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Best Local Food Tourists Should Try Since Visit Hoi An, Vietnam

Hoi An’s street food is very diverse and delicious. It is nutritious, safe, and especially does not cause obesity in visitors. Most of Hoi An’s street foods are prepared and sold out within the same day, so the taste of the food is always fresh and delicious, causing addiction to eaters.
Hoi An cuisine has many dishes for tourists to try. Let’s Hoi An Eco Tours list out some local delicious dishes for tourists to try when coming to Hoi An:

1. Ba Le Well

Bale Well is the name of a local restaurant that has been running the business for over 20 years. Since traveling to Hoi An, tourists have to come to this restaurant to try local food of spring rolls, Vietnamese pancakes (Bánh Xèo), grilled pork, and fried corn spring rolls. Many famous movie actors in Hollywood enjoy these local dishes here. It is so delicious that you can not find anywhere else for its taste. 

You don’t need to call the waiter or waitress to serve you when you start to sit down. The staff will bring directly to you all the dishes they have, and appear to you are all awesome dishes with healthy food and green vegetables. You are not worried about how many foods you can eat. The staff will settle bills with the countable dishes you used, and the rest staff will collect them back. It’s quite strange and how surprising you are. 

More interesting is that the prices after the bill are so cheap with delicious food like that. It takes around 200,000VND/pax with a full combo as spring rolls, Vietnamese pancakes (Bánh Xèo), grilled pork, and fried corn spring rolls. If the more people in your group, the more beneficial it will be. 

2. Chicken Rice (Cơm Gà)

Hoi An chicken rice differs from chicken rice in other regions of Vietnam. Hoi An chicken rice is more delicious with a unique flavor. There are 2 types of Chicken rice in Hoi An. It is steamed chicken rice and fried chicken rice.

2.1 Steamed Chicken Rice Recipe

Hoi An steamed chicken rice consists of rice cooked with chicken stock served and eaten with tender chicken pieces on top and garnished with herbs, cucumber, and chili sauce. After enjoying the dishes, many tourists are curious how to cook delicious dishes like that, we would love to share the Hoi An chicken rice recipe with you as below then you can do it yourself when back home:

Rice cook procedure

• Clean the 2 bowls of rice and put it in the rice cooker for 30 minutes. 
• Add 1/2 teaspoon salt,  1/2 teaspoon sugar,  1 teaspoon chicken powder
• Fried crushed ginger with oil and put into the rice cooker
• Stirred turmeric powder and wait until it comes to brown then scoop out the oil layer and put it in the rice cooker
• Pour chicken broth into the pot (note that the water only covers the rice about 0.5cm)
• Once the rice is nearly cooked, add 5 minced garlic cloves and stir well, continue to cover until the rice is completely cooked.

Shred boiled chicken

Tear the chicken boiled into small pieces put 1/2 spoon of salt and mix. 
Keep the bones, head, wings, and neck in the mixed salad 

Mix chicken salad

Prepare a bowl of water with 1/2 cup of vinegar, 2 grams of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and stir well until dissolved.

Dip the papaya, shredded carrots, and thinly sliced onions for 10 seconds, then take them out, mix the chicken bones, head, neck wings, and herbs, add a little salt, Hoi An chili sauce, and pepper, and mix all. Put on the plate, then enjoy.

2.2 Fried Chicken Rice Recipe

• Fried chicken rice is simpler than boiled chicken rice as procedure below.
• The chef will steam the boiled stock of chicken rice and then fry it with chicken powder, salt, and turmeric powder. 
• Chopped fresh chicken into 4 pieces, then marinated with spices and fried
• The chef will serve 1/4 of the fried chicken with fried rice pickled carrots, and cabbage on the beautiful plate.

Tourists can find Chicken rice everywhere in Hoi An Old Town, and where can eat Com Ga Hoi An? Where is the famous Com Ga in Hoi An? These are the most popular questions tourists normally want to know.

To find the best one tourists prefer. Hoi An Eco Tour is delighted to share with you some reliable addresses you can enjoy Com Ga Hoi An: It is ” Cơm Gà Bà Buội”, ” Cơm Gà Bà Nga”,  ” Cơm Gà Dũng”, etc. They are on Phan Chau Trinh Street which has over 10 years of business. Com Ga Ba Buội is the best one tourists prefer. 

3. Cao Lau

Unlike other Hoi An specialties, Cau Lau has flavors and tastes that are influenced by Chinese and Japanese cuisine. However, through many decades of changes, Cao Lau An has its own flavor not the same as the Chinese flavor. It’s the reason why today Cao Lau Hoi An become a specialty nowhere else can compare with. 

Cao Lau is different from other noodles, it is made from a kind of rice that uses water from a bale well in Hoi An. It is a delicious and special dish you should try. If you want to know How to cook Cao Lau. Let’s see the Cao Lau recipe!

3.1 Marinated pork procedure: 

Prepare 500 grams of pork in one pack of five flavors,  4 tablespoons soy sauce, 1.5 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cashew oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon seasoning seeds, 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Mix and marinate for a minimum of 2-3 hours. It’s better if you put it in the fridge overnight.

3.2  Sauteed Pork

Fry 2 sides of the pork with oil, then add some garlic, and onion, the marinated sauce, and stir-fry for about 15 minutes. After pouring bone broth into the stir-fried pork, simmer for about 40 minutes until the meat is soaked in seasoning into a glue sauce, then turn off the fire. Be careful not to put on strong heat and do not let the sauce dry or condense, if the meat becomes brown is successful.

3.3 Boil Cao Lau

Put Cao Lau into the water in 1 minute to make it softer. If it is dry Cao Lau can soak in 1-2 hours in advance to be softer and then boiling water to soften and drain.

3.4 Decorate 

After finishing the Cao Lau cooking procedure, let’s see how to eat Cao Lau, you can follow these step by step as our guide.

To have delicious Cao Lau, you must put bean sprouts in hot water. Firstly, prepare a bowl and put some sprouts and vegetables on one side of the bowl, add Cao Lau with sliced sauteed meat, pour the sauce on the top, add fried Cao Lau rice paper and lemon, Hoi An chili sauce then enjoy. You can say wow! how fantastic it is!

If tourists want to know the address of the best Cao Lau Restaurant can try it since coming to Hoi An.  We would love to comment on some local addresses to try:

• Cao Lau Lien – 21 Thai Phien Street, Hoi An
• Cao Lau Thanh – 69 Phan Chau Trinh Street, Hoi An
• Cao Lau Bà Bé – Hoi An market
• Cao Lau Hoi An – 87 Tran Phu Street, Hoi An

4. Seafood Cham Island

Cu Lao Cham is a gift from nature. It is recognized by Unesco as a world bio-atmospheric reserve. Cham Island seafood is very delicious and nutritious.

Traveling to Cham Island, tourists should try Cham Island seafood, it would be an extremely regretful memory of your trip if you miss trying it. Many tourists want to find out what seafood to eat on Cham Island Hoi An. What’s special? Where is the address? What dishes are famous?

4.1 What is the special of Cham Island seafood?

Cham Island seafood is very delicious, fresh, and nutritious such as lobster, crabs, breast snails, sea urchins, abalone, stone crab, etc.

The local people on Cham Island say that stone crab is a medicine. When eaten, it is delicious, sweet, and clean, without the fishy smell common to other marine animals. It’s very simple stone crabs eat seaweed only.