Hanoi is small but has so many interesting things from scenery to culture. One of them is the extremely rich culinary culture, but it is unmistakable in the countless other delicious dishes across the country.
One of the most loved typical dishes of the rich cuisine is vermicelli with shrimp paste. Although the price is extremely affordable, this dish has a special attraction.
I don’t know when vermicelli with shrimp paste existed, only know it has attached and become a dish associated with many people’s lives. Vermicelli with shrimp paste in the beginning is true to the name, there are only 3 main ingredients: vermicelli, beans, shrimp paste with a few raw vegetables as a secondary ingredient.
What is the soul of vermicelli with shrimp paste? Is it vermicelli, is it beans, is it shrimp paste? No one knows for sure, just know that the more basic and simple the dish, the more “fine” ingredients are needed. The right vermicelli is a coin vermicelli style, fits in one bite, too much is a piece of vermicelli cut to taste. Beans must be cocooned to make apricot beans, both soft and fatty… are fried in a pan filled with oil until the crust is golden and crispy, but the inside still retains its softness and aroma.
As for shrimp paste, it must be Thanh Hoa shrimp paste, which is delicious, not mixed with anything, has a pinkish purple color, sobbing. That sauce adds a few kumquats or a little vinegar, a little sugar, a few slices of chopped chili, then oh my god, sometimes just mixed with rice or not, you have to eat two or three bowls. And if that fish sauce is to be dipped with soft fatty apricot beans that have just been picked up in an oil pan, then heaven and earth, why would you need better meat and sorghum. Maybe that’s why the new rustic dish makes anyone who is rich must accept sitting precariously on a tiny plastic chair on the sidewalk to eat.
And maybe that’s why a street food dish turned into a kind restaurant, then Nam Tien became the hottest dish in Saigon for a while, and then it was popular in all the provinces of the rectangular strip of land. S.
Gradually, the dish is added to taste with many other side dishes such as fried rice, pork belly, boiled pork leg meat, spring rolls, boiled ears… so you can choose the side dishes you like. Shrimp sauce is also more varied, there are places to add fat, which can be distilled or mixed with non-aromatic onion fat… to please diners. Well, each person has their own mouth, as long as the food is delicious. But if anyone has fallen in love with vermicelli with shrimp paste from a very early age, they will need the same basic things as the oldest.
Previously, vermicelli vermicelli was often displayed in plastic trays for mobility, suitable for summer sale, but when it became national, vermicelli with shrimp paste was also taken care of when placed on bamboo mats. , banana leaf lining. The ingredients will be arranged in turn, the bowl of shrimp paste placed in the middle looks both beautiful and delicious. In particular, eating vermicelli with shrimp paste can’t be eaten alone, but must have a boat, a few people eat it with joy, it’s delicious.
Talking about the nationalization process of vermicelli vermicelli is not only storming in Hanoi. In 2013, Hanoi’s vermicelli with shrimp paste first appeared in Saigon and immediately stirred up the culinary village here. Saigon people are generous, but if they are not really special, the food will not be able to last long. But so far, vermicelli with shrimp paste is one of the spectacular Southern dishes, not only that, it has also gone to many other regions and become a cheap but unique dish, loved by diners. everywhere.
So if you are in Hanoi, or have the opportunity to visit Hanoi, remember to try to eat noodles here once, not only to enjoy a delicious dish, but also to experience a way to eat noodles with dau mam. shrimp is very different.
Address of delicious shrimp paste noodles in Hanoi:
Bean vermicelli in lane 29 Hang Khay
Cay Bang Restaurant – 129 Dai La
Nga bean vermicelli – No. 1 Phan Phu Tien
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