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Grilled foods

When in Sapa, don’t miss these special dishes. The common options are beef, pork, stream fish, mushroom, egg, sweet potatoes, chicken feet and wings and vegetables. They’re delicious finger food on sticks that are also very cheap.
Where to eat: Eating places near The ancient church.

“Cơm lam”

“Cơm lam” or Vietnamese sticky rice in bamboo is a speciality of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. The rice is cooked inside long and young bamboo pipes and grilled over charcoal. When the rice is done, you skillfully remove the burned outer layers and leave a thin layer of bamboo covering the rice to split easily when eating. Com Lam is white, soft, and sweet-smelling and is served with sesame salt.
Where to eat: Any of restaurants, hotels, roadside eateries that serve this dish.
 

Sapa Salmon

Enhance your stay in Sapa with this speciality. Salmon with bold taste, pretty pink meat, high nutritional ingredients is the go-to dish for tourists coming to Sapa. Sapa salmon have flesh meat, firm muscles and no grease which is suitable for many different dishes like salmon hot pot, salmon salad, grilled salmon and salmon gruel. In the cold of Sapa, enjoying a full of smoke salmon hot pot with cai meo (a kind of vegetables of ethnic minorities) and chayote will be an unforgettable moment for visitors.
Where to eat: Hoa Dao restaurant - 48 Le Van Tam Street, Lotus Sapa restaurant - 34 Cau May Street.

“Thắng cố”

“Thắng cố” is a famous food of ethnic minority people in north west Vietnam. It’s filled a combination of meats: Buffalo, beef, pork, horse and animal internal organs. All ingredients are put in    a deep fryer and is cooked until it’s well-done, and then adding 27 different spices and vegetables. This dish tastes wonderful with sweet, greasy, fragant flavor, which is worth wating for when you are in Sapa.

Where to eat: Thắng cố Mã Lệ; Thắng cố A Quỳnh 015 Thạch sơn

“Lợn cắp nách”

“Lợn cắp nách” is called carried under arm pig, a kind of Muong pigs is small, about 5kg. Pig’s meat is much lean, sweet high nutritional ingredients, which makes a fantastic dish. Its meat can be steamed, boiled, baked, stewed, and the taste is very delicious.

Black chicken

Sapa black chickens are small and about 1.2kg, with natural black skin, meat and bones. They are available for many dishes but grilled black chicken in honey has the most wonderful taste. The chicken is eaten with pepper salt mixed lemon juice and mint.

Some restaurants in Sapa for visitors:

- Sapa Anh Dung Restaurant - 69 Xuan Vien Street.

- Hoa Dao Restaurant Sapa - 33 Xuan Vien Street.

- Chapa Restaurant - 40 Cau May Street.

- Lotus Restaurant - 34 Cau May Street

- Eating places near The ancient church.