Bun bo Hue (beef vermicelli of Hue city) - Street dish attracts diners

For tourists who lived in Vietnam for a while, certainly, no strange to the white of bun fibre and its aroma. Whether the North, South or Central, bun fibre has also created unique and characteristic dishes for each region. But, in Hue, many people like bun by "Hue's style".
Although "Hue's style" is poor, it is still elegant, sophisticated, meticulous from aroma to color - it makes diners not only feel the taste of the dish but also feel the soul of maker.


Come to Hue, whether morning or noon, or the cold and wet evening, walking along the small streets, you can easily find a sidewalk restaurant with steaming beef vermicelli. Gourmets have to choose right address and right favorite flavor, people do not gourmet, they can go into any sidewalk restaurant who can still satisfied. Inside the sophisticated of beef vermicelli, raw materials of beef vermicelli are so simple, easy to find and not expensive. It is so appropriate with Hue - the land of dreams!


Tourists will not forget a chilly afternoon with light rain, a bowl of bun is steaming with white of bun fibre and prominent of which is pink of meatballs, stew pig trotter's heel, mixed with a bit of white of bean sprouts is green of raw vegetables, drink a charming little water with a little lemon and chilli, you will feel both hot and spicy, "listen" the sweetness of water of bun, meat "run" into esophagus, that's extremely interesting. Visiting to Hue, enjoying a bowl of bun, once you have to watery eyes, so you will feel "taste" of this city of dreams!

Main ingredients to cook beef vermicelli of Hue is beef and pig trotter's heel. Beef must be selected thigh meat and had tendon,
pig trotter's heel must be taken from elbow to trotter's heel. Then, all must be washed, shaved ooze, boiled half an hour until the water boil then reduce heat to stew meat, picked foam to make water clean. Next, grinding the lemon tree and put into the boiling pot, if lemon grass makes aroma, salted shredded meat sauce makes taste for a bowl of bun. Salted shredded meat sauce must be stired and leave residue out. If adding enough salted shredded meat sauce, a bowl of bun will have aroma and the sweetness. If adding less salted shredded meat sauce, the water of bun will be pale or if adding too much, it will be smelly, not aroma. It is so sophisticated!


People in Hue is famous by the sophisticated in "beauty" of dish. A bowl of beef vermicelli looks seem meager but it still exudes elegance, the water is clear with the white of bun, slices of pepper prominent on the green, white of vegetables and onion, white of pig trotter's heel changed to yellow with thin skin hiding in red-brown with yellow of slices of beef. And, just a little chili sauce or chili-salted shredded meat, lightly touch the bowl of vermicelli, chilli will slowly unwind as flower bloom on the water. Peppery taste is not only felt by sense of taste but also sense of smell and it makes diners continuous inhale. Next to bowl of beef vermicelli is steaming that attracts diners, it is salad, slices of flower of banana and basil.

Life changes and bowl of beef vermicelli of Hue has also changed. Nowadays, each place, each burden, they have various points, some place has more pink meatballs(pork-pie mixed with crabmeat), some place has animal's blood curd,etc. Although there are many changes, various points or enjoy in some way, you still will not avoid tearing with homeliness but unique of bowl of beef vermicelli of Hue.