Hue is not only famous for its famous tourist destinations but also stands out for its outstanding dishes that visitors must try to feel satisfied. You can follow Hue dishes everywhere, but even if you learn the “craft”, the unique features of Hue still cannot be learned.
If you have the opportunity to travel here, you should enjoy the following dishes:
Com Hen
Mussel rice is a unique dish of Hue, although simple but loved by many people. This dish is sold a lot in restaurants and street vendors throughout Hue. The price is very cheap and the food is quite delicious.
Hue fig
The name of the dish is quite strange and this is a rustic dish of Hue. The Fig tree produces fruits that are both sweet and tangy. You can make raw vegetables with dishes such as grilled meat vermicelli, sour shrimp vermicelli, banh hoi, beef dipped in vinegar… Braised with pork, beef, perch, scad, tuna… You may not like it at first, but over time you will get addicted to it.
Hue beef noodle soup
You can eat Hue beef noodle soup when in Hanoi, Saigon… but this familiar dish will be experienced in a very different way when eating at the “original” Hue. The clear white noodles stand out on top of the pink noodles (made from raw pork sausage and crab meat), the pork sausage pieces are simmered until soft, accompanied by a bit of extremely interesting and spicy lemon chili sauce. , just hot. Beef noodle shops are present on every street in Hue.
Reference address: 14 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hue city
Phone: (84-54)826460
Banh beo Hue
Hue banh beo is also a popular dish and throughout Vietnam, you can find a Hue banh beo restaurant everywhere, but the best are still the “host” restaurants. Hue people love it and have become accustomed to using this type of cake full of hometown flavor for side meals. In addition to the familiar street vendors, in Hue now there are also many “banh beo streets” around An Dinh palace, Ngu Binh street, Nguyen Binh Khiem street…
Banh loc “Mu Do”
In Hue, there are many banh beo and nam loc shops, but no one knows about Ba Do’s banh loc shop. Hue people often call Ba Do’s banh beo, nam, and loc shop as Mu Do’s banh loc shop. In addition to cakes such as banh loc, banh beo, and banh nam, here there is also very delicious shrimp cake.
Address: 71 Nguyen Binh Khiem.
Delicious cake
Pour in ground rice flour and mix with water and egg yolks, then add pepper, onion, fish sauce, salt, peeled shrimp, sliced grilled beef (or bird), sliced lard, and bean sprouts. This cake is not filling, so after enjoying this dish, you can enjoy other delicious dishes extremely comfortably.
Nem lui
Nem lui – one of the oldest specialties of the ancient capital, makes many visitors from far and wide bewildered. The ingredients to make Nem Lui are very simple: minced pork mixed with skin, diced pork fat, marinated with salt, pepper, sugar, and mushrooms, then skewered with bamboo sticks, sugar cane or lemongrass and grilled. taste so special.
Tre Hue
Tré is not a luxurious dish, on the contrary, it is very popular but special due to the meticulousness and sophistication in the preparation of Hue cuisine. Delicious Tré Hue is famous for its delicate combination of spices with typical ingredients such as galangal, garlic, mushrooms, guava leaves, sesame, and the crunchiness of pork head. Tré Hue is sliced, marinated and wrapped by skillful and skilled hands according to its own recipe and traditional method.
Sesame cream / sesame truffle
Sesame is a characteristic of Hue, so much so that anyone who brings a gift home will immediately know that person plays in Hue. Sesame is sweet and sticky, made from malt mixed with peanut oil and other ingredients. Although sesame has the same name, there are many different types.
Sour shrimp
Sour shrimp is a combination of the white color of sticky rice, bamboo shoots, galangal and garlic, the red color of shrimp, chili… and all the flavors: sweet, fatty, fleshy, spicy, sour, bitter… It is also a blend of The coolness of the shrimp and the pungency of the spices. All create an irresistible dish.
Nam Pho soup cake
Nam Pho noodle soup is one of Hue’s specialty dishes. It is special because it is cooked with rice flour and shrimp filling. Looking at the bowl of vermicelli when it comes to the bowl is amazing. The white color of the noodle soup sinks, allowing the shrimp filling to float on the golden bowl, very beautiful. Nam Pho noodle soup is popular with diners not only because of its delicious taste but also because it is very healthy and suitable for all ages, including children and the elderly.
