Special features of Pho Hien cuisine

Coming to Pho Hien - Hung Yen city, visitors cannot miss the dishes from simple, rustic to sophisticated that only exist here, bringing the full flavor that makes you remember forever after enjoying it once.

The cuisine in Pho Hien can be summed up in two words: delicious and healthy. With their skillful and hard-working hands, the women in this land have created many dishes that delight diners for generations. From hot breakfasts with vermicelli soup, spring rolls, salty and sweet rice cakes, to snacks such as: longan lotus seed sweet soup, peanut candy, and fried rice cakes... And specialties to bring back as gifts for relatives and friends such as: longan, lotus seeds, and Banh soy sauce...

Bun thang - a dish loved by many diners when coming to Hung Yen

Especially in the spring weather, when many people and tourists come to the Pho Hien Folk Culture Festival, the food stalls here make the spring festival space even warmer and more flavorful. Walking on the tree-lined road, with the faint drizzle and the faint scent of incense, visitors can immerse themselves in the traditional cultural and religious space of the relics in Pho Hien, blend in with the bustling atmosphere of folk games and freely taste many delicious and unique dishes.

Having just traveled a long way to Pho Hien, Ms. Doan Thanh Hoa, a tourist from Nghe An province, happily said: Every year at the beginning of spring, my friend in Hung Yen invites me to come back to visit and worship at the relics. This time, coming to Hung Yen city right on the days of the Pho Hien Folk Culture Festival, I am very happy and impressed. This morning I enjoyed the Bun Thang dish, which was very delicious and to my taste.

Bun thang is also a unique feature of Pho Hien cuisine, loved by many diners. To have a delicious bowl of bun thang, you need dozens of different ingredients, from bone broth, pork belly, fried eggs, meatballs and especially eel meat. You have to be skillful, meticulous and have your own secret to create a delicious, impressive and different bowl of bun thang. Families who make bun thang always have to stay up late and wake up early to prepare the ingredients. The bone broth creates a sweet taste for the broth, the ingredients blend together: the thin white noodles, the yellow color of fried eggs, the pink-colored ham, the pork belly is meticulously fried into pork rinds, the golden eel with the aroma of turmeric is arranged in the center of the bowl of bun thang. The hot and harmonious bowl of bun thang is like a culinary picture that makes diners praise it as delicious and beautiful.

After walking around and admiring the peaceful space of Pho Hien, stopping at a small shop by the Crescent Lake, visitors can enjoy a bowl of tapioca sweet soup with fragrant sticky rice, or a bowl of cool lotus seed longan sweet soup. Lotus seed longan sweet soup, a dish formed from the specialties of Pho Hien including: lotus seeds, longan, tapioca flour, naturally combined to create a flavor that captivates people. This rustic but sophisticated dish requires the cook to be attentive and skillful from choosing the ingredients to processing and serving the bowl. The dish is simple, rustic but attractive because of its natural flavor. Tapioca flour is cooked smoothly with rock sugar, bringing a mild sweetness. Succulent longan covers the white, soft lotus seeds, giving off a faint fragrance of grapefruit flowers, jasmine flowers, each bite exudes purity and elegance. The cool sweetness of the tea, the crispy and fragrant longan pulp mixed with the rich taste of lotus seeds... all the fatigue of the long journey seemed to melt away with that gentle sweetness.

Coming to Pho Hien in early spring, the food stalls are simply decorated under the shade of green trees, in cozy booths. The gentle smiles of Pho Hien girls are hidden behind the white hats, the skillful hands prepare each delicious dish, the simple, natural ingredients... seem to add to the cultural beauty of this place.

Within the framework of the Pho Hien Folk Culture Festival, the culinary stalls were assigned by Hung Yen city to departments, specialized units, associations, unions and localities to coordinate in implementation. The organization of the stalls is not for profit but through the display of goods to introduce to tourists the dishes and specialties of Hung Yen city in particular and Hung Yen province in general. The beauty of cuisine is depicted from the process of selecting ingredients, processing methods to the nutritional effects of the dishes on health. Comrade Nguyen Thi Nu, President of the Women's Union of Hung Yen city said: The stalls help tourists enjoy delicious dishes and learn about the subtleties of Pho Hien, Hung Yen culture hidden in rustic, rural dishes. The culinary products selected to be introduced at the Pho Hien Folk Culture Festival all ensure the criteria of quality, aesthetics, food hygiene and safety and have reasonable prices, thereby creating a good impression on tourists when they come to Hung Yen city.

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