Hai Phong – the city of red phoenix flowers is loved by tourists not only because of its peaceful and beautiful natural beauty but also by famous delicious specialties, anyone who has tried it once will surely be hard to forget. Besides entertainment activities, enjoying the food is also an interesting and extremely exciting experience. If you are planning to come to Hai Phong, don’t forget to try the list of Hai Phong Dishes below with us!
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Top 7 famous dishes in Hai Phong that you must try once
Nem Cua Be ( Crab Spring Rolls)
Nem Cua Be is a typical dish in Hai Phong’s cuisine, which anyone who comes to this youthful city must taste. Besides the famous name, Nem Cua Be Hai Phong are also called square spring rolls or square crab spring rolls due to the unique way of wrapping Hai Phong people.
Hai Phong’s crab spring rolls are a typical dish for rich cuisine, made from many typical ingredients such as shrimp, crab, meat, wood ear, and some other ingredients. Especially in order for the taste of spring rolls to be delicious, one must use crab meat from the sea of Do Son, Cat Hai, or Bach Long Vi – places with rich and fresh seafood sources, especially the source of crabs are highly abundant.
Delicious ingredients mixed with rich spices according to the way of Hai Phong people, then wrapped in crispy rice paper fried, just thinking about it is hard to resist. Besides, when enjoying crab spring rolls, people often eat them with raw vegetables, hot peppers, green papaya, and thinly sliced carrots. Especially the sweet and sour dipping sauce. All will create an unforgettable taste for those who enjoy it for the first time.
Some addresses for you to enjoy:
- Nem Nga – 92 Trần Nhật Duật.
- Phương Mai – 87 Cát Cụt.
- Ngọc Tuấn -96 Trần Nhật Duật.
- Thanh Ngà – 90 Trần Nhật Duật.
Mực khô Cát Bà (Cat Ba dried squid)
Coming to coastal cities, seafood is a fundamental specialty. The seafood of Hai Phong is the same, both rich in variety and highly delicious in quality. However, bringing fresh seafood as gifts is not easy. Instead, we can completely choose dried seafood as gifts for relatives after a trip to portland. In addition to dried sardines, dried mackerel, dried squid in Cat Ba is the most popular type of dried food for tourists, especially famous for its delicious taste different from other sea areas in the country.
Cat Ba dried squid is so famous that anyone who has ever set foot in Hai Phong port must try to taste it and buy some as gifts for relatives. The fresh squids of large size are caught by fishermen right in the cool blue sea of Ngoc Island. After seeing and sorting, the squid will be cleaned, cut, and hung in rows on a pre-tensioned rope, drying as soon as the boat docks.
Under the golden sunshine mixed with the salty taste of Cat Ba sea, the batches of dried squid have been completed and become a specialty that is extremely popular because of its delicious natural flavor, without the use of any kind of preservatives. Which has a distinct sweetness. Cat Ba dried squid when dried in the sun is still very fresh, the back has a beautiful pink color, the belly is white, and it is not fishy. After baking, it will wake up with an attractive aroma. When tasting, you will find that the squid meat is sweet, chewy, and extremely rich, adding a glass of wine and a little spicy chili sauce to sip is nothing like that.
- Address to buy Cat Ba dried squid: 223, Tô Hiệu, Lê Chân, Hải Phòng.
Hai Phong Spicy Bread
Spicy bread began to be widely known in the 80s, starting from a small shop in Khanh Lap lane. The small and beautiful bread has become famous throughout the provinces and cities today. As can be seen today, Hai Phong spicy bread can be easily found in other provinces in Vietnam. However, if you want to enjoy the most delicious taste, you must taste the spicy bread right in Hai Phong.
In addition to the name spicy bread, people also call this gift “breadstick”, which has a rather special shape. Unlike ordinary bread, Hai Phong spicy bread is only about the size of 2 fingers, a little longer than a hand, and looks like a pretty stick. The ingredients to make the cake are very simple, just flour, salt, and baking powder, but to make a delicious cake requires long experience, a talented hand knows how to mix the dough at the right ratio, Knowing how to bake a cake can be cooked and delicious.
Not only the crust must be crispy and spongy, but the filling is also very important because the soul of this dish is in that filling. Usually pate, Hai Phong spicy bread has only pate as the only filling, not fussy, extremely simple but delicious. The delicious and famous sandwiches in Hai Phong are all homemade pate, the main ingredients are pork liver, fat and lean meat, sprinkled with a little pepper for flavor.
Famous spicy bread addresses:
- Bánh mì cay Bà Già – 57 Lê Lợi, P. Máy Tơ, Quận Ngô Quyền, Hải Phòng.
