On the occasion of coming to the capital Hanoi and enjoying the famous dish of Cha Ruoi, a reporter from the South China Morning Post immediately wrote an article introducing this dish and compared it to a gift only for the rich (because a normal plate of Cha Ruoi for 4-5 people will cost around 500,000 - 700,000 VND).
Fried shrimp rolls are usually eaten with vermicelli and dipping sauce, sometimes with green rice sausage.
In his comment section, the reporter also noted that the roe cake is still very strange on the Vietnamese culinary map, especially to international tourists. At first glance, many people will find the roe quite “scary”, but when mixed with minced meat, eggs, tangerine peel, young gac leaves, red ginger, spicy and sweet, and fried until golden, it will create a fragrant and fatty dish.
Basic ingredients to make shrimp rolls at home.
Mandarin is an indispensable ingredient to have a full-flavored shrimp cake dish.
The best time to make Cha Ruoi is around October to early November of the lunar calendar. According to the moon phase at high tide, the season of Cha Ruoi is also the season of tangerine - a type of Bac Kan tangerine that no other fruit can replace when making Cha Ruoi. In addition to Cha Ruoi, silkworm salad, fried crickets, balut... are also dishes that have been noticed by SCMP and some international newspapers because of their very special ingredients.
