These familiar and beloved Central Coastal lands are not only blessed by nature with many beautiful landscapes of the sea, forests, and peaceful, charming villages, but are also extremely rich in products. Typical dishes of each country, along with the hard-working, diligent and skillful hands of the people of the Central region, create delicious dishes that are rich, fragrant and contribute unique features to Vietnamese cuisine. .
Artisans recreate dishes at the food counter and enjoy more than 10 delicious dishes and typical drinks, including Binh Dinh dishes such as: Binh Dinh sesame rice paper, Huyen market spring rolls, bamboo straw, grilled Li fish with turmeric ; Phu Yen dishes include: ocean tuna rolled with green cabbage, chive soup cake, steamed veal with squid fish sauce; Quang Ngai dishes include: Song Tra goby dried braised and grilled Tam Ky chicken with Ba To lemongrass pepper, along with desserts of soft and fragrant Hong cake and cool drink with gai leaves from Binh Dinh.
Tam Ky chicken grilled with lemongrass and Ba To pepper with Tra river goby is one of the delicious dishes of the famous Quang Ngai region. Try it and you will love it. Eat it and you will remember it.
Talking about the cuisine of these three regions along the Central Coast, culinary artist Bui Thi Suong, who had the opportunity to learn and research the cuisine of these regions, shared: “Phu Yen cuisine is the combination of flavors of the sea, grasslands and mountains, a place famous for ingredients such as tuna, lobster as well as indigenous spices including dat seeds, é leaves and especially cotton, a type of Special flowers of Phu Yen mountains and forests are only available in the fall. The flowers have a beautiful purple color and a unique fragrance, used to season sour soup or fried pancakes, including chive soup and chicken hotpot E leaves, beef corn vermicelli with salt and ant…
Artist Xuan Huong, a lover of Vietnamese cuisine, showed off her talent in the kitchen with Phu Yen chive soup cake
According to artist Xuan Huong, this rustic yet delicate dish is truly a flavorful masterpiece that carries the spirit of this land, from the rusticity in the preparation to the coolness and gentleness in the flavor. chive soup cake – a famous specialty of Phu Yen.
The broth is made from fish bones or pork bones, but is usually made from sea fish to create a natural aroma. The main highlight of the dish is chives, a vegetable with a characteristic aroma, chopped and dropped into the bowl of banh canh. Chives not only bring fresh green color but also make the dish more delicious. This dish is often eaten with steamed and fried fish cakes with chewy, sweet texture made from fresh sea fish of Phu Yen. In addition to adding flavor, this dish also includes mackerel meat, fillet and marlin breast.
Meanwhile, the cuisine of the martial land of Binh Dinh shows the generosity and richness of products from the fields to the sea. Nem tre from District market, Chau Truc shrimp vermicelli, Tay Son beef jerky, Hong cake, banh it gai leaves, sea urchin sauce, Tam Quan coconut rice paper… are famous specialties of this land.
District market spring rolls and Tay Son beef jerky – two famous delicious specialties of Binh Dinh
With Quang Ngai, the typical culinary feature is rustic and rustic with favorite delicacies such as Tra River goby, corn ram, grilled meat ram or don… In particular, Quang Ngai has an abundant source of spices. and unique like Ly Son island onion and garlic, rock sugar, lung sugar, malt or Tra Bong cinnamon, lemongrass pepper.
In addition to Binh Dinh’s famous and popular delicacies such as spring rolls and bamboo shoots, chef Nguyen Van Trung of Man Moi restaurant also introduces a unique dish that adds a special experience for diners: Grilled Li fish with turmeric. . Li fish has white, chewy, and fatty meat. This fish is often caught by fishermen using hooks or spears, requiring a skilled fisherman to do it.
With grilled fish with turmeric, the combination of turmeric spices in this dish not only helps reduce the fishy taste of the fish, but also creates a delicious flavor.
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This is also a “nutritious dish” to help prevent skin aging. Not simply preparing dishes, the chef also brings interesting stories about how fishermen catch Li fish or Binh Dinh culinary culture through each dish so that diners can understand more about the people and their culture. products of this land.
Among them, a sweet dessert for a coastal party is the elegant Hong cake of Binh Dinh people. Hong Cake originates from Tam Quan town, Hoai Nhon district. Like green rice cake and bride’s cake in the North, Hong cake is often enjoyed on special occasions such as weddings, engagements or family parties in the countryside of Binh Dinh and becomes a cake that announces good news and happiness. couple. The rustic but attractive cake with the fragrant sweetness of sticky rice, the sweetness mixed with the crunchiness and fragrant fat of coconut will leave a lasting impression on the taste buds.