Wild food – The unique features of the tea country

Enjoy the mountain snail at the “Best Tourist Village in the world” Thai Hai

The Ecological Ethnic Minority Housing Reserve was awarded the “Best Tourism Village in the World” award in 2022 by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). It has the Tay ethnic community living with many unique cultural features, in which cuisine is also a imprint to visitors. One of the unique dishes in the Thai Hai community tourism village is the mountain snail.

Mountain snails often appear after rain, clinging to the banks of rocks, trees, and cave mouths. The snails live in a clean place, many medicinal plants will have fragrant meat, thick intestines. People soaked in water with water and chili or lemon leaves to release lubricant. The bowl of boiled mountain snail is still hot, fragrant smell of lemon leaves and lemongrass. Fat, crispy snail meat, dipping with ginger fish sauce, garlic, chili will leave an unforgettable impression for visitors.

Sticky

If you have the opportunity to come to Thai Nguyen in the fall, visitors do not miss the opportunity to enjoy sticky rice – a rustic but sophisticated specialty. The stretched black fillings are carefully selected, bring cooked items and then separate the fleshy, fleshy meat, mixed with fragrant and steamed glutinous rice. When ripe, the glutinous rice seeds are mingled with the charcoal purple of the fillings, creating a beautiful and attractive sticky rice.

Sticky sticky rice has a sweet, greasy taste of filling with fragrant sticky fragrance that makes anyone who enjoyed it once unforgettable. Not only is a rustic dish, sticky rice also bears the soul of the countryside, becoming a typical gift in Thai Nguyen culinary culture.

Crispy fried stream fish in Ba Be

Coming to Ba Be National Park, a rustic dish that is often found in the tray of guests is stream fish. Small fish are caught directly from streams, firm meat, natural sweet, often processed by people in many ways such as grilled charcoal, crispy fried or braised and sour bamboo shoots.

In particular, grilled stream fish with yellow, aromatic aroma, served with guise leaves dipping chili sauce or enjoying with lam rice will bring an unforgettable experience when coming to Ba Be. Enjoying stream fish is not only to feel the pure taste of Thai Nguyen mountains, but also an opportunity for visitors to understand more rustic and sincere culinary culture here.