Let's explore the top 10 famous delicacies in the ancient capital with Migo through the article below!
Jinshan vermicelli
Along with Lai Thanh wine specialty, Kim Son noodle soup is a rustic delicacy not to be missed when visiting the land of Ninh Binh. The fragrant noodle bowl is filled with the sweet smell of the broth, the large, firm, rich balls become an ecstatic gift for diners in the early morning.
The piece grows in a bowl of Kim Son noodle soup made from delicious butt meat pounded, the whole piece is as big as a child's palm, not as round as Hanoi's rustic meat. The chef quickly sliced the sprouted pieces into a bowl, poured them over the scalding broth and served the diners while still hot. The point above is fragrant onions, green coriander. When enjoyed, the sweet broth is soaked in the chewy noodle soup. Pick up a little sprouts, tangled banana vegetables, coriander, basil, marjoram, and vegetables to make eating once and for all.
Suggested address:
Bun grows To Nhu: Street surface 10 Quang Thien, Kim Son, Ninh Binh
Recommended price: 30.000 VND/bowl
Kim Son noodle soup - a rustic breakfast dish not to be missed when visiting Kim Son. Photo:chudu24
Bucket ant eggs
Having stopped in Nho Quan, Ninh Binh, no one can ignore this sticky rice with ant eggs. With many jagged limestone mountains, Nho Quan land is full of brown ants nesting on the treetops climbing the rocky mountains. There are places also called asphyxiant ants, curved ants for greasy, protein-rich eggs.
In particular, the ant egg season is only available from around the full moon of the 2nd lunar month. The process of getting ant eggs is also very arduous. Therefore, sticky rice with ant eggs has become even more delicious to look forward to.
Most often, ant eggs are obtained only on a sunny day. People use the sentence to brace down the whole ant nest, wait for the nest to discharge all the ants, then put the whole array into the sieve, tap lightly for the ant eggs to fall. When all ants are flushed, people use a basin of warm water again and then drain. The ant eggs are then fragrant with fatty onions, carefully marinated in dried banana leaves to infuse the flavor and passed over the fire. Wait for the sticky rice to cook, then sprinkle the ant eggs, stir to mix the ant eggs into each sticky rice seed. When eating sticky rice, fragrant sticky rice mixed with greasy ant eggs.
Suggested address:
Bucket of ant eggs: National Highway 12B, Ngoc Luong, Nho Quan, Ninh Binh
Recommended price: 50.000 - 100.000 VND/disc
Bucket ant eggs, a delicacy that is not available in every season, the processing is also sophisticated, so the price is not "soft". Photo: naturekey.vn
Fan noodle rolls
Bun cha only, but bun cha ancient capital has its own characteristics, not only is it a favorite dish of local people, but also very popular with tourists. Ninh Binh fan noodle roll is exactly the breakfast dish not to be missed if you visit this land.
From afar, I saw the inviting smell of fan rolls. Because the patty is sandwiched by a charcoal fan in a grill as big as a human hand. The whole plate of large patties is attractive, the whole large piece, almost edged, golden on the outside, soft and spiced inside. Noodles eaten with cha are also baby noodles, not puppet noodles like other places. Pick up the white noodle soup with the golden patty, dip it with a sweet and sour dipping sauce to taste, add a little herb to add more flavor.
Suggested address:
Love Mai fan noodle roll: No. 7 Pham Hong Thai Street, Ninh Binh City
Recommended price: 25.000 - 50.000 vnd
Ninh Binh fan bun cha - breakfast not to be missed when visiting the ancient capital
Dipper stock fish
Referring to one of the irresistible delicious folk dishes of Ninh Binh land, it is impossible to ignore dipper stock.
Dipper trees grow in the foothills, crevices of streams. The dipper fruit is round, the skin has soft spines almost like rambutan, the taste is sour, sweet. Indigenous people often use tamarind and crocodile to cook sour soup, fish stock. Fish stock dippers are usually green dippers, with a slight acidity, acrid and characteristic fruit smell. After cleaning the fish, it is arranged in a saucepan, one layer of fish, one layer of dipper. Seasonings include fish sauce, colored water, dried onions, chili peppers,.. Simmer until the pot is drained of water and finished. The color of fish stock is eye-catching, the special scent of the dipper overwhelms the fishy smell of fish, the taste of fish meat is sweet, fatty, salty mixed with a slight sour taste that makes anyone who has eaten it once remember forever.
Fish stock dipper - a rustic dish with bold flavor of Ninh Binh. Photo: Dan Viet
Mountain goat meat re-lemon
Referring to Ninh Binh cuisine, it is impossible to ignore goat meat, but the special dish must try is goat meat with lemon re-lemon.
