What to Eat In Hue? – Best Hue Street Foods

What to Eat In Hue? – Best of Hue Street Foods

Hue is worth a visit for being former Imperial Capital of Vietnam, Perfume River and authentic cuisine. Besides visiting must-visited tourist attraction, do not miss tasting delicious foods in Hue. It’s a big chance for you to learn more about Hue foods and rich culture hidden in the foods. What to Eat In Hue? This is a frequently asked question when you visit this beautiful city.

Hue cuisine is distinctive and there are 2 forms of Hue foods: traditional and imperial. I’d like to introduce you best traditional foods (or street foods) and places to eat them in Hue. Please be noted that most of eating places in this post are street food stalls which are famous with locals. You can read more about What to Eat in Hue? – Hue Imperial Foods and 5 Best Restaurants in Hue HERE.

1. Steamed Rice with Baby Basket Clams or Baby Basket Clams Rice (Cơm Hến)

Steamed Rice With Baby Clams In Hue Or Com Hen (2)

Steamed rice with baby basket clams – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

What to Eat In Hue? The answer is usually Cơm Hến. Baby Basket Clams Rice is everywhere from small villages in the country to luxury restaurants in the city of Hue. Both rich and poor people love to eat this flavorful dish. Cơm Hến is made from rice, baby basket clams, deep-fried pork fat pieces and shrimp paste – a specialty of Hue. The food is served with herbs, shredded banana blossoms, bean sprouts, thinly cut taro plants and peanuts covered in oil.

Best places to eat Steamed Rice with Baby Basket Clams:

  • 2 Truong Dinh street, Hue city
  • Han Mac Tu street

2. Soup Cake (Bánh Canh)

Soup Cake is a Vietnamese rice noodle soup with thicker and shorter noodles in comparison to other kinds of noodle soups in Vietnam. In addition, the broth of Bánh Canh isn’t clear like others but glutinous. There are 2 delicious Soup Cake receipts in Hue which you should try.

Soup Cake with Shrimp, quail egg, fish pie tracy

Soup cake – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Nam Pho Soup Cake has a secret traditional receipt with soft and smelling noodles. The broth is cooked from crab, ground pork, shrimp, pork chop, pork pie and other secret ingredients which makes this Soup Cake unique. The yellow and glutinous broth makes anybody mouth-watering at first look. There are many street food stalls serving Nam Pho Soup Cake on the streets for you to enjoy.

Soup Cake at Ba Doi stall is always crowded with customers so that you have to wait for a few minutes to enjoy a bowl of Soup Cake. The noodle doesn’t have round cylinder shape but oval cylinder shape like Soup Cake in Quang Binh province, Central Vietnam. The broth is also cooked from shrimp, pork and other secret ingredients. It’s topped with shrimp, pork pie, green onion and deep-fried onion. Address: 9 Nguyen Trai street, Hue city.

3. Sweet Soup at alleys (Chè Hẻm)

Ba Beo Sweet Soup Stall in Hue 2

Colorful Hue sweet soups – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Hue is famous for many kinds of amazing sweet soup at hidden alleys. Each sweet soup has its own taste which is as dedicated as Hue people. From glutinous sweet soup with corn smelling sweet soup with lotus seed to special dumplings, sweet soup with taro… are all you must try. Amazing sweet soups couldn’t be missed in the post What to Eat in Hue? Just come to the stall and enjoy colorful and exotic Sweet Soup.

It’s easy to find a good place to enjoy Sweet Soup on the streets in Hue. I’d like to recommend you to come to:

27 Hung Vuong street, Hue city

45 Tran Phu street, Hue city

4. Steamed Rice with vegetarian foods (Cơm chay Huế )

Vietnamese Stir Fried Vegetables Or Rau Xao Chay

Delicious vegetarian foods in Hue – Photo source: unknown

Visiting quiet Hue city, it’s a good place for you to relax and calm yourself. Veggies are good choice to refresh your stomach. Vegetarian foods are known as very delicious and it’s worth a try. There is a wide range of vegetarian foods such as Rice with lotus seeds, Hue rice noodle soup with veggies, Mixed boiled veggies, Fried spring roll with veggies…

You can come to pagodas to enjoy a delicious meal of vegetarian foods. Tu Dam Pagoda on Su Lieu Quan street, Hue city is one of the most popular places to taste great foods. You can come to Lien Hoa food stall at 3 Le Quy Don street to eat vegetarian foods at good price.

