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Jan 2, 2012

To Sapa Vietnam, trying to taste victory - "fruits" of the jungle

In the table of land heretofore spring sun, we go to SaPa Vietnam, look to the sky and white flowers blooming plum mixed with fog, or illusory, fuzzy, feel ecstatic to find, hard to forget the wine Corn, of winning the mint.



To forest and search for "fruit" sweet
It is often said: "Up Sa Pa wins without trying to eat of Mongolia shall be deemed never to set foot in this place." Looking forward to the comments, section of town to see what he dishes out stars and indeed if there trying to win 'seat' as rumors it is nonetheless likely voyeuristic even once for no eyes and hunger the belly.
Ask to try to win in Sa Pa, who is just trying to win Muong Khuong Duy Khuong's restaurants in the food market. The owner is Mrs. Luu Thi Help. She helped this year than 60 years old but looks much younger than the age. In her good looks to the agility of the prose and vibrant smile of the opposite side. Helps to know she asked who was Vinh Phuc.
Sitting around a charcoal stove for heating in the house, she confided Help: more than 20 years ago, when he was a financial staff in Vinh Phuc, a chance to work she had met a woman from North Ha, Lao Cai. The grandmother was outside the 90-year-old that year, which is the Muong Khuong, sells winning try in Bac Ha. Two people are very fond of each other, got together as mother and daughter. Since then, her mother passed to assist the secret team trying to win cooking.
After retirement, she help to SaPa Vietnam career. From that day until now over 20 years. Initially, when she decided to know everyone here can recommend as "the plains do not ease out loud, so foolish that crashed head on reverse side." But the calming wisdom intolerable nostalgia turns trying to win the pot along with the Bac Ha market, the family and she is determined to believe in the promised land.
Victory is the special problem of Mongolia in North Vietnam, usually in the village fairs Mongolia.
Previously, trying to win a match between the pan-wave lean meat, the fat contents of your organs and animals such as cattle or horses. Brother, sister ethnic markets often try to gather together to win the pan to warm corn wine and enough protein to protect against the cold of the mountains. After you say no, she squeezed her husband to drive home a saddle.
Today, the victory has been modified to try more. Muong Khuong is trying to win win fixed dishes specializing in horses. Trying to win the pot with horse meat, heart, heart, liver, more horses and 12 different spices ... cardamom, cinnamon chi, lemongrass, ginger and many other traditional spices. In particular, the tree is trying to spice things win 12.
Best way to try to win cooking, her enthusiastic help answer: "Meat and 'continental contingent government organs' of the horse is boiling, then drop into the pot of water.
Cooked broth military. Including horse bones, organs, and 12 different spices. When eaten, it will draw a pot of water, cut out the horse meat. The vegetables served with dip is a cat, goose kohlrabi, improved pot ...
Organs horse when processing clean taste very fragrant, very crispy and delicious food. The characteristics of horse meat, fleshy fleshy, tasted sweet spices mixed into the real end in nothing.
Join the dots are made of a special kind of chili sauce in Muong Khuong, when eaten with salty, spicy, warm to warm people, to dispel the feeling of smooth cold mountains. In the second part he has the seeds of a plant that smells like pot smell in water. The spice blend and consistent with each other. Speaking here to see all the subtlety of the dish as well as people trying to win here.
When was voyeuristic visual and taste have been enjoying, these initial thoughts were no longer trying to win. Lurking in the throat at the moment is the smell of horse meat. Spicy and sweet pot of water.
Eat to win fixed Bac Ha corn alcohol - wine warm, warm and fragrant, is the essence of the mountains from. Therefore, taking into anywhere that sweet to go there. When the food and drinks are embedded into each other will create a soothing and unforgettable.



Commitment to take on hybrid format
To get today, help her family went through many difficulties. All sales in the market temporarily, before her family moved to the checkpoint and ticket market cuisine.
Ms Helps said: "This is the day before the temporary market. Her shop is just a small tent, two collapsed just enough inventory. Now, her family has two campuses. A market in Sa Pa cuisine with two boxes, spacious, wide; one in the town of Vinh Phuc. "
When asked about the difficulties she went through to get the nutrition of today, her eyes distant Help system. She said: "The opening of the first day, which did not have much capital. How much money saved from lower down bring up are put into the business. The restaurant opened not his reputation and clientele so humid. Sometimes horses have to get on that sale is not sold, to be as well not take long for horse meat will be destroyed. If you sell bad meat will take guests. No capital goods are not sold; loss of money for goods and then abandoned. The whole family was so much discouraged. The kind of down, but quit the management board member of the Fair, my family remain determined to get rich from winning try. "
Word spread far. Only from Monday open every month, her family's attempt to win a lot of tourists come. He has a chance to go back to Sa Pa definitely come second. People do not come over to find the taste to the mountains because listening experience handed down from friends. Some people are just trying to feed her family's victory, if that day the restaurant was not open but no one refused to eat the other food. Customers do not pay attention to signs, just remember a small posture, agility and a permanent smile always on her lips. Many visitors come to the market cuisine, while others were in the box but realized she immediately put her to eat breakfast at home.
She said: "There are many goals that my family is trying to mimic the crowded open for sale but not sold because not cook. Others are only subject signs, when a client is running to get my house on sale for customers but in fact, 12 different spices, I just nine first, while the remaining three traditional things, never revealed. Many people also learn to ask the team to know the secret, but the spices have always been key to the pot before, and spices when in front of them only part time. "
Help She had three children. She said: "My family was just handing her daughter and son. Eldest daughter to Vinh Yen restaurant, daughter-in Sa Pa in charge. Even her husband and son did not know all the traditional condiment for trying to win the pot. "
Ms Helps said: "The summer day was very crowded restaurant. Sometimes up to 2, 3 am is still guests. Every day gained 17, 18 million in goods. "
The fire flickers, the story is also close to an end, the time an account of her patrons at Vinh Yen go to restaurants to enjoy the new dishes. Help us farewell, but in her mind even bothering trying hard to win, the mountains and the hospitality of the people here.

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