- Tiệm bánh mỳ cay Ông Cuông – 184 Hàng Kênh, Quận Lê Chân, Hải Phòng.
Bánh Đa Cua (Crab noodle soup) – Famous Hai Phong dishes
Perhaps it does not need to be said much because this dish is so famous and familiar to anyone who loves “the city of red phoenix flowers”. Hai Phong crab noodle soup is a gift with the bold flavor of this coastal city.
A bowl of Hai Phong crab noodle soup with the right taste and quality is made up of many different ingredients. First, let’s talk about the red rice cake which is both soft and chewy – only in Hai Phong, made by the people here according to a special heirloom recipe. After soaking through the broth, crab noodle soup will be placed in a bowl, adding some raw vegetables, fish cakes, lolot leaves, crab roes, some fried onions, and scallion. Finally, the fragrant and greasy broth is cooked from crab roes. Rich broth combined with chewy crab cakes and many other toppings creates a dish with great flavor, filled with quintessence and flavor of the portland.
Famous crab noodle soup addresses:
- Tran Quang Khai Crab noodle soup – 23 Tran Quang Khai, Hong Bang, Hai Phong.
- Huyen Trang Crab noodle soup – 139 Thien Loi, Vinh Niem, Le Chan, Hai Phong.
- Ky Dong Crab noodle soup – 26 Ky Dong, Hong Bang, Hai Phong.
Chả chìa Hạ Lũng – Famous Hai Phong dishes
Hạ Lũng – the name associated with this specialty dish is a long-standing village that makes spring rolls, of which the most famous and popular dish is “Chả chìa”. At first glance, Chả chìa Hạ Lũng looks almost like the spring rolls of Hue, but the processing method and ingredients are completely different. If Hue’s spring rolls are made mainly from lean meat and spices such as garlic and pepper, Chả chìa Hạ Lũng includes pork, fat, and sun-dried squid of Cat Ba and Cat Hai.
The special feature of chả chìa Hạ Lũng is that it has more sugar cane – so why do Ha Lung people add sugarcane to the cake. First, people will puree all the ingredients and mix them, seasoning with necessary spices such as fish sauce, main noodles, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear, and pepper. After that, chop the sugarcane into small pieces with your fingers, squeeze the pureed ingredients into the bag, leaving part of the sugar cane, and then fry it in oil. Like the garlic part in spring rolls in Hue, sugarcane not only enhances the smell and makes the sausage more flavorful, but also acts as a handle when eating, extremely convenient.
Famous chả chìa Hạ Lũng addresses:
- Chả chìa Hạ Lũng Bác Hoạt – 30 Cho Lung, Dang Hai, Hai Phong.
Seafood scorched rice
For tourists who are passionate about travel, love to explore, and have visited Ninh Binh, they must have tried Ninh Binh burnt rice. In Hai Phong, there is also Scorched rice, but unlike Ninh Binh, the sauce of Hai Phong elderberry is made from fresh seafood of the region.
Many people say that making Scorched rice is not difficult, just cook pressed rice, dry it and then fry it. That’s right, but the difficulty lies in the sauce itself, just like when eating spring rolls, the deliciousness lies in the dipping sauce, and when eating pho, it’s the broth. Hai Phong has a special sauce when eating Scorched rice, which is a seafood sauce made from shrimp, crab, squid, scallops, scallops, etc., which is very tasty and full of healthy nutrients.
Famous Scorched rice with seafood addresses: Minh Khai Scorched rice – 3C Minh Khai, Minh Khai Ward, Hong Bang District, Hai Phong.
Giá bể – Famous Hai Phong dishes
For the people of the port, Giá bể has long been familiar seafood, but for many people, this is still a strange ingredient that only gourmets know. Giá bể is shaped like a boy, about the size of a thumb, but its legs are as long as a bean sprout, living on the sandy beaches of the sea – that’s why people call it “Giá bể”. The meat of the Giá biển is sweet and very delicious, easy to process into many different dishes, such as salad with bean sprouts, and stir-fried with Giá biển,…
Before processing into dishes, Giá bể is usually soaked for about 6 hours to get rid of the dirt. Depending on the processing method, Giá bể will be marinated according to its spices. This dish has a beautiful turmeric yellow color after cooking, mixed with a little sauce, a few herbs, and especially Hai Phong’s chili is delicious.
The legs of Giá bể is the part that many people love and are also the brand name of this seafood. Up to 5 cm long, looks like bean sprouts but is very crispy and sweet to eat. Leg sprouts are often made by people here as mannequins and salads, accompanied by vegetables, which are both fragrant and crunchy.
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