9 experiences you must try in Bac Ha market

9 experiences you must try in Bac Ha market

At the Bac Ha (Lao Cai) market on Sunday, visitors can enjoy local specialties such as Thang Co, Pho Chua (sour soup) ..., while visiting the dog market or buying brocade souvenirs.

Eat snacks: From 7am everyone has moved around the corner of Bac Ha market. When entering the main entrance visitors will meet the gift cake sold on both sides of the road as well as in the market. All kinds of snacks in Bac Ha market are priced less than 0.2 USD.

Taste Thang Co: Thang Co is one of the famous specialties not only of Bac Ha but also North West. Pork steak is located in a corner of Bac Ha market is also attracting visitors to this highland market, especially on the cold winter days. A bowl of winning is about 1.3 USD.

Breakfast with sour soup (Pho): Another popular delicacy of Bac Ha people is sour soup. The dining area of ​​this market also has many noodle shops to choose from. Sour noodle full of meat, pickles, noodles to herbs, chili, salt to eat. A bowl of pho is 1 USD.

Buy ornamental plants, orchids: The market gate is a forest orchid with a variety of different. Each orchid here ranges from a few dollars.


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Buy medicinal herbs, medicinal plants: medicinal plants such as trionychid turtles, hamsters ... are harvested locally from all over the region and brought to the market to sell a lot, so visitors can also find. buy or use as gifts for friends, family.

Chat, take pictures with the natives: They are the only one a week, just have a good time to go shopping to buy clothes, shopping as well as selling items available. Both local and foreign tourists enjoy the opportunity to explore life as well as have the opportunity to photograph and exchange with native people.

Souvenir made from brocade: Brocade of Bac Ha people not only make the goods for daily life but also create many souvenir products to meet the needs of visitors. Bac Ha market has a large area reserved for brocades so visitors need to pay careful attention and consult when buying to avoid encountering fake goods, poor quality.

Enjoy Corn Wine: One of the famous drinks of the North West is Ban Pho corn wine - specialty of H'Mong people, Dao in Bac Ha. The wine selling area is located right next to the entrance to Brocade. Although not interested in this drink, you also feel lung when passing here and smell the aroma of alcohol wine occasionally.

Visiting the market selling cattle and poultry: This area is located at the end of the Bac Ha market, on a high hill separate from the sale of brocade, food or fresh food. Here you can see people trading from dogs, chickens and pigs to cattle ... The point of selling dogs is often crowded because the local people also have many distant guests to go to the store to buy pets.