Braised pork belly is among the world's best dishes.
Báo Lao Động•20/11/2024
Taste Atlas has compiled a list of "86 of the world's best mushroom dishes," with Vietnamese cuisine making the cut with two traditional dishes: jellied meat and mushroom soup. The food website Taste Atlas recently published its list of the 86 best mushroom dishes in the world. The top spot goes to the famous Japanese ramen noodles, followed by Turkish kuzu şiş (a type of traditional kebab) and Thai tom yum in second and third place, respectively.
Vietnamese jellied meat ranked 44th and fish ball soup ranked 60th on the list. Taste Atlas introduces jellied meat as a traditional Vietnamese dish, especially popular in the Lunar New Year celebrations in Northern Vietnam. This dish is usually served with pickled onions and white rice.
People in Northern Vietnam make jellied meat using pork, chicken, duck, etc. Photo: Cao Giang
Making jellied pork isn't overly complicated, but it's quite time-consuming. Ingredients like pork leg, pork skin, pig ears, etc., are cooked together with carrots, wood ear mushrooms, and other mushrooms, seasoned with spices like pepper and fish sauce. Once the meat is cooked, let it cool, then refrigerate for 5-6 hours until it solidifies and the broth has a jelly-like consistency.
Canh bong (a type of soup) is a dish commonly served at feasts and festivals in Hanoi . Photo: Dieu Loan
Canh bong (pork skin soup) is a staple on the menu of Hanoi's Tet (Lunar New Year) feasts and offerings. The main ingredient in Canh bong is pork skin, which is washed with ginger and vinegar, sun-dried, and then deep-fried until crispy and bubbly. The soup is typically garnished with scallions, fish sauce, ginger, pepper, and vegetables such as cauliflower, carrots, and mushrooms. The soup is served with the pork skin floating on top. Taste Atlas, dubbed the world's culinary map, allows readers to search for and review nearly 24,000 restaurants and eateries, over 11,000 traditional dishes, and more than 6,300 local ingredients.
