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Bún Đậu Mắm Tôm or Vermicelli with Shrimp Paste: When it comes to a simple dish with unique cultural characteristics of the Vietnamese people, it is impossible to ignore the noodle dish with bean paste and shrimp paste. No need to be too luxurious, vermicelli with shrimp paste still stands out with familiar flavors in the daily life of Vietnamese people from past to present.

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Vermicelli with shrimp paste is a popular dish that has appeared in the daily life of Vietnamese people for a long time. Noodle soup with shrimp paste appeared first in the land of Ha Thanh and is considered a typical dish of the people of the capital. At first, it was just a dish used as a snack during the day, or as a snack between meals. The ingredients and recipe for the shrimp vermicelli noodle dish are also quite simple, consisting of only fresh vermicelli, golden fried tofu to eat with shrimp paste mixed with lemon and chili. Depending on each person's preferences, you can enjoy vermicelli with shrimp paste with herbs such as perilla, broth or basil, lettuce, ..

Noodles with shrimp paste with shrimp paste is a very simple dish that is easy to please diners. Just stop by a small street vendor and you can enjoy the full flavor of vermicelli with shrimp paste and shrimp and watch the flow of people passing through the busy city. Vermicelli with shrimp paste is quite simple with a few pieces of fresh vermicelli, a few pieces of crispy golden fried beans with a little boiled meat, cinnamon rolls, spring rolls or fried pork belly. Just call one tip and you'll have enough nutrients your body needs for a long day. It can be said that vermicelli with shrimp paste meets all the criteria: delicious - nutritious - cheap that you need.

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A decisive factor to the success of this rustic dish is fried tofu. Enjoying each small piece of tofu, crispy golden melt on the tip of the tongue will help you feel the greasy taste of childhood. The delicious smell of soybeans coming straight to the tip of the nose will make you feel this flavor is a bit unforgettable. Each piece of bean in vermicelli with shrimp paste will be chopped to make it easier for diners to eat. At the same time, when fried until golden brown, it will be crispy in every corner. In order for tofu to be delicious, sellers need to choose tofu quite carefully. Those are the new white tofu trays, soft and when frying, care must be taken not to burn, but still to ensure a regular crispy golden color.

A gift of young rice that only Hanoi has is nuggets. And when enjoying vermicelli with shrimp paste, you should not ignore this fried rice dish. When enjoying the typical fried rice cake of Hanoi people, you will feel a different aftertaste. The delicious taste, the soft nuggets are fried to golden brown, which will make the noodle dish with shrimp paste and shrimp more attractive.

The meat dish served with vermicelli with shrimp paste is the roll of pork leg that is boiled with fresh ginger. With its own recipe, boiled pork leg in vermicelli with shrimp paste acquires softness and a very strange aroma. In addition, you can order more pork intestines, fried sausages or spring rolls, fried spring rolls to serve with shrimp paste noodles. And you can also order more coriander like: perilla, broth, basil, lettuce, .. to enjoy.

To be able to fully enjoy the taste of vermicelli with shrimp paste, the dipping sauce is extremely important. It can be said that whether vermicelli with shrimp paste is delicious or not depends mainly on whether the sauce is up to standard or not. Initially, you will feel uncomfortable when smelling the shrimp paste. However, once you get used to eating it, it is easy to be defeated by shrimp paste and become addicted to it. Standard shrimp paste is when the color is pink and fragrant. When making shrimp paste, it is necessary to add a little sugar, a little MSG and a little vegetable fat so that the shrimp paste can smell better. The taste of shrimp fish sauce will make you feel the full flavor: sour, spicy, salty and sweet. The sour taste is probably from fresh lemon, the spicy is from the chopped chili, the salty taste of shrimp paste and the sweet taste of sugar. 4 flavors harmonized into one body will make the taste of shrimp paste more unique, strange and attractive.

Vermicelli with shrimp paste is a simple dish, but the taste that they bring to diners is an undeniable attraction. It will be a big mistake if you have not tried vermicelli with shrimp paste when you come to Hanoi in particular and Vietnam in general.

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