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Sapa food is very famous not only for domestic tourists but also for foreign tourists. It is possible to make the climate here clear and cool, so the dishes have a very distinct taste. Each specialty dish here leaves its own mark that makes diners flutter and fall in love with its special flavor. Here is some specialties of Sapa you should not miss.
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Thang Co Sapa – one of Sapa local foods
Attracting visitors from its unique name, Thang Co is the most famous Sapa specialty dish that should be tried once when coming here. This is a dish made with a combination of ingredients such as beef, buffalo meat, horse organs and cooked with many special spices.
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This is a traditional dish of the H’Mong people, when you eat it, you will feel the uniqueness of this dish. The delicious taste of fatty leopard and the bitter taste from horse intestine juice will bring a new feeling. Especially suitable for eating in the cold weather of Sapa.
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Thang Co is one of the best Sapa food, it is not difficult to find restaurants selling delicious Thang Co because this is a very famous specialty of the mountainous land here:
+ Thang Co A Quynh Sa Pa: No. 15, Thach Son, Sa Pa town, Lao Cai
+ Thang Co Hoa Dong Tien: No. 29 Cau May, Sa Pa town, Lao Cai
+ Thang Co Ngoc Cu: Luong Khanh Thien, Duyen Hai, Lao Cai
To cook this Thang Co dish, it must be used together with 12 mandatory spices: ginger, cardamom, lemongrass, cinnamon chi, … to create the soul of the dish. Thang co is simmered for a few hours so that the ingredients inside are soft, eating well.
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In the cold weather in Sapa, sitting next to the steaming pot of Thang Co, enjoying the warmth from the spreading warmth mixed with the unique and new flavors of the Northwest mountains and forests will surely bring you a wonderful experience. unforgettable culinary experience for you.
Seven-color sticky rice
As a traditional Sapa food that often appears on holidays or on the 1st day of the 7th lunar month, sticky rice with seven colors is the next dish that visitors should enjoy when coming to Sapa. Decorated with seven eye-catching colors, this sticky rice dish represents seven consecutive months of resistance of the Nung Din ethnic group.
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Carrying a beautiful meaning, seven-color sticky rice attracts many visitors to enjoy and learn the history inside. It is not too difficult to find this sticky rice dish all over the streets of Sapa, once you taste it, you will feel the typical natural sweetness of the dish.
The place that sells delicious seven-color sticky rice in Sapa
+ Ba Bam sticky rice: Muong Hoa street, Sapa – in front of the town’s medical station.
+ Mr. Dung: 06, Xuan Vien, Sapa
+ Peach Blossom: 48, Le Van Tam, Sapa
+ Sapa food: 545, Victoria Xuan Vien hotel alley, Sapa
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To make this sticky rice dish, it is necessary to use delicious glutinous rice, round seeds, both long and thin, so that the sticky rice after cooking is always fragrant and delicious. Especially the colors of sticky rice are made from nature such as yellow flowers, sticky rice leaves, etc., so that the dish retains its natural flavor but still looks eye-catching, without the use of colorants.
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Buffalo meat in Sapa kitchen
As a specialty Sapa food that many tourists bring home as gifts for family and friends, kitchen buffalo meat is marinated with a very rich and delicious flavor. Because it is smoked with wood stove smoke, when enjoying it, you will feel the aroma of kitchen smoke remaining in each piece of meat.
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Kitchen buffalo meat is a famous dish of the Black Thai ethnic group, often served with dipping sauce to create a more delicious taste. This dish can also be processed with many methods such as stewing, stir-frying, steaming, … bringing a strange, unique but equally delicious taste to tourists near and far.
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Address to buy kitchen buffalo meat:
+ Sapa night market on Dien Bien Phu street
+ Viet’s Farm: No. 26 Dong Loi, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ A Thinh campus: Cau May street, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
For indigenous people, buffalo meat has long become an indispensable dish during the holidays. Carefully processed from raw material processing to marinating spices, buffalo meat after being grilled will be more hunted, rich and unique. This special dish requires the cook to be careful and skillful because you have to watch the stove and cook according to the recipe if you don’t want the meat to be mushy, tough and hard.
Sapa Black Chicken
Black chicken, also known as evil chicken, is a traditional Sapa food of the H’Mong ethnic group. Sapa black chicken is especially useful, so it is often used as a remedy to improve people’s health, especially for the elderly and sick.
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In addition to chicken stew with traditional medicine, black chicken is also loved with “honey grilled chicken” because of its tough chicken skin, tender meat and strong seasoning. Although there are many different ways of processing, the black chicken dish is always special from the color, to the taste and the benefits that make many visitors feel excited when enjoying it.
