Creepy specialties from southern Vietnam

Vietnam package tours - Besides  a number of eye-catching dishes, Vietnam is also well-known for its scary culinary specialties that will make foreigners ‘creepy’.

However, if they pick up a piece into their mouth, they will want to enjoy more and more thanks to its delicious taste.

Coconut worms are a specialty of Vietnam’s southern region.The living worms are dropped into a bowl of alcohol. After the worms emit contaminants, they are washed and put into a bowl of chili fish sauce.  The living worms are fat and fleshy, which feel no different from egg yolk. Fried spider In the past, scorpion was usually soaked in wine and consumed as a traditional medicine.  Recently it has fallen into the frying pans of restaurants. It is usually deep fried or grilled.  Fried grasshoppers Fired scorpion Cicada can be soaked in a tempura-like batter and deep fried, or cooked with rice porridge. People usually catch cicadas during their moulting process when they are shedding their skins, as the cicadas taste the best then. Fired centipede, starfish, and seahorses Vole is considered specialty meat. However, not everyone is brave enough to enjoy this food.

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Viet Nam’s salt fields in top most breathtaking sunsets on earth

Viet Nam’s salt fields was listed in top 15 most breathtaking sunsets on earth voted by the UK’s Daily Mail.  

The paper said Viet Nam has many attractions, its salt fields being one. During the day, the fields are busy with workers who together amass an annual salt production of around 700,000 tonnes, but as the sun goes down and the workers leave, the fields are a shrine to tranquility. 

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Other most stunning sunsets named in the list included India’s Taj Mahal, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex, the Arctic Circle in Norway, the Kirkjufell Mountain at Snæfellsnes Peninsula west of Iceland, the Great Pyramid site of Giza in Cairo in Egypt, Zanzibar archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, and desert safari in Dubai.

Other places with fantastic golden sunsets are Chile’s Atacama desert, Cape Town’s Table Mountain, California’s Santa Monica beach, Kenya, the Isle of Skye in Scotland, the Ayers Rock in Australia and the towering Château Frontenac in Québec City in Canada.

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Bun and bread soup fake civet exotic crab for lunch in Hanoi

hanoi package tours - With prices ranging from 40,000 - 90,000 VND, you can enjoy a full meal quality, warm hearted and delicious.

Bun fake civet

An ideal dish for lunch in Hanoi is cold noodles taste smell fake civet with galangal, sour taste of bamboo shoots and cook greasy pork leg imitation of mongoose.

Raw materials are simple but delicious noodles to bowl is also both a sophisticated manufacturing process, decreasing the spices to taste. Pork leg meat often have to choose foundation, thui on the fire until it is yellow then bring cumbersome pieces tightly.

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Marinated pork leg with technology juice, galangal to create color and distinct aroma. Shortage of raw materials is not that cool, with very distinct sour taste and add a little shrimp paste for flavor. The spice must be processed for a new ingenious and bold make false distinctions of civet noodle bowl in each shop.

Authors attractive bowl with yellow mongoose foundation cumbersome rolls, green vegetables, yellow of technology ... Photo: Khanh Hoa

The soup is served with attractive colors, though not yet very stimulating appetite by odor, unmistakable. Putting a piece of pork leg to his mouth, feeling silky soft meat, fatty crust closely with the pig skin is yellow thui, mingles with the sour taste of bamboo shoots, fragrant with galangal just melted in the mouth.

The dish is accompanied with rice noodles leaf discs were cut into small pieces, add some herbs or slices of pungent chili makes an attractive lunch. A bowl of rice noodles are often sold fake civet 35,000 dong, can eat in town Tue Tinh, Thuy Khue, Kim Lien ...

Crab cake soup

Not a dish of Hanoi, famous crab cake soup in the southern provinces, but has become an attractive dishes diners capital.

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Interestingly while enjoying bread bowl soup with crab meat and fiber bread soup delicious hot, add fried fish, shrimp, pork leg meat, mushrooms, quail eggs ... depending on the processing of each shop.

Bread soup bowl at a diner on Quang Trung Street. Photo: Ut Whistle

Fiber bread soup usually made from rice flour, tapioca starch or flour to make a more delicious chewy, bigger fibers were made noodles. Bread soup broth is usually viscous regime, there is sweetness and security of meat flavor of the sea with crab meat, shrimp, fish ...

Depending on your calling, but the bartender will take to crab meat into pieces or whole fish. It is interesting to break each pincers, put into a bowl of fish sauce, sip sitting in cold weather.

