Fried Bitter Melon with Beef Recipe

Fried Bitter Melon with Beef is one the healthy Vietnamese foods especially good for your bodies. Moreover, this fruit is really fresh, and make your skin more stunning. If you love your health and want to protect your skin keep young longer.

There are 7 steps to make intriguing dish:

Ingredients:

2 Bitter Melon Fruits (400 – 500 gr)
250gr Beef, slice thinly
Purple onion, scallion
Spices: Salt, Maggi’s stuff, oyster oil, vegetable oil, dried purple onion, pepper, corn starch.

Process:

Step 1: Put beef into bowl, marinate with 1 teaspoon salt + 1 teaspoon corn starch + pepper + 1 teaspoon oyster oil, mix together and wait about 30 – 45 minutes.

Step 2: Clean bitter melon, cut into half; throw away seeds.

Step 3: Slice bitter melon thinly (3mm). Soak into cold water added a little salt about 30 minutes. Next, pour water out and wait to dry.

Step 4: Peel off cover purple onion, slice thinly.

Step 5: Here is the important step to create one of intriguing dish, so please follow it carefully. Pour oil into pan, wait to hot, add minced garlic and purple onion and fry until it is fragrant. Next, add more sliced beef meat and fry about 5 – 7 minutes. Pour into plate.

Step 6: Use this pan again, add more oil and wait to hot, pour sliced bitter melon into pan, fry quickly with large heat. Add more sliced onion anh salt. Taste to suit your flavor.

Step 7: Pour beef meat into pan, fry continue about 5 minutes. Season to suit your flavor. Turn off the heat.

Finally, you have done one of stunning dish. Serve this dish with boiled rice and some others Vietnamese Soup. It is more delicious when use this amazing dish with your family on weekend or family meals. Moreover, cooking good meals is the good way to protect your family's health. How do feel after doing our instructions? If you interested in this soup, let us know by commenting on the box below. We are pleasure when receive your feedbacks. Good luck for your cooking, and have a good appetite.
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CATTLE MARKET IN MEO VAC DISTRICT

Everyone in Ha Giang Province and cattle traders across the Red River Delta know unique cattle market held in Meo Vac District, which is considered the largest cattle market in Ha Giang Province.

Cattle market in Meo Vac The market place is located in the center of Meo Vac within the Dong Van Stone Plateau comprising of four districts of Meo Vac, Dong Van, Yen Minh and Quan Ba. However, the market only really thrived since the Meo Vac District’s People’s Committee decided to develop local buffaloes and cows in 2000. The market is often boisterous on Saturday and Sunday as many local cattle farmers and lowland traders, mostly from provinces of Vinh Phuc, Tuyen Quang, Phu Tho, and Thai Nguyen, gather to sell and purchase cattle. Meo Vac farmers bring cattle to the market Apart from cattle trading many people usually come to the market to meet friends and share news. Therefore, the market sometimes lasts all day Sunday. Most tourists to the Dong Van Stone Plateau in Ha Giang Province never miss the market where they can take some unique photos and experience its boisterous atmosphere. Lowland traders drove to Meo Vac to buy cattle The cattle market in Meo Vac District is a cultural trait of Ha Giang’s ethnic minorities, while step by step helping develop the local economy.

Northern Mountainous Market Fair opens in Hanoi

The annual Northern Mountainous Market Fair, featuring the unique cultures of different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, opened in Hanoi on April 19.

Visitors can see Dao and Mong women weaving and embroidering textiles, drink corn wine, and taste delicious grilled pork and thang co (a mixture of pork, beef, buffalo and horse meat).

They can also play traditional musical instruments and join in ethnic folk games.

The event runs until April 21.

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Dao Co - beautiful and attrective natural destination in Hai Duong Province

Dao Co - beautiful and attrective natural destination rises like a jewel blessed by nature! Welcome to eco-tourism, you fell comfortable after long tours and to go on board to see many stork species.

Location: In Chi Lang Nam Commune, Thanh Mien District, Hai Duong Province.
Characteristics: It's home mainly to a mere nine varieties of storks, Chinese pond herons, jabirus, buff-backed and grey herons, and the grey, blue and black bitterns.


To the growing list of places in Vietnam that claims to have discovered eco-tourism, add the name of Dao Co (Stork Island). It will have to take its chances for the claim along with all the others but certainly they won't be lessened by its celebrated Island of Storks.

