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Bread with ham, pâté, pickled carrot and white radish, cucumber and chili!

Khổ Qua Nhồi Thịt- Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup

Behind specific bitter taste there is the sweetness of the meat and water!

Bánh Ít Ram (Hue Style Fried Glutinous Sticky Rice Dumpling)

Top with some minced shrimp, pork, and fragrant scallion oil, dipping into the fish sauce, you have a really tasty and wonderful appetizer dish!

Cơm Hấp Lá Sen (Lotus leaf steamed rice)

The harmonious combination of shrimp, lotus seed, carrots, sausage, and so forth brings an exhilarating sensation to diner!

Áo Dài (Ao Dai Vietnamese Traditional Dress)

The beauty of women dressed in “Ao Dai”always leaves a deep impression on foreign visitors to Vietnam!

Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 11, 2015

ENJOY DUMPLING SOUP AT NGUYEN TRAI LANE

Located on Nguyen Trai street (HCM) crowded with many vendors. The dumpling soup store at lane 409 is the favorite place of many dinners.
Each dumpling has the soft outside skin, inside is the core with fresh good pork and shrimp, served with Chinese cabbage, pork paste, rib, chicken leg…and the flavorful broth make the dish is more delicious. The most favorite dish here is chicken leg dumpling soup, rib dumpling soup, pork paste dumpling soup.
The side dishes such as lean pork paste, fry chicken leg… are pre-made. Since it’s ordered, people will place the dumplings into a bowl filled with full of broth, put in pork paste, chicken leg or rib as your order. Chili and soy sauce is ate together with this dish.
 
Dumpling is made quite similar to wonton, but bigger and have more stuff inside. The important of a good dumpling is the core, usually made from shrimp, pork, vegetable…finely chopped mixed together with seasoning. The core is wrapped by a thin dough, shaped like a half-moon and will be boiled.
One unmissable ingredient in the dumpling soup is the Chinese cabbage. The Chinese dish is always fat so that people are easy to get bored of it, the green cabbage helps reduce this feeling and stimulate your taste. There is vermicelli soup beside dumpling soup at this store.

You can try this dish at lane 409 on Nguyen Trai street, district 5, Ho Chi Minh city. Each bowl of dumpling is about 26,000d, if you order more chicken leg, pork paste… they will charge you more. They open from 16 until mid-night.

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