A bowl of noodles is priced 55000-90000 contract. You can eat in the restaurant on Quang Trung Street, Phung Hung, Mai Hac De, Pham Ngoc Thach ...

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Phong Nha has top ‘incredible cave'

hanoi travel agency - Phong Nha National Park has been voted as one of the most incredible cave sites in the world by the multi-award winning Wanderlust – a leading magazine for adventurous and authentic travel.

 

Situated in the heart of Quang Binh Province in north-central Viet Nam, 500km south of Ha Noi, Phong Nha is "a fossil-rich site and a location where new caves are still being discovered", the magazine writes. See: hanoi tourist

It notes that the entrance to the 44.5km, nine-cave system is via an underground river that connects with the Son River. Tour boats can penetrate inside to a distance of 1,500m.

"There are lots of trekking, kayaking and swimming opportunities locally too. Be sure to lookout for a multitude of beautiful butterflies if you are there in March, April or May." See: hanoi tourist attractions

Other caves in the list of top 5 "incredible explorable" caves are: Waitomo Cave (New Zealand), Indian Caverns (United States), Dan-yr-Ogof Cave (Wales), and Eisriesenwelt (Austria). 

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Discover a Ha Long bay in Dak Nong

hanoi airport to halong bay - Dak Nong Province in the Central Highlands, with its wild, high mountains with thick forests, majestic waterfalls, perfect atmosphere, and the unique cultures of the ethnic groups there can meet the needs of an adventurer for a journey.

Ta Dung Lake is considered ‘Ha Long Bay’ of the Central Highlands Surrounded by coffee hills, the place is covered by thick fogs all year round   Breath-taking scene   Ta Dung Lake from a high view   H’Mong ethnic group Innocent face of an ethnic child   H'mong colourful traditional clothes Lien Lung waterfall   Gia Nghia Town by night

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Muong ethnic people’s colorful cakes

hanoi travel agency - Sticky rice cakes are a popular finger food among Vietnamese people.  However, sticky rice cakes of Muong ethnic minority group in the mountainous district of Tan Son in the northern province of Phu Tho are special because they come with a variety of colors.

Colorful sticky rice cakes of Muong people in the northern province of Phu Tho – Photo: Nguyen The Luong

Muong people in Tan Son usually make those cakes after their glutinous rice harvest. Rice used for making the cakes comes from valleys where there is cool weather all year round while water for rice cooking is from a crystal clear stream in the forest. To color their cakes, Muong people use different types of forest leaves. See: hanoi tourist

Only Muong people know what leaves should be picked for coloring  their sticky rice cakes because different types of leave give different colors  including orange yellow, pink, red, light and dark purple.

After cleaning the leaves, people grind and squeeze them to get liquid which is mixed with the white sticky rice dough to make balls of different colors for steaming. They are stuffed with chicken or mung bean pudding. See: hanoi tourist attractions

In their traditional festivals and special occasions such as wedding, these colorful sticky rice cakes are a must.

The cakes are ready for serving after being steamed for 15 minutes.  According to Muong people, the round shape of the cake represents the sky and the earth while the colors are a harmony of the tree, the flower and the stream.

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HCM City develops street food into tourist attraction

hanoi tourist attractions - Ho Chi Minh City is developing street food as a unique culture to draw more domestic and foreign visitors.

The southern metropolis is known for various specialties from various regions such as Soc Trang fish noodle soup, southern crispy pancakes, Hue beef noodle soup, Quy Nhon rice noodles with fish paste, and Sa Dec noodle with seasoned and sautéed beef. See: hanoi airport to halong bay

The global Food and Wine Magazine selected Ho Chi Minh City as one of the 10 best street food destinations in the world.

“Saigon’s street foods range from the savory soup known as pho and the French colonial-influenced banh mi (pâté sandwiches on French bread) to regional southern specialties like banh xeo (stuffed pancakes) and canh chua (fish soup). A trip to the megasize Ben Thanh Market could yield spring rolls, spices and a knockoff handbag,” the magazine said on its website.

To fully tap the potential of street food, the tourism sector must improve price management, the attitude of street food providers, hygiene, safety and marketing strategies.

Tourism Division Head at HCM City University of Economics Nguyen Duc Tri said the management of street food in the city has yet to receive due attention.

The city is famous for delicious dishes, but the most important thing is to win customers’ confidence in food safety, he said. See: food and drink in hanoi

He suggested local authorities work with the tourism sector to open food safety training courses and support small-scale street sellers to produce clean food and avoid using food without clear origins.

The tourism sector should also coordinate with the Health Department to examine the level of food safety among street food businesses, he added.

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