Northern cuisine is bold in the essence of a long-standing culture and creates a deep impression in the culinary map of Vietnam, not only that, the North also has many dishes that are highly appreciated by the world famous food newspapers.
The northern cuisine is not so magnificent but it is full of emotion as an art poem.
Features of Northern cuisine
Characteristic in northern cuisine is to be protein, often not bold spicy, fatty, sweet as other regions; the dish has a moderate taste, not too strong but has a colorful color; the main uses are lemon, vinegar, crocodile, pepper, chili, ginger, onion, garlic, diluted fish sauce, shrimp paste, many vegetables and easy-to-find freshwater aquatic products such as shrimp, crab, fish, mussels, mussels … Therefore, from the food to the dress of the North are screened and become the norm is not easy to change.
Hanoi cuisine converges northern culinary quintion
If central cuisine has Hue cuisine as representative, Then Hanoi is considered a place full of quintals of Northern cuisine with famous Northeast delicacies. Hanoi cuisine in particular and northern cuisine in general are very diverse and rich, although not too uplandly in the stage of decoration but still very attractive to eaters by the freshness of ingredients and the harmony of spices. One of hanoi delicacies typical of northern cuisine is “Pho”.
Pho – Northern cuisine
Pho has long been not only a typical dish of Hanoi, but it also carries the “national soul”, which is the quintessential of Vietnamese cuisine. Not only that, pho is also widely introduced to friends in five continents and is very popular. The good, the deliciousness of pho does not come from the delicious meat, from the white noodles, from the eye-catching green color of the green onion that the core lies in the quintessential broth. Standard juice, bones and spices will need to be stewed for at least 12 hours and take some more wedge stages to make the broth is in and sweet standard, the true sweetness of many bones, the pulp is not strong but wedged with salt sauce”, that is the soul of old pho.
Not only that, northern cuisine is also famous for many famous dishes such as bun cha, snail noodles, ladder noodles, bean noodles
… with many spices characteristic shrimp paste, essential oil stalks, basil … All blend together to create attractive flavors, characteristics of Beijing.
Other specialty dishes that make northern culinary reputation
Referring to northern specialties, quintees of Vietnamese cuisine, it is impossible to miss the famous Vu Dai Braised Fish. Braised fish stocked with black carp with traditional recipe is stocked with land with a time of 16-24 hours to create a fish braised meat, bones and increasingly popular present in vietnamese family meals.
Besides, northern cuisine is also famous for La Vong fish
cake.
Northern cuisine shows sophistication in each cake
The characteristics of Northern cuisine are also expressed through the cakes, including rice cakes. Cake is not simply a “gift” but more than representing the image of rustic, rustic, storing beautiful memories in the childhood of the people of the North.
+ Pancakes
“Round Village” has long been a name that people will immediately remember Hanoi. At the rate of return, the people of Hanoi are eager to welcome the beautiful “pearls”, round sweet, flexible. Round village cane is processed into many different gifts such as fresh rice, dried rice, rice cakes … The most popular gift is still the rice cake. Square symbolizes the soil, blue symbolizes the taste of domestic, coconut green beans sweet as the sentiment of the people of Hanoi.
+ Chickpeas cake
Along with the rice cakes that make up the name of northern cuisine, there are green bean cakes – famous specialties of Hai Duong province. When enjoyed in combination with Thai green tea, a perfect combination of fatty sweet chickpeas cake and bitterness of return creates a feeling of spreading, full of filled and the most complete of the cake.By viettravel