Thứ Ba, 3 tháng 1, 2012

To Hoi An Vietnam eat chem chep


If the ancient town of Hoi An Vietnam silent with the monuments, temples, assembly halls, narrow streets ... the beach resort town center not far from the tourist attractions of natural scenery make the wild Profile, fresh and very tasty specialties.


Besides fish, squid, shrimp, crab ... indispensable "chem chep", a product of your place of origin of the Central Sea. Chem chep boiled, grilled, steamed and chem copy porridge, the food seemed very rustic and simple so that the "hypnosis" many visitors.

Chem  chep is a marine mussel, live in the dunes, hang of it lies deep in the soft sand. Chem chep larger the deeper the cave in, just bring people to scratch the patch, the night and scratch hardy new hours are more chem chep. Chem chep catch on, select the child to, freshest distributed to key (pubs, restaurants, hotels ...).

Summer, on the morning (when the tide is up) or repurchase (at low tide) is a native fisherman I invite other slaves to rake chem tingle copy. Who has ever witnessed a sight to scratch, sitting preferential sifted, washed and then preparations for cooking from chem copy, understand all love gifts from the sea but gift giving residents visitors.

Despite what any article processing, chem copy shall be thoroughly soak the rice washing with water or salt water mixed into the dish before. The most common are chem copy boil. For chem copy to the pot of boiling water with some lemon grass stalks retired stamping, sliced ​​fresh chilli, a little sauce to taste salt. Chem copy is characterized by secretion of very sweet, so the process does not need fancy tasting the flavor is strong. Wait for the pot of broth is boiling in seven minutes.

 This dish is served with crunchy roll was great. Of fleshy fleshy cake, salty salty, tasted sweet, fat fat copy of chem, try delicious taste to it anywhere.

Baking dish chem own copy to select these "big" new taste. It's poetic way gradually let go when the sea was once the chem enjoy grilling with friends copy. Everyone gathered together around the kitchen coals fresh set each child up blisters. Wait chem copy is ripe mouth open. Just blowing medium shell balls, squeeze a little lemon juice, salt and pepper and then put water puffy.

Then manually copy agitation chem eat with ginger leaves. Enjoy this helps you fragrant, fresh mouth ...

Single-way marine origin country of the people I was cooking porridge chem copy. Rice cleaning vo, is fried and then cooked into porridge cooked on the stove Riu Riu. Chem copy was steamed, remove meat and stir through the fragrant crew, all for the pot of boiling soup. Done more ripe crushed pepper, ginger crushed. Not half an hour, the cook has sprung up each soup bowl untouched suspected smoke, dotted by little green vegetables, little red peppers. Porridge chem copy not only nutritious but also quick to help visitors interpret the attacks say.

One day to the beach of Hoi An, after his bath in the cool blue waters and dropped his bare feet on the sand watching the beautiful sunrise rising from the island of Cu Lao Cham, then saw the fishermen fishing boats back to the bustling far from the sea, you do not miss the opportunity to enjoy spicy scented spicy flavor of ginger, lemongrass, sweet charming blend of chem copy.

Sweet Corn Pineapple Tea Hoi An Vietnam


Visitors to Hoi An Vietnam will enjoy many specialties such as high floor, measuring brake, pink cake, bread cauldron ... and not to be missed are delicious dish of corn tea, sweet land of quiet but This is full of gratitude.

Hoi An there are many places selling tea, corn, but the best and leave the best impression in the tourists cross the Nam Cam is still the corn tea (a ward of Hoi An).

Ingredients for cooking corn tea here includes only corn and flour in diameter. Corn is corn to cook tea milk (baby corn) is grown on alluvial river beaches. Government of alluvial annual flooding caused by the ground becomes very fertile and contribute to the corn left here with the sweet flavor, aroma than corn grown in other places.

Corn should be cooked tea break on the right, where the past few days, the corn will wither, loss of appetite and reduced many flavors. The corn is left stripped of their outer shells, rinse, drain and then use skiver the corn, when corn hit the pulp inside the leaves.

Muscle cells into the pot to finish cooking immediately. When water is boiling in the pot for white sugar in order to train for muscle infiltration olive Riu sweetness of sugar. Because the corn milk, the thin cells should be quickly cooked corn, become flexible and fragrant to strangers. Now, we add a little flour and stir well to increase the rate constant and the taste of tea.

Tea can eat special corn, chilled, served with ice or served with beans and other types of tea, how is aromatic and delicious flavor.

Whatever may have been eating corn tea in many places, but only when enjoying tea at the heart muscles Hoai River City Association between sun-weather collection with shiny, new visitors feel the most elegant taste , delicious, refreshing tea of ​​corn here, understand why Cam Nam corn tea became a specialty of Hoi An.

Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 1, 2012

Hoi An Vietnam afternoon Diary

By the late 15th century, Hoi An Vietnam was a Vietnamese general population to live. In beginning with the colonization, established village, the Vietnamese also created a number of industries in accordance with natural conditions and social place. From the late 16th century - 17th century, more people Chinatown. and Japanese settlers, helping businesses develop Hoi An. Combined with appropriate physical location, Hoi An quickly became a prosperous trading port for centuries.


With a long history of its development, the residents living in Hoi An has gradually developed the various trades as carpentry, pottery and fine art, vegetables, healing, making lanterns .... to serve the needs of his life, and also make a prosperous, bustling port town of Hoi An from the VII century - late 18th century and early 19th century.

To preserve these occupations, cultural and sports center of Hoi An was built factory handicrafts at No. 9 Hoi Nguyen Thai Hoc, as well as a showcase to introduce the manufacturing process unit simple products of 12 traditional villages in the region. This is one of the attractions attract many tourists.


