Top 6 Cam Ranh specialties that visitors must try

Cam Ranh specialties are very diverse culinary dishes, prepared according to the coastal city's own recipes, creating a unique, delicious and irresistible flavor. Coming to Cam Ranh, visitors should not miss dishes such as banh can, Sa sung ...

Banh Can

Banh Can is the first Cam Ranh specialty that visitors cannot miss when visiting. Famous in the South Central region, but if anyone is from the North or a native of the South and comes to Cam Ranh for the first time in the early morning, they will surely be delighted to be invited to have breakfast with a very elaborate cake dish prepared on the spot.

Diners who want to eat banh can have to wait, because this dish is only truly delicious when it reaches the table, the cake must still be steaming and diners must blow on it while eating.

Top 6 Cam Ranh specialties that visitors must try after just one bite — **Banh Can**

The main ingredient of the cake is rice flour, but to have a delicious and well-rounded cake, the chef must mix some spices before baking it on a clay tray. The baking tray is the secret to making the cake both fragrant and crispy.

The baking time for a batch of banh can is about one minute, this is also a meticulous step that requires the chef's dexterity. The diluted flour is poured into the clay mold, covered and waited for the dough to cook until the bottom is cooked, then the filling and scallion oil are added and baked until the cake is crispy and fragrant.

Banh can filling is usually made from shrimp, eggs, squid, minced meat or other seafood. As an advantage of coastal people, on days when oysters are fresh, the restaurant also has an extremely attractive oyster filling.

The deliciousness of Banh Can also comes from the vegetables, which come in nearly ten different varieties, but the most common are green mustard, lettuce, baby mustard, basil, bitter herbs, coriander, fish mint, perilla, and Vietnamese mint. When the hot dish is served on the table, diners can spread out the lettuce leaves, add more herbs, sandwich the Banh Can in the middle, roll it up, and mix it with the dipping sauce to enjoy.

Sandworm

Sa sung, also known as Xi sung or sea worms, is one of Cam Ranh's specialties loved by many people, both locals and tourists .

The meat of the sea worm is very delicious, chewy and sweet, considered a high-class dish and has the effect of improving health. With its unique flavor and high nutritional value, sea worm can be grilled or processed into many other attractive dishes such as fried sea worm, sea worm porridge, etc.

Processing sea worms is very elaborate, you have to cut along the body, turn it inside out and rub it thoroughly with salt to remove all the sand and fishy smell. The sea worms must be washed many times, under strong running water, until they are ivory white.

Sandworms have a natural sweetness, so when processing, there is no need to add sugar or MSG. A little salt to add flavor is enough to enhance the flavor of sandworms.

Dried sea worms are grilled with alcohol and eaten like dried squid, dipped in chili sauce. This type can also be fried and used instead of dried shrimp when cooking soup.

Squid pancake

A dish that is no longer strange to diners. But eating banh xeo in Cam Ranh coastal area brings visitors a very special flavor, unforgettable after eating once, a Cam Ranh specialty that should not be missed.

The cake shell is made from rice flour and mung beans. Different squid pancake shops have different ways of preparing the squid. Some shops clean the squid and blanch it in boiling water. Some use large squid, cut into slices. Other shops leave the whole squid full of rice, ink sac and shell to prepare. Therefore, each squid pancake shop will have different feelings for diners. This is the highlight of the pancake dish that creates the local brand.

You can ask for just shrimp or just squid. If you like, you can ask the seller to put more squid than usual.

The dipping sauce for shrimp and squid pancakes in Cam Ranh also makes diners miss the fatty aroma of fried onions and the slight saltiness of braised fish sauce.

Golden and charming Cam Ranh pancakes with fresh seafood, shrimp and squid attract diners. Enjoy the crispy, hot pancakes with some green vegetables and dip in the sweet and sour fish sauce, you will never forget this charming rustic dish.

Lobster

A famous dish, one of the specialties of Cam Ranh that cannot be missed. Every tourist visiting Binh Ba Island in Cam Ranh must have heard that this place is also known as the lobster island.

Lobster in Cam Ranh has soft, sweet, white meat with a rich taste of the sea. Prepared in a variety of ways, from grilled, steamed to fried, lobster is a premium dish and is often enjoyed by domestic and foreign tourists when coming to Cam Ranh.

In addition, diners should try the sour lobster soup in Cam Ranh once, surely visitors will find it hard to forget this taste.

Rice vermicelli with pork offal

A new day in Cam Ranh if you do not know what to start your breakfast with, you should try this Banh hoi long heo dish. This is a dish that is very easy to find in Cam Ranh, because not only tourists, but also local people here love and choose this special breakfast food.

Banh hoi flour is made from rice, pulled into thin strands, looks similar to vermicelli but the strands are small and rolled into bite-sized round cakes.

When eating, the cake is spread with a layer of scallion oil or chopped chive oil, sprinkled with a little fried onion on top depending on each person's preference. The white rice vermicelli is both chewy and soft, and has the aroma of rice and fried onion.

Banh hoi is served with pork offal and the dipping sauce is usually fish sauce mixed with crushed garlic, chili and a few drops of lemon juice. The offal dish served with banh hoi is carefully selected, cleaned, boiled until cooked and includes heart, liver, kidney, small intestine and pork belly.

Tidal blood cockles

When mentioning Cam Ranh specialties, we cannot forget to mention Thuy Trieu blood cockles.

Thuy Trieu Lagoon is a large lagoon located in the North of Cam Ranh peninsula. This lagoon has a famous type of blood cockle, ranked on par with O Loan lagoon blood cockle ( Phu Yen ) and Tam Giang blood cockle (Thua Thien Hue).

The blood cockles here are not only delicious but also abundant. Just walk along the edge of the lagoon when the tide has just receded, lightly scrape the mud on the surface and you can catch the cockles.

Classified as a nutritious seafood, especially for men, blood cockles are very popular. People often process blood cockles into many delicious dishes such as grilled blood cockles, stir-fried blood cockles with tamarind, fried with salt and chili, salad or porridge, all of which are very delicious...

However, for gourmets, grilled blood cockles are still the best dish. The cockles are grilled at the right temperature with fatty, sweet meat served hot with salt, pepper, lemon and a little Vietnamese coriander, making diners remember its unique flavor forever.

Cam Ranh is an attractive tourist destination in Vietnam with many natural advantages and a mild climate. In addition to the above dishes, visitors can buy some other famous specialties as gifts for family and friends such as mango cake, bird's nest, dried seafood, fish sauce ...

According to vietnamnet.vn

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