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Wondering what to eat or buy as gifts while visiting Cao Bang? Let us guide you to some delicious, nutritious, and affordable specialties of Cao Bang.
What are the delicious specialties of Cao Bang?
1. What to eat in Cao Bang
1.1. Seven-Flavor Roast Duck - Specialty of Cao Bang
Unlike ordinary duck dishes, the process of selecting ducks for Cao Bang roast duck is very meticulous. The people of Cao Bang must choose ducks with firm, meaty flesh and shiny feathers.
The most important step is marinating the duck with 7 distinct flavors - perhaps a secret technique of the Tay people living in Cao Bang province, resulting in a uniquely fragrant and enticing roast duck.
1.2. Ant Egg Cake - Unique Specialty of Cao Bang
Ant Egg Cake is made from glutinous rice flour, black ant eggs, and young leaves of the vả tree.
Around April and May each year, the Tay ethnic people in Cao Bang province gather in the forest to collect black ant eggs for making cakes.
1.3. Sticky Rice with Black Sesame Seeds
1.4. Chao Cake
1.5. Sour Pork Meat
1.6. Famous Cao Bang Steamed Rice Rolls
2. Bring Home Cao Bang Specialties as Gifts
2.1. Trung Khanh Chestnuts – A Cao Bang Specialty
To enjoy the best Trung Khanh chestnuts, visit Cao Bang in late autumn.
2.2. Black Dong Noodles
2.3. Grilled Ribs
Cao Bang Grilled Ribs are elaborately prepared. The filling consists of pork loin and shoulder, marinated with spices, honey, a splash of white wine, a hint of ginger, and a small amount of ground dried Chinese quince.
2.4. Edible Ferns
Edible ferns, also known as fiddlehead ferns, typically grow wild in rocky mountainous areas. These are very crunchy vine plants, divided into several large branches resembling chopsticks clinging to trees to catch sunlight.
Posted by: Tài Trương
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