Ancient town of Hoi An today is a special case of a traditional port town in Southeast Asia are preserved and attentive. Most homes here are traditional architecture dating from the 17th century to the 19th century, located along the axis of the narrow street. Interspersed between the home city, the religious buildings, religious testament to the formation, development and decline of urban areas. Hoi An is also the region recorded the hallmarks of the mix, cross-cultural.

The assembly halls, temples contained traces of a Chinatown. city located on the homes of Vietnamese traditional houses and French colonial style. Besides the cultural values ​​through the buildings, Hoi An also maintains a non-material cultural diversity and richness. Daily lives of residents of the town with traditions, religious life, folk arts, cultural festivals are still preserved and developed. Hoi An is considered a living museum of architecture and urban lifestyle.

Marble central Da Nang is located approximately 8 km to the southeast, on a vast sandy beach near the coast, the village of Hoa Khue, Son Thuy Hamlet, Hoa Vang district Ngu Hanh Son District. The ancient past of Champa, divine worship according to their beliefs, that remains today through the ruins of stone idols, the temples and statues carved in the cliff at the Linh Ung Pagoda, in the Huyen Khong. Marble tops including 5 Kim Son, Moc Son, Thuy Son, Hoa Son (Music Ocean Vulcan and Vulcan), Tho Son.

Noodle sauce in Hoi An Vietnam

Not western sauce noodle dish with multicolored vegetables, just south sauce noodle dish filled with pork, shrimp, squid ... chan sauce cooked in broth. Sauce noodle dish in Hoi An Vietnam in Central sexism, that is very tingle flavor seasoning sauce mixed with vegetables and squeeze cucumber, roasted peanuts and boiled pig ears ...

Processed by sea fish such as anchovy scale, small scad fish ... me, it usually contains fish sauce in jars, small jars. By day nine, of red sauce or red or yellow in the sun, perfumed nose tingle. It settled back, above the fish sauce in amber, uses perforated bottom fish bones, fish remains identified. The vertical tail section that was opaque filter, decant again, through a boil, the sauce to be a kind of gray-brown viscous reclining fragrant and delicious called mam nem.


Determinants of quality is the secret sauce seasoning salt concentration of the preparation and appropriate to create a paste sauce scented nose tingle a little hoarse but very unique. When eaten with rice noodles, seasoning sauce is often added to many condiments such as garlic, finely chopped chilli to soften up a salty taste and aroma. They also add lemon juice to taste sour tomato sauce was delicious.

The Food Quarter

Referring to the town of Thu Bon river, people tend to think of the famous dishes such as pasta or high floor Quang. He was really tasty dishes, and now to add more, as many tourists eating resolve themselves into the dishes served in restaurants, the cafes are no longer peddle goods. Not noodle seasoning sauce, the dish on a second pass through the streets you see. Very simple, small table with three chairs chips, since the sign does not know carpentry, cabinet contains enough materials rustic cooking it.

Heard food is nothing fancy, but the City Assembly, noodles and sauce dish reaches the subtle combination between many flavors: Cinnamon Tea herbs tucked in the bottom of the bowl, covered above feel free white bun, more tablespoons fried garlic, a tablespoon fragrant roasted peanuts, and pork, thinly sliced ​​boiled pig ears or cover up, then the chan mam nem top.

And yet, the right sauce bowl "quality" old town still flowing red plastic chili capital of the specialty of Hoi An. Full bar and sharp, bold sauce noodles and hot taste, too fat and fleshy fleshy, have a distinctive aroma. With the new food first, not everyone taste. But once eaten, it will be "addicted" immediately, and again go back to eat to equal it.

In addition to the above materials, a number of shops in Hoi An also add noodles or oyster sauce mixed non fried jackfruit is the specialty of this place. It is the oldest restaurant, taste the taste more familiar with the Society for bun mam street more attractive.

Simple long memory

It is sure to leave Hoi An noodle sauce flavor but by a different reason. Because it was popular too. Not difficult to find a shop selling this rustic dish. Morning walk about five minutes past the corner of Le Loi Tran Phu, or, or across the mall to have some consistency counts. Reputation which is sold in the street but very clean and tidy. Home sales and diners are gentle. Looks like the style of Aboriginal land, it is less loud, slow pace of life but not yet well as other tourist areas.

Noodle dishes is fish sauce smells, so guests to enjoy themselves but only little chat. But also by new bun mam nem unwind, seductive passionate fragrance stimulates the taste buds of diners immediately. Mam nem faint odor, nutty, soft fiber bun long ... There are many people like this dish because manipulate and mix the ingredients in the bowl before eating. Mix anywhere, home made sauce from soaring appetite to eat there. Until then eating spicy hot taste, the the, fatty acids, strong at the top of the tongue makes you eat a delicious, eat anywhere liking to spread it.

Seasoning sauce in Hoi An is not too salty nor too sweet but strong, tear gas, not as sharp as the mam nem in Hue. So here noodle sauce flavor is lighter, so that people are also very popular this dish. The price of the noodles and sauce cheaper gifts of others, as well as folk and picky diners. Therefore, those who love trot eat two or three bowls each time.

Carefully contemplate, this delectable dishes which do not differ significantly from the noodles and sauce are generally in the central region such as Hue or Da Nang. If anything, it's in Hoi An is added to the material characteristics of the ancient town, such as basil and crushed three of the famous village of Tra Que vegetable chili or plastic ... The soul of the land of rich culture hidden in the The most simple definition in the form of rustic dishes that linger even more visitors.

In Hoi An noodle sauce is added to the material characteristics of the ancient town as basil crushed three of the famous Tra Que vegetable village