When going to the Hung Kings' Commemoration Festival this year, don't forget to enjoy these Phu Tho specialties.

Phu Tho ear cake

Banh tai is also called banh hon. If you come to Phu Tho on the occasion of Hung King’s death anniversary, you should not miss this specialty dish. For the people here, the cake also means wishing for luck and prosperity.

The ingredients to make Banh Tai are not complicated but bring a very unique flavor. The cake is made from rice, inside is minced lean shoulder meat, onion, pepper. When cooked, the cake turns opaque, fragrant with the smell of new rice. When eaten, the cake is rich, fatty and even more delicious when dipped in sweet and sour fish sauce with the unique flavor of Phu Tho.

Phu Tho Palm Leaf Rice Balls

Palm leaf rice balls have existed for a long time, originating from the need of farmers to bring rice to work in the fields. Today, it is a rustic specialty dish, attracting tourists when coming to the land of the ancestors.

Palm leaf rice balls are often dipped in sesame salt or eaten with dry fried pork. The way to make this dish is also quite simple. Accordingly, after the rice is cooked, use a wet towel to roll it into a ball, roll it well to smooth it to chop the rice grains together, then divide it into bite-sized portions. The rice balls are wrapped in beautiful green palm leaves, tied at one end, and rolled back and forth tightly so that the rice is firm and sticks to the leaves.

Phu Tho sticky rice cake

Banh te mat is a famous specialty of Dao Xa village, now in Dao Xa commune, Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho. Banh te mat is often indispensable when villagers prepare offerings to the village's tutelary god during the annual elephant procession festival.

The cake was selected in the Top 100 Vietnamese specialty gifts (2021 - 2022) according to the Criteria for announcing the value of Vietnamese cuisine and specialties. The cake is made from the main ingredients of rice and molasses. The rice is finely ground by the people, combined with the brown color of molasses to create a sweet taste.

Phu Tho cassava

Cassava salad is made from the green shoots of cassava plants. Local people often choose the pandan leaves of white cassava plants, not too old and not too young, wash them, and knead them thoroughly with salt to create cassava pickles. These cassava leaves are processed into many delicious dishes such as sour fish head soup, stir-fried with pork fat or simply braised with shrimp... The dish will be more attractive, and have a unique flavor from the sour taste of cassava leaves.

Braised fish with plums from Phu Tho

There are two types of plums in Phu Tho: black plums and sour plums. Black plums are as big as a thumb, elongated, with a slightly pointed end. When ripe, they are shiny black, stewed with sesame salt or peanut salt, making them rich. Sour plums are smaller, and when ripe, they are grayish-yellow, and stewed with fish, making them a very attractive dish.

Coming to Phu Tho, don't forget to enjoy this braised fish with plums dish. The rich, fatty taste mixed with a little astringency will be hard to forget.

Viet Tri catfish

Coming to Phu Tho on the occasion of Hung King's death anniversary, if you enjoy the cuisine, don't forget to enjoy dishes made from Viet Tri catfish. Catfish has firm, sweet meat, few bones and is rich in nutrients.

Catfish can be processed into many rich dishes such as charcoal grilled catfish; catfish hotpot; catfish braised with banana and bean; catfish steamed with ginger and lemongrass... Dishes made from catfish all have their own unique flavors.

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