Top 25 delicious dishes in Nam Dinh that cause memories for diners near and far

How many delicious Nam Dinh dishes have you enjoyed?

Nam Dinh is not only famous as a land of talented people but also attracts tourists by its interesting culinary culture. The food in Nam Dinh is very rustic and simple like the people here, but once enjoyed, it will make us remember forever. Let’s explore and enjoy Nam Dinh Foodtour through the following article!

Bánh bèo Nam Định

Unlike Hue-style banh beo, Nam Dinh banh beo has only rice flour, which is poured into a square banana leaf mold like a boat and steamed, sprinkled with fried onions on top. When eating, cut banh beo into small square pieces, dip in sour and sour fish sauce, add a little pepper like dipping sauce for banh cuon.

Bánh cuốn Làng Kênh

Banh cuon from Kenh village has no meat filling but still attracts people to eat in the white and soft aroma of the cake. The people of Kenh village often jokingly say to each other that “Kenh village roll cake like a clumsy girl” is not exaggerated.

Bánh nhãn Hải Hậu

Coming to Nam Dinh, you cannot miss the gift of longan cake. Longan cake is not made from longan or longan but is made from flour, eggs, sugar and lard. The baker must skillfully mold the cake into evenly round balls. The cake has an eye-catching yellow color, crispy and sweet the more you eat, the more you love it.

Bánh Xíu Páo

Xiu pao peel, greasy fleshy filling, smells of meat, ground pepper. The flavors blend together, making the cake an interesting snack of the people of the South. The cake is simple, looks like a fried dumpling but the filling is like a cake and the outside is like Soc Trang pia cake.

Thìn grandma’s banh chung

Appearing in 1948, Thìn grandma’s banh chung is sold almost all year round and always crowded. The sticky rice outside is fragrant and covered with an eye-catching green color. The filling of green beans and the meat inside is always full and moderately salted. If you are a fan of banh chung, visit the slopes of Yen Dinh bridge, Hai Hau to enjoy this famous traditional banh chung.

Bánh dày Vị Dương

Vi Duong banh day is a prestigious address in Nam Dinh specializing in the production of thick cakes on holidays or festivals. Thick rice cake has the aroma and flexibility of glutinous rice. The green bean paste inside is minced and marinated to taste, combined with the sweet and crispy taste of grated coconut that will surely make you excited.

Hanh Tụ green bean cake

Hanh Tu green bean cake is an heirloom dish of Mrs. Le Thi Phuc’s family at 249, Le Hong Phong, Nam Dinh city. Due to the high quality cake favored by Thanh Nam people, Hanh Tu green bean cake has become Thanh Nam’s specialty.

Bánh gai

Banh gai is one of the outstanding specialties in the land of Nam Dinh. The main ingredients for the black crust are hemp leaves and glutinous rice, so the cake is always fragrant and slightly sticky. The filling is a mixture of crushed green beans with coconut, peanuts, lotus and fatty meat with sweet and sweet spices to taste.

Bún đũa Thành Nam

Although vermicelli is available everywhere, the noodle dish in Nam Dinh has a different feature. The noodles are about the size of a chopstick, soft but firm, not mushy. Dua rice noodle is easy to eat not only because of its gentle taste but also because of the aroma of crab and the spices of this dish.

Giả Cầy Rice Noodle

Gia Cay Rice Noodle is a favorite dish of Thanh Nam people after Pho. It can be affirmed that nowhere in the North has there as many Gia Cay Rice Noodle restaurants as in Nam Dinh. There’s nothing better than the fragrant, golden-brewed imitation civet meat that is served with vermicelli, coriander, and pickled onions.

Cá nướng úp chậu

Grilled fish dish is a unique dish often present in the rice tray on Tet holiday in Nam Dinh. Fish are bought, cleaned, marinated, then lined with straw, rice husks underneath, put the fish on, surrounded by baked bricks and upside down aluminum pots.

Chè kho

Che kho Nam Dinh is a rustic and extremely easy-to-make dish of Nam Dinh people. With only ingredients that cannot be simpler than finely ground green beans, sesame and sugar to create a plate of braised tea with bright colors, sweet taste and fragrant green beans.

Chuối Ngự Rồng market

The most sold at Rồnng Market in Nam Dinh, Ngu bananas were formerly considered a royal dish of “lemon discharge” used only to advance the king. Bananas have a small, dwarf shape, thin skin, white flesh and have a sweeter and stronger flavor than other common bananas.

Tám rice Hai Hau

Tam rice Hai Hau, Nam Dinh is a type of rice with a natural aroma and rich nutritional value. After cooking, rice usually has a characteristic aroma, flexibility and sweetness. Eight-grain rice has a greenish-white color, a sweet aroma, is flexible, easy to digest, and especially has a very high nutritional value.

Giò lụa Nam Dinh

From pork, people have made a sweet, tender, but still very crispy and fragrant spring rolls. To have a delicious spring rolls, the maker must be fastidious right from the selection of ingredients to the making of pig hair, pounding and seasoning with fish sauce and spices.

Dồi candy

Shaped like a regular savory sausage, the ham consists of the main ingredients such as sugar, peanuts, malt, and a little vanilla. The outer part is skillfully cooked into a tube shape, pure white and sweet in taste.

Sìu Châu candy

For nearly two centuries now, the brand Siu Chau – Nam Dinh specialty has become famous all over the country. Those who are far away from home, every time they think of Nam Dinh, remember the rustic taste of this simple gift.

The candy has a pinkish brown color and is as clear as amber, crunchy, fragrant with peanut flavor, sweet, leaving an unforgettable aftertaste.

Nem nắm Giao Thủy

The delicious Nam Dinh dish that is no longer strange on the drinking tables is Giao Thuy nem thinh. The dish has resonated for a long time thanks to its sweetness and greasy taste.

Lục tàu xá

Luc tau xa is a dish originating from China. Previously, Nam Dinh had many Chinese people living with many strange dishes.Besides banh troi tau, chi that phu, Luc Tau Xa is a delicious and nutritious tea that our people follow and handed down to this day. In Cantonese (China), Luc Tau Xa (Luc Dau Sa) means pureed green beans.

Nam Dinh beef noodle soup

One of the most outstanding Nam Dinh delicacies is Nam Dinh beef noodle soup. Unlike Hanoi pho, Nam Dinh beef noodle soup impresses visitors because each different restaurant will have a different unique flavor because each family will have its own secret heirloom recipe.

Perch sticky rice

Perch sticky rice  is a rustic dish that is equally attractive with the rich sweetness of each fiber of fish meat mixed in each grain of sticky rice with a layer of fragrant chicken fat.

Nam Dinh Xíu sticky rice

Xiu sticky rice consists of white sticky rice made from fragrant sticky rice, so the seeds are very soft and shiny. Sticky rice is eaten with char siu meat, sausages and indispensable fragrant, rich sauce with the pungent taste of pepper. All kinds of ingredients seem to explode in the mouth of tourists, creating a dish of “all ten fines”.

Through the above Foodtour, have you found Nam Dinh cuisine attractive? Don’t wait any longer, come here soon to enjoy these wonderful Nam Dinh delicacies!

For those of you who want to travel to Nam Dinh on your own, please refer to the very detailed Nam Dinh travel guide here:  Summarize the most complete Nam Dinh travel experience for travel believers

Check out more Nam Dinh specialties as gifts here: Top 31 Nam Dinh specialties suitable as gifts

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