Goat meat is available in many regions of Vietnam, but Ninh Binh is considered the land where goat meat is considered the best. In 2012, Ninh Binh mountain goats were in the TOP 50 Vietnamese specialties.
The typical taste of Ninh Binh goat meat is due to the special breeding method here, goats are raised freely in the mountains, eat natural vegetables, including many precious medicines in the mountains, so that goat meat is firm and low fat.
Goat meat with lemon is the dish that highlights the flavor of goat meat the most. The rich, tender, fragrant sweetness of goat meat and the aroma of lemongrass, lemongrass, roasted sesame, galangal ... extremely fascinating. Goat meat is famous in the whole land of Ninh Binh, but the best is still enjoyed in Hoa Lu mountains, near Trang An, Tam Coc.
Bibliographic references:
- In Trang An: Thang Long Restaurant, Goat Chinh Thu Restaurant, Dung Pho Nui Restaurant
- In Tam Coc: Thao Beo Restaurant, Duc Duong Restaurant, Anh Dzung Restaurant
- In Ninh Binh city: Duc Goat Ninh Binh restaurant, Hoang Long restaurant
- The price of a portion of processed goat meat ranges from: 100,000 - 350,000 VND/dish depending on the dish and whether it is large or small.
Lemon mountain goat meat - a delicacy not to be missed when visiting Ninh Binh. Photo: naturekey.vn
Grilled banana fish
Visitors to Van Long lagoon definitely cannot ignore the delicious grilled banana fish - a specialty of the beautiful Van Long lagoon.
Van Long swamp banana fish is large and round, living in flooded caves. The meat of the fish is tough, firm, sweet, and delicious, most delicious and grilled immediately after being caught. People usually only clean the fish then grill, very little seasoning or seasoning so as not to lose the characteristic delicious flavor of the fish. The best grilled banana fish enjoyed with the dipping sauce or rolled in rice paper with herbs served is extremely attractive.
Grilled banana fish - a delicious specialty of Van Long lagoon. Photo: Internet
Elderberry Ninh Binh
Referring to Ninh Binh delicacies, it is impossible to ignore elderberry - a dish with a tradition of more than 100 years of fame of this land. Ninh Binh elderberry is burnt cooked from a cast iron pot, with delicious flexible rice. Thick-bottomed cast iron pot, cook rice over high heat so that the rice is burnt evenly, almost edged, crispy without hard, fragrant without burning, porous, crispy but still fleshy and creamy. Today, industrial elderberry making facilities fry elderberry in oil, causing elderberry grains to spread evenly, porous, crispy, fragrant, sweet, Bui flavor typical of delicious rice in Northern Vietnam.
The best elderberry is served with a chan sauce made from goat meat. The sauce is fragrant, sweet, rich, served with elderberry is extremely suitable. Elderberry is also enjoyed with spicy and sour sauce, rubbed with minced shrimp. Some places eat with fish sauce with onion fat.
Currently, in Ninh Binh, there are many facilities producing elderberry and vacuum packaging that are handy to buy as gifts or easily transport far away.
Recommended price: from 35.000 VND/package
Elderberry is one of the specialties of Ninh Binh that many people choose to buy as gifts. Photo: naturekey.vn
Ninh Binh drift cake
Also a traditional drift cake, but Ninh Binh drift cake has a new feature when combined with sugar, honey, dried peanut puree and moldy daisy leaves, creating an extremely impressive flavor.
Moldy chamomile leaves are a local herb, after being collected and washed, chopped, marinated with honey for half an hour for sugar to absorb evenly and then added to make cake filling and pounded peanuts. The cake has a gentle aroma, the sweetness is not harsh. When boiling, people add a few leaves of moldy chamomile, grapefruit flowers to enhance the flavor. The floating cake gives off the gentle aroma of moldy daisy leaves, the fragrant taste of peanuts will make anyone want to taste it once.
The same drift cake but Ninh Binh drift cake has a different taste from drift cakes of other lands.
Photo: indianembassy-tm.org
Spider fish salad
Those who pass through the waters of Kim Son Ninh Binh, can not help but stop to enjoy spider fish salad - a delicacy that Kim Son people everywhere they go.
Spider fish is a strong and fierce fish living mainly in saltwater, freshwater, brackish water, mainly caught in coastal lagoons and estuaries. To process, spider fish salad needs an extremely laborious process. The flavor of fragrant fish salad is fragrant with the smell of roasted glutinous rice, the delicate sour taste of vinegar, mixed with the warm spicy aroma of garlic, chili, pepper, lemongrass.
