Pristine beaches, rolling waves, luxury sea view hotels, chic resorts plus copious amounts of sunshine… that’s Da Nang for you, third largest city in Vietnam. It’s nice to spend a few days there enjoying the beautiful beaches, as well as exploring some DaNang cuisines.
Banh beo
Banh beo is a heritage dish of central Vietnam; it is especially famous in Hue, Quang Nam and Da Nang. Banh beo nhan uot is explained as a typical style of banh beo in Da Nang which can be eaten straight from the bowl using a spoon. You can add some fish sauce or tangy chilli sauce to go with it. Order bánh bèo chén and they’d bring out a tray of 5-6 bowls.
Bun
Similar to Pho, Bun is a much richer beef noodle soup in the central and south region. The broth is made with generous amount of beef ribs cooked for long hours and it’s very flavourful. Rice noodles are usually tossed and drenched over the comforting beef broth and accompanied with different parts of beef such as rare steak, flank, tendon, meatballs etc. To make it easy, just order a “thap cam” which means one bowl with all of them. Because they make excellent broth, it is usually sold out by 7pm (they open at about 2pm), so better go there early.
Mi Quang
Mi Quang is an important dish in Da Nang. Located in a super good location and a long standing history, what you get is great tasting and generous dish. It’s not exactly a noodle soup, neither is it a salad. I think it s a combination of both, with chewy rice noodles, some broth, and choice of pork, shrimp or chicken. The pork is very tender and well marinated. Added into the bowl is raw peanut oil and cu nen, which is like garlic oil. You can pair the noodles with rice crackers, chilli and lemon. Just a noodle bowl but there is so much accompaniments!
Banh mi thit nguoi
Banh mi thit nguoi pairs freshly toasted baguette with jambon, cha, pate and accompaniments like chilli, cucumber and spring onion. One of the most popular shops selling banh mi thit nguoi in Danang is Ba Lan. It’s so good and famous that there’re already numerous ‘fake’ banh mi Ba Lans everywhere to derive the brand name. Very generous amount of fillings as can be seen from the photo above.
Banh xeo
Banh xeo is a crackling rice flour crepe filled with bean sprouts, shrimp, spring onions, and mung beans. Served with pork skewers, rice paper, the pancake is very crispy. So what you have to do is to wrap the ingredients with rice paper and dip it into their special sauce. Don’t worry, no fish sauce is added. Well, how special are the sauces? It’s mixed with peanut, hoisin sauce, peanuts, chillies and pork liver which is so thick and tasty. One huge mouthful and you get a blast of flavours from the savouriness to sweetness, balanced with the secret sauce.
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