For a long time, Hue tourism not only impress people with the poetic Perfume River and ancient mausoleums with historical value but also attracts tourists with its unique cuisine.
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Hue special foods is the interference between the two culinary cultures of Vietnam and Cham, along with the impacts of the cuisine of the North and South through the migration process. Therefore, Hue’s specialties are also very rich and diverse, absorbing the culinary quintessence of the regions and turning them into dishes with bold local identity.
According to researcher Tran Dinh Gian, Vietnamese cuisine has a total of about 1,700 dishes, but according to old books recorded, Hue cuisine has 1,300 dishes and up to now, about 700 dishes are still preserved. Therefore, Hue’s cuisine is indeed rich and diverse.
In addition, Hue used to be the capital of Vietnam under the Nguyen kings, so the food in Hue is not only delicious but also requires sophistication, sophistication, and elegance in every stage from choosing ingredients to the processing stage, the decoration, the place to eat, the way to eat, … to the taste of the dish.
Hue food has a clear and rich flavor. Because Hue people consider food as the philosophy of life, with all flavors from salty, sweet, fatty, and fleshy to sour, acrid, bitter, and spicy, but any taste is always clear.
Hue royal: Royal cuisine is a masterpiece of dishes prepared by the talented hands of chefs. Create excellent dishes for kings. This is not only an ordinary dish but also a unique work of art.
Nem Cong is the top dish in the bowl of pearls, clearly showing Hue’s royal cuisine. Spring rolls are made from finely pounded peacock thigh meat, combined with hot spices such as garlic, galangal, and pepper… Particularly, spring rolls are left to microbial fermentation until cooked, not going through the process of cooking. Spring rolls made from peacock meat have the effect of increasing the ability to detoxify.
Cha Phuong: The Phoenix is a rare species, usually only living on high mountains, and must be male. After cleaning, the phoenix meat is finely pounded, seasoned with spices, and then wrapped in steamed banana leaves. The phoenix has both nutritional value and medicinal properties, to protect the health of the ancient kings and mandarins.
Yen Xao has many types. Each type has high nutritional value, so it is used to process royal dishes such as bird’s nest tea, bird’s nest tea with lotus seeds, and pigeons’ nests, … Salanganes’Nest has the use of nourishing nerves, stretch tendons, fight weakness and prolong life.
Longan lotus seed tea is a famous Hue specialty. Not only has a cool and sweet taste, this is also an extremely nutritious cooling gift, making a name for the dreamy land of Hue.
Hue royal lotus rice is an extremely attractive and eye-catching specialty because it is completely decorated with lotus. Rice is wrapped in the green color of lotus leaves, and covered with fragrant lotus petals. The red-yellow color of vegetables and other ingredients creates a very distinct, cool, and fragrant aroma.
Hue royal tea is made from rare natural herbs with good health benefits.
Special dishes in Hue:
Com Hen – Hue Clam rice is not only the daily snack for Hue locals but also famous Vietnamese food in Central Vietnam.
Com Hen – Hue Clam rice requires a lot of ingredients mixed in a bowl. It needs clams, rice, fried pork skin, chili, basil, roasted peanuts, annatto oil, garlic, Hue shrimp paste, star fruit, fried onions, spices, and fish sauce.
Referring to Hue specialties, it is impossible to ignore Hue beef noodle soup with a rich, mildly spicy flavor typical of the central people that can’t be found anywhere else. A full bowl of Hue beef noodle soup usually has beef, blood, pork rolls, and beef rolls, especially the vermicelli must be big and thick, not small noodles like in the north or south.
Hue lemongrass skewers is a kebab-like dish using lemongrass stalks, which is wrapped with marinated meat (usually pork or beef) and then grilled over a charcoal stove. You served with a side of rice paper, lettuce and cucumber slices, rice vermicelli, and fresh herbs.
Hue pancake: Although it looks quite similar to Banh Xeo in its crispy golden crust, the inside is different, including shrimp, glass fish and raw bean sprouts. You can serve the cake with rich dipping sauce and super delicious raw vegetables.
Steamed rice cake has a soft cake made from rice flour, thin and round. Banh beo is filled with pureed shrimp sprinkled on top and served with spicy fish sauce.
Rice dumpling cake is not strange but in Hue. Banh Loc is divided into two types: wrapped in banana leaves or left bare. The crust is made from soft tapioca flour, filled with meat, and shrimp, and served with sweet and sour fish sauce.
Banh Ram It with soft, supple white rice flour combined with the inside is minced meat and marinated minced shrimp. In particular, each cake has an extra portion of ram below to eat together to create a unique crunch when biting.
Flat rice dumpling is wrapped in dong leaves, and floating on a white powdery background is a bit of minced shrimp, which has been processed richly and deliciously. You can eat cake with sweet and sour dipping sauce, add a little green chili is the right taste of Hue
Grilled pork vermicelli: Bun thit nuong consists of rice vermicelli noodles, grilled pork, lettuce, cucumbers, fresh herbs, roasted chopped peanuts and fried spring rolls. This delicious and plentiful dish is served with fish sauce, pickled carrots, banana flower and mint. You can enjoy this tasty dish for breakfast or light meal.
Hue sweet soup is a specialty that makes up the quintessence of Hue cuisine. In Hue, there are hundreds of types of tea, each with different flavors and sophisticated processing such as lotus seed tea, longan tea wrapped with lotus seeds, pomegranate dew tea, and roasted meat tea,…
Hue cuisine always makes people remember forever thanks to its unique taste and processing, imbued with the quintessence of national culture. Don’t miss to enjoy and discover the quintessence of cuisine and culture of the ancient capital Hue.
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