Tien Giang cuisine has long been famous throughout the West and the country with famous dishes such as My Tho noodle soup, Tan Phong rice snail, Go Cong seaweed … The journey to explore this tourist land will not Full of you if you ignore the delicious dishes below.
My Tho noodle soup – The number one dish of Tien Giang cuisine
My Tho noodle soup is the most famous dish when it comes to Tien Giang because it is associated with My Tho with a history of more than 300 years.
Although originating from Cambodia, today noodles are very popular in Vietnam, especially in the western provinces. The nation’s culinary devotees are familiar with Sa Dec, Nam Vang, Ben Tre, … but the most famous and closest is My Tho. Compared with other types of noodles, the fibers of My Tho are small, chewy, and opaque in color and made from Western specialties such as rice, she fragrant at Dao market, and rice in her Ut. The broth is stewed from pork bones and white radish with lean pork slices or seafood to make the dish taste delicious, sweet without greasy. My Tho noodle bowl is even more beautiful and qualified when used with a variety of green vegetables such as lettuce, bean sprouts, chives, and herbs.
My Tho noodle soup is preferred by many visitors because the faint scent of fragrant rice is always mixed with the sweet broth.
Suggested locations:
– Hu tiu My Tho at the intersection of Le Thi Phi Street, Le Loi, Near Hang Bong Market, Ward 1, City. My Tho
– Co Tot noodle soup at the intersection of Tran Quoc Toan, Nguyen Trai, TP. My Tho
Sau Sen noodle soup at 108 Tran Hung Dao, Ward 6, City. My Tho.
My Tho Old Salad Noodles
Tien Giang cuisine also has another dish with a strong Western flavor, old salad vermicelli. The main ingredients are shrimp, vermicelli, vegetables, bean sprouts, roasted peanuts, desiccated coconut, tamarind juice, cilantro, bacon … and broth cooked from pork bone broth mixed with seeds, A little seasoning sauce combined with white vermicelli strands, … will create a strange but delicious bowl of old vermicelli salad with many tourists. This dish will be even more delicious when eaten with raw vegetables such as bean sprouts, chives, herbs, banana corn or grated water spinach. Most especially, the sauce of My Tho old salad vermicelli is made from pure and fragrant fish sauce, making the flavor of the bowl even richer.
Suggested place : No. 186 Nguyen Hue, Ward 1, Chau Thanh district, Tien Giang.
My Tho Old Salad Noodle Soup is a very filling dish of Tien Giang cuisine.
Tan Phong rice snail
Many tourists go to Tien Giang tour very impressed with the dish with a rather strange name, Tan Phong rice snail. It is called a rice snail because this is a type of snail that has a white, green, round, and when cooked in the bib will emerge a grain of white fat like rice. When the rice snail is first picked up, it will be put in the basket, placed in a water bath soaked for about 5 to 10 minutes for the snail to remove the soil and sand. After cleaning, put the rice snail in a pot with water and let it cook quickly. Boiled rice snail is best when used with chili lemon fish sauce and a little fresh ginger. The rice snail, when ripe, has a golden color, is delicious, delicious, sweet, crispy, and will not be bored after eating. In addition to the delicious and fastest way of cooking is boiling, the Tien Giang people also use rice snails to make other delicacies such as rice snail pancakes, fried rice snails with garlic and chili served with white rice, snail salad mixed with grapefruit and coconut rice – a dish Delicious appetizer, nutritious Northern medicinal rice snail, garlic rice snail, rice snail rolled rice paper,Tien Giang cuisine .
Suggested place : Restaurant 743, Ly Thuong Kiet Street, City. My Tho.
Tan Phong rice snail is a delicious dish reminiscent of the four-sided isles surrounding the river.
Delicious rice snail pancake makes many visitors fall in love.
Sam of Go Cong sea
Not only is the land located on the peaceful Tien River, Tien Giang is also home to Tan Phong sea with dishes bearing the breath of the sea. Go Cong’s Sam Bien is one of the delicacies of Tien Giang’s cuisine. This dish has a very simple cooking method, but also very delicious, grilled on charcoal. Traveling to Tien Giang from October, visitors will enjoy the delicious Go Cong Dong sea shells with sweet meat and eggs, which are always eaten.
Suggested location : Go Cong seaweed is best purchased in Vam Lang commune, Tan Thanh, Go Cong Dong district (Tien Giang).
Go Cong Dong Sam is best when grilled on embers.
Patch cake (price cake)
Having the opportunity to go through Giong market (Vinh Binh town, Go Cong Tay district, Tien Giang) you must definitely try the most famous patch cake here. The cake is made from familiar ingredients such as rice flour, flour, pork liver and raw bean sprouts. Called the cake or cake price because of the unique preparation of this dish. After being prepared, the kernel will be put in the same patch and then poured rice flour mixed with flour to cover the ingredients. Then they dipped the overflowing patch in a saucepan of boiling oil for the cake to stick, when the cake was cooked, the patch was pulled out and used that way to create another cake. Bun cake can be considered as another version of Can Tho cake or Tay Ho shrimp cake. The cake is also served with vermicelli, or rolls with raw vegetables and sweet and sour garlic chili fish sauce. To help get sick,
Suggested place : Giong market cake, Vinh Binh commune, Go Cong district, Tien Giang province.
Hang Bong market duck cake
It seems that banh beo is a delicious dish of Central Vietnam, but you will have different thoughts when you taste the banh beo at Hang Bong market, My Tho city. There are two types of banh beo here: sweet and savory. More popular is the salty water duck cake filled with green beans served with pork chops, fried breads with pomegranates and fragrant scallions on a plate. A plate of banh cuon at Hang Bong market has the combination of sweet, sour, spicy with the light fat taste of fresh coconut milk and mixed fish sauce. In some other places, banh beo is eaten with a little chopped cucumbers, boiled bean sprouts and made from banana corn to make it round.
Address : Hang Bong market duck cake shop: 23 Le Thi Phi, Ward 1, City. My Tho, Tien Giang.
Hang Bong market duck cake is one of the favorite dishes of visitors when coming to Tien Giang.
Banana wiped coconut
If Ben Tre is famous for its banana-smashed banana cake, Tien Giang’s cuisine is equally famous for its banana and coconut flakes. The ingredients that make this dish are just green porcelain bananas, peanuts and grated coconut. The processing stages are not complicated, but require experience and ingenuity of the workers.
Green bananas, after being washed, must be soaked to reduce the pus and acrid before boiling. Banana peeled to cool and mixed with grated coconut, added salt, sugar and crushed in a mortar. Need to pound your hands until you see the mixture match and the spices are absorbed, the coconut water mixed with the banana to make the sweet and fragrant fat, then put on a cup or plate, sprinkle with roasted peanuts to fix the flavor This fascinating play dish.
Banana peeling coconut is a rustic dish that is unique in Tien Giang cuisine.
Forging Breasts
As a province in the Mekong Delta, when mentioning Tien Giang cuisine, it is impossible not to mention the extremely rich fruits here. Most prominent is Lo Ren’s breast milk which is known throughout the country and abroad. The breasts here are better than other places because the fruit is big and round, but the shell is extremely thin, the inside is thick and sweet. Although the price is higher, many visitors still like to take a trip to Tien Giang, enjoy all the delicious dishes here and choose Lo Ren breast milk as a dessert and do not forget to buy a lot as gifts for relatives. friend.
Suggested place : Lo Ren Vinh Kim Breast, Vinh Thanh Hamlet, Vinh Kim Commune, Chau Thanh District, Tien Giang Province.
Lo Ren breast milk is the fruit that makes up the brand name of Tien Giang fruit.