Hue vegetarian rice
If you want to have a frugal meal and let your body be purified, try a vegetarian meal in Hue. Vegetarian dishes are also very diverse and rich, just from vegetables, tubers, mushrooms, tofu… but you have a full and hearty meal.
Visitors to Hue, if they want to enjoy a vegetarian meal, in addition to Buddhists who know how to cook delicious vegetarian rice to invite intimately at home, can contact pagodas to enjoy a special Hue vegetarian meal. You can go to any pagoda, but the best one is Tu Dam pagoda, because it is a female monk pagoda, so there are many nuns who cook delicious vegetarian rice, and it is right in the city – on Dien Bien Phu street.
Grilled meat vermicelli, grilled meat wet cake
The special feature of these two dishes lies in the grilled meat. The meat here is marinated just enough, does not overpower the aroma, the meat is soft rather than dry, and has a characteristic flavor, quite special compared to other places. The accompanying dipping sauce is also delicious, the special thing is that there are a lot of raw, fresh and green vegetables.
Reference address: Wet cake, Kim Long grilled meat vermicelli
Nhat Le Chung Cake
This is a famous dish in Hue and originates from Nhat Le street in the Inner Citadel, where dozens of bakeries gather. The cake is fragrant and flexible, very delicious to eat due to the smooth combination of flavors between bean paste, meat (fat and lean) with sticky rice and spices such as pepper and onions. People who eat it after a long time become addicted and crave it.
Alley Tea
In the past, our grandparents often said that if outside Hanoi there were “36 streets”, then Hue also had “36 types of tea”. No one knows how long alley sweet soup has existed in Hue, but it is just called that, because it is often located deep in the alleys with many different types of sweet soup. There is a very strange-sounding sweet soup that only Hue has: roast pork sweet soup. Meticulously prepared from small pieces of roasted pork, covered with glutinous rice flour, added sugar to cook into sweet soup. When eaten, this dessert gives us a very strange feeling, both sweet and salty, greasy and difficult to describe in words…
In addition, here are some delicious restaurant addresses you can refer to:
– Nam Loc Duck Painting Shop
Address: Chi Lang Street, Hue
Phone: (84-54) 531866
– Ba Cu Banh Beo
Address: 47 Nguyen Hue, Hue
Phone: (84-54) 832895
– Crab noodle soup
Address: 56 Nguyen Hue
– Mr. Luong’s porridge
Address: 43 Ba Trieu, Hue
– Yogurt
Address: 68 Nguyen Hue
– Banh beo nam loc Mo
Address: Dien Bien Phu Street, Hue
– Thuan duck porridge
Address: 94 Bui Thi Xuan, Hue
– Phuoc noodle shop
Address: 62 Nguyen Hue
– Vermicelli – porridge – mussel rice
Address: 98 Nguyen Hue
– Thuy Duong snakehead fish soup cake
Address: Thuy Duong, Huong Thuy
– Fish ball noodle soup
Address: 110 Nguyen Hue, 124 Nguyen Hue
– Crab noodle soup Pham Hong Thai
Address: Pham Hong Thai Street, Hue
– Long 89
Address: 89 Nguyen Hue
Phone: (84-54) 825090
– Crab noodle soup Phan Boi Chau
Address: Doc Phan Boi Chau, Truong An, Hue
– Hue Royal Tea
Address: 31 Nguyen Hue
– Mussel rice and Con Hen corn sweet soup
Address: Con Hen, Vi Da
– Hong Mai cake
Address: Dinh Tien Hoang, Hue
– Lac Thien pleasure cake
Address: 6 Dinh Tien Hoang, Hue
Phone: 84-54) 527348
– Breakfast line
Address: Truong Dinh Street
– Huong Cau Garden Restaurant
Address: 4 Nguyen Binh Khiem – Hue
Phone: (84- 54) 527228 – 222038
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