Among many Ha Noi street foods noodles with Indian taro (Bun doc mung or Bun Bac Ha) is one of my favorite dish.
It is one of the popular dishes in Hanoi. People often eat Bun doc mung for breakfast and lunch. The dish include noodles, broth, Indian Taro and will be added with thin slices of pork meat or pork ribs or pork meatballs with wood-ear mushrooms or pork trotters. It is up to you to have which one to be added in your order.
The taste of Bun doc mung is very fresh and light, the perfect mix between the sweet, salt, sour from the broth which has been cooked for hours to distilled the best taste for the dish. Besides, the Indian taro has to be prepared very carefully. It has to be cut and washed and squeezed many time with sea salt to create the taste. When everything is put together, it creates a wonderful bow with great smell and catchy look. It is fabulous when you start your morning with a bow of Bun doc mung on a street of Hanoi in a fresh cool morning.
Ingredients:
- Noodles
- Minced pork
- Pig trotters
- Pork rib
- Indian Taro
- Tomatoes
- Green onion
- Wood-ear mushrooms
- Field mushrooms
- Fish sauce or salt
How the dish is cooked:
First, wash pork ribs, then put them in a pot of boiling water with 1 tablespoon of bare salt, then take out the ribs and wash them. Then, put 1 liter of boiling water in a pot, add the blanched pork ribs, add 1 tablespoon of seasoning seeds to the stew for 20 minutes for the ribs to absorb the flavor and sweeten the broth. Next you have to peel, wash, then slice the Indian taro. After that, you put Indian taro in a bowl, add 2 – 3 teaspoons of salt, mix well. You have to let it soak for about 15 minutes for the water to flow. Continue to thoroughly wash and squeeze the Indian taro out the water.
Pork meat ball need to prepare carefully with minced pork and thin sliced wood-ears mushrooms. The two will be mix together and added with fish sauce or salt. After that you can make the meatballs shape and drop them into the broth. Broiled pork also need to be sliced thin to add into the bow afterward.
Tomatoes, field mushrooms and green onion have to be washed and chopped. Tomatoes and field mushrooms should be put into the broth and cooked in 10 – 15 mins to create the light sour taste of the broth. Green onion will be put in the bow afterward to create the taste and the color for the dish.
Once ingredients are ready everything will be put together in the bow: noodles, Indian taro, meatballs, with wood-ears mushroom, thin sliced pork, trotters, green onion. The broth will be pour in the the bow afterward, which makes a wonderful smell hot bow of Bun doc mung.
Best places to eat Bun doc mung in Ha Noi
- Bun doc mung Bat Dan: 18 Bat Dan – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi
- Bun Ba Minh: 612 Truong Chinh – Dong Da – Ha Noi
- Bun Co Cham: 39E Hai Ba Trung – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi
- Bun doc mung Cau Go: 32 Cau Go – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi
- Bun doc mung Hang Ngang: 48 Hang Ngang – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi
- Bun doc mung Ham Long: Ngo 18 – Ham Long – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi
- Quan Hang Trong ngon: 11 Hang Trong – Hoan Kiem – Hà Nội
The price of one bow of Bun doc mung is from VND 40,000 – VND 50,000 ($2). If you have chance to visit Hanoi and want to try local foods, this is one of the dish you can try.
