The land of Ha Giang is not only attractive by the pink of the triangular circuit, the green of the majestic mountains, but also by the unique taste of delicious special food. So what to buy as gifts when coming to Ha Giang? Surely many people wonder this question when crossing the long road to this astonishing land.
Ha Giang corn wine
Corn wine is a product of H'mong people. The wine is made from corn kernels grown on rocky mountains and traditional leavened leaves have a sweet, aromatic taste of corn. This is a special gift that many tourists choose when coming to Ha Giang. Therefore, when going to Ha Giang, tourists could not help but try the aroma of this aromatic wine immediately.
Local people making corn wine in Ha Giang
Corn wine here uses natural corn combining with natural yeast to create a wine that is both pleasant, delicious and headache-free. Therefore, when coming to the villages, indigenous people are seen serving guests with corn wine cups and sausage specialties, and kitchen meat as well. This drink has an average price of 30 to 50.000 per liter.
Ha Giang buffalo meat
This dish is a product of the Black Thai people in Ha Giang. After getting the fresh buffalo meat, people will marinate it with corn spices and hung it on the kitchen to dry. When you eat buffalo meat, you will feel the smell of smoke quite gently, and the meat has a sweet taste, creating a combination of deliciousness that is so popular to foreign visitors.
The special feature of Ha Giang's buffalo meat is located in the seasoning marinated with ginger, chili, and kham spice - a typical grain of highland that is both aromatic and passionate. Buffalo meat is tougher and darker than pork, so the price is much higher.
The special buffalo meat of Ha Giang
But buffalo meat is suitable for most people, from young people, middle age to old people and children. Especially for those who want to have a drinking party, this is also an ideal choice for food. The average price of the food is about 800.000 to 1.300.000 VND per kilogram.
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Ha Giang mint honey
This is a specialty that anyone who comes to Ha Giang can find. Peppermint honey has a mellow, deliciously sweet taste of honey mingled with the special cool scent of mint, giving you the most relaxed feeling when enjoying it. Perhaps because of the special taste of morning dew, mountains and the wind of Ha Giang, combined with the nourishment of honey has made it a specialty that captivates anyone coming to this land.
People harvesting honey in Ha Giang
A special feature of this honey in Ha Giang is that it is only available in the mint flower season on the Dong Van rock plateau, from October to January next year. Processing and exploiting this honey must wait until the flowering season so not everyone who comes to Ha Giang can buy genuine mint honey.
Mint honey cure and improve health very well. It has a pale yellow mixed with a greenish tinge. The main ingredients are glucose, fructose as well as vitamins and minerals that are beneficial to health. Ha Giang mint honey dish is quite expensive, about 400.000 – 600.000 VND per liter.
Shan Tuyet tea
This dish is considered by many to be tastier than another dessert. Those who love to enjoy sweet dishes, once coming to Ha Giang will definitely buy with a pack of Shan Tuyet. The special feature of Shan Tuyet dessert lies in the fact that people have to climb a big tree to pick tea leaf. Across the branches and stems of Shan Tuyet tree is covered with pale white lichen. The tree is very solid and big, people harvest clusters on high branches. There are trees that are over a hundred years old and still extremely lush.
Ha Giang ethnic people harvesting Shan Tuyet tea leaves
Shan Tuyet tea has large tea wings, the tea leaves have snow-white chalk. They do not only possess the aroma, taste but also especially good for health, preventing human diseases. Therefore, the regular use of Shan Tuyet tea is the need of many families in Ha Giang. In Ha Giang, Shan Tuyet Tea has harvested 4 crops in a year. After harvesting, tea will be dried and packaged for sale with the price can go up to 500.000 VND per kilogram.
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Ha Giang triangular circuit cake
Ha Giang now seems like a young girl wearing a fresh pink coat of triangular petals. And there is no reason if you come here to enjoy flowers but do not taste a bit of plant from this amazing flower. Triangular circuit, after being harvested, is dried, can be ground into flour to make cakes. The cake is soft, fluffy, sweet and fleshy and can a special gift that visitors should enjoy when coming to Ha Giang rock plateau.
The famous triangular cake make from the significant flower of Ha Giang
Triangular seeds will be harvested and then dried and ground to make cakes as well. This special cake is not only sweet, but also soft and easy to eat. This is not only a gift for tourists to come to enjoy, but also a souvenir to bring home with both rustic and loving feelings. There is nothing better than enjoying this dish on a calming day or resting after a long trip.
Some Ha Giang fruit
You can easily catch the stalls selling apples at any market of Ha Giang. This small, crunchy, slightly acidic fruit is a favored gift of nature for H'mong people. You can buy fresh fruit and pickled wine. Apple soaked in apple cat wine is an effective medicine to treat high blood pressure, which is well known for Ha Giang people.
Apples in Ha Giang is very delicious and sweet
You can also buy seedless persimmon. This fruit is also known as the Quan Ba persimmon because there are many of them in the Quan Ba area. Persimmons are bright red when ripe, slightly sweet when eaten. This is a specialty that many tourists seek to buy when coming to Ha Giang.
In addition, Ha Giang oranges are also a wonderful fruit. An unmistakable feature of it is that Ha Giang oranges have yellow-red skin and flesh. When Ha Giang oranges are ripe, their skin is tanned and rough. So for those who prefer a slightly sour taste, buy green oranges, if you like sweet oranges, choose tanned fruit, yellowed skin. Ha Giang oranges are both juicy and sweet, you definitely should try.
If you like to have some Vitamin C, the Ha Giang orange is the perfect food
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Ha Giang Bac Me lam rice
Bac Me lam rice is a special gift of Ha Giang, and also a food that tourists often choose to buy. Like other types of rice across the country, this one is cooked with bamboo and neohouzeaua on rose fire. Bac Me lam rice is both delicious and flexible and hard to break. So many people here often bring it to work on the farm.
Bac Me lam rice is sweet, sticky and delicious
Bac Me lam rice is not too difficult to cook, or expensive. People use delicious sticky rice soaked, washed and sprinkle with a little salt. After the preliminary processing, they put glutinous rice into bamboo tubes and bamboo then pour water just right, cover it and burn it on charcoal. When burning, the cook must rotate it to radiate heat around the bamboo. If you split bamboo pipes, you can enjoy the wonderful rice balls inside.
These are the delicious and absolutely can’t ignore specialties of Ha Giang that you should buy for yourself and your loved ones. When coming to Ha Giang, don’t miss out these yummy, fragrant dishes.
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