Attractive cuisine of Ninh Binh

Ninh Binh is famous not only for wonderful destinations like Hoa Lu ancient capital, Tam Coc, Bai Dinh Pagoda, etc. but also for delicious specialties like goat meat, burned rice, eel vermicelli, etc.

Goat meat: Ninh Binh’s goat meat taste better than other regions because two reasons: many lime stone mountains which are suitable for raising goats; in order to have a good rare goat meat dish, local people have to perform many steps from the processing procedure to the mixture procedure. Specially, dishes do very well re-goats, fresh meat and crispy, served with herbs such as ginger, chilly, lemon, seasoning powder, and citronella; all these ingredients and spices are well-mixed with goat meat. Rare goat meat is a nutritious and delicious dish since it is served with many precious fine herbs which are very good for people’s health.

Burned riceBurned rice is one of the special dishes of Ninh Binh. This dish is made from cooked rice sliced into round shapes. After cooled down, the round slices are soaked into hot oil pan until they turn yellow. Beef and pig’s heart and kidney are crushed into thin slices and mixed with spices and ingredients like tomato, carrot, onion and mushroom. Then the mixture is well-fried and put into the burned rice bowl.

Eel vermicelli: Eels are washed carefully with vinegar, removed the inside, mixed with spices like red chili, onion pepper, “nuoc mam” and then fried in hot oil until fragrant and yellow. Banana flower is cut into thin threads and soaked in salt water for 5-7 minutes and then fried with mashed onion. Eel vermicelli noodles is often eaten with ginger, “la lot” and sourness of lemon juice converge on the eel vermicelli bowl that make a try worth a thousand words.

Gia Vien salted shrimp: To Ninh Ninh, don’t miss the chance to enjoy shrimp sauce specialty. Type of this sauce is made from fired shrimp type fresh body, old, riu and blue. After processing, they are sealed in a month to bring cooked food. This sauce is delicious at the new sweet, strong and very attractive.

Kim Son Sticky wine: Material from the seeds is the sticky yellow flowers in the area of rule in the Red River, under the hand of the dexterity of the people, combined with water, especially coastal areas and men folk in their 32 to medication rare north, where people have put on display next special liquor, during, sui character, colour, pleasant sleeping and the consumption of the market today.

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