Cơ Tu Bacon (Thịt Xông Khói Cơ Tu)

For who is gourmet with Best Vietnamese Food, when you come to Cơ Tu village on their festival day such as harvest day (Bhuoi Avi), happy home day (Lang tori), new rice season day (Chaha roo tomee). On festival day, buffalo are scarified to the God and then the buffalo is cut and share to the villagers. The number of sharing meat depends on the contribution of villagers to the village on festival day. On average, people receive 3 or 4 kilos of meat.
 

 

After receiving meat, they slice it into small pieces and then slope through them by one rope and put in the kitchen. This is one way of saving food in the days has a little food. When cooking food, the smoke and heat from the kitchen will dry the meat. The quality of this Best Vietnam Food is get more luscious when it is put in the kitchen for long time.
 

 

Some families has many buffalo’ meat they chill and season the meat with salt, chilies, pepper. The quality of this Best Vietnamese Food still remains the taste and sweetness. When eating it, people will tear it in long piece to grill again. After grilling the bacon, the smoke smell still stuck inside.
 

 

The Cơ Tu residents only use this Best Vietnamese Food on rainy day, storm day or festival day to serve the visitors. They make many dishes such as grilling, cook with cassava, rice, corn and some herbs. All of them are very delicious. So if you are invited this food, it means you are their special guest. Therefore, you have to appreciate it and thank them a lot.
 

 

When exchange culture amongst tribe, this Best Vietnamese Food is not served only in home’s meal. It becomes the specialty food that is served to every one for explore and discover purpose to visitors. Make sure you already take note this dish on your journey book before planning to visit Vietnam. Hope you have an excited trip with friends and family in my beautiful country.
 

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Asian Red Tailed Catfish Hotpot in Serepok River (Lẩu Cá Lăng ở Serepok)

Asian red tailed cat fish is a style of shark catfish. It belongs to one of the biggest river’s fish in nature. Some of fish was caught is weight from 40-50 kilos. In Vietnam, this fish lives only in some river on the mountainous place and someplace where it has many high Fall. It lives crowdedly in Serepok River (one of popular river in Dak Lak). From this fish, there are many traditional food are cook such as Lã Vọng fried fish (Chả Cá Lã Vọng).
 

 

Today, the illegal catching of this fish increase rapidly and the price are quite high from 250,000-300,000 VND for one kilo. So, the natural fish live in Dak Lak and someplace are very rare. Luckily, people has succeeded in breed and feed in the manmade environment.
 

 

There are two main cooking of this fish. One is strike is into many parts and then grilled it on the hot coal with chili. Another one is make one hot pot; this is one of Best Vietnamese Food that is served widely around Vietnam.
 

 

To cook this Best Vietnamese Food is quite simple, first cutting the fish into third or four parts (depends on the shape of fish). Next, cut the bamboo shoots and put all of them into the hot pot. Wait in some minutes and you can enjoy it. It is getting more delicious if it is enjoyed with fish sauce. The making of it is simple, someone think this dish might not be scrumptious; however it is one biggest fault. The delicious of this fish’s meat is perfect, so cooking it as simple as best. Diners always marks this dish is perfect 100 score after eating.
 

 

Hope to see you at Serepok when enjoy this Best Vietnamese Food. I think it would be a great meeting because it is the first time we meet and enjoy the delicious fish together. Hope you have an interesting trip in my beautiful country and guarantee that you will not miss this dish when you have a chance to visit this place.
 

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Le Bamboo Shoot in Tây Nguyên (Măng Le ở Tây Nguyên)

Do you known there is one tree that you even burn or cut it, it still grow up? This immortal tree is Le Bamboo. It is also the main ingredient to make many traditional Vietnamese Food. It belongs to bamboo style. It lives and spread strongly on Bazan’s lane (one of best fertile lane in Vietnam). On the way finding the lane to plant, Tây Nguyên residents do not afraid of predators or somethings, however they are really afraid of Le Bamboo’s forest. It seems to there is no way to destroy it instead of digging all of their roots up. In Tây Nguyên, the value of Le Bamboo is only bamboo shoot.
 

