What to eat and Travel Tips (Part 3): Top 10 Most Favor Vietnamese Foods in Sapa
Fresh vegetables
With cold climate, Sapa is a place to plant temperate vegetables such as white cauliflower, broccoli, red radish, chayote and cabbage… Vegetables grown in Sapa have a special taste, soft sweet and attractive. The most famous vegetables in Sapa include: boiled chayote with salt and sesame, cabbage with garlic, chicken hotpot with vegetables...
Stream Salmon
Unlike imported salmon being usually slightly fat, steam salmon in Sa Pa is not fat and really delicious. In the cold weather of Sapa, a salmon hot pot served with fresh vegetables is must-try dish for each tourist.
Mountain village pork
The breed of pigs is raised by local Mong people. The average heavy of a pig is only from 4-5 kg. The pork is suitably served with Sapa Docynia Indica wine.
Grilled foods
Because of the cold climate, in Sapa, any food is grilled from chicken eggs, duck eggs, pork, vegetables wrapped in meat, “Lam” rice, chicken wings, corn, potatoes and many special dishesIn the evening, the barbecue area near Sapa Stone Church is the most popular tourist attraction.
Sapa “Black” chicken
“Black” chickens can be cooked into many dishes, but the best one is honey baked chiken. The best way to enjoy grilled chicken is eating with mint leaves and pepper salt.
Stream Fish
Stream fish have many types and especially there is no fishy taste. Grilled stream fish, baked stream fish and fried crispy stream fish are 3 most famous ones.
Horse’s tripe dish
Horse’s tripe dish is often cooked together with beef and pork. To cook delicious horse’s tripe dish, chief needs at least 27 different spices such as cinnamon, anise, cardamom, aromatic leaves...
Famous restaurants: Ma Le restaurant, A Quynh restaurant.