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Thứ Sáu, 8 tháng 5, 2015

FRESH-WATER CRAB HOT POT IN HAI PHONG

The broth is strongly sweet, covered by a layer of fat crab paste, sprinkle with some green onion in a boiling hot pot, dipping the water spinach, beef, fry tofu and fish paste…
Love everything involve with crab, so when I was in Hai Phong, I have to try the “lau cua dong” (fresh-water crab hot pot). Hoan Ty store on Nguyen Khang street is the best. The broth is good, a lot of baby cartilage, crab paste, but the hygiene is not really good.


Drop in the live pork paste when the hot pot starts to boil

Another store is 1946 on 63 Cua Bac. “Lau cua dong” is displayed really cool. The broth is a bit sweet, crab paste is placed in a clay pot. The vegetable is special, too. Lettuce mixed with banana blossom, and a bit of young water spinach.

But Minh Quynh on Van Cao street, Hai Phong is actually the best. The broth is sweet and full of flavor of fresh-water crab, very real. They add on 5 “hot vit lon” baby duck egg, and mushroom meat balls.

Lettuce with some banana blossom and banana stem…


The dipping dishes are abundant, from live pork paste, young intestine, beef, fry tofu, fish paste…Hai Phong fish paste is made well, really crunchy and sticky. It’s good even hot or cool, and you can dip the cool fry fish paste into the hot pot and it’s even more delicious. Besides vegetable mixture of banana vegetable, we can also dip “rau mung toi” (spinach). Eating this dish with vermicelli is perfect but Hai Phong is famous for “banh da” (a kind of rice noodle but has bigger shape), dip in a bit of red “banh da”, to have sticky bold taste. 


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