 

Fresh Le bamboo shoot is really delicious, but the fried Le bamboo shoot is much better. Coming to the village and is served the one meal include rice, Le bamboo shot with deer meat is the best serving of local residents to the visitors. The Best Vietnamese Food like Le Bamboo make this combination is wonderful and the diners will hardly forget the taste. However there is one great concern of the existence of this bamboo shoot in near future. On rainy season, the number of bamboo shoot’s market increase rapidly.
 

 

You may see one Le Bamboo Shoot’s market in previous year, but it might be three or four in next year. It could cause by the illegal destroying forest of people not only the local one but also the others. If this destroying continues occur, the Le Bamboo shoot will no longer exist. The numbers of this Best Vietnamese Food rise rapidly, but people eating it are limit. So, the fried Le bamboo shoot is accumulating year by year. I saw someone throw them into garbage; it is really a wasteful thing that I viewed.
 

 

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To sum up, Le bamboo shoot is one Best Vietnamese Food and it is in danger due to the illegal destroying forest rising sharply. On one day, this food may no longer exist, so if you come to Vietnam, especially come to Tây Nguyên, you should quickly enjoy it. Hope you have a happy trip in my country. See you.

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Sour Soup with Queen Orchid Leaves (Canh Chua Lá Móng Bò Tím)

According to Ban Mê residents, Queen’s Orchid Leaf has a violet color and it has another name is Camel’s foot leaf (its scientific name is Bauhinia variegate belongs to Fabaceae’s style) is planted widely on the milpa. It is also a style of landscape tree in the park or on the sidewalk. However, the Ban Mê residents find a way to process this leaf and make it become one of  Vietnamese Food.
 

 

Cooking this Best Vietnamese Food is quite simple. Firstly, you boil the fish or beef, pork in the hot water pot. When the water is boiled, you add the queen’s orchid leaf in the pot. This soup would be more fantastic if the ingredients are the Queen’s orchid leaf has a red tail and stream fish, forest chicken or duck, especially the yellow ants’ nest.
 

 

In someplace in Vietnam such as Sapa, people plant this leaf like other vegetables to cut the fresh one and bring them to sell at the supermarket. This Best Vietnamese Food occurs mostly on the SaPa‘s restaurants. It is so weird to say that this leaf belongs to Tây Nguyên. No matter this leaf come from where, people like eating this leaf due to its sour taste.
 

 

Besides of making food, this leaf is also useful for medicine. It contains a high calcium and Fe. So it is used for treating sick, reduce pains, stomachache and treating the wounds.
 

 

It is really fantastic, one leaf that can make one Best Vietnamese Food and also a useful medicine for treating sick. So, I think this leaf should be planted widely in the city. People can take them to cook and for treatment in terms of getting sick. Vietnam is very proud of having this leaf.

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Best Duck Meat Vietnamese Food

There are many duck recipes available out there and I am a lover of duck meat. Yet, I must confess that despite there being such a big variety of duck recipes, I am still partial to the duck recipes – Peking duck, roasted duck and stewed duck. Today, I shall share with you my family recipe for stewed duck; it is also one of Best Vietnamese Food.
 

 

This duck recipe uses dark soya sauce and some simple ingredients to give the duck an aromatic flavor yet retain the juiciness of the flesh. If you can get hold of the ingredients mentioned, I would recommend that you try this recipe for you will be amazed by how easy it is to cook a wonderful and delicious stewed duck dish.
 

 

The progress of making this Best Vietnamese Food is not simple, you need to clean duck thoroughly by rubbing it with some salt. Rinse, Rub about 30 grams of 5 spice powder over the duck and allow marinating for 1 to 2 hours. Pound the galangal, garlic and shallots separately. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in wok and sauté shallots till aromatic. Remove shallots. Add garlic and sauté till aromatic. Remove garlic. Add galangal and sauté till aromatic. Return shallots and garlic into the wok and stir together with galangal till even. Add dark soya sauce and sugar. Stir well.
 

