Eating and drinking, Bac Ninh specialties
10 famous specialties of Bac Ninh land
The countryside of Bac Ninh is not only full of brothers and sisters, nostalgic folk songs. There are also specialties bearing the spirit of the countryside, which tourists coming to enjoy are always attracted by these special dishes. I would like to introduce to you the specialties of Bac Ninh, please refer to it!
1. PHU THE CAKE
Banh phu thi (also known as banh xeo or banh xeo) is a traditional Vietnamese sweet. Dinh Bang is a place associated with the development of the Ly dynasty and the first place to make this type of cake. Why owns the name banh phu con, it is said that during a village festival in Dinh Bang, Ly Thanh Tong and his wife Nguyen Phi Ỷ Lan returned to their hometown in Do Temple and were offered a kind of cake by the villagers. After the time of enjoying, the King and Nguyen Phi both had to praise it. He judged that if he could eat cake, his family would be happy. Since then, in the weddings of Kinh Bac people in particular and Vietnamese people in general, cakes must be present.
If you want to have a delicious cake, you must choose delicious yellow-flowered glutinous rice. The yellow color of the crust is made up of gardenia flowers. The baker brings the gardenia flowers to dry, when making the cake, soak it in boiling water to extract the yellow water, mix this water into the flour to create the cake color. The cake is wrapped with two types of leaves, the inside is a layer of banana leaves, and the outside is a layer of coconut leaves. The green wrapping represents fidelity, the pink ribbon is like a connecting rosette, the yellow cake represents the wife’s love when compared to her husband.
2. DIEM MY VILLAGE CAKE
Coming to Diem village, visitors can not only listen to the smooth mandarin sentences of their brothers and sisters, but also enjoy the fragrant green cake, imbued with the soul of the countryside. Diem village is the nom name of Viem Xa village, Hoa Long commune, Bac Ninh city. As an ancient village with a temple to King Ba, the ancestor of Quan Ho, this place has long become a rendezvous for tourists from near and far who want to listen to and learn about quan ho songs. But not only that, those who have the opportunity to come here, all can not forget the simple and fragrant banh khuc of the Kinh Bac countryside. Banh Khuc in Diem village does not know when it appeared, only on holidays, festivals, full moon or first day, new cakes are made to invite relatives and guests.
Banh Khuc in Diem village has two types of onion and bean filling. Banh Khuc with bean paste has the flavor of beans, the richness of fatty meat and the aroma of pepper. The onion cake is a little different. Onions used to make banh Khuc are necessarily dried onions, in addition, wood ear, pepper, laksa leaves, minced bacon are mixed together. Diem village cake is a savory combination of many. A natural product, from the fragrant plasticity of sticky rice with yellow flowers, the fleshy taste of green beans mixed with the fatty taste of bacon. All are harmonized by the cool, warm taste of a vegetable, creating the characteristic flavor of cake – zucchini
Diem village cake
3. BUILDING VILLAGE
Nem Bui in Bui Xa village has a tradition of hundreds of years and is also a famous specialty that is preserved intact by Kinh Bac people. Through many ups and downs, in recent years, Bui spring rolls have gradually appeared on the market and become Delicious, cheap food, and a meaningful gift for friends and relatives after each visit to Bac Ninh city.
As a dish that is less picky, we can also eat spring rolls Bui at any time of the day. Although it is a snack, not a full meal, at midday, with sunny weather, a spring roll with a cool glass of beer is the ideal choice. Nem used during the day is the best, if kept in the refrigerator, it will be 2-3 days. Diners can buy spring rolls Bui in Bac Ninh city. The highlight is along the national highway running from Cau Ho – Thuan Thanh to Hai Duong City, everywhere, there are signs selling spring rolls from Bui.
Spring rolls in Bui village
4. FAMILY FAMILY
The delicious, idyllic taste has captured the hearts of many people, this is the soy sauce dish of Dinh To village. Tuong Dinh To is made from this material, which is corn, in addition, there are soybeans and yellow-flowered glutinous rice. All are brewed and fermented naturally without using any chemicals or auxiliary yeast.
