Dreamy Hue with memorable flavors

Tapioca dumplings

Hue's tapioca dumplings are best when they are freshly steamed, still steaming hot when just served. Dip the dumplings in the spicy fish sauce and chili, and you will enjoy the softness and chewiness of tapioca dumplings, combined with the richness of fatty meat and the sweetness of river shrimp filling your mouth.

Banh beo

Banh Beo is made in small cups and steamed. When the cake is done, it will be sprinkled with dried shrimp, fried pork skin, a little oil and chopped green onions. Hue people also meticulously use thin bamboo sticks to make chopsticks to cut Banh Beo. That is why Hue people have the phrase "bamboo knife, stone cup" to describe the way to eat Banh Beo in the true Hue style.

Spring roll cake

Banh ram it is a combination of two different types of cakes, both crispy and chewy, both fragrant and sweet: the soft and chewy banh it on top and the fragrant and crispy banh ram on the bottom. The filling of banh it is made from shrimp stir-fried with scallion oil and steamed.

The banh ram does not need to be filled, the cake is fried in a pan of oil until it is crispy and has a deep golden color. The combination of the crispy taste of banh ram with the fragrant, chewy taste of banh it and the salty and sweet taste of fish sauce satisfies any diner coming to Hue. Hue folklore has a folk song about the taste of banh ram it as follows:

"Hey, listen to this while you're still in your mouth.

The less sticky the golden fried rice, the more delicious the taste.

New to Hue specialties

"The colors and scents of the royal court find each other"

Hue Sweet Soup

Hue sweet soup is very rich. In any region of Vietnam, people process beans to make sweet soup. Black beans, green beans, all beans can be used to make sweet soup. But Hue also has red bean sweet soup, broad bean sweet soup, and royal bean sweet soup. The white broad beans are soaked in clear sweet soup. At first glance, red beans and royal beans look like whole beans, but add a little coconut milk and a spoonful of shaved ice and you have a delicious, plump, crumbly dish; or green beans are processed and beaten until they are golden yellow.

Hue does not only have bean sweet soup. In the morning, there is lotus seed sweet soup. Hue lotus sweet soup does not have large seeds, but each lotus seed is rich and fragrant with the smell of heaven and earth. Hue people only sell raw lotus seeds, not lotus sweet soup wrapped in longan. Hue families only cook it to worship first and then eat it. Or in big hotels, buffets sometimes have lotus seed sweet soup wrapped in longan seeds, but in such luxurious places, the dish loses the flavor of the ancient capital.

Hue also has several types of sweet potato desserts. Purple taro dessert like the long dress of Dong Khanh female students is the most typical, the most Hue. Then sweet potato dessert, purple potato dessert, corn dessert... Dice fruit, mix a few types, soak in sugar water, add shaved ice when enjoying, also called dessert. Fruit desserts: dragon fruit, watermelon, pineapple, jackfruit... each season has its own fruits, the fruits of the earth and sky are all present in a glass of Hue fruit dessert. The sweetness of sugar and the coolness of fresh fruit go together and complete the taste.

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