Hoi An
Food & Drink in Hoi An
Brown Noodle with Pork and Greens (Cao Lau)
Cao lầu, a dish of rice noodles which are not quite as slippery as pho and a bit closer in texture to pasta. The secret is the water used to make it, and authentic cao lau uses only water from a special well in the city. The noodles are topped with slices of roast pork, dough fritters, and this being Vietnam, lots of fresh herbs and veggies.
White Rose Dumplings in Vietnam
White rose (banh bao vac), a type of shrimp dumpling made from translucent white dough bunched up to look like a rose.
Mi Quang (Quang Style Noodle with Pork & Shrimp)
Quang-noodles (Mi Quang) is popular around the country, its thin, flat rice noodles glazed with a mixture of peanut oil fried with onion and usually yellow broth.Traditionally, its main ingredients are shrimp and pork, which are also used to cook the broth and as toppings together with peanuts and rice crackers. But the dish has gradually become diverse with more toppings like chicken, fish, squid, eggs, snails, and even frogs.
Vietnamese Rice Crackers
Vietnamese Rice Crackers (Banh Dap) is actually a combination of two kinds of rice papers, one white, thin and kind of sticky and the other, dry, crispy and brittle.
First, you place a wet pancake on a crispy one. Then apply some mung bean paste and place some fried chopped shallots and shredded spring onion. Lastly, add another dry pancake before breaking the sandwich with the hand.
You have to crack the sandwich once again, this time into two, and dip it into a sauce whose ingredient is mam cai -- a kind of fermented and salted fish paste that is native to the central region.
Seafood on some islands around Hoi An
Hoi An seafood: Explore at least an afternoon and evening on An Bang Beach where you can dig into fantastic local seafood.
Coffee in Hoi An
Hoi An has two cafes very large toad drink in the morning, that she Thao shop located just off the turning from Bach Dang Nhat, guests here are mostly young people. Across the bridge is customary for middle-aged people. Sitting at the bar are both visible Hoai river bank scene and one block trawling An Hoi. Fresh morning before banning motor vehicles, drinking a cup of coffee after eating bread Phuong is a gentle way to start your day in Old City. Also in Hoi An also has a special tea room restaurant, waiters are Deaf. Reaching Out shop at 131 Tran Phu. Reaching Out to you will be enjoy the gentle, quiet – great for sipping coffee and reading a pocket book.
