1Some details about Ba Vi specialties
Ba Vi is a semi-mountainous district located in the northwest of Hanoi. This place has beautiful natural scenery, with wildness, rusticity and peace. When mentioning Ba Vi, we will immediately remember fresh milk famous throughout the country, Da River fish, a product of the capital, and countless other delicious dishes.
Ba Vi has beautiful, poetic scenery
In addition, Ba Vi is also home to a number of ethnic minorities, and its unique mountainous terrain has created favorable conditions for its cuisine to develop richly. That’s why Ba Vi specialties are a harmonious blend of the capital’s flavors mixed with a bit of cuisine from the Northern mountainous region. This is what makes diners unable to ignore the delicious dishes here.
The natural scenery every spring, bright flowers and grass on the Ba Vi hills
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2Top 9 Ba Vi specialties
With mountainous and highland terrain, Ba Vi’s characteristic is its lush green lawns. Therefore, this type of calf and cow farming is very developed here. Thanks to that, the famous young veal dish was born, a specialty and the Ba Vi dairy brand developed strongly, boosting the local economy.
The veal meat is soft and fragrant and can be processed into many delicious dishes
Ingredients to make delicious veal dishes must be carefully selected from large, healthy young calves that are still breastfeeding. The steps to process young calves are done quite meticulously according to the Ba Vi people’s own recipe. Thanks to that, the meat flavor remains soft, sweet, delicious and nutritious. Some dishes made from young calves are loved by many tourists such as braised veal or stir-fried veal dishes. This is considered an indispensable dish on the banquet table of all visitors coming to this land.
Many people often joke that Ba Vi has nothing but cow’s milk, so it is not strange that dairy products have become the typical flavor of this land. Thanks to many years of experience in processing cow’s milk, businesses in Ba Vi have unique formulas to preserve nutrition in each dish. The sweetness is moderate and the aroma of milk cake is nothing better than enjoying it with a cup of hot tea.
Dairy products are always the most famous Ba Vi specialty
Glasses of fresh cow’s milk are considered the soul of Ba Vi. If you come here and can’t drink a glass of fragrant, freshly squeezed milk, it will be extremely unfortunate. The first time you try it, you may find it a bit difficult to drink because the milk has not gone through the processing process, but once you get used to drinking it, you will be “addicted” to these cool, pure glasses of milk.
In addition, pure yogurt is also a Ba Vi specialty and a dish that you cannot miss. The shops along Route 32 and Lang Hoa Lac sell a lot of yogurt suitable for buying as gifts for relatives and friends.
Besides veal, wild boar meat is also a delicious and attractive dish. Pork is raised in the mountains, according to the local people’s way, so the pigs are very lean, fragrant meat, suitable for processing into many delicious dishes. Pork is sold in restaurants around tourist destinations and is strictly controlled in terms of quality and price so customers can be completely assured.
Grilled wild boar is a popular dish at Ba Vi restaurants
Many restaurants in Ba Vi also serve dishes from wild boar meat. You can try grilled wild boar, smoked wild boar, wild boar hanging from the kitchen… creating an unforgettable flavor.
Cinnamon rolls are a snack that has been associated with many people during their childhood years. In Ba Vi, waffles are prepared according to traditional flavors, a long-standing waffle village that creates crispy, fatty, spongy waffle packages every day that are both easy to eat and affordable.
Ba Vi waffles are packed into small, compact bags, easy to carry. So you can rest assured to buy it as a gift for relatives and friends.
Next on the list of Ba Vi specialties is indispensable hill chicken. These are chickens that roam free in the mountains, mainly foraging for themselves, eating only grass, insects, and a little rice every day, so the meat is very tough and firm. Therefore, hill chicken processed into dishes such as fried chicken, boiled chicken, chicken hot pot, and chicken salad also has its own flavor, completely different from the industrial chicken sold everywhere.
Delicious and attractive hill chicken dishes
Ba Vi’s delicious chicken restaurants are mainly concentrated along Thang Long Avenue or Road 32. Remember to stop by to enjoy the attractive flavors of the mountains and forests.
Ba Vi’s Phu Nhi cake is white in color, has a rich aroma, and is soft and melts as soon as it is put into your mouth. That’s why this gift has become a favorite cake that many people buy as gifts, both simple and rustic, and close to us. The price of banh te is also very reasonable, so you can rest assured to enjoy it and buy it to take home.
Banh te with a rustic and delicious filling
Lam sweet cake is also one of the Ba Vi specialties that makes many diners excited. The cake has a sweet taste, cooked from selected malts, rice flour, sticky rice, and peanuts, with its own recipe to make the most delicious dish. Famous places selling Che Lam cake in Ba Vi include the ancient temple of Nhu Duong Lam, Lord Mia, Bo Cai Dai Vuong Phung Hung temple, and King Ngo Quyen’s mausoleum. Here, many mothers and sisters have spent their entire lives making and selling Lam sweet soup, preserving this Ba Vi specialty.
Lam tea cake is sweet and rich
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Da River grilled fish is also a dish you cannot miss when coming to Ba Vi. There’s nothing better than fresh river fish, caught and processed right away, then grilled and fragrant, served with raw vegetables. The fish has sweet meat and can be processed into hot pot and many other delicious dishes.
Strings of grilled fish from Da River make diners’ hearts water
Da River fish is very diverse. If you enjoy it at restaurants, you can choose your favorite fish and then prepare it into delicious dishes. Because they are all freshwater fish, diners can rest assured to enjoy them. Not only are they not fishy but they also have the unique flavor of the capital.
Ba Vi is where many ethnic minorities live, the largest of which are the Dao, Muong, and Thai people. These ethnic groups all have traditional cuisines with many differences and novelties, which will certainly surprise us. Among them are the wild vegetables of the Dao people, processed into many dishes such as stir-fried garlic, stir-fried papaya, peanut salad, soup… Each dish has its own flavor, both wild and familiar, simple. but hard to forget.
Bunches of strange and delicious wild vegetables of the Dao people
Above, Vietnamtravelio has just explored Hanoi with you and 9 Ba Vi specialties you cannot miss. In addition to cuisine, in Ba Vi there are many interesting cultural features waiting for you to explore such as Tan Vien festival, wildflower season at Ba Vi national park… Hopefully visitors will choose suitable dishes for themselves. Taste and enjoy to the fullest in our beloved capital.
