Sticky rice
This is a typical dish of Lang Son, made from broccoli leaves and fragrant glutinous rice. Depending on the region, there is a third ingredient that is ash of straw and dried banana leaves.
The processor will mix the crushed broccoli leaves and ash well, then rub it with clean water and filter out the pulp, then put the glutinous rice in and soak for about 6 hours and then take it out. The rice grains at this time were the same color as pea flowers. Then, add the rice to the sticky rice and cook it after mixing the rice with a little white wine. Cook for about an hour, the dish will be complete, both sticky and fragrant, and purple. It is more delicious if visitors eat broccoli with chicken or peanut salt.
In the Dong Lam steppe area in Huu Lien, Huu Lung almost every house is planted with brocade trees. Not only serving daily meals, Tet holidays, but sticky rice is also used to treat guests from afar. Huu Lien brocade sticky rice has both the fragrant taste of glutinous rice and a beautiful purple color.
Photo: Lang Son Provincial Portal.
Humiliation stitching
Be traditional dishes of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups, humiliation is indispensable when entertaining guests or on important occasions such as weddings, weddings, and banquets.
The ingredients for suturing humiliation include bacon, shiitake mushrooms, wood ears, minced lean meat, five spices... through the skillful hands of the people of Lang has produced a rich, fragrant and soft stitch, eating a piece of meat that melts in the mouth. There is a sophisticated processing process, so it sometimes takes half a day for the cook to make this dish. Many restaurants in Lang Son serve this famous dish such as Minh Quang, Trung Xuan, the food court of Dong Kinh Market...
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Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin cake has pumpkin and glutinous flour as the main ingredients. In addition, depending on the taste of each region, pumpkin cake has green bean filling to make the taste more delicious. The way to make the cake is not too complicated. Steamed pumpkin, peeled, pureed and kneaded with glutinous flour, the longer it is kneaded, the smoother and tastier the cake will be. Then squeeze out a handful of flour that fits in your hand, wrap it in banana leaves and steam the cake. Lang Son pumpkin cake is not only attractive with its eye-catching golden appearance but also very delicious with the cool sweetness of pumpkin, the fatty taste of mung beans.
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Black banh chung
As a specialty of Lang, black chung cake is the most eaten by people on the occasion of Tet. The cake is made from glutinous rice and ash of glutinous straw, creating a special delicious taste. The difference of black banh chung is that there is more cardamom in the filling, creating a typical aroma of mountains and forests. In addition to the usual boiled black rice cakes, visitors can enjoy black rice cakes grilled on a charcoal stove until the aroma of glutinous rice, cardamom and fatty meat appears.
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Stone snails
Stone snails are only available in the rainy season, between April and August. Stone snails live in high mountains, feeding on leaves, algae, and even herbs, so snails contain a lot of nutrients. To talk about delicious stone snails in Lang Son, Huu Lien must be mentioned, every season, people here climb high mountains to catch stone snails to make food. Huu Lien snails are big and beautiful, the meat has a fatty, fragrant, crunchy taste served with ginger and chili dipping sauce is very delicious. This ingredient can be used to prepare many attractive dishes such as boiled, steamed ginger, steamed, stir-fried lotus leaves,... But steamed snails with lemongrass are still the most preferred by many people.
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Sour Pho
Sour pho is a delicious dish in Lang Son that is loved by many tourists, with an extremely attractive taste. Lang Son sour pho consists of 2 main parts: the dry part and the water part. The dry part includes chewy, chewy pho cakes, char siu, cucumbers, roasted peanuts, sweet potato chips, dried onions, herbs; The water includes garlic, vinegar, and sugar. The 2 portions are mixed well for a clear, sweet and sweet flavor to eat without feeling sick.
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Egg rolls
Egg rolls are a specialty in Lang Son city, different from rolls in other places in the filling and broth, the maker will beat an egg in the middle of the steamer, close the lid and wait for the egg to cook, then use a bamboo stick to remove the cake and put it on a plate, sprinkle some delicious minced meat on top.
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Roast duck, roast pig
Specialties of Lang Son roast pig and Lang Son roast duck have become a famous culinary brand, with their own unique flavor because they are processed with honey leaves. Taking a bite of the meat, you will feel the sweetness of the richly marinated meat, the aroma of honey leaves.
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