What is more wonderful than traveling to the Northwest mountains and forests – Cao Bang with clear white rice to immediately enjoy the specialties of the people here. Here are the 10 most famous Cao Bang specialties that you must definitely try if you have the opportunity to come to this land.
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1. Roasted duck with 7 flavors
Any visitor who sets foot in Cao Bang, is a delicious compliment when trying this dish. The reason is called 7-flavor roast duck because Cao Bang people use 7 different spices to marinate this duck.
Cao Bang roast duck (Photo collection)
Unlike normal duck dishes, Cao Bang roast duck is very meticulous right from the duck selection stage. Cao Bang people have to choose duck that is muscular and bright. The most important thing is to marinate the duck with all 7 flavors – This is probably the secret of the Tay people living in Cao Bang province, so when roasting, the duck will bring an attractive strange aroma.
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Spread a layer of delicious honey on the duck. The lustrous skin color stimulates your taste buds. Feel the first bite, you have to chew it slowly to fully enjoy the sweetness of the wild honey mixed with the greasy taste of the oil. The delicious taste of roast duck permeates the tip of the tongue.
“… Apply a layer of delicious honey to the duck” (Photo collection)
2. Cake Survey
The cake is one of the famous Cao Bang specialties that is popular with many people. Every spring, the cake is indispensable on the ancestor worshiping table.
Cake Survey (Photo collection)
Ingredients for baking are glutinous rice, delicious, fragrant, round and evenly plumped. The people here use diameter or sugar to make rice cakes. The cake has a nutty flavor of peanuts and sesame seeds blends with the fatty taste of lard.
Ingredients for baking are sticky rice, delicious, fragrant, round and evenly distributed (Photo collection).
The skillful artisans meticulously wrap the cake neatly into rectangular style. When you eat, you will feel the rich aroma of glutinous rice flour, the sweet taste of sugar can not be forgotten.
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And don’t forget to buy them as gifts for friends or relatives!
3. Ants Egg Cakes
Ant’s Egg Cake is made from glutinous rice flour, ant eggs and young leaves of the fig tree. Every April and May every year, people of the Tay ethnic group in Cao Bang province go to the forest to find black ant eggs to make cakes.
Ant’s Egg Cake (Photo collection)
People here often take ant eggs with small stems, pointed tails, often make nests on the tree and bring back non-fat pig for fragrant, a little chives leaves and sprinkle them on the dough and bring them to the steam tray.
“… Ant egg cake to eat soft and fragrant ant eggs” (Photo collection)
Waiting for every moment when the cake is cooked, the aroma of the fig leaves will attract visitors when first enjoying this dish. Biting the first pieces, the egg tarts are supple and fragrant with the ants’ scent that makes it hard to resist.
4. Lam tea cake
Besides the fatty ant egg cake, it is impossible not to mention the Lam Tea Cake. This is a traditional cake of Cao Bang people
Lam Sweet Soup Cake (Photo Collection)
Cake made with roasted sticky rice flour, roasted peanuts, ginger and malt. When enjoying, you can feel the sticky taste of glutinous rice powder, the sweetness of honey and a little spicy of ginger, and the pulp of peanuts.
Sip a cup of hot tea with Lam tea cake (Photo collection)
Sip a cup of hot tea served with Lam tea cake and watch the nature of Cao Bang. All of them give you a feeling of peace, lightness, and comfort like never before.
5. Dedicating vegetables
Hyacinth, also known as lettuce, grows wild in the rocky mountains. This type of tree is very brittle, divided into many branches as big as chopsticks, which are attached to the tree to catch sunlight.
Donated vegetables (Photo collection)
Every spring and summer, the party here has a dish of fried greens with beef, pork, and chicken heart. This wild vegetable dish is very strange and unlike any other vegetables.
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The greens have become a specialty vegetable in Cao Bang.
6. Black dong vermicelli
For a long time, Cao Bang is famous for its black rice vermicelli made from pure and delicious galangal flour
Black dong vermicelli (Photo collection)
With the ingenuity and experience of the people here, they have created glossy, beautiful, crunchy, chewy, and characteristic scent of dong flour without using any chemicals.
These. Glass noodles are glossy, beautiful, crunchy, chewy and have the characteristic scent of dong flour (Photo collection)
In the Tet tray, the people of Cao are equal to a bowl of vermicelli cooked with chicken with shiitake mushrooms, carpentry is a traditional cuisine, rich and heartwarming of the people here.
7. Braised ribs
If anyone comes to Cao Bang , it is impossible to forget to buy Chua ribs as gifts.
Ribs sausage (Photo collection)
Cao Bang pork ribs are processed sophisticatedly. The core of the ribs is made of tenderloin, shoulder meat, marinated with spices, honey and indispensable a little white wine, a little ginger and a few crushed dried honey.
It took about 2.3 days to dry in the sun and then hang it on the fire, smoke and heat from the fire streaked from sugarcane for the meat to hunt and taste better. Biting the first bite, feeling the unforgettable taste of Lala in the northwestern mountains will make you remember this taste.
Dry it out in the sun and then hang it on the fire to make the meat hunt and taste better (Photo collection)
8. Chongqing chestnuts
Chongqing chestnuts are the only fruit found only in Cao Bang. The fruit is even brown, round, the smallest seeds are also the size of the big toe. It can be boiled, roasted, dried or simmered with the legs, chicken but still retain its flavor.
Chongqing chestnuts (Photo collection)
Every September and October is the harvest season. Visitors will then “remember” the most delicious and sweet of Chongqing chestnuts that they have ever enjoyed.
9. Cao Bang sticky rice fillings
When the weather comes to fall, the Tay – Nung people go back to the forest to pick canariums to make sticky rice. This is an indispensable dish in the meals of the people of Cao Bang here.
Xoi fillet Cao Bang (Photo collection)
Cook sticky rice with ripe fruit, not deep, soak in water at about 25 to 30 degrees C for a while to soften. Take the seedless meat and mix it with the cooked sticky rice, purple-pink in color.
Cook sticky rice, ripe fruit, not deep, soak in water at about 25 to 30 degrees C to soften (Photo collection)
How will you have a chance to enjoy this strange, fatty, and filling sticky sticky rice dish compared to other regular sticky rice?
10. Dumplings
In winter in Cao Bang, people immediately think of Banh Banh Chao. This is a dish that quickly dispels the cold of the mountain.
Dumplings (Photo collection)
At first glance you will feel like a donut, but just a jar of flour, simple seasoning with a pan of hot oil, take each mold and dip the dough, dip it into a saucepan of boiling oil. .
This dish is very loved by many Cao Bang people, very missed even when going away (Photo collection)
This dish is very loved by many Cao Bang people, very missed even when going away. On cold winter days in Cao Bang, you can visit a roadside restaurant, order a cold rice cake and warm up. What an unforgettable feeling.
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