In the last days of the year, if you go to Ha Giang, do not miss the opportunity to attend markets and enjoy specialties.
The fairs in the rocky plateau always reserve a corner for the seller of charcoal-grilled white cake. This is a typical image, close, everyone who goes to the market also stops by. Cake made from fermented cornstarch, soft, slightly sour, often served with thang co or meat soups.
Five-color sticky rice is made up of five different colors, which are red, yellow, blue, purple, and white. Ingredients for making five-color sticky rice include: Sticky rice is fragrant, the seeds are not mixed, mixed with forest leaves to dye. Red uses gac fruit, red rice leaves. Green uses ginger leaves, green sticky rice leaves, or grapefruit peels, bitter bamboo shoots, burned and soaked in water with a little lime. Yellow use old turmeric to pound water. Purple uses black rice leaves or leaves after… Before dyeing sticky rice, clean glutinous rice is soaked in cold water for 6 to 8 hours so that the rice grains can bloom.
Cornmeal dumplings are vegetarian dumplings that look like bread on the outside but are made of cornflour. The cake has a light sweet taste depending on the type but is fragrant.
Buckwheat buckwheat cake is a typical cake of the Mong people in the rocky plateau. The process of making cakes has many stages, the buckwheat seeds are harvested, dried and then ground until smooth, then mixed with water and molded into flat round cakes. The diameter of the cake is usually more than a hand, put it in a mold and then steam it on the stove for about 10 minutes to cook evenly. When eating, bake or fry. The cake has a fragrant, sweet, slightly gritty taste.
Thang amaran is made from glutinous rice flour, can be filled with beans or vegetarian, a bit like drift cake in Hanoi, but has many colors. The cake is bigger than a finger, dropped in a bowl with sweet sugar water with coconut milk and ginger to create a fragrant, fatty and spicy flavor that is very suitable for eating on cold days. In each bowl of wontons, there are also peanuts or black sesame seeds.
Banh Cuon soup is a breakfast dish, Banh Cuon filled with wood ear, minced meat, egg served with broth/broth, in a bowl with fragrant spring rolls, chopped cilantro. The broth is greasy, sweet from the stewed bones, and smells hard to resist.
Chung hump cake is a specialty of Ha Giang, wrapped by hand, the crust is blue or black depending on the type of rice. If the cake is green, the rice is mixed with the rice, and the black cake is mixed with brown rice. The inside of the cake has both lean meat and fat. Cakes are packed daily by some families in Ha Giang city but must be pre-ordered because quantities are limited. Each cake costs 17,000 VND.
Au Tau porridge is cooked from upland sticky rice, pig’s feet, and tubers. The tubers are brought home, washed, soaked in water to wash rice for one night, then simmered for about 4 hours to soften and loosen. The meat is then mixed with rice and cooked in the broth from pork feet. Porridge has the bitter taste of the young pipe. Hiu Tau is usually sold only in the evening. According to people, tubers must be cleaned and simmered. Cuu tuber is very toxic, so it must be processed carefully, drinking alcohol, and fighting joint pain.
From September to December of the lunar calendar is the time to harvest mint honey on the rocky plateau. Along with National Highway 4C to Quan Ba, Dong Van and Meo Vac districts, visitors can easily meet beekeeping shacks and honey mining on the spot. Typical honey has a lemon-yellow color, strong aroma, sweet and cool like mint.
The new black chicken hot pot appeared when tourism thrived, causing accompanying services to flourish. The special feature of black chicken hot pot is to eat in combination with buckwheat vegetables, cabbage, peas… to make the taste of the hot pot sweeter.
In the northern mountainous provinces, autumn winter is the right time to grow vegetables. Cabbage at this time is usually less susceptible to pests and diseases because of the cold. The cabbage growing from the rocky plateau is always slightly sweet, not too bitter. Cabbage is a plant grown around the house, along the highway. Each bunch of vegetables sold here is from 3,000 to 5,000 VND.
Gai cake uses traditional ingredients such as Gai cake in the lowlands such as glutinous rice, hemp leaves, green beans… only different from the way of wrapping the cake and forest banana leaves as the crust to create toughness. This is a typical cake of Tan Quang commune, Bac Quang district, Ha Giang. Follow (vnexpress)