Vegetarian city of Hue.

Vegetarian city of Hue.

Aside from Nguyen royal cuisine, vegetarian dishes in Hue are really attractive in appearance, frugal but still good for health, cheap. The famous chefs in Hue pagoda cook vegetarian, consuming twice the salty ...

Hue has many temples so many vegetarians. Vegetarians throughout the year are eating "vegetarian". People only eat that kind of four days in the lunar month (thirty, one, fourteen, full moon). There are people who do not go to the temple, but still are vegetarian.





From the time of Lord Nguyen Phuc Chu to Hue, the royal family was vegetarian. In Nam Giao, there is also a large house named Trai, where the king can stay, eat vegetarian food before heaven. It can be said that "tradition" vegetarian Hue family is very popular.

Visitors to Hue can enjoy vegetarian food everywhere. The simplest is the Dong Ba Market, Ben Ngu, An Cuu, with several hundred thousand bags, can also enjoy the vegetarian "fake salty" - salty.In a typical village market, just a small stall, there are at least 30 to 50 vegetarian dishes, tofu, and noodles. Then banh chung, banh tet, cakes, rice noodles, rice noodles, cakes, dipping sauces, filtered street vendors, the full moon day or the first, also vegetarian. In Hue, the vegetarian days of the month, most of the mussel rice, rice noodle soup are off sale. They do not kill mussels, oysters on these days.




From the western side of Hue, known as the "pagoda" street, along Phan Boi Chau street, Dien Bien Phu, Thuy Xuan, visitors will see a line of vegetarian restaurants. Dozens of dishes are sold buffet style to choose, low price. The busy life makes many urban residents have no time to enjoy a vegetarian meal in the family, or can not afford to cook. Here are services that help people enjoy vegetarian meals.

The famous chefs in Hue pagoda cook vegetarian, laborious, time consuming double salty. The vegetarian meal was brightly colored, but there was no smell of fish meat.





Then baked with banana baked silk, peeled, pounded with spices, powdered, mixed with pomegranate pomegranate, banana leaves to bring steam. When the chicken tossed is the flour has removed starch, pepper salt, lemongrass. Bok cinnamon bite out to know the bean mold, on the color of the steamed. Chips are sweet potatoes, peeled green peas, fried golden. The oysters look like the real thing made from green banana seasoning. Ram dish is only mushroom, ship, rice paper package. In the hands of a good vegetarian, fresh jackfruit also into chicken salted pepper.





Walking on the streets of crowded tourist on the south bank of Huong River such as Pham Ngu Lao, Cung Cung, Ba Trieu, Nguyen Cong Tru will meet vegetarian food shops, elegant decoration, name taken from Buddhist scriptures: Bodhi, Tinh Tam, An Lac, Tinh Binh ... People should not be here because vegetarian stores do not sell alcohol, drinks only soft drinks, steward dressed secretly, speak softly.

Processing meticulously, but vegetarian food cheaper salty, on average about 20,000 - 30,000 VND a dish. High-quality vegetarian food using ingredients and spices from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore ... which are more expensive, to serve foreign tourists.




The afternoon is when the vegetarian street bustle up, welcome guests to dinner. It seems that foreign visitors to Hue increasingly enjoy vegetarianism.