Snail dishes
Snail is a popular but unique
dish of Hanoi people. It is easy to order some dishes like gingered snail,
snail steamed with ginger leaf, snail
sauteed with carambola, snail boiled with lemon leaf, snail steamed with
Chinese herbs, and so on, in many small small restaurants, restaurants, and
even hotels.
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Snail dish-Hanoi |
However, vermicelli and snail sour soup is the most attractive to
young women because of brittleness by snails, the slightly sour taste by snail
soup, and hot by chilly boiled down, making even gorged people keep eating.
La Vong grilled fish pies
Cha Ca La Vong is unique of Hanoians; therefore, one street in
Hanoi was name Cha Ca street. This is the only dish which was named for street.
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Cha Ca La Vong-LaVong grilled fish pies |
Cha Ca is made from mudfish, snake-headed fish, but the best one is hemibagrus.
Fish bone is left away to keep fish meat only, then seasoning, clipping by
pieces of bamboo, and then frying by coal heat. An oven of coal heat is needed
when serving to keep Cha Ca always hot. Cha Ca is served with roasted peanuts,
soft noodle, dry pancakes, spice vegetable and shrimps paste with lemon and
chilly. The Cha Ca la Vong Restaurants on the 14th Cha ca street is
the “ancestor restaurant” of the dish over 130 years.