Top 10 Dishes in My Tho: My Tho clear rice noodle soup, Lo Ren star apple fruit, My Tho Goi Da noodle salad, Rice snail, Bean sprout cake, Hang Bong market duckweed cake,…
Located in the Lower Mekong River, Tien Giang has favorable natural conditions. As a rich and fertile land, this place has a unique culinary culture, attracting all visitors from near and far.
Tien Giang is an attractive tourist destination in the West, with many kinds of specialty fruit trees, abundant products from the river. Thanks to skillful hands, the people here have made many famous delicious dishes that make many tourists fall in love. Here we would like to introduce to you the famous delicious dishes in Tien Giang, giving you a more comprehensive and detailed view of the cuisine here.
In Tien Giang, there are many delicious dishes that make tourists excited.
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1. My Tho clear rice noodle soup (Hủ tiếu Mỹ Tho)
My Tho clear rice noodle soup is the number one specialty in Tien Giang. Each strand of cake is soft and chewy, the broth is sweet, the meat is both soft and sweet, mixed with the moderate sourness of the dipping sauce, giving people a sense of appetite, making people remember the taste just enjoying. The accompanying vegetables are usually lettuce and chives, sprinkled on top with a little fried onion and pepper. Depending on the request of the eater, the chef will add bones or seafood.
My Tho clear rice noodle soup is the number one specialty in Tien Giang
2. Lo Ren star apple fruit (Vú sữa Lò Rèn)
Lo Ren star apple fruit is considered one of the famous dishes in Tien Giang, which is extremely popular with tourists. The star apple fruit here has round fruit, thin skin, thick intestine, and small seeds. When ripe, the star apple fruit has a pink-yellow color, a faint aroma, a sweet taste that is easy to eat. People process star apple fruit into many different delicious dishes such as star apple fruit pickle, star apple fruit smoothie, mock pomegranate seed and star apple fruit sweet soup.
The star apple fruit has round fruit, thin skin, thick intestine, and small seeds
3. My Tho Goi Da noodle salad (bún gỏi già Mỹ Tho)
My Tho Goi Da noodle salad has a characteristic sweet and sour broth served with silver shrimp, peeled shrimp and peeled black tiger shrimp. When eaten, it is served with water spinach, grated banana tree and chives, and added to the dipping sauce made from henicorhynchus fish sauce.
A large bowl of My Tho Goi Da noodle salad (My Tho old salad noodle) with noodles, vegetables and sauces – Top 10 Dishes in My Tho
4. Rice snail – Ốc gạo
Tan Phong, an islet built by alluvium, has a famous specialty dish, rice snail. Due to the abundance of food, the snails are very large, the intestines are full and tough. After catching, snails will be cleaned of all mud and processed into many delicious dishes. Boiled snails dipped in ginger fish sauce, fried snails with onions and garlic and rolled salad, or cooked with onion and congee are all very attractive. Tourists coming here should enjoy all the dishes made from snails, surely you will not be disappointed.
A plate of boiled rice nails – Top 10 Dishes in My Tho
5. Bean sprout cake (Bánh giá)
Bean sprout cake is made from familiar ingredients such as rice flour, tapioca flour, pig liver, raw bean sprouts. The filling of the cake includes raw bean sprouts, pig liver, and shrimp put in the ladle firstly, continued to scoop the dough to add later. Dip the flour ladle into a pan of hot oil, wait for the cake to stick, then lift the ladle, let the cake turn golden in the pan. Crispy bean sprouts cake eaten with vermicelli, raw vegetables, dipped with chili garlic dipping sauce is very delicious.
Crispy bean sprouts cake eaten with vermicelli, raw vegetables, dipped with chili garlic dipping sauce is very delicious
6. Hang Bong market bloating-fearn-shaped cake (Bánh bèo chợ Hàng Bông)
Hang Bong market is famous for bloating-fearn-shaped cake. Street vendors are simple but always crowded because of delicious cakes and reasonable prices, only from 10,000-15,000 VND per serving. Bloating-fearn-shaped cake has two types of fillings, sweet and salty. The sweet filling has green beans and coconut milk, the salty filling is usually green beans, shredded pork skin, and fragrant fried onions. Eating duckweed cake is often served with mixed fish sauce and pickles so as not to get bored.
A plate of salty bloating fern shaped cake – Top 10 Dishes in My Tho
7. Banana with coconut (chuối quết dừa)
This is one of the famous delicious dishes in Tien Giang, the main ingredients include old green Thai banana and grated coconut. Banana with coconut has the aroma of banana, the sweetness of sugar, grated coconut, combined with the cool taste of herbs and melon, giving people a strange feeling, eating forever will not feel bored.
Banana with coconut has the aroma of banana, the sweetness of sugar, grated coconut
8. Cho Gao grilled egg mix (chả nướng Chợ Gạo)
This dish is processed quite sophisticatedly, often appearing on holidays and anniversaries. The main ingredients to make the cabob are duck eggs and lean pork shoulder. After being boiled, lean shoulder meat is sliced into thin slices, marinated with fragrant fried onions and garlic. Meat is put in a large bowl, beaten with duck eggs, added fish sauce, pepper to taste. When grilling rolls, people here use cast iron pots and grill on charcoal stoves until cooked evenly.
The main ingredients to make the grilled egg mix are duck eggs and lean pork shoulder
9. Go Cong horseshoe crab (Sam biển Gò Công)
Horseshoe crab is a marine arthropod, hard shell, long and pointed tail, living in pairs, males and females never separate. If you come to Tien Giang from October to February of the lunar calendar, you should not miss the unique and delicious sea king-crabs here. King-crab is cleaned, then grilled on a charcoal stove, grilled until the shell changes color and the aroma is fragrant. The most delicious is the female horseshoe crab with eggs, fragrant, nutritious, golden eggs eaten with sour grapefruit, cut radish pickled in vinegar, herbs, peanuts and fried onions… Horseshoe crab is used to cook sour soup with water spinach or dragon beans.
The most delicious is the female horseshoe crab with eggs, fragrant, nutritious
10. Fermented soft-shell fiddler crab (mắm còng lột)
Fermented soft-shell fiddler crab is one of the famous dishes in Tien Giang. Crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. People invite each other to catch them, marinate them with spices to infuse them evenly, then cover them with flour, fry or roast them with tamarind. The left is salted to eat gradually. Salted peeling small crab is eaten with raw vegetables, boiled pork, mango or pineapple, vermicelli and paper. Salted peeling small crab has a sour, spicy, salty, sweet taste, a very unique flavor, once eaten, you will remember it forever.
Fermented soft-shell fiddler crab – one of the Top 10 Dishes in My Tho has a sour, spicy, salty, sweet taste, a very unique flavor, once eaten, you will remember it forever
Above we have just introduced to you the famous delicious dishes of Tien Giang. Most of them are rustic dishes but have great taste, created by skillful hands, making tourists extremely popular. There are many delicious specialties that we cannot list all of them, if you have the opportunity to visit Tien Giang, please enjoy and learn about the cuisine here, it will be a very rewarding experience.
