List of secialities of Hue cuisine
1. Mussel rice (Com hen): Lying deep in the river, hidden in the muddy sand, mussel is a popular dish of Vietnamese people. It’s soft, tough and has the sweet boiled water. They can make many different dishes from mussels, the most famous one in Hue is rice mussel. Mussels are available in many regions, but the best one is Hue. People usually eat mussel rice in the morning. The best place to eat the rice is Hen hillock.
2. Hue beef noodle soup (Bun Bo Hue): This is truly the soul of Hue cuisine. Hue beef noodle soup is extremely delicious for water use which made from the bones for sweetness and flavor. They are not too intense but enough for customers to feel deeply and enjoy. It’s truly a perfect combination of vermicelli, pig’s leg and beef pies along with red soup oil, vegetable, chili and different spices.
3. Banh Hue (Hue cake): is the specialty of Hue cuisine with tasty savor. All of these cakes are almost from the same basic ingredients: shrimp, pork, cassava flour, glutinous rice flour and enjoyed with fish sauce. Many of those you can try if you ever come here such as Banh Beo(Beo cake), Banh Loc(Loc cake), Banh ram it(ram it cake), Nem lui(Grilled chopped meat) , Me xung(sesame candy).
4. Vegetarian foods: Hue is famous as the spiritual land of Buddhism so vegetarian Hue is very delicious which processes into many tasteful dishes like salty food. In Hue there are many vegetarian restaurants that tourists can try. Among those, Lien Hoa at 3 Le Quy Don Street is preferable. At the temples, visitors can also find the specific flavor of vegetarian dishes. For convenience and enjoy delicious vegetarian food, Tu Dam Pagoda is an ideal choice because the location is nearby city center.
5. Chung cake: Nhat Le Chung cakes are famous throughout the city. They use green banana leaves to cover the cake. After cooking, picking up the fragrance immediately which makes people want to eat immediately. Banh chung in Hue is the combination of the plastic layer outside and the inside of the cake.
6. Sweet Soup: Hue sweet soup is a favorable specility of Hue citizen. The most famous of sweet soup which called “alleys sweet soup”. They bring the rustic features, simply the delicacy of Hue cuisine. Each type of sweet soup in Hue cuisine Viet Nam has its own flavor, from taro, tea, peanut tea to lotus tea, grapefruit tea. Guests can eat each dish to feel each taste of tea or mix together into a mixture which creating a strange feeling when chewing different seeds in the mouth.
How to enjoy Hue cuisine?
The most of restaurant and market where make the foods are in Hue city. Therefore you can have many options for getting there. With reasonable Hue scooter rental, you can get a powerful motorbike to travel around the city and enjoy the specilities on you own way. Besides, Hue motorbike countryside tours is suitable for those who want to other beautiful sites not only cuisine of Hue city such as romantic Perfume River,Royal tombs.