, black chicken hot pot also has many healthy nutrients.

Black chicken is a quite special breed of chicken, black from bones to meat, skin and feathers. Black chicken meat is very fragrant, firm, naturally sweet and delicious, unlike industrial chickens whose meat is very friable and not juicy.

Another special thing when enjoying Ha Giang black chicken hot pot is the broth. To make a delicious hot pot, the ingredients for the broth are very important. Ha Giang people often use mushrooms, especially shiitake mushrooms, pumpkin, sweet potatoes and other spices to make the pot of water rich and sweet, suitable for the atmosphere of the mountains. In addition, the ingredients used to cook the broth also contribute to increasing the deliciousness of the chicken. And finally, the typical fresh vegetables of Ha Giang such as mustard greens, peas, buckwheat vegetables, mustard greens, beef stew… make the dish even more delicious.

Ha Giang cuisine: Famous Dong Van old town rice rolls

Banh cuon in Dong Van ancient town has become a famous Ha Giang specialty that any visitor to Dong Van ancient town cannot miss. Not as “luxurious” as other dishes, but this dish still creates a unique appeal, like no other dish. The appeal comes from the simplicity and authenticity of familiar everyday ingredients with a unique highlight in the way of preparing Dong Van Old Town Banh Cuon.

Dong Van old town’s banh cuon is coated with a thin layer of rice cake, fragrant with the smell of rice and smooth, thin, soft white rice paper, inside is minced wood ear filling and delicious pork belly.

The last special point is that the dipping sauce for banh cuon here is very different from many other places. While most banh cuon are only eaten with salty, garlic-chili fish sauce, here Ha Giang people eat banh cuon with broth, add fragrant patties, and chopped cilantro green onions. The broth is made from black pig bones, and stewed for many hours to get the natural sweetness.

Ha Giang cuisine: Chung gou cake

Ha Giang humpback banh chung is one of the famous delicacies of the rocky plateau. Banh chung with humpback is popular in many northern mountainous provinces, but banh chung of Ha Giang is considered “an immortal reputation” because of its special flavor, everyone who eats it once will remember it.

Chung gou cake is a traditional cake of the Red Dao people, bearing a special mark from its shape and name. Few people know that this type of Banh Chung was created to honor the image of highland women carrying baskets all year round to work in the fields, climbing passes and wading streams to take care of their lives and families.

To make banh chung, the process involves choosing ingredients such as upland sticky rice, upland sticky rice, black pork raised in the villages, small green beans, and needing to add rice noodles, dong leaves… and then the wrapping process. cake, quantifying the ratio of rice, black pork, green beans and finally the time to boil the cake.

According to Ha Giang people, for banh chung to be delicious and delicious, it must have a layer of green sticky rice, emitting the characteristic aroma of galangal. When eating the cake, you must feel the natural softness of upland sticky rice and the rich taste of pork and green beans to be a quality Ha Giang banh chung. And surely the cake cannot lack the subtle aroma of galangal leaves every time diners enjoy the cake.