When you come to Cao Bang, don’t forget to enjoy specialties such as roast duck, roast pork pho, stir-fried young bees with bamboo shoots, braised pork with meat, chicken or pork leg stewed with chestnuts, five-color sticky rice… Let’s find out with Halo Trips the specialties that are highly appreciated by tourists when coming here through this article.

Sour pho

A specialty of Cao Bang. The pho noodles are chewy, eaten with beautifully deep-fried crispy pork belly, thinly sliced ​​pork liver, fried pork stomach, and roast duck. The dish also has crispy fried taro. This is a large, soft, and sweet tuber that is only available in Bac Kan and Cao Bang. The indispensable flavor is the leaves of the hook mat tree, peanuts, basil, coriander, cucumber…

Agarwood fish

This is a famous delicious fish in Ban Gioc waterfall, sold a lot in Trung Khanh market. Clean the fresh fish, gut it, stuff it with onions, dill, chili… inside, wrap it in banana leaves and put it on the charcoal grill. When cooked, the fish gives off a fragrant aroma.

Chao Ap Cake

Also known as Chao Duck Cake, it is sold a lot in winter, from November to February of the following year. The cake looks quite similar to a savory fried cake but the filling is made from duck meat.

8-color dry vermicelli

Famous in Hong Quang 2 hamlet, Hung Dao commune, about 9 km from Cao Bang city. Yellow vermicelli is made from corn, red from brown rice, green from moringa, blue butterfly pea flower flavor; purple vermicelli with purple leaves, purple sweet potatoes…

Rau da hien

Or rau bo khai is a wild vegetable, but not available in all regions. From after Tet to the 7th lunar month, the vegetable grows abundantly and is delicious. You can buy vegetables for about 30,000 VND a bunch.

Chung Khanh chestnuts

This is a delicacy that should not be missed, but is only available seasonally. Cao Bang people have a unique way of eating chestnuts: boiling them, then roasting them, peeling off the shell and taking out the kernels. The kernels are pounded into powder and mixed well with green rice from Pi Pat sticky rice. An attractive dish with the fragrant taste of green rice and the rich taste of chestnuts.

Smoked meat

In particular, the easiest thing to buy as a gift in Cao Bang City is smoked meat. Pork marinated with spices, rock ginger, wild honey is smoked under charcoal and sugar cane, giving the meat a bright red color and a fragrant aroma.

Source: VNExpress