Discover special dishes in Bac Kan’s culinary

To travelers who came to Bac Kan, it is certain that they can not forget the distinctive flavor of mountains in each specialty here. Let’s discover some famous dishes in Bac Kan province that you would be eager to come and taste someday.

1. “Bamboo-tube rice“

If Ninh Binh is famous for fried rice, Quang Nam has chicken rice, Sai Gon is proud of broken rice, Bac Kan province also has a very unique dish made from rice, that is bamboo-tube rice.

This kind of rice dish is cooked in a bamboo tube. Therefore, it brings a special flavor- the mountain’s fragrance. Mountainous tribes make bamboo-tube rice from glutinous rice with some other ingredients. Glutinous rice is soaked a few hour in water to expand, then washed carefully. Then you left it drain, put the rice into bamboo tubes then use dry banana leaves to cover the open top.

Finally tubes are baked on fire. After having a large fire, you start to put the tubes on. In baking process, you have to remember to turn around a tubes in order to avoid being burnt. It will take about one hour to have a batch of bamboo-tubes rice cooked.

The rice will be more delicious if you mix grated coconut, coconut milk sesame before baking. The bamboo tubes have to be green young and fresh. When the rice is cooked, it will have a little sweetness and specific smell of bamboo.

Speaking to Bac Kan’s specialty, it can be forgotten to mention bamboo tubes rice- a symbol for precise culinary culture of residents here.

After taking tube of rice out, use the knife to eliminate the black skin outside only leave the white inside. When enjoying this dish, you need to carefully split the tube but not miss the thin bamboo layer surrounding the rice.
Soft glutinous rice with the aroma of young bamboo tubes and banana leaves create a very special flavor. Visitors will feel like the mountains are all around. Breaking a piece of rice, dipping in the sesame peanut salt and slowly enjoying the sweet flavor of it, you will understand why this is called the dish of forests and mountains.

Bamboo Rices

2. “Gio” cakes

“Gio” cakes has been popular in Bac Kan for hundreds of years. “Gio” cakes are made from ash of burned trees ( there are a special kind of tree to make “Gio” cake), glutinous rice (it will be more delicious when using aromatic glutinous rice). The content of cakes are wrapped in layers of bamboo leaves. “Gio” is dipped in condensed cane sugar. Delicious “Gio” cake must be smooth, tough, and yellow outside. “Gio” cake has distinctively strong flavor, cool and can be stored for very long period.

3.“Quang Thuan – Bac Kan mandarin orange ( Quang Thuan tangerine)“

Quang Thuan commune, Bach Thong district is well-known for high-quality delicious mandarin oranges. Surely anyone ever came to Bac Kan and tasted the flavors of Quang Thuan tangerine will not forget it’s flavor.

Mandarin oranges in Quang Thuan is a famous for a long time with beautiful outside, thin cover, easy to peel. When the tangerines are ripe, they have bright yellow and slightly sweet and sour flavor. The tangerine season starts from September and lasts to lunar Tet holiday.