Breakfast like a Hai Phong person

Visitors can experience breakfast with dishes made from rice paper and seafood, full of the taste of the sea when coming to Hai Phong .

Hai Phong people often start their day with familiar, rustic dishes. These are bowls of crab noodles, hot spicy fish noodles, or delicious, hot and crispy spicy bread. Below are some familiar breakfast dishes that visitors can try when coming to the city of red phoenix flowers.

Rice noodle soup with crab

Rice noodles with crab is the dish that makes Hai Phong cuisine famous. This dish is made from ingredients with a strong rustic flavor such as field crab, rice noodles, water spinach, and water mimosa.

A bowl of crab noodle soup has shrimp, fish cake, grilled pork with betel leaves, and vegetables. Photo: Bui Thuy

A bowl of delicious crab noodle soup, Hai Phong style, must ensure that the noodles are reddish brown, soft and chewy, not broken. The broth is rich with the aroma of crab fat and the sweetness of bone broth. This dish is often served with crab fat, fish cakes, grilled betel leaves, shrimp, mantis shrimp, herbs, and raw vegetables.

Tourists can easily find eateries and restaurants selling this dish anywhere when coming to Hai Phong.

Beef rice noodles

This dish, which may seem strange to many tourists, is a familiar breakfast for Hai Phong people. It is called tender beef because the beef here is simmered until tender but still retains the sweetness of the meat fibers and tendons, mixed with a sweet broth. Some restaurants use red rice paper, some use white rice paper to make this dish.

A bowl of beef noodle soup. Photo: Foody/Linh Laughing

Hai Phong people do not use lemon or kumquat, instead they use vinegar mixed with sour, spicy and sweet flavors, creating a unique flavor.

Duck rice noodles

Hai Phong cuisine is famous for dishes made from rice paper. In addition to rice paper dishes made from fish and crab, which have a strong taste of the sea, visitors can change their breakfast with rice paper with duck.

Duck rice noodles are usually eaten with vinegar. Photo: Foody

In addition to duck and rice noodles, this dish is also served with meatballs, bean sprouts, herbs, raw vegetables and vinegar. Diners have two options when enjoying this dish: dry rice noodles with duck and wet rice noodles with duck. Most restaurants in Hai Phong city are only open from 6am to 11am. Tourists to Hai Phong can enjoy this dish at some restaurants such as Dau rice noodles with duck, Oanh Beo rice noodles with duck, Le Lai rice noodles with duck...

Spicy fish noodle soup

Fish noodle soup is not only available in Hai Phong, but here, this dish has unique features, thanks to the meticulous selection of ingredients and the preparation of the special broth. To make a bowl of fish noodle soup typical of Hai Phong, the seller will choose both sea fish and freshwater fish. The fish usually chosen is mackerel or grass carp. The fish meat must be firm and not smelly.

A full bowl of spicy fish noodle soup has fried fish, fish cakes, fish intestines, sausage, and grilled pork rolls wrapped in betel leaves. Photo: Phong Vinh

The sea fish is cleaned of bones and meat, the meat is pounded or ground, marinated with spices, mixed with dill and turmeric, and shaped into patties. The freshwater fish is washed, cut into small pieces, marinated with spices, coated in flour, and fried.

The vermicelli broth is simmered from pork bones along with the heads and bones of sea fish, bringing a unique and characteristic sweetness of Hai Phong fish vermicelli. In addition to fish, the toppings served with vermicelli also include fish intestines, sausage, shrimp, mantis shrimp, elephant ear, chopped banana flowers and various raw vegetables and herbs.

Breadsticks

When talking about Hai Phong cuisine, we cannot ignore spicy bread, also known as baguette. This is not only a familiar breakfast dish but also a snack and an attractive gift when visiting the port city. The small baguette is grilled until golden brown, with a layer of pate inside, served with the characteristic spicy and slightly sour chili sauce.

Bread sticks are a specialty, chosen by many people as a gift when visiting Hai Phong. Photo: Phong Vinh

One of the most famous and oldest places selling spicy bread in Hai Phong is Ba Gia Spicy Bread Shop, located at 57A Le Loi Street, Ngo Quyen District; Ong Cuong Spicy Bread Shop at 184 Hang Kenh, Le Chan; Thai sweet soup and spicy bread at 195 Le Loi, Ngo Quyen...

Spicy, pungent dishes such as spicy fish noodles and spicy bread are very suitable for visitors to warm up their bodies on winter days. This is also the time when the VnExpress Marathon Hai Phong 2023 event takes place, on December 17. Combining the discovery of local cuisine and culture, visitors and their families can immerse themselves in the vibrant atmosphere of the race to have different experiences when coming to the port city. Register to participate here.

Lan Anh

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