Referring to Tam Dao, we think of the lush green chayote tops, which are both sweet and fragrant. Because nature bestows a cool climate and the soil is very suitable for growing chayote, if you come here, you will be “treated” to chayote almost every meal.
The price of chayote tops is not too expensive, and it is very fresh, even if you buy it home as a gift. Each bunch of chayote costs only about 20 – 25,000, the more you buy, the more discount you get. Many people here make a living selling chayote, so you don’t need to be too careful, the sellers are also very warm and pleasant.
Grilled eggs, grilled potatoes, grilled corn, blue rice
Tam Dao’s grilled dishes are also something you should try when coming here. In the steaming smoke, in the chilly morning air, if you can hold a roasted sweet potato and then peel it and eat it right on the stove, it will definitely be an unforgettable experience.
The price of each type of grill is only about 10 – 15,000 VND, which is not necessarily cheap, but if it is a snack, it is quite reasonable. You can find these dishes anywhere, at the market or on the roadside.
Bananas reign in Tam Dao
Banana is also a specialty of the Tam Dao mountain region. The bananas here are not big, just small but have yellow flesh and are very fragrant. If you don’t know what to buy as a gift, buy a bunch of Tam Dao bananas. If it’s still green, you can put it in the corner of the house and wait for it to ripen to eat.
Forest bamboo shoots
Meals at Tam Dao’s shops or restaurants often include wild bamboo shoots, which are also sold in the market so that tourists can take them home as gifts. Wild bamboo shoots are soaked in salt water, blanched in boiling water, put in a jar, add spices including vinegar, garlic, and chili, left for a week to eat. The price of each box of salted wild bamboo shoots is not too expensive, only about 30,000 VND and you can buy it as a gift.
Pigs
Armpit pig is a specialty of any mountainous region, and Tam Dao is no exception. Tam Dao wild boar is exactly like a wild boar that grows naturally using vegetables and roots from the forest, so the meat is very lean and firm.
Tam Dao pork is processed into many delicious dishes, from grilled skewers to stir-fried, boiled dishes,… every dish is fragrant, sweet, firm, and sipping with a little wine is great for a meal. .
Hill chicken
Along with the pigs are the hill chickens. Mullet chicken is a bamboo chicken, chicken raised in the mountains so the meat is very tough and fragrant. Hill chicken is processed into many dishes such as boiled, steamed, roasted or coated in clay, chicken sprinkled with salt and grilled with fragrant honey grilled chicken.
In the cold weather of the night in the mountain town, enjoying a crispy grilled chicken that has just sizzled on the charcoal stove and sipping a glass of fragrant and spicy chit wine is beyond words. The price of each chicken is about 250 – 300,000 VND/chicken. Although small, it certainly won’t disappoint you.
Stream goby
Goby fish is always a specialty. Even though it’s only as small as two fingers, the meat is delicious, whether fried or braised, it’s still extremely delicious. Natural stream gobies in Tam Dao are really worth a try because people here raise them by damming the stream.
In addition to being deep fried and dipped in garlic and chili sauce, stream goby is also extremely delicious when braised with soy sauce in a clay pot. If you eat this dish with white rice, you won’t need any other specialties.
Deep wine
Deep chit wine or chit wine is a specialty wine of Tam Dao. The wine is soaked from silkworm-shaped worms but smaller, often collected in cool green forests. Harvested chit worms do not need to be washed, you can immediately put them in white wine, soak for about 2 months and then you can enjoy. Not only does it taste delicious, but chit wine is also a very valuable medicine.
Raw meat from beef and ants
Ant-burned beef stew is a strange and unique dish in Tam Dao made from hot freshly slaughtered veal, cut into pieces and hung right next to the ant nests on forest trees. Poke the ants in the nest and the gas will release and seal in the meat. After that, wash the meat and grill it on a charcoal stove until rare, has a delicious flavor, and can be enjoyed with wine.
Above are delicious specialties of the Tam Dao mountain region. Once traveling to Tam Dao, you should never miss enjoying them!
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