Thang Den
This is a specialty dish of Ha Giang cuisine. Made from glutinous rice flour, the filling can be made with beans or vegetarian depending on each person’s taste. The shape is quite similar to banh troi tau. When enjoying it, you can feel the fragrant taste of the cake, the greasy taste of coconut milk, and a little spicy and warm taste of ginger.
Coming to Dong Van market, visitors can easily find and enjoy a bowl of warm, sweet, fragrant amaranth.
Grilled moss
It is considered a specialty of the Tay people – an ethnic group with an extremely rich and diverse culinary culture. Because this is a special dish, preparing it deliciously also requires a certain knowledge and skill of local people.
As a nutritious dish with a very outstanding flavor, grilled moss is noticed by many tourists, or even “addicted” when coming to Ha Giang. In addition, grilled moss also has the ability to cure many diseases, help detoxify, cool down, circulate blood, increase resistance, etc.
Ha Giang sour pho
In the early morning, does Ha Giang have any specialties? We would like to answer immediately, that is sour pho – a dish filled with simplicity, the main ingredients are fresh pho noodles, selected from fragrant sticky rice grains mixed with sweet and sour broth.
Sour pho – a unique dish in Ha Giang, often eaten with fried pork, sausage or roasted duck, eaten with papaya or cucumber and then sprinkled with broth. To increase the appeal, you should immediately order an extra bottle of corn wine, make a few cups of sweet corn wine and eat it with sour and sour pho in the morning, it’s perfect.
Buckwheat cake
Around October to November every year, people often flock to Ha Giang to see and enjoy Ha Giang buckwheat flowers. Buckwheat seeds are ground to make cake flour, helping the cake not to be dry and hard but to have a smoother crust. Usually, buckwheat cakes will be grilled on charcoal to have a fragrant aroma. The inside of the cake is soft and spongy. It is a light, street food.