Each slice of spider fish meat is thinly sliced, squeezed through with lemon juice, adding spices and hearing from golden roasted glutinous rice. Fish skin with fish bones is fried crispy, fish skin can be mixed with salad, fish bones are pounded and cooked together with sour batch, chicken eggs, pork belly. If fish salads are often eaten with fish sauce, Ninh Binh spider fish salad is best eaten with spider chops. The dark, thick, fragrant red split bowl adds to the appeal of the dish.
When eating, spider fish salad is enjoyed with guava leaves or fig leaves, add apricot leaves, prickly smell, basil, centella asiatica, lentils, mint stuffed into a funnel, then add spider fish in the center, sprinkle on split water, finally add galangal pieces, dried onions, thinly sliced peppers on top and enjoy.
Suggested address:
Vu Bao Kim Son Ninh Binh spider fish salad restaurant
Recommended price: 150.000 - 400.000 VND/dish
Spider fish salad - a special dish of Ninh Binh sea not to be missed. Photo: vubao.vn
Mountain snails
Not a sophisticated dish or delicious sorghum, but in recent years, Ninh Binh mountain snail is one of the dishes not to be missed when visiting the ancient capital. This is a species of snail living in caves and rock hollows in the limestone mountains of Tam Diep, Nho Quan, Yen Mo towns ...
From 4 to 8 months every year, the rainy season begins, new snails crawl out to feed and breed, this is also the bustling mountain snail hunting season. Snails feed only on plants that grow wildly in moss, including many medicinal flavors. When preliminarily processing snails, people often do not soak thoroughly, only wash briefly to retain precious medicines. Mountain snails can be processed into many dishes such as grilled snails, stir-fried tamarind snails, steamed snails with lemongrass ginger or snail salad mixed with onions.
Mountain snails are sweet, when eating without removing the intestines, chew carefully slowly to feel the cool taste, fragrant with medicinal herbs.
Suggested address:
Quoc Quan Restaurant, Thang Long, Vu Bao Ninh Binh Restaurant, Van Bao Ngoc Restaurant
Recommended price: 150.000 - 300.000vnd/ dish
Ninh Binh mountain snail - an emerging delicacy not to be missed. Photo: naturekey.vn
Yen Mo sour spring rolls
Referring to Ninh Binh specialties, it is impossible to ignore Yen Mac spring rolls, a delicacy associated with the song:
"Yan Mo specialty spring rolls
Popular parties are often bought for use."
The origin of Yen Mac spring rolls is still told today: a specialty created by the daughter of the official Pham Kidney Duat Pham Thi Thu based on Hue court spring rolls. Sour spring rolls are made from lean butt meat that filters out all the excess silver and fat, then uses a sharp knife to chop into small pieces, slicing to where you can gradually get there. Slice the meat and wrap it into a clean cloth, compress to drain some water.
The pork skin is crossed inside, tied and then boiled. The ripe packaging is taken out and pressed straight and then used a thin sharp knife, as small as a freight thread. Finally, the skin and meat are mixed well with salt and hearing to ferment.
Yen Mac spring rolls are wrapped with banana leaves, summer, only wrapped after 1 day can be eaten, in winter, after 3-4 days can be eaten. When enjoyed, spring rolls are often wrapped in guava leaves, enjoyed with apricot leaves, fig leaves, lentil leaves with chili sauce, becoming extremely attractive drinking and playing dishes.
Today, you can easily buy Yen Mac spring rolls at many specialty establishments. Recommended price: 70.000 - 80.000 VND/fruit
Nem chua Yen Mac - a delicacy specialty of royal origin in Ninh Binh. Photo: hoanglongriversidehomestay.com
Jiayuan clove sauce
Gia Vien Ninh Binh is a low-lying area with fields almost flooded almost all year round, giving this land a rich source of freshwater seafood, including small shrimp - the main ingredient to make specialty shrimp paste.
Clove sauce is made from fresh baby cloves, cleaned and salted and then mixed with rice. Standard clove sauce has a beautiful bright red color, rich consistency, characteristic sweet and salty. Clove paste is often enjoyed with boiled meat, boiled vegetables, or distilled shrimp paste enjoyed with white rice alone.
Suggested address:
Thanh Nguyen shrimp paste (Ninh Binh city), Thuy Toi shrimp paste (Me town, Gia Vien), Ba Thieu shrimp paste (Me town, Gia Vien)
Recommended price: from 130.000vnd/bottle of 380ml
Gia Vien shrimp sauce - a specialty dish from the land of Ninh Binh. Photo: cachlammonngon.vn
Conclusion
Above, Migo has introduced to you 10 delicious specialties that are dishes and gifts not to be missed when visiting Ninh Binh. Hopefully, this information will help you have more choices about dishes to play or buy as gifts when visiting Ninh Binh.