Showing posts with label Hue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hue. Show all posts

Wednesday 28 May 2014

Hue Specialties

Like most places, each city in Vietnam has its own specialty dish or variation of a national dish.  Our tour guide introduced us to a family-run restaurant (Hang-Me) away from the main thoroughfare in Hue.  There were only five items on the menu.  We ordered by the numbers and found some interesting tastes - some of which we liked and some of which we didn't like. But it was an interesting food experience, all revolving around shrimp - stands to reason as Hue is on the water.


Banh Beo - an appetizer of steamed rice pancake with shrimp bits and shredded pork skin on top - tasty!  The pork skin really gave it a crunch.

Banh Nam - a steamed flat rice dumpling made with shrimp, pork and rice flour cooked in oil and water then wrapped in banana leaves



Banh Loc,  a Hue specialty, clear dumpling made with tapioca flour filled with shrimp and pork 


Banh Ram It - sticky rice shrimp dumpling on top of deep fried pig skin - delicious!  I love the contrast between the sticky glutinous rice and the crunchy pig skin - never mind the cholesterol.


L to R - Banh Uot - rice roll with shrimp bits which we tried in Hanoi; Cha tom - a shrimp sausage/patty - Hue specialty


For more photos of the Hue food scene, please visit my travel blog Travels with rarecat.