Hai Duong attracts visitors with hundreds of cultural and historical monuments and thousands of stories of celebrities of military, literature, famous doctors like Tran Hung Dao, Nguyen Trai, Chu Van An, Tue Tinh ... Besides , the specialty here is also good and attractive.
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Hai Duong travel guides
#1. Green bean cake
Hai Duong green bean cake is a traditional cake made from mung bean flour with sugar and oil or lard and appeared from the early years of the 20th century.
The cake is cut into small cube or round… pieces with a bright yellow color, smooth and fragrant. Whenever enjoying, putting each peace of green bean cake into your mouth, you can feel the essence of heaven and earth, the aroma of the cake which is melting in the mouth, but its flavor is still lingering.
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| Huong Nguyen Green bean cake in Hai Duong |
Green bean cake is best when it is served with green tea. The slightly acrid taste of green tea will balance the tasty sweetness of the cake. The two opposites tastes intertwine creating a an exciting feeling for diners.
There are many places in Vietnam making green bean cake, but green bean cake produced in Hai Duong has the most characteristic flavor that makes many people spellbound. This is why green bean cake here has become a meaningful gift of most of the passengers arriving in this land and in all the ceremonies, the traditional Festival of the nation.
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| Green been cake is packed beautifully and attractively used as a gift in holidays |
#2. Gai cake (glutinous rice cake dyed black in a concoction of leaves)
In fact, Nam Dinh province is the homeland of this delicious, sweet and soft cake which has become a typical specialty of the land of the South Citadel. However, coming to Hai Duong, people will also surely be surprised at the delicious flavor of Ninh Giang glutinous rice cake dyed black in a concoction of edible leaves.
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| Gai cake looks simple but has a delicious taste |
The outer layer of the cakes is made from Glutinous rice flour mixed with crushed Gai leaves creating a fet black color but look strangely attractive. The rice is soaked in cold water overnight so that the rice grains become succulent plump then drained, sifted then grounded to flour. From this flour, people mixed fresh Gai leaves which are washed, boiled, squeezed out and pounded and removed all stems, then the dry leaves are mixed and grounded to powder, after that, a little sugar is added to make the cover of the cake sweeter.
The stuffing is made from many different ingredients which must be prepared extremely carefully. First of all, green beans are soaked in water for the beans to become succulent, then sifted carefully to remove all the impurities. After that, the bean is boiled until it is soft, smooth but still retains its bright yellow color and the aroma characteristics of bean and then crushed.
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| The stuffing is made from many different ingredients |
In addition, fatty meats, peanut, lotus seed, coconut, aromatic species... are added with a little amount because all the ingredients above help to make the stuffing more delicious and does not exclude each other. However, each family will have a certain secret recipe to make a Gai cake brand of their own brand on this land.
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| Children works hard width Gai cake in Hai Duong |
Like the green bean cake, Gai cake is a gift that any people in Hai Duong, whenever being far from this land, want to bring with them as bringing the idyllic spirit of the homeland.
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