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Addresses to enjoy delicious black chicken:
+ Hoang Minh: 23-23, Sapa food court, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
Sapa Smile: No. 18 Cau May, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ Hung Thinh: 356 – 358, An Duong Vuong, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
Don’t be fooled by the chicken’s black appearance without daring to enjoy. With special taste, unique shape and many good benefits, this dish will definitely not let you down.
Sapa sticky rice cooked in bamboo
Contributing to the list of specialties in Sapa food, bamboo-tube rice looks simple but has a strange charm. When enjoying this dish, you will surely imagine the poetic natural scenery punctuated by many green terraced fields because of the natural flavor that rice brings.
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To make bamboo-tube rice, people put rice in a bamboo tube and cook it in it. On the fiery red embers stove, the blue rice tube keeps turning evenly cooked on all sides, the rice grains expand and become both flexible and smooth, and the aroma rises up to the nose. This is definitely a dish you should not miss when coming to Sapa.
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Delicious bamboo-tube rice restaurants in Sapa:
+ The Hill Station Signature Restaurant Sapa: No. 37 Fansipan, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ Red Dao: 4B, Silver Waterfall, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ Cau May: 92 Ngu Chi Son, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ Buffalo Bell: No. 25 Cau Mau, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
The plasticity and smoothness of bamboo-tube rice remains intact even after it has been cooled, eating like sticky rice, but the taste is sweeter. When eating, visitors often eat with sesame salt. Combined with chicken or other ingredients, it will make the meal more flavorful.
Vietnamese apple wine
And finally, it is impossible to ignore apple cider when it comes to Sapa specialties. Made from the apple tamarind growing in the northern mountains, this wine has a unique sweet and sour taste mixed with the bitter taste of cat apple, creating a special wine in the land of fog.
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Under the cold weather of Sapa, enjoying a glass of Vietnamese apple wine will awaken all your senses. Bringing you like waking up between the pungent taste, the seductive fragrance with the characteristic cockroach wing color looks very eye-catching and delicious.
Where to sell delicious Vietnamese apple wine in Sapa:
+ Quoc Cuong: No. 74 Thach Son, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ H’Mong wine cooperative: 130 Dien Bien Phu, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
+ Northwest Wine: No. 09 Silver Waterfall, Sapa town, Lao Cai province
With typical uses such as treating headaches, dizziness, insomnia, .. Vietnamese apple wine is loved by many tourists and comes to buy as gifts for family, friends and relatives. It can be said that besides the special dishes, Vietnamese apple wine is also a famous Sapa specialty with bold flavors of the mountains.
Armpit pork
This is a dish made from pigs raised freely with a weight of 5-6kg of the Mong ethnic people. The strange origin of the name “armpit pork” stems from the habit that when going to the fair, sellers often “steal the armpits” of pigs to sell.
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Armpit pork has a unique flavor that cannot be found anywhere outside of Sapa. Pork is soft, firm, but still has alternating fat to create an irresistible taste, especially when grilled on crispy, golden brown meat. Come to Sapa to enjoy this dish, do not forget to eat with your friends by the fire, because this is a relaxing hobby of the people here.
Address with delicious pork armpits in Sapa:
+ Dong Tien Flower Shop: 29 Cau May, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Dung Trau restaurant: 85 Xuan Vien, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ A Phu restaurant: 15 Fansipan, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Phuong Ngoan restaurant: 13C Nguyen Hue, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
Salmon Sapa best food
Salmon is a specialty and one of the best food in Sapa. You usually see article about it on some Sapa food blogs.
Salmon often living in dynamic waters with low temperature. The meat of salmon is firm and has an attractive red color, has a fatty but not greasy taste. Visitors here can enjoy salmon sashimi, mixed salad, grilled all, cooked with pepper… In addition, you should not miss the salmon hotpot with sweet and sour taste, eaten with all kinds of Northwest fresh vegetables.
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Address of delicious salmon in Sapa:
+ Hoa Dao shop: 48 Le Van Tam, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ A Quynh: 15 Thach Son, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Sapa salmon restaurant: 039 Xuan Vien, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Song Nhi: Silver Waterfall, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
Grilled stream fish
Grilled stream fish is small in size, but the meat is delicious, not fishy, firm. Coming to Sapa, you must definitely try the feeling of catching fish and grilling at the stream, combined with a little San Lung wine in the Northwest, it is extremely refreshing.
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Address of delicious grilled stream fish restaurant in Sapa:
+ Hoang Minh: 23-24, Food court in Sapa, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Chapa: 40 Cau May, Sapa town, Lao Cai
+ Thai Bac: Km12, Thac Bac tourist area, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
+ Sapa Lotus: 34 Cau May, Sapa town, Lao Cai.
Coming to Sapa, you should not miss the opportunity to enjoy these wonderful specialties. In addition, nature favors you with beautiful landscapes and attractions. Tourists come here too, which is the unique feature of Sapa food. To book a tour or need a Sapa food guide to this beautiful place, contact us right now!
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