Quite surprising, but actually, peaches are a specialty in Sapa. As a cold-loving fruit, peaches are often grown in mountainside areas or specialized farming areas and peach orchards, and often ripen when summer comes. Sapa peaches are as small as a fist, ripe pink and smooth with a sweet taste and a faintly pleasant scent, not too large and have many soft hairs around them like other imported peach varieties.

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Sapa peaches with pink skin

During the harvest season, we can easily see local people selling peaches at local markets, even on roadside or town sidewalks. Sapa people often store peaches in bamboo baskets, so peaches here also have another name, which is ‘basket peaches’. Usually when the crop is ripe, peaches are sold at extremely cheap prices, from only 25,000 VND you can buy a kilo of freshly picked peaches that are plump and smooth.

No one knows since when, Sapa plums with their attractive purple skin have become one of the precious agricultural gifts that the Northwest mountains and forests give to everyone. White plum blossoms blooming in a corner of the forest are always a romantic scene and make people’s hearts flutter if they have the opportunity to witness them. However, the ripe plums heavy on the branches also have a heart-warming beauty, not being ‘less than one’ at all.

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Ripe plums – A gift from the Northwest mountains and forests to you

Sapa’s ripe plum season usually falls around May and June with branches laden with fruit. Just looking at them makes you feel a sour taste spreading throughout your mouth. However, don’t think that Sapa plums have a sour taste that is difficult to eat. The sour taste of plums here is very pleasant, very mild, not too sour, still has a sweet taste that lingers in the throat.

During the ripe plum season, Sapa people often pick and sell them along the highway and even in famous tourist destinations or night markets at extremely cheap prices: only from 30,000 VND for a kilogram of ripe Sapa plums. It’s eye-catching red.

Although it is a relatively strange fruit and is not grown too much in the lowlands, in this Northwest mountain and forest region, apricot fruit is one of the delicious fruits that nature offers to kind-hearted ethnic people. , simple here.

Thanh apricot is often called by another name, wild strawberry, which has a similar appearance to strawberry and grows abundantly in forests. When ripe, the apricot fruit has an eye-catching dark red color with a round shape and a slightly rough skin. When you bite a piece of apricot fruit, the sour and sour taste will make you remember it forever.

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Apricot fruit with a characteristic sour taste

The ripe apricot fruit season usually falls between March and May of the solar calendar, and can only be found during the ripe fruit season. Maybe that’s why apricot fruit is a specialty that people often jokingly say is ‘you can eat it in any season’. Only in the ripe fruit season can you eat it, but besides that, it’s impossible to find fresh apricot fruit on these days. other seasons of the year. When apricot trees are ripe, local people often go to the forest to collect them. In Sapa, they do not grow too many of this type of tree, so the number of apricot trees harvested during the season is not too much. Thanh Mai is truly very special, right?

Tiger macadamia is also one of the famous fruits in Sapa but is still relatively unknown to friends in the lowlands. The mac tiger fruit has a similar appearance to a pear but is smaller in size, approximately the size of a rice bowl. There are two types of tiger macadamia in Sapa: green shell and brown shell, with a sweet, crunchy and succulent taste like a pear but not as strong as a pear but more inclined to a cooler taste.

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Mac tiger fruit has an irresistible sweet taste

The price of tiger pegs is extremely cheap, from only 20,000 VND you can buy a kilogram of Sapa tiger pegs as a gift. However, choose carefully if you don’t want to buy the wrong Chinese pear. Sapa green tiger macadamia has a sweet taste with a slight sour taste in the aftertaste, and when eaten has a light, pleasant aroma. As for brown tiger mac, it has a sweet, mildly sour taste with a cool natural scent. Chinese pears will have uneven sizes of large and small fruits with rough skin, a much darker color than mac tiger pears with a sweet taste but a bitter aftertaste. Please note these things so you can choose the right tiger fruit.

As a typical fruit of the H’Mong people, people often buy cat apples to soak in wine or make vinegar, but do not usually eat them raw because the fruit has a sour taste and is quite acrid and difficult to eat. Apple cider vinegar is one of the famous specialties in Sapa and is very good for health.

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Cat apple – A special fruit in the Northwest

Not only do people in the lowlands often buy apple cider as gifts, but local people also absolutely love the feeling of sipping a warm glass of cider in the chilly atmosphere on the first days of the new year, when the whole family Gather together around the flickering charcoal fire and tell each other fun stories on the first day of the year. Usually, the price of cat apples is 50,000 VND per kilogram and is extremely easy to buy. You can find them at local markets and you will find them.

This fruit is often grown in villages or gardens in tourist areas. Sapa grapes are a stunted tree with a low shape, small fruits and grow in large bunches with rich juice, extremely easy to eat. However, local people often soak apricots into wine similar to the way they soak apricots and plums.

If you want to soak grapes, you need to prepare a large jar or jar, then sprinkle a layer of sugar on the bottom, then alternate a layer of sugar and a layer of grapes, one after another until the jar is full. Okay. Note that the sugar must completely cover the surface of the grape. After a period of incubation, the grapes will have melted, you can filter the juice, then put it in a jar, cover it tightly and let it ferment in the dark. The longer the fermented grape juice is left to drink, the tastier and richer it will be. This is a fruit wine that is popular with many people and has extremely good effects in supporting the circulatory system, beautifying the skin and anti-aging, so women love Sapa forest grape wine.

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Who can resist these bunches of grapes?

Sapa wild grapes usually ripen in August and last until December every year. The price of Sapa wild grapes is also relatively cheap, from only 50,000 VND you can buy a kilogram of Sapa grapes as gifts for your loved ones in the family. You can buy grapes at local markets, night markets or buy directly at the garden.

Not only does it possess impressive natural landscapes, Sapa also makes people remember forever with its fresh, succulent fruits with a naturally sweet flavor and a faintly pleasant scent. If you have the opportunity to return to the foggy town all year round, don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy local specialty fruits as well as bring them back as gifts for your loved ones.