After a long motorbike ride to Mai Chau – one of the most beautiful provinces of Northern Vietnam, you must be starved for a delicious meal. So what can you eat in Mai Chau? Which local dish is the most appetizing? Frontier Travel Vietnam will help you find out.
Mai Chau grilled pork skewers
After a long motorbike ride to Mai Chau, some hot and well-marinated meat will surely satisfy you. And grilled pork skewer is a local dish of Mai Chau that you definitely cannot miss.
The delicious grilled pork skewed in Mai Chau
After being boiled, the pork meat will be cut into small pieces and then marinated with many different spices such as chili, garlic, neighbor, lemongrass, molasses leaves, turmeric, etc for at least 30 minutes. The meat then skewed into bamboo sticks and grilled on the charcoal stove until the meat turns yellow and fragrant. Coming to Mai Chau, don’t miss the chance to taste this simple yet amazing dish.
Smoked fish, Mai Chau
If you go on your motorbike along Highway 6 to Mai Chau province, you will find many stalls selling grilled fish along the roadsides. Fishes here are caught directly from the steams or rivers because the fishes live in the natural condition of the Mai Chau environment, so it carries a very outstanding and specific flavor.
The fish is caught from the most refreshing steams
To make grilled fish, first, they remove the scale and finish preparing the fish, they start to marinate it with different kinds of spice. Mai Chau people hold the small fish with two bamboo sticks, large fish is skewed through the abdomen. When the fish is grilled, they need to make sure that the fish is flipped frequently and cooked evenly at both sides.
When served, grilled fish often ate with a sauce made from spice and salt and lemon. The sauce really brings out the flavor of the dish, most customers who come to Mai Chau absolutely love it.
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Mai Chau sticky rice
This is a colorful and very attractive dish in Mai Chau that you cannot deny. The sticky rice in Mai Chau is called “nep huong” – a very special and delicious kind of rice, more flexible than normal sticky rice. When being cooked, the flavor of “nep huong” is also very different from normal ones.
"Nep huong" sticky rice is a specialty of Mai Chau served in different colors
In the culture of Mai Chau, “nep huong” is the dish that cannot be missed in traditional meals of the family. This is considered to be the symbol of Mai Chau cuisine, so if you have ridden your motorbike to this beautiful province, make sure to taste some “nep huong” before going home.
Roasted hill chicken, Mai Chau
Hill chicken is a free-range chicken that is fed freely in the garden. They often eat worms and corn, so it has solid meat as well as fragrant flavor. To bring out its true flavor, Mai Chau people often grill it with “mac khen” - is a special material only found in the Northwestern region. Some people even called it the “pepper of the forest” because of its sweet and spicy flavor and sweet aroma.
The hill chicken carries such a unique flavor
For chicken lovers, this is such a delicious dish that cannot be missed. During your trip to the Northwestern area, this special dish made of mountain chicken meat with spicy aroma will be a highlight in your memory.
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Bees fried with bamboo, Mai Chau
It may sound kind of strange, horrific even, but in reality, the bee is a favorite and important dish of Mai Chau cuisine. In Mai Chau, people take baby bees and stir fry them with bamboo. The rich flavor of the bees plus the spicy and sweet aroma of bamboo create such a unique and outstanding taste that you won’t be able to forget.
Bees fried with bamboo, Mai Chau
To make your motorbike trip in Mai Chau become more memorable and interesting, why don’t you challenge yourself with this very one of a kind dish? You absolutely won’t regret it.
Buffalo meat, Mai Chau
Buffalo meat is no stranger to those who love to explore the Northwest. Buffalo meat is not something the local people in the Northwest eat frequently, it is only cooked and served on the occasion of festivals, Tet or sold to visitors as gifts. The reason is that the cooking process of buffalo meat is very difficult, takes a lot of time and requires skillful hands.
The delicious buffalo meat
To choose a slice of delicious buffalo meat, you should pay attention to the natural aroma of smoke clinging to meat, the outer skin of the meat is brown or black, the inside still retains the pink color. The best way to enjoy the kitchen buffalo to bake it, then tear it into small pieces and dip it with chutney or chopped bean. Buffalo meat often has a higher price than other specialties, but it is totally worth it. This is also the perfect souvenir for you to bring back to your loved ones.
Lam rice
Lam rice is a famous dish not only in Mai Chau but also in many Northwestern provinces of Vietnam. Local people use sticky rice, stuffed it into large bamboo sticks and steam it with hot water. To make the rice more fragrant, some households even cover it with banana leaves and grill it on charcoal or woods. This is delicious food to eat with chicken or buffalo meat.
The sweet lam rice of Mai Chau
Coming to Mai Chau, don’t forget to give these astonishing dishes a try. You will be surprised with the outstanding flavor of the Northwestern mountainous area of Vietnam. If you can, bring home some to your loved ones, they will love it as well.
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