Pho Trang Kim: a unique and attractive dish of the rocky plateau

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Pho is a familiar dish of Vietnamese people. Pho Trang Kim is not only delicious and attractive but also interesting and “strange” in the delicate and skillful processing of mountain people’s hands.

Ha Giang stone plateau is marked in the hearts of tourists not only by its majestic natural scenery and unique national culture but also by its extremely attractive dishes.

Including Pho Trang Kim – a specialty of Dong Ha commune, Quan Ba ​​district. This famous noodle soup is a familiar breakfast for market-goers and visitors to Ha Giang, especially long-distance drivers.

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The bowl of Pho Trang Kim Ha Giang is full of meat and cakes, attracting all visitors. (Photo: thu___ha_).

Trang Kim is a place located on the road from Quan Ba ​​to Dong Van, in the middle of the high zone, there is a street about 100m long along both sides of the road in Quyet Tien commune, Quan Ba ​​district. This peaceful village is famous for Pho with a long history – Pho Trang Kim. The dish is famous, not only because it is delicious and attractive but also interesting and “strange” in the delicate and skillful processing of the mountain people’s hands.

The rice noodles are made by hand at every stage. Rice flour is milled by women’s hands. After being hand-coated, the noodles are spread evenly on the cork trees hanging on the roof.

Guests come to eat to take it down. Therefore, Trang Kim noodle soup has different features compared to other types of pho. The color, flavor and toughness of the fibers make the dish more delicious and strange. 

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Pho is spread evenly on the cork trees hanging on the roof. (Photo: kieuhuong.nguyen).

At first, glance, making rice noodles is a bit like rolling Banh Cuon, with a bucket of flour, a stove, and a large pot of rice paper. Each ladle of flour is spread evenly on the cloth stretched across the pot of water, cover the lid, wait a bit, then use a long round tool to skillfully roll the noodle cake and remove it to dry on a pole to dry naturally before removing. and chopped by hand.

The flour for making pho here is completely milled from rice grown on the field, without additives, so it is quite soft. But it is guaranteed, Pho is completely processed from nature.

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Trang Kim noodle soup has different features compared to other types of pho. (Photo: thu___ha_).

The pot of broth looks greasy and fragrant with the smell of ginger, cinnamon, anise, and cardamom. It’s actually very fragrant and it’s not easy to tell what flavors the owner has put in if you don’t ask. In addition to beef and pork bones, carefully simmered for sweetness, even chicken broth, only the spices of the ethnic people here are available.

Chicken on the mountain so, chunks of chicken that are firm, sweet and crispy are filtered by the hostess and placed in a bowl, adding a little finely chopped green onion, served with spicy chili sauce to tear the tongue, making the guests eat once to remember. never forget.

This is the breakfast dish of market-goers and now, Pho Trang Kim is a dish that tourists coming to Ha Giang cannot miss. Follow Dân trí

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