If you have the opportunity to make Sapa tours, don’t forget to add some of Sapa’s specialties that are suggested below in your luggage to bring home as gifts for your family, friends,… or just as a souvenir to sometimes remind yourself of the beautiful land named Sapa!
1. The brocade
Traditional brocade products are sold in every tourist spots in Sapa, but if you don’t pay close attention or have some knowledge about this kind of product, you may buy Chinese textiles.
Sapa’s brocade products in a market here
With brocade products of ethnic people in Sapa, the line will be slightly rough, the color will be slightly dark, but not as smooth as weaving. So, you should consider carefully before buying a brocade as a gift.
2. Sapa’s mushrooms
When the early rains begin to fall, it is also the time when Sapa is in its mushroom season. Sapa mushrooms are sweet, lightly fragrant and very tasty. So, if you come to Sapa this season, don’t forget to buy some mushrooms here to serve your family and friends amazing dishes from this wonderful ingredient or as gifts for relatives. You can buy fresh or dried mushrooms but the dried one will be easier for you to bring home. Its price is about 500,000 – 600,000 VND/kg.
Sapa mushroom is a great ingredient in many dishes here
Mushrooms are delicious and have high nutritional value. Sapa’s mushrooms are light and not dark like other ones, they’re quite long and very fragrant. Sapa Market and surrounding area are ideal places to buy this natural gift.
3. Hung-on-stove buffalo meat
This specialty is a traditional dish of The Black Thai. It was made to keep food from spoiled in rainy season or few-days-trekking in jungle. The Black Thai used smoke to cook this dish in their own manual way. They hung marinated meat upon their stoves and let the smoke from the stove slowly dry every piece of meat. You might feel a little bit uncomfortable with the smell because it was marinated by traditional and unique ingredients and was smoked for weeks, but the taste will make you surprised. The more we chew it, the sweeter we may feel. Each piece of bite will make those who once try it unforgettable.
Anyone coming to Sapa wants to try this unique specialty
Buffalo meat is sold in almost markets in Sapa, prices range from 800,000 to 1,000,000 VND/kg. However, to buy the best one, you should come and buy in ethnic villages around Sapa such as Cat Cat, Ta Phin, Ta Van, Lao Chai,…
Sapa possesses not only breath-taking landscapes but also a great amount of specialties that you can’t find in anywhere else in Vietnam. And those are just the 3 first names in the list of things to buy as gifts when coming to Sapa, there are more special, unique things for you to buy when coming to this fairy land, and to find out what they are, let’s follow me to the NEXT part of this article!
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