Special dishes when traveling to the highlands in the spring of 2025, At Ty, you should definitely try

GĐXH - January is the ideal time to travel to the Northern highlands. In addition to the poetic and charming scenery and unique culture, when you come here, don't forget to enjoy the famous delicious specialties that are not available anywhere else.

Highland delicacy Pa pinh top (grilled fish with mac khen)

This dish is a famous dish of the Thai ethnic group in the Northwest, also known as grilled fish with mac khen. Pa Pinh Top is indispensable in the meals on holidays and Tet. If you come to the highlands at the beginning of the Spring of At Ty 2025, you should not miss this special grilled fish dish.

Pa pỉnh tộp is special from the stage of choosing ingredients to marinating and grilling. The delicious dish combines sour, spicy, bitter and sweet flavors. To taste the best, people should eat it hot and dip it in cham cheo sauce, along with a little bit of herbs and spices such as coriander and chili. Drinking a little corn wine will enhance the flavor of the dish.

Những món ăn đặc sắc khi đi du Xuân vùng cao năm 2025 Ất Tỵ nhất định nên thử- Ảnh 2. — *The sweetness of the fish meat combined with the sour, bitter and spicy flavors on the tip of your tongue will make you remember it forever.*

Delicious Moc Chau fried veal dish

Moc Chau (Son La) is an ideal tourist destination for many people at this time to preserve the beauty of plum blossoms. Coming here, people can enjoy the old plum gardens with branches covered with flowers, small clusters of pure white, intertwined, dyeing the entire Northwest sky white.

In addition to the scenery, people should not miss the typical cuisine, including Moc Chau fried veal. The veal is raised in Moc Chau plateau. Although not too elaborate in preparation, this dish is extremely attractive. This dish is simply fried veal and eaten with a special dipping sauce of the local people.

Những món ăn đặc sắc khi đi du Xuân vùng cao năm 2025 Ất Tỵ nhất định nên thử- Ảnh 3. — *Moc Chau fried veal, soft and sweet meat*

After being cleaned and deodorized, the veal is cut into bite-sized pieces. To have a delicious stir-fried veal dish, the most important step is to stir-fry the veal on the stove. The chef must watch the oil just as it boils to put the veal in, stir-fry evenly for a certain amount of time because if it is too long, it will be tough, and if it is done too quickly, it will not be cooked.

The outside of the veal is golden and crispy, cooked evenly, while the inside is soft and sweet, and well-seasoned. When eaten, the soft and sweet veal blends with the aroma of lemongrass and the crispy skin, served with very flavorful herbs. Dipped with the typical spices here, you will feel the culinary quintessence of Moc Chau people.

Delicious buffalo jerky

When mentioning the specialties of the Northwest mountains and forests, we cannot miss the buffalo jerky. This dish is usually made from the muscle meat of buffaloes that are free-range in the mountains and hills, so it is delicious and the meat is not loose.

The locals here make the buffalo meat hung in the kitchen quite elaborately. From large pieces of meat, they divide them into small pieces shaped like pencils. Next, they slice along the grain and marinate the meat with chili, salt, ginger, forest leaf water and mac khen, then hang it up in the kitchen to smoke until it dries out and becomes shiny black. The buffalo meat hung in the kitchen has a salty taste, a characteristic pungent smoky smell, and is extremely delicious to sip with cham cheo.

Những món ăn đặc sắc khi đi du Xuân vùng cao năm 2025 Ất Tỵ nhất định nên thử- Ảnh 4.

In addition to buffalo jerky, people can also enjoy smoked sausage, black banh chung, bitter bamboo shoots...

Lai Chau mixed fish salad

The dish not only has the flavor of the Northwest but also carries the cultural identity of the ethnic people. With enough sour, spicy, and fragrant flavors of roasted peanuts, this dish is both delicious and anti-greasy.

The main ingredients to make mixed fish salad include fresh fish, thinly sliced wild banana flowers soaked in water, coriander, herbs, Vietnamese mint, water basil, perilla, fresh chili, garlic leaves, garlic bulbs, crushed roasted peanuts, mac khen, te seeds, and lemon. Especially, Lai Chau mixed fish salad cannot lack sour bamboo shoot juice. After preparation, the ingredients are mixed with thinly sliced fish.

Những món ăn đặc sắc khi đi du Xuân vùng cao năm 2025 Ất Tỵ nhất định nên thử- Ảnh 5. — *Lai Chau mixed fish salad is easy to eat and very good for preventing indigestion after Tet holidays.*

Gam River Fish Salad

As a specialty of the Northwest, Bong Song Gam fish salad makes diners easily "addicted" after the first time eating because it is not only delicious but also unique. The rich, sweet taste of the fish, a little sour and rich from the accompanying vegetables, combined with a little spicy pepper creates an attractive aftertaste. The dish will be more perfect when dipped in a unique dipping sauce.

Những món ăn đặc sắc khi đi du Xuân vùng cao năm 2025 Ất Tỵ nhất định nên thử- Ảnh 6. — *Bong River Gam Fish Salad. Photo by Pao Quan*

Egg roll

Egg rolls are a unique dish in Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son... Like rolls in other regions, the crust is made from rice flour, but egg rolls have a special filling of eggs.

When eating, diners enjoy it with dipping sauce or bone broth. The egg yolk oozes out when you bite into the cake, creating the characteristic sweet and fatty taste of the rice rolls dish that can only be found in this highland region.