With the characteristics of green beaches, white sand dunes, unique Cham culture, visitors will be able to visit and discover famous places such as: Vinh Hy Bay, Hang Rai Beach, Mui Dinh Sand Dunes, Ninh Chu Beach, or Po Klong Garai Tower... There is also a series of delicious dishes that satisfy many tourists. Ninh Thuan cuisine is highly appreciated as the interference, harmonious combination of Central cuisine and Cham culinary culture, Phan Rang – Ninh Thuan cuisine is enough to attract tourists to come and return there, not to mention the many new things are waiting for visitors to explore.
1. “Can” cake - Pancake
Which are specialties in the list of dishes not to be missed when coming to Ninh Thuan. “Can” cake - pancake are a certain thing visitors have to try once when coming to Ninh Thuan.
Different from the pancake in the South of Vietnam and the “Khot” cake of other provinces, the “Can” cake - Pancake of Ninh Thuan have its own unique characteristics. The main factors in the dish are fresh seafood flavor and aromatic sauce. The sauce of these two cakes in Phan Rang is quite special, including four types of sauce: sweet and sour fish sauce, peanut fish sauce, anchovy paste and fish stew sauce. Vegetables eat with “Can” cake and Pancake must be fresh vegetables, aromatic taste like basil, cinnamon, Houttunia... served with some sliced cucumber, sliced star fruit or minced green mango. When enjoying this simple and delicious food, you will love this hot and sunny land but hospitable Phan Rang people more and more.
2. Vietnamese thick noddle soup
It can be said that the Vietnamese thick noddle soup with fried fish is simple but leave an unforgettable impression by the blending of young pork ribs and sweet and fresh fish to create a very special flavor. This is a familiar dish from the available ingredients such as rice and fish of the coastal people of Ninh Thuan, Vietnamese thick noddle soup is a dish that any tourist should try when coming to this sunny and windy land. The combination of the sweetness of the broth, the aroma of coriander, fried onion, spicy taste of pepper and chili, adding a little sourness of lemon to make the Vietnamese thick noddle soup more delicious and attractive. Hot Vietnamese thick noddle soup is delicious with yellow color of slices of fried fish rolls, steamed fish ball, and slivered fish... The soup cake is made from rice flour, chewy enough, tasty fish slices, light sweet soup making the simple dish of the sea region.
3. Chicken Rice
In the list of specialties in Phan Rang Ninh Thuan, it is impossible not to mention Chicken Rice. Chicken Rice is present everywhere in Vietnam, every locality, each region has its own processing method. So does Phan Rang, chicken rice there is considered a famous delicacy throughout the region that when visitors come and have a chance to try, it is hard to forget the unique taste and selling way. Phan Rang land is burning hot in four seasons, chickens raised in the garden are chewy, fragrant, not as loose as industrial chicken. Phan Rang chicken rice is cooked with glutinous rice, fragrant, marinated with ginger, garlic and finely ground to create aroma. When served, the chicken is chopped into pieces to eat. Rice and chicken are served separately. There is a plate of hot rice and a plate of chicken, you just need to pay for what pieces of chicken you eat. It is a unique way of selling Phan Rang chicken rice. Delicious chicken rice with unique selling style makes the dish become a feature that is nowhere to be found. Travelling to Phan Rang, tourists should not forget to enjoy the special chicken rice dish of the people there which is both delicious and affordable.