The rich taste of Dinh To soy sauce is a blend of many rural ingredients, which is why the taste of this dish is so rustic. Let’s enjoy this dish right away when we come to Bac Ninh city!
Tuong Dinh To
5. BENEFITS Winged Wings
Betel nut with phoenix wings is a beautiful image, reminiscent of the fairy tale of Tam Cam and the custom of eating betel nut has become a custom and tradition of the Vietnamese indigenous people. Since ancient times, the betel nut has entered into poetry, history, fairy tales, etc., reflecting many traditional cultural beauties, sublimating emotions, love for people, forming a distinct regional traditional culture. .
Talking about betel nut with phoenix wings is referring to the piece of betel nut in Kinh Bac region. The same ingredients, but the beautiful and stylish way of adding them shows the ingenuity of the sisters-girls from Kinh Bac. Therefore, the betel nut has a particularly important appeal and leaves a profound impression on anyone, even once invited. In communication and behavior, “the betel nut is the beginning of the story”. Betel nut is often associated with greetings and an attitude of the person inviting guests. Polite people don’t “eat betel nut from the face”, that is, when they receive, they continue to give them all – “By the way, eat a piece of betel nut. Ask where your hometown is?”.
Inviting betel nut also shows subtle emotional nuances. You invite each other betel nut, hate each other according to politeness, also invite betel nut. There is a saying in the folklore: “Love each other, areca six, three; hate each other and split six into ten”. Even if there is no betel nut, the guest still invites betel nut like Nguyen Khuyen, is a strange case – “At the beginning of the game, the betel nut did not exist. Refuse to come and play at home, me and me.” Especially important is the piece of betel nut that invites guests of Ho Xuan Huong. The betel nut has something unusual, full of challenges and a bravery of the invitee.
Betel nut with phoenix wings
6. SAVING BIRD
Speaking of Bac Ninh city, people immediately think of quan ho melodies, love songs “people who live in, don’t go back …”, but here still exist very rustic dishes with bold colors of home. such as spring rolls from Bui village, banh phu thi Dinh Bang, banh te from Cho village… and not to mention the famous specialty of birds of the sky.
About the city of Bac Ninh, diners will simply recognize a long street with many restaurants and large eateries with famous specialties of birds. Almost in front of each restaurant, there must be large cages containing birds and chickens of all kinds for diners to choose from. The special dishes made from birds must be mentioned as grilled birds, steamed birds, roasted birds, bird sticky rice, mallard stewed with lemongrass and green pepper, evil chicken stewed with traditional herbs…
Visitors from outside the province, from the capital, from the Central to the South, every time they have the opportunity to come here, they whisper to each other to eat birds of the sky once. In that season, spring eats sparrows, nape, ginseng, summer eats hoes, storks, autumn eats tiles, turns worms, winter eats wild ducks, wild geese, le le with all kinds of dishes grilled, fried, steamed, boiled, roasted, more soup, more wine…
Birds of the sky
7. FISH Porridge
Tich Nghi fish porridge is a familiar dish not only of the people of Kinh Bac but also of guests from all over the world visiting Bac Ninh city. Tich Nghi porridge is only cooked with carp and carp, because the meat is fragrant and solid. Fish must be large and purchased from ponds and lakes in Bac Ninh city itself. The fish is not cooked with porridge, but only put into the pot of porridge just cooked until it is marinated, then fried and brought to the market.
We can find this dish in many restaurants, with a bowl of steaming fish porridge, porridge mixed with fish meat, golden color and herbs below. What is especially important for the rich sweet fish porridge is that the fish bones are pounded to get the broth to cook the porridge.
Eat fish porridge but diners do not feel the fishy taste. Bringing a spoon of porridge to your mouth, you will feel the porridge melt in your mouth with the plastic taste of simmered rice, each fiber of fresh fish, firm, sweet meat mixed with aromatic herbs like onions, smell. , dill, perilla and even chamomile. Fortunately, you can also see the golden caviar, which is rich, fleshy, and greasy. Kinh Bac people will also have their own way of eating fish porridge, which is adding garlic vinegar and dried chili.
