Thang amaranth is a cake quite similar to Hanoi’s floating cake. This type of cake is made from glutinous rice flour, can be vegetarian or wrapped with bean paste. After being boiled, the amaranth is eaten with a bowl of sugar water mixed with a little ginger, coconut milk, sprinkled with sesame seeds and peanuts. Coming to Ha Giang, you will easily see this extremely familiar dish.
Kitchen buffalo meat – a delicious dish not only of Ha Giang but also of the Northern mountains
Most of the northern mountainous provinces have buffalo meat dishes with spices from the mountains and forests, which are both fragrant, sweet, and fleshy. The price of each kilo of buffalo meat hanging in the kitchen is up to 500 – 600,000 VND because to get a kilo of delicious meat, people here have to spend 8 months to 1 year hanging it in the kitchen upstairs.
Five-color sticky rice – a dish symbolizing the five elements of ethnic people in Ha Giang
Five-color sticky rice is not only found in Ha Giang, but if you come here, don’t forget to try it. Five-color sticky rice with colorful colors is made from delicious sticky rice grains and colors are created from natural foods, the red color is from gac, red rice leaves; For green, use ginger leaves, green sticky rice leaves, or grapefruit peel, bitter bamboo shoot peel, ba soi leaves, dry stems, burn the ash and soak it in water mixed with a little lime. For yellow color, use old turmeric root to grind to get the juice. For purple color, use black rice leaves, or the leaves of the hibiscus plant.
Grilled moss – an indispensable dish in the meals of Ha Giang ethnic people
Grilled moss is made from fresh moss taken from under the rocks, then washed, seasoned, wrapped in dong leaves, tied tightly with bamboo strips and then grilled until fragrant. Grilled moss is a specialty of the Tay people, not only delicious but also extremely nutritious with the effects of blood circulation, detoxification, cooling, stabilizing blood pressure and enhancing resistance.
Au Tau porridge
Water chestnut, also known as “o dau”, “pa tu” is a poisonous root that can lead to death, but strangely it has extremely ingenious medicinal effects. After soaking the tubers thoroughly in rice water for 1 night and stewing for 4 hours, all the toxins will be removed. Water chestnut can be processed into a delicious and unique porridge.
Pig under armpit
Armpit pigs are a specialty of the mountainous ethnic groups. It is so named because when ethnic people go to the market, they often carry pigs under their armpits and sell them. Armpit pigs roam freely and eat vegetables in the forest, so the meat is fleshy, fragrant, and probably not as fatty as pigs in the lowlands.
Armpit pigs can be processed into many dishes such as grilled, steamed, braised, and you can slowly enjoy them.
Sour pho – the easiest dish for tourists to eat when coming to Ha Giang
Although sour pho originates from China, it has now become a favorite dish when traveling to Ha Giang. Sour pho is made from fresh pho noodles, the broth is made from sour vinegar mixed with sugar, tapioca starch and spices. There are also fried pork, sausage, roasted duck with papaya and cucumber, so it’s very delicious.
Dong Van rice rolls
Dong Van rice rolls are traditional but are loved by many people. Dong Van Banh Cuon also has egg rolls. When the cake is just cooked, just crack an egg and cover for a while, then add minced meat wood ear filling to make the egg just cooked and the cake is still guaranteed. soft, smooth and not crumbly.
Bac Me bamboo tube rice
Bac Me Lam Rice is a dish that Ha Giang ethnic people often bring with them when working in the fields, but it is also an extremely famous dish. The rice in the tube is both delicious and flexible, mixed with the smell of dong and banana leaves. If you don’t eat it, it would be a great pity.
Thang co
Eating thang co is one of the things that tourists must do when coming to Ha Giang. Thang Co dish is made from internal organs and spices from the mountains and forests, so not everyone dares to eat it, however, if you eat it once, you will never forget it.
Bac Quang ceramic orange
Bac Quang oranges are grown mainly in 3 districts: Bac Quang, Quang Binh and Vi Xuyen, but most are still in Bac Quang district. Bac Quang oranges are both big and round, with a rough skin, sweet taste, and succulent. Bac Quang oranges can be kept for up to 20 days without spoiling, so many people buy them as gifts when traveling to Ha Giang.
Mint honey
Dong Van mint honey is also honey but has a very special sweet taste. Honey draws nectar from mint flowers, so it is called mint honey. This type of honey is extremely worth trying.
Corn wine
Ha Giang’s corn wine is known as the wine of the Mong people, made from native corn of the rocky plateau, along with traditional leaf yeast, so when drunk, it has the sweet, fragrant taste of corn.
Ancient San Tuyet tea
San Tuyet tea is a specialty of Ha Giang. The taste of San Tuyet tea here is not the same as Thai Nguyen or Tuyen Quang tea. Not only is it a drink to sip every day, but San Tuyet tea is also a medicine to help beautiful skin, detoxify, fight cancer and many other diseases.
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