Visit the Muong Khuong market to enjoy the Nung rice cake
If you have the opportunity to visit the Muong Khuong - Lao Cai upland fair, do not miss enjoying the unique and strange dishes of the people here, especially the rice cake of Nung people.
Rice cake of Nung people – Muong Khuong.
On weekends, when the district town is still in the fog, the market where "the sky" has been crowded with buyers and sellers are compatriots from the bustling upland villages and hamlets pulling together to the market. All create a vivid, colorful picture of Muong Khuong street market fair. People come to the market, almost everyone knows each other, because both buyers and sellers are local people, in the village. So it is different from the quick trade in the market place, where the stalls of the upland market are not only offered to buy, ask for prices, but surrounded by so many love stories.
Find at the end of the market is a row of restaurants with many unique dishes of the people here such as Thang Co, sour pho, seven color sticky rice and a cake made from galangal flour with cool taste ...
Cast cake is a popular dish of Nung people here, made from galangal root powder, at first glance like jelly with opaque white color ... When eating, people cut the cake into a long rectangle with a finger, put into the bowl, add pickles, crushed roasted peanuts, scallions, bean sprouts, Muong Khuong chili sauce and pickled water. Depending on the taste of the guests, it reduce the seasonings to taste.
This is a popular dish of Nung Muong Khuong people for a long time, now, the rice cake made of Nung dao power have become a unique cuisine to attract tourists when experiencing the Muong Khuong fair.
