At a restaurant along the embankment in the center of Tuy Hoa city, we will be introduced to the sun-dried beef dish. At first hearing, it seems like sun-dried squid but processed in a certain way. Asking carefully, it is beef. This dish is enjoyed with yellow ant chili salt, a rare folk cuisine that remains.
The beef is sliced along the grain like a steak and seasoned and then dried in the sun for a morning. The beef is not too dry or too soft. The beef is skillfully cut along the grain so it is not tough. The sun-dried beef is grilled over charcoal. The meat must also be turned evenly so that it does not burn.
The uniqueness of the sun-dried beef dish is that it is combined with the yellow ant chili salt dish. People in the Central region collect yellow ant nests to make chili salt. The ant nests have a sour and greasy taste. The spicy and salty chili of the Central region's sea salt combined with the sour and greasy taste of the ant nests creates a very strange dipping sauce. The sun-dried beef with yellow ant chili salt is very "appetizing", you can't stop eating it.