4. Rice vermicelli with jellyfish
Sea jellyfish has long been a specialty dish in restaurants in coastal cities. There are many ways to make jellyfish dishes such as jellyfish served with salad, or jellyfish mix... However, when travelling to Phan Rang, visitors have to find a way to enjoy an extremely special bowl of rice vermicelli noodles unlike anywhere bowl of jellyfish noodles. Jellyfish used for processing must be old enough, chewy and thick meat jellyfish. The special attraction to people who eat from Phan Rang Rice vermicelli with jellyfish is the broth pot, cooked with tomatoes, and it cannot be missing the fresh fish of the land of cacti. So the taste of the broth pot becomes sweet. Vermicelli is served with chopped water morning glory, sliced banana flower with other types of raw vegetables such as basil, beansprouts... and there is one thing if not served with, it is sure that the bowl of Rice vermicelli with jellyfish will no longer be a Rice vermicelli with jellyfish, it is Fermented shrimp paste. Putting them all in a bowl of Rice vermicelli with jellyfish, mix well, try a spoon of soup to feel the sweet taste of the broth cooked from fish, chew a piece of jellyfish to feel the crispy of the jellyfish that remains the taste of the sea beside the pungent, spicy taste of shrimp paste, chili's freshly ground, the buttery taste of peanuts. If you travelling to Phan Rang, you tourists should not forget to enjoy a bowl of Rice vermicelli with jellyfish, so when you leave, you will bring some flavor of the sea with you.
5. Soft thin vermicelli noodles with pig’s tripes
If you are a person with a passion for food, it is sure that surely the Soft thin vermicelli noodles with pig’s tripes in Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan will be an attractive dish for you.
This dish is also considered one of the delicacies of Phan Rang - Ninh Thuan, although it is very popular and easy to find. A plate of Soft thin vermicelli noodles with pig’s tripes usually consists of Soft thin vermicelli noodles with a bit of onion and fat, a fat and soft boiled pig’s tripes plate, thin rice paper, adding a plate of raw vegetables, with two types of sauce – anchovy paste and peanut fish sauce. The delicious combination of Soft thin vermicelli noodles, chewy and sweet pig’s tripes, crispy and greasy fat layer, fresh and fragrant vegetables along with the salty and stimulating taste of the anchovy sauce blends together to create an excellent dish for customers.
6. Rice vermicelli with anchovy paste
In the list of dishes to enjoy when coming to Ninh Thuan, Rice vermicelli with anchovy paste is a dish that visitors must enjoy once. This is one of the most popular dishes in Phan Rang. Throughout all the big and small roads, it is easy to see the stands of Rice vermicelli with anchovy paste. What to make the unique taste of anchovy paste is the anchovy living in Ninh Chu - the most salty seawater environment of the whole country, combined with suitable salinity of sea salt to make the sauce. It takes three month to ferment and create the most characteristic delicious anchovy paste. A handful of fresh rice vermicelli putting into the bowl, add some vegetables, eggplants, sliced mango and spicy and salty anchovy paste, well mix with anchovy paste, and then enjoy each mouthful of rice vermicelli, sweet taste of pork, fish ball, Vietnamese ham, the crispy eggplant, the fragrant vegetable, the spicy chili, combining with original taste of anchovy paste, these create an attractive dish for everyone. Someone once said that the food of the land will show the personality of the people there. With this simple and moreish Rice vermicelli with anchovy paste dish, everyone can see the simple and close personalities of the Phan Rang people, though rustic but make tourists remember to.
7. Mutton
When travelling to Ninh Thuan, you visitors can watch the sheep flock running here and there on the grasslands and enjoy typical dishes, not only the rustic dishes but also a lot of food contained its own culture, which is mutton cooked according to the formula of the Cham ethnic people. Ninh Thuan sheep is mainly raised by farmers on fields to eat green grass and shrubs, so the nutritional value of Ninh Thuan sheep is highly appreciated for rich protein and vitamins... Mutton is processed into many delicious dishes such as steamed mutton, grilled mutton, fried mutton, mutton curry, mutton cooked with grape... and many other dishes made from mutton. Mutton is very sweet, soft, fragrant and nutritious that tourists love when travelling to Ninh Thuan.
8. Goat meat
When coming to Ninh Thuan land, it is a big mistake if you have not enjoyed the specialties of goats there. Goats in Ninh Thuan are raised on high mountains, so that they find their own food as naturally wild plants and fruits to survive. Therefore, Ninh Thuan goat meat is not only firm but only soft, delicious, and naturally fragrant.
Goat meat is processed diversely: grilled goat, steamed goat, grilled chopped goat, especially goat hotpot. The price of dishes is also very affordable so when coming there, visitors should enjoy the mountain goat Ninh Thuan once.
