Hanoi cuisine converges sophistication and harmony in color, taste, flavor, and season. Every season Hanoi has an attractive gift. In autumn, fragrant green nuggets, hot shrimp cakes, ripe crocodiles… become outstanding highlights that make Hanoi’s autumn more “round” in taste.
Village cereal loops
Com Vong village has long become one of the typical gifts for Hanoi’s autumn cuisine. Although it is now available all year round, the nuggets are most delicious when enjoyed in the cool autumn days. From the beginning of autumn, mothers and grandmothers have carried bags full of young nuggets around the streets of Hanoi.
The flat green nuggets are wrapped in lotus leaves both to keep the plasticity and to bring up a light fragrance like bringing the whole autumn to Hanoi.
The gifts from the nuggets
No nuggets. Photo: Internet
From com, the Ha Thanh people create many other gifts, contributing to enriching Hanoi’s autumn cuisine such as: com, sticky rice, com, and com.
The fragrant and sweet green bean paste cake is also a gift that many tourists love. Even Hang Than rice cake has become an heirloom specialty of Hanoi, used as gifts and wedding gifts. The soft, sticky rice cake shell wraps the greasy and attractive green bean paste with coconut.
Cha com is often eaten with vermicelli or rice in the meal of the day.
Shrimp cake
In the autumn weather, warm shrimp cakes are also attractive gifts for people and tourists, creating a mark for Hanoi cuisine. The most famous is Ho Tay shrimp cake. However, visitors can enjoy delicious shrimp cakes that are cheaper than in Tay Ho or Hang Bo…
In the cool weather of autumn, a plate of hot shrimp cakes will surely satisfy diners. To avoid boredom, diners should eat shrimp cakes with raw vegetables and dip them with delicious dipping sauce.
Ripe crocodile
Ripe zucchini is on the list of young people’s favorite snacks in the autumn of Hanoi.
The ripe crocodile is not as sour as the green crocodile but has a sour, sweet and spicy taste that blends to create a delicious taste in the mouth, making diners want to eat forever. Just mentioning the ripe crocodile, many young Hanoians will have to drool.
The autumn ripe crocodile fruit is still sour, the flesh from the seed has a sweet taste. Crocodile pickles are crispy and rough, the closer they are to the seeds, the softer the flesh of the fruit becomes and the sweet juice oozes out. The sweetness of ripe crocodile mixed with the salty, sweet and spicy taste of chili salt makes the bitter sour taste of the crocodile much reduced, leaving only a sense of harmony. Therefore, ripe crocodile becomes an “addictive” snack in the autumn of Hanoi.
Dong Du Guava
In autumn, the green and fragrant Dong Du guava cars on the streets of Hanoi also make many people “craving” when thinking about Hanoi’s autumn cuisine.
Dong Du guava village (Gia Lam district, Hanoi) is famous as the “guava land” that produces the specialty fruit of this land. Nourished by fertile alluvial soil along the Red River, Dong Du guava has a much better taste than guava in other regions. Dong Du guava is not big, the fruit fits in the hand, but it is juicy, crispy and sweet. When ripe, guava is fragrant, soft and sweet, stimulating everyone’s taste buds.
Today, Dong Du guava is available all year round (also known as four-season guava), but autumn is the most suitable time to enjoy ripe, fragrant, sweet guava.
Xuan Dinh sapodilla
Among the typical delicious gifts of Hanoi’s autumn cuisine, there is also a sweet and fragrant Xuan Dinh sapodilla. Xuan Dinh sapodilla is also the pride and precious gift of Hanoians.
And only when the autumn comes, people have the opportunity to enjoy the pink-skinned sapodilla, fine sand, fragrant, sweet and cool like no other.
pink pickled
Today, all fruits are grown all year round, but only pickled persimmons, we still have to wait until the new season to enjoy. Talking about Hanoi delicacies in the autumn, it is indispensable for pickled persimmons. Crispy, sweet, slightly acrid pickled persimmon is also a favorite fruit and used to display the mid-autumn festival.
Not only a delicious gift of Hanoi autumn, but pickled persimmons also have many good compounds that have been studied with anti-cancer effects. Therefore, if you have the opportunity to come to Hanoi in the autumn, you should not miss the fruit that contributes to the aroma, color and taste of Hanoi’s autumn.
Red
Along with pickled persimmon, red persimmon is also a fruit that only appears in Hanoi in the autumn. Red rose with thin skin, berries, attractive red like ruby.
Red persimmon is not a fruit for those who like to eat in a hurry but have to wait for the persimmon to be ripe to eat it. A little early, the whole mouth is dry, a little later, the persimmon is no longer delicious.
When ripe, the persimmon is soft, sweet, but not overpowering, not easily suffocated. Biting the piece of persimmon, adding the lumpy flesh in the seeds, so red roses also make people “drool” every time they collect them.
Hanoi traditional moon cake
The most famous traditional mooncake shop in Hanoi, crowded with customers every autumn, is Bao Phuong Bakery located on Thuy Khue Street.
For generations, this famous traditional bakery has still produced mooncakes in the traditional style, keeping the original flavor of baked goods and cakes. Baked cakes, flexible cakes with mixed fillings: lotus seeds, sausages… along with chopped lemon leaves bring the taste of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival to every home.
Not only that, guests can also watch the baker make each tray of pure white flour, then knead the dough, beat the cake, put the cake into the mold… Finally, each tray is still hot, fragrant, and fragrant. .