11 Best Ninh Binh Foods

After knowing what to do in Ninh Binh, we believe it is time to try the wondrous foods of Ninh Binh because we don't want you to get starved. How convenient! we have a menu here.

1. Ninh Bình mountain goat

Goat meat is the number 1 food in this list of Ninh Binh's specialties. Ninh Binh mountain goat can make many dishes such as mountain goat in lime juice salad, grilled goat, goat spring rolls, or stir-fried goat with lemongrass and chili. Feel the hunger yet? These dishes are said to be nutritious and healthy too, convenient huh?

2. Grilled snakehead fish

According to the traditional recipe of Ninh Binh cuisine, the fish must be grilled on a charcoal stove, sprinkled with fried scallion and roasted peanut seeds, and then dipped in a bowl of savory sauce.

3. Ninh Binh vermicelli soup

Ninh Binh vermicelli soup always has giant noodle threads and a special sauce soused underneath and served with spinach and Vietnamese grilled pork roll. You can also add a little vinegar and chili to taste the best flavor.

4. Ninh Binh Ant egg sticky rice

As strange as it seems, this dish is one of the most famous foods of Ninh Binh. People will bring the ant eggs from the mountainous area of Nho Quan. After that, they marinate and stir-fry them. Finally, it is served with sticky rice.

5. Ninh Binh paddy field eel

This Ninh Binh food recipe is complicated, with many stages to eradicate the smelly smell and prepare the dipping sauce. The salad dipping sauce is a combination of the spicy taste of chili, lemongrass, and pepper.

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6. Kim Son vermicelli sprouting

In Ninh Binh, the district of Kim Son is most famous for vermicelli sprouting. This food of Ninh Binh is made from pork mixed with delicious spices, fish sauce, and sweet vegetables.

7. Stem liquor of Ninh Binh

Stem liquor is a specialty of the Muong ethnic people in the Nho Quan region. To make this kind of wine, people will cook sticky rice and brew it with yeast in large jars. The minimum fermentation time is 3 months.

8. Ninh Binh Eel vermicelli

Ninh Binh Eel vermicelli must be the most meticulous dish among Ninh Binh's best foods. The broth is made from eel bones to create a rich flavor. The eels are chosen carefully, they must have a pinkish-brown back and a dark yellow belly. This dish is usually served with banana blossom.

9. Ninh Binh crabs roasted with lolot leaves

Also called the most crunchy dish in Ninh Binh cuisine. To make this dish, people must roast the crabs until they become crispy. Then they continued to combine the crabs with the lolot leaves so that you could taste the aroma and spicy taste on the tip of your tongue. 

10. Ninh Binh floating rice cake

Not the only sweet treat in Ninh Binh cuisine, but it is probably the most hard-to-forget dessert on the list. It is said that the bakers here have a secret recipe for combining sugar, honey, and crushed dried peanuts to make the filling.

11. Ninh Binh Scorched Rice

Your Ninh Binh best foods collection is not complete if you forget scorched rice. Scorched rice is famous as a delicious specialty with ingredients made from 100% pure rice served with a delicious spice mixture. The cooked rice must be pressed into pieces to dry, then fried in an oil pan until the rice turns a spongy yellow color.

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