Referring to Hoa Binh tourism, besides the beautiful landscape nature, the cool four-season climate, unique indigenous culture and many delicious dishes, it must be mentioned the popular gifts that taste delicious. Anyone who has come or visited Peace once, it is impossible not to buy it as a gift.
1 - Cam Cao Phong
Mild aroma, gentle sweetness wrapped, mild sour substance. The yellow and succulent orange cloves, orange juice compares like forest molasses. Gently press the nails into the peel of the fruit, the smell of the essential oil has suffocated to stimulate the senses. There is no doubt - this famous fruit of Cao Phong land is definitely at the top of the list of items brought back when traveling to Hoa Binh - Cao Phong orange.
Cao Phong land is mainly hilly land with sunny wind and favorable climate, thick arable soil floor, surrounded by limestone mountains, mild air all year round, temperatures 3-4 degrees lower than other places. All create the perfect conditions to form a famous delicious orange region.
Even the fastidious guests can hardly resist the appeal of this round orange with the sun and the scent of cao phong hill.
Cam Cao Phong entered the official service annually from November of the previous year to April of the following year. A Cao Phong orange is attractive because of the mild sour taste mixed in the sweetness, so that eating a piece wants to add more pieces. The taste of oranges comes from the characteristics of Cao Phong hill land, different by the soil and the climate that Ha Giang connoisseur orange, Vinh orange of Nghe can not get.
Coming to Hoa Binh orange season is in full bloom, if passing through Cao Phong, visitors will enjoy the orange gardens close by, people are harvesting oranges, traders come in and out bustling. Visitors will not be able to hold back before the smell of oranges all over the road, before the yellow oranges like the summer sun and stop the car, buy a few pounds as a gift.
Anyone who comes to Hoa Binh orange season without buying a few pounds of Cao Phong oranges as a gift, considered a waste of a part of the trip. Photo: VNA
2 - Purple sugar cane
When Cao Phong oranges are ripening yellow, it is also the time when the purple sugar cane of Lac Son soil sweetened up to the top, motivating the harvester to quickly. Purple sugar cane is the specialty of Lac Son, Cao Phong, Tan Lac, Kim Boi districts - the capital of sugarcane land with over 9,000 hectares.
If the time of the year passes through Lac Son, everyone has to look ecstatically at the green sugar cane fields up to the limestone mountains, then in November to March every year, along the road of Hoa Binh province through Lac Son is bustling with sugarcane pickers, selling sugar cane full of sugar.
Purple sugar cane has become one of the idyllic country gifts that are hard to ignore of this land.
Hoa Binh purple sugar cane is famous for its soft cane body, sweet as marinated sugar. The sugar cane is thick, long slang. The cane stem is dark purple, the tree is nearly 2m high. Sugarcane is sold whole, cut short or pre-flaky and packed into small bags for road users to enjoy on the spot. Large bunches of sugarcane (10 trees) cost only from 25,000 - 40,000 VND / bunch or odd tree for 3,000 - 4,000 VND / tree when bought at the garden, 10,000 VND a small bag of sugar cane. Sugarcane gradually associated with Peace, gentle but close as the cute personality of the people and muong land here.
Every time they travel to Peace, people remind each other not to forget to buy purple sugar cane as a gift. Photo: Ngoisao.vn
3 - Wine is needed
Referring to specialties, the items brought back when traveling to Peace can not ignore the wine needed. This is a traditional drink of muong Hoa Binh people cooked from leaf yeast according to the esoteric recipe. The most famous of which is the wine that needs Muong Vang (Lac Son district) - the place is considered to be the wine that needs muong to preserve intact, where there are still many Muong women wearing "lightning" to the forest to pick leaves to make yeast.
Legend has it that the recipe for wine is passed on by the mother to the daughter-in-law, the men in the house are hardly involved in this work. The key factor that determines good wine is the yeast. The best yeast must be yeast from forest leaves and from plants such as canopy, thyme ...
In addition, the wine brewed from glutinous rice soaked overnight, rice mixes the husk and then the main item into rice, then mix the yeast and then into the tap to brew into wine. When drinking, you open the lid to add about 1 liter of hot water, then continue to add cold water and plug it into drinking. Drink and water slowly. The wine needs to be delicious despite pouring water many times still retains the sweet, fragrant, mildly spicy taste, so drink until the yeast makes people light up, making the space gathered with friends and family more friendly and cozy.
For Muong people, alcohol should usually only be drunk during holidays, Tet or welcome precious guests. Gradually, wine needs to become a speciality that any visitor to Hoa Binh wants to buy and bring back as a gift.
The traditional method of cooking wine is still preserved by muong Hoa Binh people to this day. Photo by baotintuc.vn
4 - Blue rice
Referring to the specialties of Hoa Binh, blue rice is the idyllic dish that many tourists love the most when visiting this land. Blue rice is easy to eat, easy to preserve, easy to transport far away - is also one of the gifts that those who travel to Hoa Binh also bring back at least a few times.
