Stir noodle soup has a unique and strange taste, a must-try specialty in Rach Gia, Kien Giang, Vietnam. Immediately refer to the interesting information surrounding this dish and the following famous address to eat delicious noodle soup.
By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | Official Rach Gia Visitor Guide
1. Better to Know as a Food Lover
Find them: Rach Gia City
Best time: Dusk-Dawn
Don’t miss: Stir Noodle Soup
Local’s pick: Kien XayStir Noodle Soup restaurant
Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in Rach Gia
Blog: https://vemekong.com/stir-noodle-soup-rach-gia/
Facts: Stir noodle soup can stimulate the taste of even the most demanding diners. This famous specialty includes squid, shrimp paste, and fish cake… enjoyed in a very “stirring” way, a must-try dish when you have the opportunity to visit the pearl island.
2. Better to Know Stir Noodle Soup
What is Stir noodle soup? Sharing about the origin of the name Stir noodle soup, the local people said that it comes from the fact that this vermicelli must be served with homemade dipping sauce, including soup powder, sugar, kumquat, ground chili and some noodles in the bowl must Stir vigorously to combine, seasoning dissolves, turns red-orange. Enjoying this famous specialty of Phu Quoc, diners will have to quickly stir the sauce.
Not only the special way to eat Stir noodle soup, this specialty dish also has an additional interesting point, that is, diners will have to serve themselves, perform the “stirring” stage of the spices in the bowl themselves to make your own dipping sauce, balanced according to your own taste, and the staff will guide you to make a delicious dipping sauce.
3. Stir Noodle Soup in Kien Giang
Stir noodle soup is made from simple, easy-to-find ingredients but has a special taste thanks to the sophisticated processing of the locals, in which the broth and dipping sauce are featured.
To make a delicious and flavorful broth, the chef needs to fry the minced lemongrass aroma, quickly stir-fry the shrimp shells and shrimp before pouring clean water and boiling it over high heat. Seasoning the broth is an important stage, the dish comes with a dipping sauce, so the broth must be a bit light, so don’t add a lot of salt, it will overwhelm the sweetness of the shrimp.
Stir noodle soup is used with dipping sauces with their own recipes that are often prepared by restaurants. When enjoying, you need to pay special attention to the process of adding chili and kumquat juice into the cup so that the amount of water is just enough to cover the top of the sugar and salt, remember to remove the seeds to avoid bitterness, and stir the mixture for a minute.
4. How to Make Stir Noodle Soup
Ingredients
300g calamari
300g fresh shrimp (minced)
300g squid (cleaned)
1-liter bone broth (if available, replace it with filtered water)
10g minced garlic
10g minced purple onion
½ tablespoon minced chili
20ml tapioca juice
200g fresh vermicelli
10g green onions (chopped)
Seasoning: Seasoning, pepper, salt.
How to make delicious Stir noodle soup
Step 1: Marinate ingredients
First, you put 300g shrimp and 300g fish cake in 2 separate bowls. Then, put in each bowl ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon seasoning, 5g minced garlic and 5g minced shallot. You will marinate both ingredients for about 20 minutes to absorb the flavors.
Step 2: Make the dipping sauce
You put in a cup of 20ml of tamarind juice, ½ tablespoon of salt, 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1/3 tablespoon of pepper. Stir until the mixture is completely dissolved, then add ½ tablespoon of minced chili.
Step 3: Cook the broth and drain the ink
You put the pot on the stove, add 1 liter of bone broth, cook until boiling, skim off the foam and add 1 tablespoon sugar, ½ tablespoon salt and ½ tablespoon seasoning. When done, you drop 300g of squid in, boil for about 5 minutes, then take it out.
Step 4: Finish the Stir noodle soup
When eating, you will spread a layer of fish paste and a layer of shrimp on the bottom of the bowl, then sprinkle some green onions. When you’re done, quickly add in the boiling broth to cook the rolls and shrimp.
5. Pro tips:
Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.
Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you’re eating hot street food, it’s always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.
Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.
Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.
If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.
Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.
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Hopefully, the above tips will help you to come up with a great plan for your adventure in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. Have a safe trip!
“Sleep less, travel more, respect more” – Thomas Vietnam – Local travel expert.
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