![]() Also, in my recipe below, I utilize vegetable oil instead of beef fat. My home version didn’t include an engine-fueled stove and a very hot wok, but it was still quite tasty with a simple pan. If you happen to see Pho Tai Lan being made on the streets of Vietnam, you will see large eyebrow-scorching flames shooting upward as beef and garlic get a quick stir-fry. This type of beef noodle soup involves a very hot wok. ![]() When hot beef broth is ladled over the beef, it cooks them to the perfect tenderness. In fact, I wok-fried the beef just enough to get that garlic flavor on it, but mainly kept them raw. When making this dish, be mindful not to overcook the beef. ![]() As you can imagine, this extra step adds a whole new level of of flavor to an already very flavorful noodle soup. You are advised to get up early for a walk in town in the early morning to feel better about the small, quiet town, a beautiful rose amid the rock plateau of Ha Giang.Pho Tai Lan is a type of Northern-style beef noodle soup where instead of raw slices of beef topping the bowl, it is thin slices of beef and lots of garlic wok-fried in beef fat (tallow). There are only several restaurants in the town so if you arrive at Pho Bang in the afternoon, you should visit a restaurant immediately. Today Pho Bang has an inn named “Hoa Hong” (Rose) for tourists who want to enjoy the quiet atmosphere of Pho Bang. The market is very crowded and busy in the morning and gradually becomes quiet at noon, leaving a quiet Pho Bang town as usual. On market day, people from the neighboring areas bring everything they have to the market. It opens each six day and is one of the four unique fairs of Ha Giang. The Pho Bang market is very close to the main road. The whole town just awakes on the market day, when people bring all kinds of goods to the market. The quiet and silent life keeps continuing in this mountainous town. In Pho Bang, time passes slowly just like that. There are only a few groceries in the town, selling essential things right behind the window frame. The dark yellow color of corn stands on the brown walls. An old man sits on the couch stroking the back of a lazy cat, some girls do embroidery at the threshold, kids play marbles on the front yard, corns and beans are dried on the road and hung in front of houses. In Pho Bang, you will feel like the time drifting very slowly. These clay-made houses are over 100 years old, with old wooden doors and old parallel sentences in Chinese scripts, brown moss wall, yin-yang roof tiles. Going along the main road, you will see the trinh tuong houses of H’Mong and Chinese people, which are dyed by the color of time. The small town of Pho Bang has only a dozen houses, which are scattered on the main road and a few small branches. Traders come here to buy roses to sell in other towns in Ha Giang. Roses hear are small but the color and the scent are special. ![]() The road runs from mountains to mountains, the sun keeps dancing on the sky halfway and the deep valley is deserted until Pho Bang suddenly appears in a valley of roses.Īmid the barren plateau, gardens of roses in Pho Bang will surprise you. The town is located deep in a valley in the rock plateau, where it is surrounded by rock mountains. As a remote and isolated place, Pho Bang town is less well-known than other sites in the land of Ha Giang.
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