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In Quang Binh, there is porridge eaten with chopsticks – try it and you will know why!
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For a long time, snakehead fish porridge (also known as soup, soup cake, bed porridge…) has been present in most of the North Central region, but the “discovery” of the “national” dish This “national spirit” is the windy land of Laos with white sand in Quang Binh and Quang Tri.
Porridge close to snakehead fish, also known as soup, bed porridge (Photo: chudu24)
Referring to ” porridge soup “, many people immediately think of a thick, smooth rice porridge pot, but in fact this dish is more like vermicelli, pho or noodles than porridge.
To have a quality fish porridge pot, the ingredients needed include brown rice , red rice. First, the rice is soaked enough and then ground into a powder, kneaded thoroughly, then pounded until the dough is “cooked”, tight, chewy and does not stick to the hands.
In the next stage, people will cut the dough into small pieces and then use a pestle or glass bottle to roll it very thin, cut it into fibers, drop it in boiled water, and do it when there are customers. This stage is called “slaughter”, and that is also the origin of the name of the dish “porridge close to copper snakehead fish”.
Porridge soup is more like vermicelli, pho or noodles than porridge (Photo: mia)
Like the rustic and genuine Central people, the form of soup is not as sophisticated as pho. In addition, the manual way of cutting the dough makes the cake fibers large and thick, which looks quite rudimentary, not soft, thin and smooth like pho.
There is no general recipe or specific processing because each locality, each family has its own cooking method. Depending on the skill of the chef of each restaurant, diners can enjoy very different unique flavors.
The reason for this dish is to choose the raw material of snakehead fish (called fruit fish in the North) because the fish meat is firm, sweet and fragrant. Snakehead fish has welding properties, cools the liver, clears heat, and is good for health. After cleaning, the fish is boiled or steamed until cooked, separate the fish meat by hand, marinate a little fish sauce, onions, pepper, and chili.
Quang Binh people often eat porridge soup with Ba Don ram (Photo: ticotravel)
Fry the fragrant onions, add the spiced fish meat to the hot pan, drizzle a little color of cashew oil. Wait for the fish to hunt again, turn yellow, then take it out and keep it separate, when you eat it, add it to help increase the fat.
The broth of snakehead fish porridge is made from fish broth with a sweet taste. To make the dish more attractive, the cook can add a little chili to create eye-catching colors and adorn the dish.
Fish bones and heads are wrapped in cloth bags, stewed with pork bones, seasoned with a little salt and simmered over medium heat for 1 to 1.5 hours. After the stew is finished, the pork bones and fish head are removed, the remaining broth is reduced with spices to taste.
Ram eats porridge with soup like Hanoians eat pho with quail (Photo: Le Thuy cuisine)
To please diners near and far, Quang Binh soup is also added by chefs with more ingredients such as pork ribs, snakehead fish, crabs, fresh shrimp… In particular, shrimp used for soup must be live shrimp in In the lagoon area, shrimp meat is rich and has no fishy smell.
To enjoy the standard porridge of snakehead fish, Quang Binh people often eat it with Ba Don ram (also known as fried spring rolls, spring rolls). Ram eats with congee soup like Hanoians eat pho with quail.
The finished bowl of porridge soup has a sweet and refreshing taste, adding a bit of flexibility of the red-brown rice cake to the sweetness of each attractive piece of golden snakehead fish. After enjoying delicious pancakes and snakehead fish in turn, it is flavored with a piece of ram made from minced pork, making the taste of the dish even more special.
Porridge close to snakehead fish served with chopped green vegetables (Photo: Le Thuy cuisine)
More specifically, a bowl of hot porridge soup in Quang Binh is served with chopped green vegetables, not bean sprouts, salads, herbs, raw vegetables… like breakfast in many places. Depending on the taste, people can add chili powder, onions and pepper.
Quang Binh people eat porridge soup always with a cup of spicy chili fish sauce. In winter as well as in summer, townspeople or market visitors often choose to have breakfast with a bowl of porridge soup, make some ram and sip a small glass of wine. The smell of fried onions, and the fragrant smell of ram create an extremely special soup porridge flavor, anyone who has enjoyed it once can’t forget it.
Son river carp, Mooc stream grilled chicken, burnt shrimp Beo cake, Banh Khoai, filter cake… are must-try delicacies when coming to Quang Binh. However, do not forget to experience the unique way of “eating porridge with chopsticks” of the Central people with the “porridge soup” – porridge close to snakehead fish, porridge on the bed…!!!
In Quang Binh, there is porridge eaten with chopsticks – try it and you will know why!
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