Although Mai Chau specialties are only made from simple ingredients, they possess a great taste, making everyone who has already enjoyed it must never forget.
Mai Chau tourism is not only attractive by the wild, majestic scenery, cool fresh air, but also by an extremely rich and unique culinary culture. Dishes specialty Meizhou although only made from simple ingredients but possesses excellent taste delicious, prompting who enjoy nostalgic and must never forget.
The delicious Mai Chau specialties you should not miss
Com Lam
Com lam is not only a famous specialty of Mai Chau but also a popular and popular dish of many provinces in the Northwest region of our country. However, Mai Chau lam rice dish has a very unique flavor because it is cooked from fragrant sticky rice.
Specialty rice lam
Rice after going through many hours of soaking in water will be cast into cork tubes. To make the rice more delicious, it is indispensable to have a bit of fatty coconut water. Next, people will bring cork tubes containing rice inside and grill on the charcoal stove. Mai Chau lam rice is best eaten with sesame salt. When enjoying this dish, you will feel the fatty sweetness of rice, blending with the aroma of coconut water and natural bamboo scent creating a wonderful new flavor.
Grilled wild pork skewers
One of the most famous Mai Chau specialties that you can easily see at roadside stalls is grilled wild pork skewers. The pigs were captured by local people from the forest. After surgery, the cleaning will be scraped gold. Large pieces of meat will be cut into small pieces to taste, marinated with necessary spices such as ginger, lemongrass, chili, hooky leaf, …
Grilled wild pork skewers
About 30 minutes to 1 hour the meat will absorb the spices. At this time, people will skew the meat on small bamboo sticks and grill on an embers stove. Looking at the eye-catching colorful meat skewers, giving off the scent of the nose, anyone passing by will want the beam right in to enjoy.
Sticky rice sticky rice
Sticky rice sticky rice is a Mai Chau specialty that, although rustic, simple, has a sophisticated and meticulous way to cook fish. The rice used to cook sticky rice will be carefully selected by the people. Before sticky rice, the rice will be soaked in water for several hours.
Sticky rice sticky rice
The special feature of this sticky rice dish is that it is made with rice, not by pot like other places. With their creativity, Mai Chau people also mix gac, com or green beans into sticky rice to create extremely eye-catching and attractive colors.
Fried cicadas
Another specialty Mai Chau is quite special that if you have the opportunity to set foot in this beautiful land, you should enjoy it is fried cicada. The large round, fat cicadas will be removed all wings, gutted and especially will sit inside the belly of a roasted peanut. After seasoning, they will be golden roasted in a pan of oil. When enjoying fried cicadas, you will feel the crunchy, fatty taste on the tip of the tongue, followed by the sweetness spreading inside the mouth, extremely attractive.
Fried cicadas
Salt and sour pork
Talking about Mai Chau’s famous dishes, it is certainly impossible not to mention salted pork. With the unique processing method, the pork and sour pork has a special taste, different from other regions in Vietnam.
Salt and sour pork
The process of preparing this dish requires carefulness. The wild banana leaves will be carefully selected, cleaned and heated on the fire. Next, people will layer banana leaves underneath the bamboo leaves and spread the meat. Each layer of meat will come a layer of roasted rice and roasted salt, until it is full. In addition, to create a natural sour taste for meat, it is indispensable to have yeast made from forest leaves and crushed rice.
Buffalo leaf
Buffalo leaf is always one of the Mai Chau specialties that is most loved by many visitors thanks to its delicious and exotic taste. Large pieces of buffalo meat will be softened before being sliced into small pieces and placed in a stew pot with the leaves of the mouth. This is a characteristic acidic leaf. When stewed with buffalo meat will create an extremely attractive dish.
Buffalo leaf
River fish
The streams in Mai Chau always have a lot of fish. They are small in size but the meat is very fragrant and sweet. From stream fish, people here can process many different dishes, but perhaps the most delicious are 2 dishes of fried stream fish and grilled fish.
Grilled fish specialty of Mai Chau
Mountain snail
If you have the opportunity to travel to Mai Chau around May, June every year will have the opportunity to enjoy a very attractive dish that is the mountain snail. This is a rather large snail, usually living inside the rocks during the cold winter months. When summer comes, it rains a lot for them to crawl out to eat. There are many dishes made from mountain snails, but boiled mountain snails are still the most popular dish.
Mai Chau mountain snail specialty
Sour bamboo shoots cooked with chicken
Chicken bamboo shoots are a Mai Chau specialty that is suitable for enjoying in hot summer days. The chickens here are mainly raised naturally on the hill so the meat is very firm. When stewed with fresh bamboo shoots, it will create a harmonious dish in both flavor and color.
Specialties sour bamboo shoots cooked chicken
Above are the famous Mai Chau specialties we would like to introduce. Hope to help you get great meals in your upcoming Mai Chau Hoa Binh trip .