In fact, this dish is present in many other localities, but the taste in Bao Loc still has something very unique.
Bao Loc attracts tourists with many interesting places to eat and drink. Coming here, besides the specialties of the highlands such as tea and coffee, visitors also fall in love with a variety of attractive street foods, including Xap Xap.
Xuong is a strange but familiar dish.(Photo: Bao Loc location)
It’s not a strange dish, the arrangement is made from shredded green papaya, served with sweet and sour sauce and some beef jerky and pork liver. Listening to the description, this dish is no different from papaya salad, which is very popular in the Central and Southern regions. However, the version in Bao Loc is a blend of the typical flavors of the two regions to make a dish with its own attractions.
Bao Loc’s famous dish has many similarities with papaya salad in the Central or the South.(Photo: Didauvui)
The name juggling was born from street vendors, who call it the way of arranging ingredients and seasonings on a plate before serving to customers. The bottom layer is shredded papaya that has been soaked in salt water to soften, followed by shredded beef or beef liver, pork liver with five spices, on top is chopped herbs and some roasted peanuts and pickles. .
Still familiar ingredients, but why is the arrangement so attractive to tourists?(Photo: Didauvui)
The arrangement of Bao Loc is different from the sauce. If normal papaya salad will be mixed with sweet and sour diluted fish sauce, here, people make tamarind sauce with a moderate sour taste, blending with the salty – sweet – spicy taste of the fish sauce. , sugar and chili make the dish easy to please diners.
Unique Bao Loc arrangement in the sauce.
Picking up a chopsticks soaked in sauce, visitors will feel the cool taste of young papaya, dried beef, chewy and spicy, beef liver, sweet fatty pork liver and peanuts. The flavors all blend together harmoniously, creating a delicious dish that is hard to resist.
In addition to the above ingredients, Xoi Xo is also served with shrimp puff pastry.
Because it is a popular dish, it is popularly sold on the streets of Bao Loc with the price of “chestnuts”, from 15,000 VND to 20,000 VND. However, Xap Xap is always on the list of snacks to try when coming to this highland city.