10 tasty dishes you should try when visiting Da Lat

Coming to Da Lat, in addition to many famous landscapes such as Love valley, Flower Garden or Lang Biang Highland, enjoying mountainous food is also a very memorable experience.

1.      Grilled spring rolls

Unlike fried sour spring rolls, Da Lat grilled rolls when being eaten is usally rolled with lettuce, vegetable, banana,.. and dipped in very unique sauce. Thanks to this, the fatty flavor combined with fresh taste of vegetable seems to be more attractive. The two small restaurants serving this dishes lying on Phan Dinh Phung road and Bui Thi Xuan road are introduced for you to enjoy this food.

2.      Beef noodle at Anh Sang village

Beef noodle is considered specialty of Hue City but when visiting Anh Sang Village, by Xuan Huong lake of Da Lat, you can still enjoy beef noodle with flavour not inferior or maybe just a bit variation put in this dishes to suit the taste of people living in the cold plateau. Beef noodle here isn’t made with split water spinach but  shredded lettuce, bean sprouts and banana flower. It’s up to visitors’ taste, he can order lean pork, frozen pork or cartilaginous pork.

3.      Wet cake with chicken

The unique combination between wet cake and chicken caught the curiousity of many tourists visiting Da Lat. Then, when they tried it, every one all got excited about strange but apealling flavour of this dishes. There is soft taste of the cake as well as the sweet smell of chicken. To enjoy it, let’s find the way to the wet cake restaurant on Tang Bat Ho street, near Da Lat market.

4.      Grilled Trang cake

Among the delicacies in Da Lat, what is best known by tourists may probably be Trang cake baked with eggs. On charcoal fire, onion, quail eggs, ground pork, fried small fish are respectively spread out on the delicate Trang cake. After a few minute, covering the whole cake is yellow, it is dipped in spicy chili sauce and makes people feel so excited. The place selling the most delicious dishes is on Nguyen Van Troi street, opened from 2pm to 10pm.

5.      Xap Xap

It may sound strange but still be a very familiar dishes because it is quite like dried beef salad in Ha Noi and in Sai Gon. Main ingredients of Xap Xap are fibro-papaya, beef lung or pork liver, peanut, sweet and sour sauce….You can stroll over Xuan Huong lake and then stop at a small restaurant by the lake to enjoy this dishes.

6.      Beo cake

Beo cake of Da Lat is mixed with a little bit flour so it becomes purer and a bit tough. Whereas, shrimp sauce is quite solid with eye-catching orange and attractively fresh flavour. A capacity usually includes 4 small bowls of cake and has affordable price. Address of this dishes is the small restaurant on Phan Dinh Phung road near Hong Hung gas station serving from 11:00a.m to 20:00pm every day.

7.      Grilled meat with corn

The way of rolling ground corn mixed with spicy in trang cake and then frying until it turns into yellow has made a sweet grilled meat bring its own flavour of  Da Lat. When being eaten, grilled meat is rolled in again with trang cake, cucumber, jicama, carrot,…and vegetable then dipped into a bowl of broth made from peanut sauce. You can find this dishes in a small restaurant near Nguyen Trai primary school or Nguyen Cong Tru street.

8.      Bread with sauce

Eaten with bread is a bowl of sauce made from bone water in fatty  greasy scum and with tiny meatballs, added a little chopped green onion. However, when being eaten, it tastes fresh but not fat. There are three popular ways to enjoy it. First is tearing bread into small pieces then putting it in the sauce bowl. Second way is  putting the whole bread into the bowl or inserting meatballs into the middle of the bread. In addition to many restaurants near school gate, market gate, you can find the way to Tran Nhat Duat- Hoang Dieu  fork to feel the right taste of this dishes.

9.      Banh Canh

Banh Canh is available in many places but enjoying it in the cool climate of Da Lat brings about a very different feeling. You can see the harmonious colour in the bowl when there is combination between the white colour of soft tough fiber of cake and hot and yellow colour of grilled meat and chopped green onion. The most famous restaurants are Xuan An restaurant on Nha Chung street, Phan Rang on Tran Phu st. or Hai Ba Trung st.

10.  Strawberry ice scream

Strawberry is a famous specialty in Da Lat, thus it is really a flaw if you come here without tasting ice-scream made from fresh strawberry, fresh milk, eggs and some other ingredients. Enjoying strawberry ice scream in the cool weather of Da Lat seems to make the dishes more interesting and attractive when the sweetness of strawberry is blended with the purity of ice scream and the atmosphere. If you do not believe, you can drop by Phan Dinh Phung street to experience it yourself.