Bun Cha - The famous dish of Vietnam

It is no doubt that our customers joining our Vietnam motorbike tours have a great impression much on Bún Chả dish. They can eat a lot of time the same dish Bún Chả.

A lot of visitors do not know much about this special and famous dish, so we would like to introduce you about this dish.

Bún chả is a unique food and you can find an unforgettable impression of the dish even you just try once. People believe Bun cha originated in Hanoi. For some reason, it is not available in other part of the country. Previously, bún chả used to be a dish sold by street vendors, rather than in restaurants. A bowl of bún chả is quite simple, convenient and quick, so we can enjoy it sometimes in place of rice.

The ingredients are pretty common. The chả in bún chả always come in 2 types: tiny grilled pork patties (cha vien) and fatty pork slices (cha mieng). The grilled pieces are usually made from belly meat, while the patties made from minced meat of shoulder or loin. They are both blended with spices before they were grilled over charcoal.

The rest of the dish was for bún (rice noodle) and vegetables. A basket of fresh herbs and vegetable including small lettuces, curled shredded morning glory, stems, cilantro, or some combination of minty, spicy Vietnamese herbs accompany the sauce. In the low season of such herbal vegetables, water spinach from Son Tay is used instead – the stalks are selected and split into small strands. All the vegetables are thoroughly washed, but not crushed and crumpled.

The most difficult part in making bún chả is to get the right mixture of sauce. It really is an art to make a good dipping sauce in bún chả. The sauce will then contain all the essential tastes, sour, hot, salty and sweet. Grilles of well cooked pork would be opened and the contents dropped into the bowl of fish sauce. The dipping sauce is wonderfully mixed into a picky brown, light yellow tasty liquid, while the grilled patties of minced pork or slices of belly meat, generally referred to as chả, are put into the sauce. Some chili and pepper are also added to make the food even more delicious.

Enjoy Bún Chả before joining our motorbike tours Vietnam, sure, you still want to try if after finishing the motorcycle tours Vietnam

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Hill Tribe Love Market in Vietnam

Our customers before booking our Vietnam motorcycle tours always search on internet about the special feature of the local people in the North of Vietnam. And Khau Vai love market attracts them a lot. They ask us whether to provide more information about this market also.
Traveling Vietnam motorbike tours to Khau Vai on lunar March 26th and 27th, you can have a great opportunity to join the market.  Khau Vai love market is held on lunar March 26th and 27th with the participation of a large number of locals in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province. Here is the home of some different ethnic tribes such as Giay, Nung and Muong. Khau Vai market is a real symbol of love. There are some legends around this market that you should know.

And here are 2 best ones:
Legend has it that once upon a time, there were a boy and a girl born from two different places of the Dong Van Plateau. And they love each other a lot. However, they are forbidden to get married by the two families, so they decided to leave home to come and settle down together in Khau Vai, a prosperous land with green plants. In honor of their merits in cultivating the wild land into a rich land, the local people built the two temples called Ong and Ba (Mr. and Mrs.) to worship them.
Another legend is that there was a young couple from different tribes Giay and Nung who fell in love with each other. The girl was so beautiful that her tribe did not want to let her get married with any man from other tribes. Consequently, violent conflict arose between the two tribes. To stop the blood shedding, the two lovers sorrowfully decided to part. However, they planned to meet once a year on that day, lunar March 27th. The place where they used to meet is Khau Vai, which thereafter became a meeting place for all those in love.

 Khau Vai has attracted not only young but also old couples of different ages. The market not only for people who come here to seek partners for the first time but also for people who love each other very much but cannot marry each other because of different reasons. The special thing is that although a husband and a wife can go to the market together to look for their own partners to share emotions. No one is jealous because the dating at the marketplace is only a temporary feeling exchange, which has no negative influences on real life.
How special the Khau Vai love market is, come and discover the market with us, we will design the best motorbike tours Vietnam for you.

In Sin Chai Village, the local gather together and reside in the valley

Joining our Vietnam motorbike tours to Sapa, you will have a chance to visit many different villages from the main town, for example: Cat Cat, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Giang Ta Chai…However, today, Vietnam Dirtbike travel would like to introduce you about another village named Sin Chai.

Located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, ‘the roof of Vietnam and Indochina’ is Sin Chai village, about 30 kilometers trekking from Sapa town. You can get there by walking or by riding when take part in Vietnam motorcycle tours with us. Sin Chai is the village of the Red Dao ethnic people, whose women wear beautifully embroidered clothes with distinctive silver jeweler and an enormous red turban and homed of about 1.400 Mong people. Their houses are scattered on mountain side. Sin Chai people’s life is simple, they earn their living by farming, dying indigo, planting flax, weaving fabric.

Sin Chai village seems to be protected by imposing mountains, bushy green forests and terraced fields. The weather here are always cool and sometimes it brings chilly wind and the fog is the familiar image that you can get when you are Sin Chai. In Sin Chai Village, the local gather together and reside in the valley, along with the crystal and fresh stream running from imposing Ngu Chi Son’s foot. The Mong here prefer building breeding facilities far from their houses instead of right under the main houses as in the past or in other ethnics’ area.

One night home-stay in Sin Chai will be a highlight of the motorcycle tours Vietnam. Here the locals will take the time to teach you textile weaving and dying, will take the group on a locally built trail to explain the names and function of the local flora. It will be a great opportunity to participate in the village community.