 

Add duck and coat it with mixture. Allow duck to cook and shrink slightly. Control heat so that duck does not burn. Once duck has shrunk slightly, add 200 ml water and allow it to boil. Continue with another 200 ml and repeat process till 1 liter of water used. The water should be filled up to at least half the duck. Add remaining 5 spice powder and reduce heat to simmer.
 

 

Stew or simmer for 1.5 hours turning every 10 minutes. Add salt to taste and water if it is drying out. Remove duck and drain off excess gravy. Allow to cool before serving with gravy (sieve gravy to remove spices before serving this Best Vietnamese Food).
 

 

To sum up, the roasted duck is not a different dish to you, however if you have time, come and enjoy it at Vietnam. You may like the new taste of this Best Vietnamese Food when eating there; it will be probably your new drug. Hope you will have a happy trip with family and friends in my beautiful country.
 

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Se Porridge and Hon Cake in Hương Cảnh (Cháo Se và Bánh Hòn Hương Cảnh)

Today, I would like to introduce the Best Vietnamese Food of Vĩnh Phúc province. They are Se Porridge and Hon Cake. It is only exist at Hương Cảnh, Bình Xuyên ward. When you have a chance to visit Vĩnh Phúc Province, make sure you will not miss them. I bet you will never regret with this decision.

 

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The progress of making this Se Porrdige which is Vietnam food in this province is very hard from the collecting ingredient to making. Firstly, you have to choose the high quality of rice and then clean it clearly. Next, you decorticate it into the flour. Remember, do not clean it by water another time because the flour will be wet and you cannot cook the porridge by this flour. Then, you divide the flour into 2 parts. You use the first part to cook raspberry. Another part is the used for cooking porridge and cake.
 

 

Before making cake with this flour, you need to mix this flour together and then mill it till the mix does not stick your hand. The broth of this porridge is collected from the water from the sky in the early morning and the meat is the best quality of pork and beef. By using the high level of quality for this Best Vietnamese Food, it has to be extremely yummy.
 

 

Next is making Hon cake. The cake-filling have to the slicing scallions mix with pork’s fat. The pork’s fat has to be chosen from the best pork, it also contains meat. Usually, the cake is cut into 2 part and dig in the porridge. If you do not like to use this cake with porridge, you can make another sauce. This sauce is the mix of fish sauce, vinegar, garlic, sugar and chilies.
 

 

Eating these Best Vietnamese Food is one first decision of Vĩnh Phúc Citizens on morning day. The soft cake and the delicious porridge is a fantastic match. People will remember the taste of them for a last long time. Guarantee that you already take note this food in your journey book before planning visit Vietnam. Hope you have an amazing trip with friends and family.
 

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Borvil Chicken (Gà Borvil)

Marmite Chicken is probably more famous than Bovril Chicken (Gà Bovril). But since I only have Bovril at home, Bovril Chicken it shall be then. It is also my very first try and I am quite pleased with how it turned out. I searched some information about this one, it is so strange that many people know it and consider it is one of Best Vietnamese Food.
 

 

There are two major steps to make this food. The first step is to fry the chicken and the second is to cook the Bovril sauce before coating the chicken with it prior to serving. You will need to have fast hands with cooking the sauce because the sauce can dry out pretty fast.

 

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Remember that if you add too much water (to prevent drying out), it could be too runny and it is not as nice. Anyway, do not let that fear you into trying this dish. It’s actually an experiment on my part and it works. Marinade chicken for 30 minutes or longer and deep fry till golden brown and then set aside.
 

 

Leave approximately 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in wok and sauté garlic and onions till fragrant. Add seasoning and water and bring to boil. Return fried chicken pieces to wok and stir well to coat the sauce over the chicken. It is the end of making this food. Now you can remove and serve it hot with rice. They are really wonderful match. I have to confess that I eat more than 3 bowls of rice when using it with.
 

 

Even it is one of food, this dish is hardly served at restaurants in Vietnam. Therefore, if you want to enjoy this one, there is only way that you have to make it by yourself. I hope you can make it better than me because I failed three times when making it till got success on it.

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