Besides the hauntingly nature-blessed landscapes, the cuisine, traditional foods and street foods of Sapa are also elements that make tourists once come here won’t be able to come back home without a little bit missing.
To really enjoy the fancy cuisine of Sapa, most travelers who make tours to Sapa often choose to promenade around the town and stop by some food stalls rather than just come to the experience restaurants.
Sapa’s breath-taking beauty
Just imagine small open fires along the street leading to beauty spots in Sapa often surrounded by groups of visitors who want to enjoy food the way Sapa residents do. Most popular dishes on offer are simple barbecues that can make tourists’ mouth water.
Barbecue is the most fantastic kind of foods that you should try once being here, and is quite popular for those living in localities with temperate climate. However, grilled foods in Sapa will bring another experience to visitors.
A food stall in Sapa
Coming in Sapa trekking tours, You will feel like being lost in a paradise of grilled foods for its variety of grilled dishes such as grilled egg, chicken, beef with vegetable, rice and chestnut,… Just imagine that you’re sitting around a small fire, grill foods and enjoy it with a little bit of wine in a cold weather of Northwest region, it will be really awesome!
Sweet potato, corn and cassava can be considered as appetizers that smell very good and taste delicious. Little brownish chestnut baked in hot coal is a wonderful finger food too. In addition, rice in bamboo tube is a wise choice as it is very soft and diners have to split the tube before eating. Rice is put into the bamboo tube, added with water and put on a fire until the fresh bamboo turns brown. Those skewers are quite cheap, at around VND8,000 each.
Some grilled foods that you can find when being Nha Trang
Meanwhile, travelers should not ignore grilled cabbage roll with beef, chicken wings with honey, salmon or other fish soaked in spices since they’re are fresh and smell good, which could be seen as main dishes. Especially, many visitors love grilled pork in Sapa as it tastes sweet and tough, which is only found in this town. Diners can have a full stomach when spending just VND100,000 or nearly US$5 on those delicious foods.
All of the ingredients to prepare those foods are grown in Sapa by local residents of tribal groups such as H’mong, Red Dao and Tay.
A souvenir that you can buy in Sapa
Others can walk around the town to buy souvenirs while eating these barbecue foods. Vendors selling grilled foods are everywhere in the foggy town from the market to small alleys but they mainly gather along Ham Rong Street, an area near the stone church in Sapa Town. Therefore, it is called the barbecue street because there are around ten barbecue food stalls in a street stretching just 100 meters.
For first-timers in Sapa, it should be also noted that the town is a valuable sight-seeing destination, and place for them to explore peculiar cultural traits of different tribal groups there.
Sapa is also a good place for ones to escape the sultry weather in Hanoi during summer, as the climate in the town, some 1,600 meters above the sea level, is quite mild. The average temperature in Sapa is only 15 degrees Celsius, and the maximum daytime temperature in Sapa is only 15 Celsius.
Silver waterfall, an imposing scenery of Sapa
Sapa can also brag about its magnificent natural beauties, from Ham Rong Mount that allows visitors to enjoy a panorama picture of the town to Silver Waterfall, from the Bamboo Forest to Sapa Ancient Rocks, from Cat Cat Village to Muong Hoa Valley among others.
But, standing out from all such values, road-side foods make Sapa a special rendezvous for visitors, especially those wanting to enjoy Sapa cuisine.
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