Vinegar Noodles

Nuoc Vinegar – Dad's delicious dish,

My father is from Hue, he went to Nha Trang to teach. When I was a child, he often mentioned the dish "Vinegar". My mother once went to the market to buy jellyfish to work. He ate jellyfish with lemongrass sauce "and" raw vegetables to satisfy his craving but still said this is not Nuoc. Looming over 40 years. Now writing to introduce you to this dish, but remembering the old Father who is far away, he can't enjoy Nuoc Vinegar.

Nuoc is the name of a type of jellyfish that includes two types: earlobe and waterlogged. These clear blue waters, as small as a ring of a finger, spawn in the brackish lagoon of Cau Hai lagoon, Tam Giang lagoon, which is different from jellyfish in the sea. Each type has its own style of eating: soft and crispy earlobe, crunchy and crunchy leg soup, bar. With a small and beautiful body the size of a ping pong ball with serrated legs a bit like tentacles in squid, Hue people buy each batch of buttermilk and wash it. After washing thoroughly, soak the water in clean water mixed with very dilute salt with guava leaves, when it is almost time to eat, remove the juice from the water, squeeze it out.

Nuoc is eaten raw, dipped with Hue fish sauce, squeezed lemon with a little MSG, sugar, served with slices of fresh figs, bananas, sour star fruit and herbs, along with herbs, mint, perilla... leaves, the the, fragrant. People also often eat fresh water with dipping sauce with fresh, juicy, crunchy melon, sliced a little thickly.

Or processed into Vinegar Nuoc vermicelli. Dried vermicelli is like seasoned vermicelli. A bowl of vermicelli Vinegar Nuoc consists of raw vegetables with porcelain bananas (the main one) sliced very thin, lettuce, cilantro, herbs...; golden roasted peanuts, peeled, medium pounded; baked rice paper. When everything is finished, the aroma blends and spreads to create an irresistible feeling of stimulation. Arrange vermicelli and raw vegetables in a bowl. On the top, a little of each: swallow legs, shrimp, tomatoes, porcelain bananas, slices of ripe chili, herbs, shrimp and crab juice, squeeze rice paper, add tofu, mix well and eat. This dish is delicious, it must have a cup of lemon juice and a spicy green chili. Dip a piece of Nuoc into the shrimp paste, bite into a piece of chili or "and" the vermicelli mixed with water to make it richer, bite into a piece of green chili. Anyone who can eat garlic should eat it to avoid unexpected parasites from raw vegetables.

Because Nuoc is only available in the summer, if you come to Hue in the hot summer, enjoy this rustic dish at 2 Chi Lang Street, Hue near Gia Hoi Bridge. There is no vinegar in the way of making this noodle dish. But I think some people have called the Nuoc Nuoc Vinegar because when it is underwater, the Nuoc is shaped like a Vinegar.

PS: Broth - soup with shrimp and crabs - is often called braised shrimp by the ancient Hue people. How to make dried shrimp, choose really fresh shrimp or shrimp, wash, peel, remove the black sugar, leave shrimp bricks, then marinate with pepper, pilgrimage, a little sugar, monosodium glutamate, wait to soak with cooking oil or grease. A spoonful of delicious My Loi stir-fry stir in 1/2 cup of cold water to filter the sand, put the cooked shrimp in the stock and beat until boiling, add pineapple and cherry tomatoes – a marble-sized tomato with a sweet and sour taste. . If you want to be more "unique", add brick crab. Separate bricks for color, steamed crabs, eat meat, season with spices, um with shrimp.