Besides the immense rice fields or luxuriant orchards, Hau Giang specialties with delicious dishes to enjoy and buy as gifts are equally popular.
Impressive delicious dishes in Hau Giang
1. Porridge heart Cai Tac
Topping the list of famous delicious dishes that must try when coming to Hau Giang is the famous Cai Tac porridge dish. Although it’s just a bowl of porridge with ingredients such as: sausage, stomach, liver, … as usual in other places. But here you will feel a different perennial flavor, more attractive with bitter vegetables, bean sprouts, banana popcorn and even vermicelli. Remember to try it once to experience this irresistible tasting flavor.
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2. Old salad vermicelli
This unique dish is also a specialty of Hau Giang which is loved by many people. The vermicelli broth is cooked with fish and tamarind fish sauce, so its taste is quite special. A bowl of vermicelli is added to shrimp, fresh shrimp, boiled meat, ribs, then poured with hot broth on top. When eating, sprinkle with peanuts on top, served with split spinach, bean sprouts, basil and especially can not forget the bowl of fragrant fish sauce. All blended together, the delicious taste on the tongue comes here. 
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3. Germ pebbles
The name sounds confusing, but in fact this is quite a unique way of eating the Hau Giang people. When ordering this dish the seller will bring out a plate with lettuce, sliced cabbage and chili slices around. In the middle are heated pebbles and finally a plate of wild boar meat, sliced and seasoned. You just need to place the meat on the pebble and wait until it is done to enjoy.
Sprouts are a special way to eat without cooking in Hau Giang
The beauty of this specialty dish of Hau Giang is not only because of the aromatic barbecue flavor that is rolled with vegetables and dipped in a rich sauce. But the eaters can also enjoy when they put the meat on their own and hear the sizzling smoke. While chatting with friends, waiting for the meat to be cooked. This experience is unforgettable that you should try when traveling to this land. 
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4. Fried snail with coconut
As a rustic dish and easy to find, snails live mainly in the mangrove areas or next to the alluvial grounds of the West. But only with a simple processing method, this dish always attracts the enthusiasts of cuisine. The small snails, the ruffled shell, but when fried with coconut milk, a few slices of chili and laksa leaves have an irresistible taste. Crispy, sweet and creamy snail with lemon pepper salt adds even more stimulation that you will want to eat without stopping. 
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5. Great shoot
Referring to Hau Giang specialties, this dish cannot be ignored for this rustic and simple way. This is a vegetable with a curved head of the fern family, difficult to find. Processing many typical dishes such as boiled or fried with garlic. When eating, you will feel the sweet mixed quite special, although it is such a simple dish, but many people love to find and buy when you come here.
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6. Catfish
Sea bass is similar to catfish, the meat is very firm and fragrant. People here often process many dishes in their daily meals. Coming to Hau Giang, you can enjoy the braised gourami fish, sour fish soup or order a hot pot of fish with famous vegetables of the West. To feel the fat but not bored of this specialty fish dish. 
Meat grouper is probably the ingredient to cook many different dishes
7. Classic cotton pancakes
In the western floating season, the people of Hau Giang as well as other regions collect crazy cotton together – the ingredients that make up the unique and irresistible dishes such as: Linh fish hotpot, sour soup and unforgettable pancakes. attached. Pancakes poured with meat, copper shrimp, vegetable bean sprouts add the pulp of classic cotton. When eaten with young mango leaves, dipping with sweet and sour fish sauce creates five flavors mixed in the mouth, attractive and difficult to resist. 
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8. Fried fish with salt and lemongrass and chilli
This simple dish is especially loved by the people of Hau Giang as well as tourists. When caught, fish are cleaned, the lines across the body are then marinated with citronella juice. Then, take it to dry in the sun and then fry it in hot oil, when nearly added chopped lemongrass and chili. Can be eaten with rice or rolled raw vegetables. Fried fish is not dry, it still retains the sweetness of the meat inside, crispy outside and especially the aroma of irresistible lemongrass. 
Sea bass fish marinated in spices, dried in the sun and deep fried
Hau Giang specialties bought as gifts
1. Sticky fish ball
Referring to grouper, this specialty dish of Hau Giang is famous throughout the Mekong River region. In addition to the fresh fried fish as above, if you want to buy and bring it as a gift, do not forget to choose the fish ball, which is equally delicious. The fish cakes here are carefully selected, boned and seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic seasoning before going to grind. When you pound it well, when you do not stick the bowl, you should cut it into small pieces and then make it into one to fry. 
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Each piece of fish cakes is chewy, golden on the outside, has a natural fresh sweet taste and aroma of spices and cumin. Grilled fish can be made into many dishes, dipped with chili sauce and eaten with raw vegetables. The dish is not bored, from adults to children can enjoy. Don’t forget to buy them as gifts for your loved ones at home!
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2. Grapefruit in Phu Huu year
In Hau Giang, there are more than 3,000 hectares of pomelos, but the most famous one is the list of 5-whip pomelo grown in two communes of Phu Huu and Phu Tan. Here, the skin is evenly stretched, with ivory-yellow color, and large pomelo shrimp. Its taste is light, not too sweet but not too sour, eating dipping with salt is even more flavorful. The 5-ro-pomelo here can be stored for a long time, so when visiting the pomelo garden, buy Hau Giang specialties as gifts as well as to save food for the family. 
Hau Giang’s five-whip pomelo is famous throughout the West with its own sweet and sweet flavor
Each pomelo shrimp are succulent, not too sour or sweet
3. Cau Duc Hamlet
Along with grapefruit, pineapple is also a fruit grown in many horticultural areas of Hau Giang. Along the way to travel here you will see a lot of goods selling pineapples, each fruit is large, equally golden. Cau Duc cluster has few cores, less food, sweet, and cheap price. The taste is very different in other regions, you can buy it on the road or bring it back to make a very good beverage, can last for half a month.
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4. Tangerines on Long Tri Street
The area along Cai Lon river in Long Tri commune, Long My district is favored by nature for the lush soil, fertile alluvium all year round, creating sweet and delicious tangerines that are difficult to find. Traveling to the southwestern region, do not forget to the wrong tangerine gardens here. Fruit is full and juicy, inside, peeling off a large, succulent zone. Eating in a bar, slightly sour, not sweet, so they are consumed everywhere, and many people buy them as gifts. 
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5. Dried fish eel
Another specialties in floating water season that you should also buy as a gift when coming to Hau Giang is this delicious and nutritious dried fish. The eels live in muddy puddles, the body is slippery but the flesh is tough and firm. Everyone knows that this dish is not only delicious but also very good for health, especially for people with diabetes. Buy fried with lemongrass or braised soy sauce, cooking soup is very delicious. 
Delicious and nutritious dried fish is a famous specialty in Hau Giang floating season
Going around this peaceful land, the beautiful scenery of the river garden, the immense field makes many travelers infatuated. Stop to enjoy the specialty of Hau Giang which is full of local wind, or buy gifts for your relatives will make you love this beautiful land even more.