Besides noodle soup, bun cha is also a very special dish and the pride of the restaurant. Hanoi people. Anyone who has ever visited Hanoi is curious to enjoy it. Bun cha is sold from popular sidewalks to luxury restaurants.
When talking about bun cha, people often remember Hang Cha. Hang Than Fan… However, a restaurant called “stair bun cha restaurant” is equally crowded.
For 30 years, the restaurant has existed at the foot of the stairs of the dormitory E3 Thai Thinh (Dong Da, Hanoi).
Previously, the noodle shop was sold by Ms. Dao Kim Anh’s mother (current owner) on Mai Hac De street, then moved to Thai Thinh street. The bun cha restaurant is one of the first restaurants to open on this street.
Easy to spot the restaurant. Especially from afar, you can see the fragrant smoke from grilling meat and sausages and the long line of cars lined up in front of the restaurant.
Because it serves a large number of customers, the restaurant clearly defines its work. The job of fanning grilled pork patties, fried meat, and spring rolls is done by Ms. Diep (Mrs. Kim Anh’s sister-in-law). Mrs. Kim Anh divides the pork patties into bowls, the one who divides the vermicelli noodles into plates, and the caretaker takes the car for the customers… Just like that, on winter days, they serve consistently. serving more than 600 meals of vermicelli to eat on the spot and take away
Even though she is over 60 years old and has gray hair, Ms. Dao Kim Anh still stands selling from 5 am to 5 pm. She shares: “I love Since I was 16 years old, I’ve been working as a sales assistant for my mother, but I’m old now, but every day I just look forward to the morning sun so I can sell and be served Guests of the Capital’s specialties are the greatest honor for me and my family.”
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Anh Diep (younger sister) Mrs. Kim Anh’s daughter-in-law, always flipping the grills and frying crab rolls, said: “The day I first became a bride, when I came to my husband’s house, I saw a long line of people sitting on the sidewalk waiting to eat bun cha, and I thought this was a movie theater. . Every day my family has to get up at 3 a.m. to boil crabs, marinate meat and grill pork patties… prepare all the ingredients to open the restaurant to serve customers at 5 o’clock.”
In each serving of bun cha there is meat. Both types of minced patties are richly marinated and grilled until charred. The patties are made from pork belly with enough fat and lean enough to marinate overnight to absorb the spices and then grilled Minced or pureed, marinated with a little minced onion seasoning, then rolled into balls, pressed into flat pieces and placed on the grill.
The dipping sauce eaten with the vermicelli is very important This is the “soul” of bun cha. The dipping sauce is made from fish sauce, sugar, boiled water, vinegar, garlic and chili… All those spices mixed together create a sweet and sour dipping sauce that is sweet and refreshing.
Despite the Life has many changes, many delicious dishes with new and attractive preparation methods are imported from all over, but for generations, from generation to generation, bun cha has always been the top, irreplaceable dish in the world. the heart of every Hanoian.
That is also the reason why US President Barack Obama and talented chef Anthony Bourdain chose bun cha to enjoy during their trip to Vietnam in September. May 2016. It has proven the extraordinary appeal of this special dish.
The dish is considered a “treasure of Thang Long land” that exists as a part of the ancient features of Good traditional cultural values still exist in the capital of a thousand years of civilization.
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