Addresses to buy local specialties in Quang Binh that you need to know.

Quang Binh attracts tourists not only with its many beautiful beaches and mysterious caves, but also with its many delicious dishes and unique specialties. So, what should you buy as souvenirs when visiting Quang Binh, and where should you buy them? Quang Binh Travel will introduce you to the best places to buy delicious Quang Binh specialties.

Addresses of places to visit to buy local specialties.

If you need to buy quality Quang Binh specialties, please contact Ms. Thuong at 0986 442 773.

24-Hour Specialty Supermarket

Address: Village 8, Ly Trach Commune, Bo Trach District, Quang Binh Province

24h Specialty Supermarket specializes in providing specialty products: various types of confectionery, dried seafood, fresh seafood, forest and agricultural products, fish sauce, fermented pork sausage, and other local delicacies. We specialize in retail, wholesale, and online sales of specialty food products from Quang Binh and Central Vietnam. We bring the finest and most exquisite culinary delights of this region to our customers. Prices are clearly listed, our products are diverse, and we offer many attractive promotions. Our professional sales staff provide effective advice and offer enthusiastic, attentive, friendly, and approachable service.

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Rose City – Specialties and Souvenirs of Quang Binh

Address: 103 Truong Phap Street, Dong Hoi City.

At Rose City, product quality and enthusiastic, attentive, and friendly customer service are always top priorities. With the motto “true value, high quality,” Rose City is committed to providing customers with high-quality, delicious products that are worth the cost and the trust customers place in choosing their products. Rose City offers visitors top-notch service and quality, making it an increasingly popular choice for shopping and relaxing with family every day.

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Central Vietnam Specialty Supermarket – Quang Area

Address: 185 Truong Phap Street, Dong Hoi City.

The Central Vietnam Specialty Supermarket – Quang Area not only provides regional specialties for domestic customers but also introduces Vietnamese cuisine to international friends … With over 200 items including frozen and dried seafood such as dried squid, dried shrimp, various types of dried fish, fish sauce, tea, confectionery, and souvenirs, customers can rest assured about the quality of the goods.

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Dong Hoi Market

Address: Me Suot Street – Dong Hoi City.

Perhaps everyone who comes to Dong Hoi always wants to know what there is to see, where to go, explore, and learn about the local culture. Dong Hoi Market is one of the must-visit places, located along the tranquil Nhat Le River in the heart of Dong Hoi City. It can be considered the main market for the entire province, with consumer goods and food items from districts and towns within the province, as well as from other provinces and cities across the country, pouring in. However, perhaps one of the things that tourists are most interested in is Quang Binh seafood. The sea here is abundant and rich in various types of seafood such as shrimp, crab, squid, oysters, etc., and many other kinds of fish.

So, what should you buy as souvenirs when visiting Quang Binh?

Dried sweet potato

Chewy sweet potatoes have long been considered a famous specialty of Quang Binh, and tourists visiting the area always buy some to take home as souvenirs. While many places produce them, the most famous remains Hai Ninh chewy sweet potatoes. Hai Ninh chewy sweet potatoes have a distinctive, delicious, sweet, chewy, and completely natural flavor.

You can buy them at the specialty supermarkets we mentioned above, or at Dong Hoi market. Alternatively, you can purchase them from the following distributors:

• Hai Ninh Sweet Potato Processing Cooperative: Tan Dinh, Hai Ninh Commune, Quang Ninh District.
• Sweet potato seed distributor in Dong Hoi: 173 Hai Ba Trung Street, Dong Hoi City.
• Linh Hue Sweet Potato Seed Agent, Lane 60 Truong Chinh Street, Bac Ly Ward, Dong Hoi City
• Hai Ninh Sweet Potato Seed Agent, Ms. Ty: 178 Nguyen Van Cu Street, Dong Hoi City.

Dried seafood such as dried squid, dried yellowtail fish, dried shrimp

Quang Binh, with its long coastline, boasts an incredibly rich and diverse seafood resource. Seafood from Quang Binh is known for its sweetness compared to other coastal regions due to its higher salt concentration.

