Top 6 famous delicious Sapa specialties, enjoy and buy as gifts

Boiling pot

Con sui is a dish made with flat noodles, similar to pho, but not served with broth but with a thick sauce. A bowl of con sui will have noodles, crispy fried potatoes, pork belly and boiled eggs. Visitors only need to add pepper and chili for a strong flavor and eat with some fragrant mint, enough to feel warm in the stomach on cold mornings.

Salmon

With a temperate climate and low water temperature, Sa Pa people have succeeded in raising rainbow trout. Sa Pa salmon is not too fat but has firm flesh, with an eye-catching pink-orange color. Delicious dishes made from Sa Pa salmon include sashimi with soy sauce and mustard, salmon salad, grilled fish... Especially salmon hotpot. Fresh pieces of fish dipped in hot and sour hotpot, served with some fresh Northwest vegetables is definitely a dish everyone must enjoy when coming to Sa Pa.

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Black chicken

Black chicken is also known as black chicken, a typical breed of chicken of the Northwest raised by Mong people in their gardens. Black chicken is quite small, only about 300g - 1kg, skin, meat and bones are all jet black. Black chicken meat is usually firm, delicious, chewy, and has high nutritional value.

There are many ways to prepare black chicken such as stewed chicken, boiled chicken or honey-grilled black chicken, a famous Sapa delicacy.

Thang Co

Wandering around the alleys of Sapa, tourists can easily find a specialty dish called Thang Co. Thang Co is a traditional dish of the H'mong people imported from Yunnan province, China and is nearly 200 years old. Thang Co is usually made mainly from horse viscera, but can also be from cows and buffaloes. Horse meat and viscera will be cut into squares, cooked with 12 spices, including cardamom, cinnamon, lemongrass, ginger...

Thang co is cooked in a large pan, has a dark color, is fatty and rich, and has the bitter taste of horse intestine liquid - extremely "suitable" for the cold weather in Sapa.

Chestnut cake

Chestnut cake is a dish that many tourists know and buy as gifts when visiting Sapa. The cake is round, similar to the Pia cake of the South but larger and flatter. Each cake is sprinkled with fragrant roasted sesame seeds. The filling is made of crushed chestnuts, mixed with a little butter and soft green beans. The cake crust is made from thinly rolled wheat flour, with many layers.

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Hot, fragrant chestnut cakes are what make many diners linger every time they go to the highland market.

Smoked meat

The Black Thai people created this way of preserving meat to have food reserves for days in the forest or during the long rainy season. The characteristic flavor of the smoked meat is created by mac khen leaves, doi seeds and many other forest spices. This is what makes smoked meat unique and a Sapa delicacy that tourists love to buy as gifts.