Not simply rice cooked in the pipe (muong people called the tube), Hoa Binh blue rice has its own characteristics, different from the blue rice of other regions in the Northwest or Central Highlands.
This difference comes from the famous fragrant plasticity in the fields of thai people, Muong Hoa Binh people. The rice grains are fragrant, fragrant, flexible without sticking, even when left to cool, still fragrant, delicious as just cooked.
This specialty rice is soaked for 8-10 hours, then drained and then put in the litter tube.
The quality pipe to make blue rice must also be a fresh pipe, of the type of cake tube, not too young or too old. The person who cooks blue rice carefully will always choose the pipes in the middle of the trunk, inside there is a little standing water. It is thought that it is the water "of heaven", which will make the blue rice pipe taste better than usual. When pouring rice, it is not compressed tightly. Finally roll the sticky rice leaves to gag the tube and then put on the grilled wood stove.
Grilled blue rice pipe until the outer shell is charred, press soft hands, then take down. Gently peel off the crust, see the thin coat like ivory silk still clinging around the fragrant rice invited.
Break a piece of blue rice with your hand. The aroma of rice is mixed with the smell of the forest pipe, just wrapped, in the mouth when just bringing the piece of blue rice to enjoy. Blue rice is best when dotted with sesame salt. The fatty, fragrant taste of peanuts, sesame exalts the sweetness, plasticity, richness of rice grains. These rustic and attractive flavors continue to support each other to create the simple but delicious beauty of the earth and heaven. Eat all this blue rice tube, want to eat one more tube.
In addition to sesame salt, blue rice can also enjoy with chicken "jogging" raised at the village, grilled fish, pork... Nowadays, Thai and Muong compatriots in Hoa Binh also create coconut pulp, coconut water or cook with colored leaves to create attractive colorful blue rice tubes.
Coming to Hoa Binh, visitors can easily buy a few tubes of blue rice anywhere to bring back as gifts for relatives and friends. Photo: baophunu.vn
Blue rice also appears popular in almost every restaurant large and small, up to the roadside toad shop in all roads of Hoa Binh tourist. Visitors can easily enjoy on the spot, and certainly can not forget to buy a few tubes to bring back down as a gift, so that when opened, they see the aroma of Mai Chau, and remember the green fields at the foot of the purple mountain and the fresh air of this pure land.
5 - Sour meat
One of the other heartfelt specialties of Muong Hoa Binh country is always in the TOP items to buy when traveling to Peace is sour meat.
With forest hilly terrain, pigs are raised around the house in the form of free-range, giving a firm, fragrant, sweet meat quality. The indigenous people of Hoa Binh have processed into many delicious dishes such as grilled pork, pork in the kitchen, roast pork ... Especially, it can be taken away, brought back as a gift, including sour meat processed from native pigs.
Muong Hoa Binh's sour meat is mainly used in holidays, Tet, weddings or picking up precious guests to play at home. Delicious sour meat is also a journey of meticulous processing, extremely sophisticated.
First, it must be pork choai, no more than 30kg. Pigs are roamed on the long hill slopes, eating native corn and vegetables for the quality of toned meat, low fat, many lean. The meat after chopping the edible pieces is marinated with salt and dried fennel, sticky female and forest leaf yeast. The indispensable ingredient that stimulates the fermentation process and wakes up when enjoying is the hearing, made from roasted rice (grinded) as smooth as bran powder.
In particular, Hoa Binh sour meat is also delicious because it is brewed in bamboo tubes lined with banana leaves, called "meat bodhisattva". The salted meat is placed in the asshole of the wood stove boiled weekly, so that the meat ferments naturally sour. When enjoying, it is definitely indispensable for cinnamon leaves, young jackfruit leaves, fig leaves, even betel leaves not ...
The mild sourness, the sweetness of the meat, the fatty taste of the hearing, fit with salt, mixed with the taste of forest leaves, dotted with spicy chili sauce. Eating the first piece seemed strange as if it were surprising to stand in front of the amazing mountains of wild forests of Muong, to the second and third pieces, began to feel the charm of combining so interesting ingredients that are the basic food in daily life.
Both a traditional delicacy and a drink just to treat precious guests, today, the delicious taste of Muong's sour meat has been transmitted all over the distance. Anyone who visits Hoa Binh wants to buy some sour meat "girlfriends" to bring back as gifts. To occasionally cross rai with friends, remember one night sitting by the floor overlooking the mountains of Hoa Binh, sipping wine, enjoying sour meat on a trip not forgotten.
Hoa Binh sour meat - the delicacy mentioned has craved. Photo by Justfly
Finale
Here are 5 items to bring back when traveling to Peace that any traveler can not ignore. Each dish tastes, each reminds of the land and the people and the dear products of this beautiful land. Just think about wanting to pick up your suitcase and go to Peace for a few days to help you remember.
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