Great foods in Ninh Binh

In addition to the historical value, charming natural scenery, Ninh Binh land also attracts visitors by the unique dishes. If you have the opportunity to Ninh Binh, you should remember tasting these famous specialties.

Burning rice (com chay): This is one of the famous culinary specialties of Ninh Binh. Regions develop this kind of cuisine mainly along Highway 1, Ninh Binh city and tourist areas. The burning rice in Ninh Binh is different from other parts of the sheep until sauce comes. Delicious elderberry pale yellow, nuts evenly, crispy but still pappy, fleshy, fat but not bored.

Raw Fish (goi ca nhech): To make this dishes required a really hardship process with many steps. It has the aroma fleshy of roasted rice, sour taste of vinegar, mixed into the warm spicy of ginger with garlic, chili, pepper, lemon grass, distinctively flavored, Once you enjoy it, you will never forget it.

Mountain Shellfish (oc nui): There are many shellfishs in the Limestone Mountains of Ninh Binh. They usually appear in rainy season from April to August each year, when the weather is wet and humid. Mountain shellfishs are real tough, crunchy, and sweet. They can be processed into many dishes: ginger steamed, fried chilli, mixed salad ...

Goat dipped in boiling water (tai de): The resource of goat’s meat is from Limestone Mountain or from the farm. Goat meat is cut pieces, dipping them in boiling water until half-cooked, at this time the meat is soft and it will be sliced vertically. The half-cooked sliced meat shall be mixed with fried-sesame, which is roughly crushed, chopped up-citronella, lemon leaf, ginger, sliced-chilly, lemon juice and sodium glutamate. That's it, a very excellent dish. Eating goat always accompany with fig leaf, green banana, star fruit.... particularly soybean jam.

Yen Mac fermented pork roll (nem chua Yen Mac): has been made for such a long time. The number of locals in Yen Mac who can make this kind of nem chua is not large because the work requires not only secret formula but also passion for the work. The production process need to be strictly followed; the finished fermented pork rolls ensure high quality, good taste, fresh colors, even slices, which can be kept for a week without degeneration of quality. The roll can be kept from 5 to 7 days and remain fresh, tasty and crispy. Yen Mac roll are served with a plate of lettuce or mint, they are supposed to wrap guava leaf, herbs around each roll, then dip it in fish sauce mixed with lemon juice, chopped garlic, chili or pepper.

Perch sour soup (canh chua ca ro): This sour soup as an indispensable processing pickle water to remove fishy smell and creates an enticing sour. It tastes sweet, sour of the pickles water, cool fresh tomatoes, tofu, succulent, fleshy, crunchy and aromatic perch.

Ninh Binh countryside is a beautiful, nature and charming land with amazing food. Just make sure you should try the specialties foods mentioned above as you heading there.