Nghe An is famous for many specialties but Vinh eel porridge is the most popular. A little hot, fragrant enough to awaken the taste of gourmets.
Nghe eel porridge – the famous dish of the central land
Nghe An is famous for its eels. Nghe An copper eel has slender body, firm flesh, yellow color, a black stripe running down its spine, eating both plump and sweet; They were caught by laying bushes or fishing lines but the yield was not equal. If the eel is raised, it is dark black, the one is big, fat, but the meat is soft and thin. 
Eel from Nghe origin
To have a pot of Nghe eel porridge The delicious taste needs the meticulousness of the chef, right from the moment of choosing the ingredients, choosing the copper eel and the rice for porridge cooking must be the best non-glutinous rice. Then they use their ingenuity to handle the fishy smell before processing. The eel is cleaned of mucus with kitchen ash, then use the bamboo pulp to remove the meat, remove the head and intestines. Eel meat is marinated with spices before stir-frying.
One thing is indispensable is turmeric, turmeric not only creates an attractive yellow color for the dish but also helps the eel meat to be more rich, fragrant and sweet, and reduce the fishy smell. People stir-fry eel and chopped chili, onion, pepper, and especially the fragrant and spicy scent stalks that grow only in Nghe An and Ha Tinh areas are indispensable. Requirements for finished products are large pieces of eel meat, square, not crushed and dry, imbued with spicy aroma of onion, chili, pepper, iridescent yellow of turmeric,
Eel in saffron porridge is soft fried, not dry like other provinces
When it comes to the flavor of the porridge, no small part is also due to the broth. The backbone of the eel is finely chopped and cooked to get the broth, then filtered out the broken bones before simmering the porridge. The water is bold but very delicate, not fat like soup cooked from pork bones.
Rice porridge cooked for the whole grain, soaked until soft. Then it is a miracle, when the cook cook slowly sprinkles the rice into the pot so that the porridge does not clump, nor use chopsticks to avoid the porridge from being crushed or hot, and the fire is only allowed to simmer. After being thoroughly simmered, the rice seeds bloom, the porridge is even, neither thick nor thin. One secret to adding delicious porridge is to add a little rice or sticky rice to make the porridge sticky and fragrant.
Nghe eel porridge bowl must have scallions and chopped vegetables
When all was done, people took porridge into a bowl, put a pinch of fragrant stir-fried eel meat on top and then sprinkled with a golden sauce, dotted with onion, minced and tiny slices of pepper. Porridge is usually served with bread or soft cake – also a specialty in Nghe An. 
The rich golden sauce sprinkled on top is very appealing
Regardless of summer or winter, we still cannot deny the hot, stinky eel porridge, fragrant with lettuce, has the sweet taste of eel, spicy pepper awakens all senses. Depending on the taste of each person to increase the spiciness, but the culinary characteristic of the central provinces is the right taste of hot spicy. Eel porridge is considered the pride of Nghe An largely thanks to the ingenuity of the processor helping the dish bring the typical flavor of Nghe An.
Address to eat famous delicious eel porridge in Nghe An
– Ba Ngo eel porridge shop (No. 1 – Lane 4 – Doc Thiet Street – Vinh City): The restaurant’s menu has two main dishes: eel soup and porridge. The small copper eel, the slim body, the flesh has been removed, has an eye-catching yellow color, sweet taste and strange taste. Porridge waves, fragrant rice, blooming seeds. Price from 30,000 VND.
– Quan eel Hong Son (154 – Mai Hac – wards shop Bau – Vinh City): Restaurant famous for porridge eel Nghe delicious, golden days and the location is enjoy porridge eel the best in Vinh City . The shop has spacious and airy space with a reasonable price from 40,000 – 60,000 VND.
Nghe’s porridge dish causes fondness for diners near and far
– Ms. Lieu’s eel shop (No. 87 – Mai Hac De – Vinh City): The eel meat of Mrs. Lieu restaurant is soft and sweet, but still has a moderately toughness. brand. The price is only from 35,000 – 55,000 VND / bowl.
– Ms. Lan Eel Shop (No. 2 – Tran Hung Dao – Vinh City): Eel porridge here has a special sweet and clear broth, in addition, the shop also serves fragrant fried bread to eat. The price of eel porridge ranges from 30,000 – 40,000 VND / bowl.
– Oanh Dung eel shop (No. 24 – Dao Tan street – Vinh city): The porridge of the restaurant has a very specific pungent taste and is suitable for the taste of Nghe people, so if visitors cannot eat spicy, you should consider. With the price from only 25,000 – 35,000 VND for a bowl of delicious, nutritious eel porridge.
The Nghe An people often eat the dish with a hot spicy flavor
Although Nghe eel porridge is only processed from simple and authentic local products, it has become a typical cultural feature of this land. Not only the expatriate children, visitors here just need to eat eel porridge once, they also have unforgettable and memorable impressions.
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