Ant Eggs 

Every March, when the weather starts to warm up, preparing to welcome a summer, the Northwestern men in general and Lao Cai in particular invite each other to the forest to collect ant eggs. This unique specialty of the Northwest mountains and forests always makes people fascinated by the extremely strange and delicious taste. The milky, soft ant eggs are already attractive just looking at them, but when they eat them, they are even more attracted to them, once they have eaten, they will crave it forever. Ant eggs are processed into many dishes such as sticky rice with ant eggs, fried ant eggs, fried ant eggs ... but for Giay Lao Cai people, ant eggs are often made with bitter bamboo shoots, they cleverly separate each sheath of bitter bamboo shoots and roll them with ant eggs (ant eggs are mixed with spices) then steamed with steamed sticky rice.

With dishes from the mountains and forests only available in season, so this is the best time to enjoy and enjoy this specialty and nutritious ant egg.



Show off after being cleaned up

Rotten vegetables, also known as wild vegetables

Rotten vegetables are climbing plants with long, thorny stems that grow wild in the forest. March to June is the best time for rotten vegetables, giving the most young leaves. People often pick the tops and young leaves for processing. Rotten vegetables can do a lot of dishes such as stir-fry beef, stir-fry garlic, fry eggs, make mannequins, cook soup... When eating vegetables, they have a sweet, greasy, crispy taste... once you eat them, you will feel addicted. If you have not enjoyed it yet, go to feel the delicious, fragrant taste of this rotten vegetable dish. If you want to enjoy this special dish, go to Bac Ha, Lao Cai. This land is suitable for the climate, so fishing for wild vegetables grows well. Indigenous people here also have many ways of processing this vegetable into especially delicious dishes.

Mang Sat

Sat bamboo shoots are a type of forest bamboo shoots characterized by a solid, soft, white core, as small as a thumb, low in fiber, delicious and strangely aromatic. Sat bamboo shoots are delicious rustic dishes, but they are not boring to eat forever and are extremely benign, which can be said to be the most benign of all types of bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are best eaten when they are still fresh and harvested in the right season starting from the end of January to March of the lunar calendar, after the spring season, the bamboo shoots sprout again like mushrooms, white and tender. When the shoots of bamboo shoots emerge, the indigenous people rush to the mountain to pick bamboo shoots. The fresh shoots are still covered with dirt, but when peeled off, they are white and fresh. This type of bamboo shoots can be processed in many different ways: boiled, fried, cooked in soup, made chili bamboo shoots, sour bamboo shoots or dried to eat gradually... Especially, grilled bamboo shoots dotted diagonally have become a specialty that is not Everyone is lucky enough to enjoy.



Boiled bamboo shoots with the skin on

Spinach

Lettuce is shaped like a fern. This vegetable grows wild on the edge of forests and along streams, and is often sold in markets in the Northwest highlands. Lettuce has cool properties, so dishes made from this vegetable can help cool down in the hot season, the mucus in the leaves has a laxative effect and soothes back pain. In addition, cilantro is not only delicious, but also very nutritious, so it is often used by people for processing in family meals. From boiling, stir-frying, cooking soup to making mannequins, no matter how it is processed, coriander always makes people enjoy its original flavor forever.

Bamboo shoots rolled with meat

Bamboo shoots roll with meat is a dish that is not too complicated, but the taste is very strange, so it is loved by many tourists. When eaten, the slightly bitter taste of bamboo shoots mixed with the sweet aroma of meat and other spices will make your taste buds stimulated to the maximum. The skillful combination of flavors of bamboo shoots and meat rolls makes it hard to resist. I had the opportunity to prepare and enjoy this dish. And if you have the opportunity to set foot in my hometown Lao Cai in the journey of discovery and experience, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy this beautiful and attractive meat bamboo shoots.

Bamboo shoots

Delicious dishes from the mountains are always the focus of tourists' choice in their journey to a new land. Lao Cai will be the ideal stopover to enjoy the unique and rich culinary space of the ethnic groups. If you want to find out more information about Lao Cai tourism, you can contact Lao Cai Tourism Information and Promotion Center, number 02 Fansipan, Sa Pa town - Lao Cai (support phone   02143871975 within hours) administration) or consult directly at https://www.facebook.com/visit.laocai.



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