Dried squid, also known as squid jerky, is a signature dish of Vietnamese cuisine. It is made from squid using a drying or sun-drying method. After catching fresh squid, people cut them open, remove the internal organs, ink sac, etc., leaving only the body and head. These are then sun-dried or oven-dried until the squid becomes dry and hard.

Dried shrimp are fresh shrimp that have been naturally sun-dried or manually dried. The dried shrimp are smaller in size than when they were fresh.

Dried fish is fish that has been sun-dried to preserve it for a long time as food without the need for refrigeration. Sun-drying is one of the oldest food preservation methods known to humankind. Dried fish can be stored for years without spoiling. The drying method is quite rudimentary but effective, often used by fishermen to preserve catches that cannot be sold immediately.

Dried seafood products are sold in specialty supermarkets or markets such as Dong Hoi Market, Nam Ly Train Station Market, etc.

Fresh seafood

Seafood from Quang Binh is considered the best in the country. Especially squid and crab; the squid and crab here have firm, sweet meat, unlike the salty ones from other coastal regions.

You can buy fresh seafood at supermarkets in Dong Hoi city. Or you can buy it at Dong Hoi seafood market, where there are many kinds of seafood to choose from.

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You can buy fresh seafood at supermarkets in Dong Hoi city. Or you can buy it at Dong Hoi seafood market, where there are many kinds of seafood to choose from.

Fermented shrimp paste, young jackfruit

“The fresh shrimp krill is thoroughly washed and salted in a large earthen jar (or vessel) for one day. Afterwards, the water is squeezed out completely, and the krill is sun-dried before being finely ground. Next, the ground krill powder is put back into the jar containing the krill liquid, stirred well, and sun-dried (or sun-fermented). When the paste develops its characteristic fragrance, the mắm ruốc is considered ready. ”

How to use:

– Used as a dipping sauce for boiled meat, pickled vegetables, etc.: mix with lemon juice, chili, garlic, and sugar.

– Making braised pork with shrimp paste and lemongrass is incredibly delicious with rice.

– Making shrimp paste for dipping with starfruit, mango, and guava.

Nhút – locally called dút – is made from shrimp. Every year, around the 11th lunar month, when the fields are drained of water in preparation for the winter-spring crop, it’s also the shrimp season. After catching the shrimp, people begin to wash them clean and ferment them in earthenware jars, layering salt and shrimp.
After fermenting the shrimp in a jar, use bamboo strips and stones to press them down tightly, then expose them to sunlight for a while until they are cooked. Once cooked, they are usually placed in a bamboo sieve and rubbed until smooth. Next, they are mixed with finely ground roasted rice flour or roasted corn. Mix the mixture thoroughly, adding other spices such as chili powder, galangal, and finely shredded ginger. Put the mixture into small glass bottles, jars, or earthenware pots and continue to expose them to sunlight until they are fully fermented. The fermented shrimp paste turns a deep red color, smells fragrant, and tastes fresh and sweet from the freshwater shrimp when ready to be consumed.

Rice paper, rice crackers

Tan An sesame rice crackers originated around the 1900s. This type of cracker is a clever variation of the rice paper, commonly known as “banh da”.
The main ingredient for making the cake is high-quality rice, soaked in water, sifted, and thoroughly washed before being ground into a fine flour. The quality and attractive appearance of each sesame-coated cake depend heavily on the amount of hulled sesame seeds. If the sesame seeds are mixed into the rice flour mixture too heavily, the resulting cake will not have a harmonious combination of the fragrant aroma of rice and the nutty flavor of sesame seeds. Conversely, if the proportion of sesame seeds is too light, the cake will not look appealing and will also affect its overall harmony. The approximate ratio that Tan An cake makers use as a standard is 10 cans of rice to about 1.5 to 2 cans of sesame seeds.

Above are some supermarkets and places to buy Quang Binh specialties. These are some recommended souvenirs to buy when traveling to Quang Binh. We hope this information is helpful for your trip. If you have the chance to visit Quang Binh, please visit these places to shop. Or you can contact us for more advice on tours and what specialties to buy. Ms. Trang: 0911366567 Ms. Ngoc: 0914666872

Duong Hieu – Netin Travel