Although fried veal is a very rustic dish, it is a specialty of Moc Chau mountain region. When fried veal is dipped in soy sauce mixed with a little ginger, you will be ecstatic because you can feel the softness, sweetness and richness. Don’t wait until the meat is cold to eat it because the fun of this dish is to eat it while it’s hot.
Chao beef costs about 100,000 VND/plate
Moc Chau specialties: Strawberries, plums, peaches
Fruits such as strawberries, plums, and peaches are specialties of Moc Chau. Although the fruits are not large, they have the aroma of the mountains and forests, both crunchy and delicious. Especially strawberries, which were initially only grown as a trial crop, have now become famous delicacies. In addition to enjoying strawberries, plums, and peaches right in the garden, you can also buy some as gifts. The prices are not too expensive and the quality is excellent.
Smoked buffalo meat is a familiar dish of ethnic people, in Moc Chau, the Black Thai people often make this dish. Smoked buffalo meat is made from the thighs of buffaloes that are free-range in the mountainous areas of the Northwest, then the meat is peeled into pieces, sliced along the grain, marinated with salt and then smoked on the kitchen shelf for many days. After a while, the buffalo meat will shrink, when eating you need to grill it again and tear it into small pieces.
The price of buffalo jerky is quite expensive, a few ounces can cost several hundred thousand, so if you see someone selling it for too cheap, be careful!
Grilled stream fish in Moc Chau is very famous because the grilled fish is usually very fresh, marinated with ethnic spices such as mac khen, wild herbs, lemongrass, chili. Grilled stream fish in Moc Chau is small but when eaten, it is very fragrant, not fishy, you can eat both the meat and the bones.
Nam phia is a drinking dish that not everyone dares to try, but once you try it, you will never forget it. Nam pia is made from pork, cartilage, tail, meat, silver music, internal organs such as intestines, stomach, liver, small intestine containing young feces of cows or goats.
Nam Pia is quite special in taste and color, when enjoyed it is often eaten with banana flowers or mint leaves.
The northern mountainous regions are often famous for their wild vegetables because they are fragrant, sweet and very clean. If you travel to Moc Chau, you will see that the specialty here is cat cabbage. Cat cabbage is a bit bitter at first, but the more you eat, the more you will feel its sweet, soft and rich taste.
You just need to chop the cat’s whiskers, smash the ginger, add water and boil to make soup. Besides boiling, you can also prepare cat’s whiskers by eating hot pot, stir-frying with smoked meat, chicken.
Five-color sticky rice is a dish imbued with the culture of the Dao people. To make five-color sticky rice, you need fragrant, soft sticky rice, with even grains and no rice mixed in, mixed with forest leaves (co khau, khau den) to dye, depending on each type of leaf and the mixing method to create 5 different colors, creating an extremely attractive boiled product.
Salmon is famous for being a fish rich in nutritional value, both fragrant and delicious. Moc Chau salmon can be processed into dishes such as salad, smoked, sausage… if eaten in winter, it is extremely delicious because when eating, you need to dip it in a bowl of spicy mustard sauce. To eat Moc Chau salmon, you will have to pay about 200 – 250,000/meal.
Moc Chau specialty: Taro
Wild taro is extremely chewy and fragrant, so it is considered one of the specialties of Moc Chau mountain region. Wild taro can be cooked with pig’s feet, ribs, and can also be steamed or fried like normal sweet potatoes, which is very delicious.
When peeling potatoes, remember to wear gloves. After peeling, soak the potatoes in diluted salt water so they don’t turn black!
Bang stream rock snails are only available during the rainy season from April to the end of August. The rock snails here are quite similar to Ba Den mountain snails in Tay Ninh, with flat bodies, as big as two finger joints, and milky white flared mouths.
Bang stream rock snails are delicious when cooked in soup or boiled with lemongrass and chili, dipped in chili fish sauce, fragrant, crunchy and sweet.
Moc Chau specialty: Moc Chau colostrum milk
Moc Chau is always famous for its cows, so cow milk and dairy products of Moc Chau are also very popular. If you travel to Moc Chau, don’t forget to try colostrum, which is milk from cows in the first few days of giving birth. Its taste is both fatty, rich and fragrant, drinking it once will make you want to drink it forever.
In addition to the excellent fresh milk, the locals also prepare a unique curdled milk dish. The milk is squeezed right after the cow has given birth, steamed until it solidifies, then sliced and dipped in salt and chili, the smell of the dish is strange and delicious. You can buy Moc Chau cow milk products as gifts for family and friends, everyone will surely like it.
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