5. Hue rice noodle soup (Bún bò Huế )

hue-noodle-soup-at-bun-bo-ganh

Hue noodle soup – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Bún bò Huế is the soul of Hue cuisine. The highlight of this food is the broth with mysterious and secret receipt. The broth is cooked from pork bone, shrimp paste, lemongrass, ginger and others. This dish is topped with pork leg, pork pie, pork blood pudding and beef. The dish isn’t greasy to eat because a plate of assorted herbs is served with a bowl of rice noodle soup. I’ve enjoy a Bún bò Huế at 13 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hue city and it’s very very flavorful.

6. Rice noodle with grilled pork and Banh hoi with grilled pork

Rice Noodle With Grilled Pork Or Bun Thit Nuong

Rice noodle with grilled pork – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Question Cake With Grilled Pork Or Banh Hoi Thit Nuong

Question cake with grilled pork – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Grilled pork in Hue is marinated enough so that it’s tender after being grilled. The grilled pork has a special taste – Hue taste. It’s eaten with rice noodle or Banh hoi, fresh herbs and fish sauce dip. Best places to eat Rice noodle with grilled pork and Banh hoi with grilled pork are on Kim Long street.

7. Hue cakes: Bánh bèo, bánh bột lọc, bánh khoái

When you come to Hue, you will see Hue cakes are everywhere on the streets. Hue cakes have become an important part in Hue daily life. Hue people love to eat Bánh bèo, bánh bột lọc, bánh khoái as snack

You can come to An Dinh street, Ngu Binh street and Nguyen Binh Khiem Street to see how locals eat their favorite cakes.

Bloating Fern Shaped Cake Or Banh Beo In Vietnam

Bloating Fern-shaped Cake – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Bánh bèo or Bloating Fern-shaped Cake is a savory cake eaten with dipping fish sauce. Rice flour mix is steamed in a small bowl before being topped with shrimp, ground pork, deep-fried pork fat, ground dried tiny shrimp, a mix of chopped green onion and oil. Bánh bột lọc or Tapioca Dumplings with Shrimp and Pork is a small, clear-looking, chewy tapioca dumpling. The filling is made from shrimp and pork. Fish sauce dip couldn’t be missed to serve Bánh bột lọc.

Vietnamese Clear Shrimp & Pork Dumpling Or Banh Bot Loc

Vietnamese Clear Shrimp & Pork Dumpling Or Banh Bot Loc – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Banh Khoai in Hue
Bánh khoái – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Bánh Khoái is a crepe made from rice and egg yolk. It’s topped with green onion, fish sauce, peeled boiled shrimp, thinly slices of grill beef, thinly slices of fat and bean sprouts. The special taste of Bánh khoái comes from the sauce which only can be made by talent cook. The most famous brand of Bánh khoái is Thuong Tu. You can come to Banh Khoai Lac Thien at 6 Dinh Tien Hoang street, Hue city.

8. Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake Nhat Le (Bánh chưng Nhật Lệ)

Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake Or Banh Chung

Nhat Le Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake is a traditional food in Vietnam. It’s a must dish at Tet festival to worship ancestors. Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake is wrapped in banana leaves. Main ingredients are sticky rice, green bean, pork belly, green onion, black pepper… Nhat Le is one of the most famous brands of Vietnamese Square Sticky Rice Cake in Hue as well as Vietnam. It has been said that it’s better to eat Nhat Le Cake when it’s cold.

9. Barbecued pork (Nem lụi chất Huế )

Vietnamese Pork Patties

Vietnamese Pork Patties Or Nem Nuong 2

Hue-style barbecued pork – Photo by Scooter Saigon Tour

Barbecued pork is a Hue specialty which you can see anywhere in Hue. To eat, dinners use rice paper to wrap herbs, pine apple, bean sprouts, green banana, chili. Then the roll is dipped in a special sauce made from dozens of ingredients such as oil, pork liver, winter melon powder, cinnamon, star aniseed, coconut cream.

10. Hell Rice or Com Am Phu

Hell Rice In Hue, Vietnam Or Com Am Phu

Now you know What to Eat in Hue, do not skip visiting this peaceful city to discover beautiful sights, rich culture and exotic street foods.

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