Ocean Crab Cake
Coming to Australia, you cannot miss the delicious seafood dishes. Because most of the major cities of this country are located near the sea, seafood accounts for a large number of restaurant menus and daily dishes in Australian families. In the cool autumn weather, on weekends, Australians love to eat crab cakes and choose it as the best appetizer to stimulate the appetite.
Crab is a food rich in calcium and very nutritious. To make crab cakes, the chef spends a lot of effort. After selecting fresh crabs, the crabs are boiled, drained and carefully removed from each piece of crab meat, put on a plate and mixed with eggs and spices (ginger, salt and pepper, soy sauce, tabasco). Add chopped dill, mayonnaise and a few slices of bread. After mixing well, the mixture is steamed and then gently rolled into small cakes. To get a crispy aroma, the cakes are fried in oil and butter over low heat, turned evenly. The fatty, sweet taste of crab meat is filled with the aroma of spices, making each piece of crab cake melt in the mouth, making the eater feel like sitting close to the edge of the sea, eating seafood, sipping a special, attractive cognac cocktail and enjoying the pleasant sea breeze.
Crab cakes are great with a seasonal salad or a plate of stir-fried corn and peas with a side of chili sauce. You can find this unique and unforgettable dish at Tay Tap restaurant in Hanoi.
- Tay Tap Bar – Restaurant
- 100A Xuan Dieu, Tay Ho, Hanoi
- Tel: (04) 371 86917
Lotus Tea Smoked Salmon
Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, where there is a large Jewish community, the head chef of Don's Tay Ho restaurant, Donald Berger, wants to introduce his favorite dish that he has been making for the past 13 years and is becoming very popular in Hanoi: Bagels and Lox.
Salmon is an exceptionally healthy food. Perhaps most importantly, omega 3 acids help smooth skin and are good for the heart, maintain brain health, reduce the risk of skin cancer… No one can resist the alluring aroma of a fragrant salmon fillet.
At Don's Tay Ho, the dish "Smoked salmon with lotus tea" is made three times a week when Norwegian salmon arrives in Hanoi. Knowing about lotus tea by chance while looking for ingredients to smoke salmon, Mr. Donald Berger did not expect this combination to create such a wonderful dish. Under his talented hands, the head chef of Don's Tay Ho has created the dish "Smoked salmon with lotus tea" which is extremely attractive and easy to enjoy.
The salmon is deboned as soon as it gets off the plane to preserve the freshness of the fish. Then marinate it with 1 kg of Phu Quoc sea salt, 500g of pure brown sugar and 500g of refined white sugar, and leave it overnight. The next morning, the fish is taken out, washed, and then dried in a cold dryer on an airy rack and placed on two large trays. One is turned upside down and placed on the other to alternate for the best smoking effect. Take aluminum foil and place two spoonfuls of lotus tea on the open burner rack, turn on the fire until the tea begins to smolder. This process is done within 1 hour.
Cut into small pieces to use with pasta, salads or bagels. Montreal bagels are famous all over the world for their unique flavor. “Our bagels are made in the true Montreal style and are as good as the best bakeries there,” says Donald Berger.
- Don's Tay Ho – Restaurant
- 16/27 Xuan Dieu, Tay Ho, Hanoi
- Tel: (04) 371 3719 2828
