Green rice
When mentioning Autumn, visitors certainly cannot miss Com - an elegant gift that has appeared in many famous literary works about Hanoi cuisine and is always remembered by people far away for its flavor that bears the mark of their hometown.
Com has the aroma of fresh sticky rice, a gentle green color, a soft and pure flavor like “precious jade grains”. The pure com grains are carefully wrapped in lotus leaves. It can be said that all the quintessence of heaven and earth are wrapped in the com grains, making the connoisseur ecstatic. When eating com, you will feel the aroma of sticky rice, the gentle autumn breeze and the faint scent of pure lotus leaves.
Besides, you can enjoy some delicious dishes made from green rice such as: green rice cake, green rice sticky rice, green rice sausage, green rice sweet soup...
Green rice flakes have the fragrant smell of fresh sticky rice, a gentle green color, and a soft, chewy, and pure flavor like "precious jade grains".
Ripe star fruit
A special fruit of Hanoi that cannot be missed when autumn comes is ripe apricot. The ripe yellow apricots are soft and fragrant, making anyone swallow their saliva. The ripe apricot season only lasts for a few weeks. When buying ripe apricots, use a knife to scrape off the skin, then make a circle to separate all the pulp from the seeds, revealing the thick layer of apricot flesh, which looks extremely attractive.
The ripe, soft, fragrant yellow star fruit makes anyone swallow their saliva.
To enjoy delicious ripe star fruit, you can eat peeled ripe star fruit or pickled ripe star fruit. A little sugar, a little salt, a little chili powder gently shaken with ripe star fruit becomes a favorite dish of many people every autumn. In particular, a glass of cool sweet and sour star fruit juice is also an ideal refreshing drink only available in Hanoi that you should not miss.
Fried shrimp rolls
Cha ruoi is one of the famous dishes in the capital when autumn comes. The dish is strange but brings a unique and unforgettable flavor.
This special type of sausage is made from rươi - a species of worm, living in brackish water. Rươi sausage is made from a mixture of ingredients including minced rươi, pork, chicken eggs, herbs and tangerine peel, fried in oil until it turns a golden yellow color. The dish has a rich aroma and is often eaten with vermicelli and must have a bowl of fish sauce with a little lemon, pepper and chili to complete the attractive autumn flavor.
With its attractive appearance and impressive flavor, Cha Ruoi is a dish not to be missed if you have the opportunity to come to Hanoi in the fall.
With its attractive appearance and impressive flavor, Cha Ruoi is a dish not to be missed if you have the opportunity to come to Hanoi.
Hot rice cake
A gift that warms the soul of many eaters when the seasons change is hot rice cake. Although it is just a simple dish, hot rice cake has a great attraction to many people.
On a chilly autumn afternoon, there is nothing better than sitting on the sidewalk enjoying a bowl of hot banh duc with the rich flavor of old Hanoi. Hot banh duc is a combination of minced meat, wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, fried onions, coriander and hot fish sauce.
The famous hot banh duc shop that is passed down by word of mouth among Hanoians is located on Le Ngoc Han Street (Hoan Kiem). Unlike many other places, the special thing about this shop is that the bowl of banh duc always has a few pieces of fried tofu on top.
Every afternoon when the weather is a bit chilly in Autumn, there is nothing more wonderful than sitting on the sidewalk enjoying a bowl of hot banh duc with the rich flavor of old Hanoi.
Banh troi tau
Banh troi tau - a popular dish but always crowded every autumn in Hanoi. The balls filled with mung beans and black sesame seeds are served with a sweet syrup that smells of ginger, is spicy and warm, making it hard for anyone to refuse.
What makes the unique flavor of a bowl of banh troi tau is not so much the filling, but the sugar water, mixed with spicy ginger. The color of the water must be golden, brown from honey, spicy from ginger, to meet the right standards.
When coming to Hanoi, you can visit some famous restaurants such as: Ba Thin Restaurant (No. 1 Bat Dan), Pham Bang Floating Cake (No. 30 Hang Giay)...
Green bean and black sesame balls served with fragrant ginger syrup, spicy and warm, are hard to refuse.
