Quynh Coi fish soup, banana blossom blossom, fried rice with guava leaves, turmeric cake, don’t soup cooked with spinach… are Thai Binh’s favorite dishes.
1. Quynh Coi fish soup
Quynh Coi fish soup from around the 17th century has been recorded in the list of typical Thai Binh delicacies. With simple everyday ingredients such as perch, rice paper, vegetables… through meticulous and skillful processing, it creates a very rustic and dear country flavor. Over time, Quynh Coi fish soup spread to all parts of the country and has different versions, but the taste of the original dish is always marked by the true ‘woody’ quality but is as delicate as the beauty of the local people. this.
A bowl of Quynh Coi fish soup attracts at first sight because the fish is rimmed, so it has a rich, chewy taste but not dry, the broth is rich and harmonious, creating an unforgettable specialty of Thai Binh.
2. Banana flower vermicelli
The word “bung” in Vietnamese cuisine generally refers to dishes that must be boiled for a long time with a lot of water. In the North, there are 3 popular dishes: Bun Bung, Ca Bung and Corn Bung. Particularly with bun bung, the cooking method of Hanoi and Thai Binh is different: If Hanoi vermicelli has a yellow broth, often served along the mosquito net, Thai Binh vermicelli is attracted by its rustic look with the broth. Slightly turbidity secreted from the banana flower bloom, eating is not acrid, but on the contrary, in harmony with the meat of the river bone, pork leg meat creates a very attractive natural sweetness.
3. Turmeric cake
The supple taste of hot glutinous rice mixed with the bright yellow color of turmeric, the greasy taste of fatty meat, the faint aroma of cinnamon, and dried onions… This local gift is easy to “addict” to many people.
In the traditional way, to make a golden turmeric cake like a full moon silk cocoon must go through many stages, requiring meticulousness and ingenuity of the maker. Bakers in Tien Hai area usually get up very early from the time the cock crows in soups 3 and 4: They soak plain rice (dry type) in water for 3-4 hours to stretch it, take it out to dry, grind it finely with turmeric powder. Steam this flour mixture to 70%, continue to grind, knead the dough into a smooth, flexible cake shell. As for the filling, it is more sophisticated: finely grind onions, grease, cinnamon powder. Turmeric cake has a natural color, helps fight inflammation, detoxifies and is very good for postpartum women.
4. Don soup, fried don’t with guise leaves
Don (led) lives buried in the sand, thin shell, shaped like a filling but only 1-2 cm long. Don lived quite a lot in Tien Hai, Thai Binh. Possessing welding properties, natural sweetness, don has diuretic, ventilation, liver cooling, and heat dissipation effects.
Therefore, don is processed into many delicious dishes by the people here such as: Don soup cooked with spinach, don with star fruit, stir-fried don’s with guise leaves with puffed shrimp… A bowl of don’s soup cooked with spinach with sweet and delicious don’s meat. and the green color of spinach make a famous soup in Tien Hai, Thai Binh.
As for the don’s meat, when stir-fried with bay leaves, onions, sprinkled with a little bit of roasted sesame and served with crispy fried shrimp puffs, it’s very mouth-watering.
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