Tich Nghi Fish Porridge
8. BAMBOO MATCH
When it comes to rat meat, many people will feel horrible, but in Dinh Bang, this is considered a famous specialty. Although not as popular as dog, chicken or cow meat, people in Bac Ninh city still use rat meat as a daily food. Even many families also display this famous specialty in the wedding tray.
In the opinion of the people of Dinh Bang in the past: “Co Dinh Bang without mouse meat is not big”. Just a short sentence like this is enough to understand how rat meat is “especially important” to the people here. And in other words, the rat meat in Dinh Bang has met the aesthetic and artistic criteria of Kinh Bac’s thousands of years of civilization, so the good reputation is so far away.
From mouse meat, it is possible to process many different delicious dishes such as field mice cooked with beans, cooked mice in winter, fake civet mice, fried mice, sweet and sour fried mice or ketchup, making many people salivate when they eat. The dish is presented in front of your eyes. But perhaps, the most delicious and popular is still boiled meat with lemon leaves. People in Bac Ninh city also say that eating rat meat is very healthy, has the effect of reducing pain, healing bones.
Table Mouse
9. MONEY VILLAGE Noodles
For a long time, vermicelli has become an indispensable dish in the life of Kinh Bac people in particular and the whole country in general. Every time they enjoy crab dishes, grilled pork rolls… they all mention vermicelli in Tien village, Khac Niem commune, Bac Ninh city.
In order to possess such clear, fresh and supple white noodles, the people of Tien village have to go through many complicated processes from choosing rice, grinding flour, cooking to pressing through a fiber mold, all of which are often very meticulous and meticulous.
Tien village noodle
10. VILLAGE BILLIONS WAIT
Anyone who has ever eaten harrowing gear (also known as banh te), a famous gift from Cho town, Yen Phong district, Bac Ninh province will no longer be able to forget the sweetness of meat, the aroma of onions. , the crispiness of wood ear and the fragrant plasticity of cake flour.
Banh teh is sometimes called a leaf cake or harrow gear because of its shape like a harrow tooth, a traditional cake in the Northern Delta. The cake is made from plain rice flour, wrapped in dong leaves and boiled. Banh Mi eaten while it is still hot has both crispy and bold taste, the fatty taste of the filling, the intense smell of leaves, cannot be mixed with other cakes. Cake when eaten with chili sauce or chili fish sauce, depending on the preferences of each person.
Waiting village cake 11. MULTI-DECKER Banh Da Ke is an idyllic, rustic dish, but it contains many flavors, rich in the nature of Bac Ninh city. The rice paper cakes with the shape of a shiny golden saddle, the fleshy taste, the aroma of peanuts, sesame, and sweet potatoes … have become an indispensable gift when compared to tourists who visit or only visit Bac Ninh city once. Banh Da Ke has become a famous specialty, a rustic and idyllic dish famous at home and abroad: Russia, Singapore. Visitors coming here not only enjoy the delicious taste of rice paper at the place of making, buy original rice paper from the craft village as a gift, but also visit Dinh Ke temple (also known as Nghe Ca).
Rice paper Ke
12. WINE VILLAGE VAN
Van village wine, a famous specialty of Bac Ninh city, is indispensable for parties, Tet or as gifts. The wine is cooked with delicious glutinous rice, in addition to dried or fresh cassava, in addition to the traditional yeast are 35 precious and rare traditional medicines and the ingenious aesthetics and art of brewing of the people here.
The wine is smooth and has a strong taste. After drinking, there is a special sense of taste in the throat and no headache. When holding a bottle of wine and shaking it vigorously, immediately there are a lot of tiny bubbles emerging and then dissipating like fireworks, fireworks. All create a unique feature of the branded wine of Van village, which has existed for hundreds of centuries and is known by people at home and abroad. However, if you drink alcohol, you are not allowed to control and fine-tune the means of transport.
Van village wine
If the customer is a lover of Quan Ho folk songs, loves the idyllic, familiar, but loving country restaurant, do not miss a trip to the countryside of Kinh Bac to enjoy delicious dishes. Famous specialties of Bac Ninh city are “famous” in this place.
