Cat Bi culinary "paradise"

Known as "culinary paradise", "snack world ", anyone coming to Cat Bi market (Hai An district, Hai Phong city) can eat until full at "super cheap" prices.

Passing the signboard with the words "Cat Bi Market - Snack Paradise", about 30 meters into the market, we begin to hear the clacking of scissors cutting salad, the crackling of oil frying spring rolls, and the aroma of countless types of food spreading.

Cat Bi " Culinary Paradise"

With an area of ​​about 50 square meters, the Cat Bi market food court has more than a dozen stalls, each stall specializes in selling its own specialties such as vermicelli with tofu, crab rice noodles, pancakes, beef skin... From 3 p.m., customers flock to sit all over the food stalls. Most of the dishes sold here are snacks at very cheap prices. For only 10,000 VND, you can buy a bowl of delicious hot clam porridge or a glass of cool sweet soup to cool off on a summer day.

Stir-fried bean sprouts - Hai Phong specialty

In addition to Hai Phong crab noodles, when coming to Cat Bi market, you cannot miss the stir-fried bean sprouts. This is a Hai Phong specialty that anyone who comes here should try. Bean sprouts, also known as sea bean sprouts, are mollusks with soft and sweet meat, living deep under the sea sand. The outstanding feature of bean sprouts is that they have long legs like bean sprouts. Although the dish is delicious and quite cheap, the preparation is very elaborate.

According to the restaurant owner, to make this dish, you have to be very meticulous in the cleaning process. The bean sprouts must be soaked for at least 6 hours before cooking to clean all the dirt. The cook sautés the onions and garlic, then adds the bean sprouts and stirs them evenly. When the bean sprouts have a fragrant smell, season them with spices such as fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, turmeric, etc. to taste. Most locals eat bean sprouts with chili sauce and herbs. A bowl of hot, golden, fragrant bean sprouts is often sprinkled with a little lemongrass and pepper. When eating, stir-fry the bean sprouts, creating an extremely unique and attractive flavor. Each bowl of stir-fried bean sprouts costs only about 10,000 VND, very light on the wallet and stomach.

Beef skin prices range from 25,000 - 50,000 VND

In addition, if you are a "hardcore fan" of beef skin, you definitely cannot miss it when coming to Cat Bi market because this dish seems to have become a brand here. The beef skin at Cat Bi market has just the right amount of crunchiness, the beef is soft and fragrant, and the dipping sauce is extremely rich. Most people will eat beef skin dipped in shrimp paste, rolled with raw vegetables and star fruit. However, if you cannot eat beef skin or this type of sauce, you can still choose beef shank dipped in tamarind sauce.

Not only serving typical dishes with the flavor of Hai Phong products, you can also find many "specialties" of other cities such as: fried sour spring rolls, pho rolls, Hanoi snail noodles; banh bot loc, Hue beef noodles; Saigon wonton noodles...

It is easy to find specialties of many regions in Cat Bi market.

When going around a circle of local specialties, if you still have money to spare and are not full, diners can choose to eat cassava sticky rice, shrimp noodles, snail noodles, stewed chicken, pig's feet, grilled pork noodles, mixed vermicelli, banh beo, banh goi, grilled cartilage sausage or dessert with sweet soups, dried beef salad, cassava cakes, tapioca cakes...

Source: https://nld.com.vn/diem-den-hap-dan/thien-duong-am-thuc-cat-bi-2020121722301001.htm