It nestles in Chi Lang Nam Commune and has been quietly pulling bird-watchers - around 15,000 annually, to an out-of-the way part of Hai Duong Province - since the early 1990. That's a modest figure but local tourist officials are hoping to spread its attractions wider without trampling on the very nature that attracts visitors in the first place. Welcome to eco-tourism - welcome to the problem.

Dao Co, one writer enthused "rises like a jewel blessed by nature" in the middle of the 2,832km2 in Chi Lang Nam. Few ornithologists - those birdwatchers - would disagree. It's home mainly to a mere nine varieties of storks, Chinese pond herons, jabirus, buff-backed and grey herons, and the grey, blue and black bitterns, stopping off on their way to China, Myanmar, India and Nepal. But don't forget the common teal, wild ducks, moor hens, the pelicans or the snipes - all faithfully recorded in the Vietnam's nature bible, the Red Book. But it's this time of year that most excites visitors and locals as spring heralds the arrival of tens of thousands of storks. Local experts somehow seem to have deduced that each flock of storks numbers 70, arriving in clusters as night falls to take up residence on their island.

In 1996, the Vietnam office of the UN Development Programme proposed turning Dao Co into an environmental education centre in a two-year, a project which would see planting of bamboo trees and introducing teaching programmes to raise awareness of environmental protection. There are plans to make Dao Co part of an eco-trail starting from Hanoi, winding through Hien Street to Stork Island and on to Con Son, Kiep Bac and Haiphong, and back to the capital.

If tourists in Vietnam Travel have chance to visit Hai Duong Procinve, Stork island is a must-see place that should not be missed!

NOTHING INTERSTING AS “HOMESTAY” SERVICE IN TA VAN GIAY VILLAGE, SAPA

Being 8 kilometers from  Sapa town, Lao Cai province, the way to Ta Van village curves round the mountain-side.

The pristine beauty of mountain and forests Ta Van Giay village, Sapa On the way to Ta Van Giay village, tourists can contemplate terraced fields, May bridge crossing Muong Hoa stream. Especially, tourists can visit a forest belonging to Hoang Lien national forests. That is the itinerary to visit Ta Van Giay village, located in Muong Hoa valley, Ta Van commune. Standing in the halfway of the mountain before reaching the village, you will see beautiful houses on stilts along the valley. There are more than 140 households in the village with about 40 households in the model of “homestay”. Tourists can stay and do daily activities with local people and explore the local culture. In addition, visitors also can hire ethnic costumes to wear and take some photos. There are some ancient houses in the village like Mr Hoang Din’s house, Lo A Muc’s house… The most ancient house is Mr Lo A Muc’s house, built in 1934. This is the typical house of Giay people. Traditional food here is quite simple but impressive. Having a meal with local people, tourists will feel closer and more understanding local people’s life. As simple as Ta Van Giay people Local people are quite familiar with strange tourists visting their house. They are always friendly and hospitable. Entering a house, you can see the decorations that are typical cultural products of Tay Bac ethnic group. Many foreign visitors said they like to stay in rustic houses of local people because they can learn many things like culture, custom, and traditional food. Especially, they can live in an environmentally friendly space and enjoy delicious dishes. That is the reason why they choose homestay service instead of luxurious hotels. May bridge                                                                                    Provide by Travel to Vietnam

Van Don prepares for peak summer season 2013

Local authorities of Van Don district in northern Quang Ninh province are joining hands with travel agencies to make the district a maritime eco-tourism centre.

Illustrative image (Source: quangninh.gov.vn)

In the meantime, they are gearing up for the upcoming peak summer season, to increase the number of visitors to its untouched landscape.

Van Don district boasts 600 islands and islets scattering in Bai Tu Long Bay, which is near the world heritage site of Ha Long Bay. With amazing fresh air and stillness today, the site was once home to a bustling commercial port.

In 2012, more than 540,000 people took their vacations in the district. They reportedly spent at least a night in the islands.

Le Quang Thach, Vice Chairman of Van Don island district People’s Committee, said carnival will be a prime activity during this peak summer season and it will become the trade name of not only Van Don but also Quang Ninh province.

The district plans to cater for 620,000 tourists, including 23,000 foreign visitors, this year.

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9 The most Popular Vegetables in Vietnam

Vietnam is well known as a paradise of delicious dishes. Unlike English, Vietnamese prefers to eat vegetable rather than eat meat. Vietnamtourism.org.vn makes a list of popular vegetable in Vietnam for tourists to consult when visiting our country.

1. Water spinach- Morning glory ( rau muống)

Water spinach is the most common vegetable in Vietnam as the tropical climate creates favorable conditions for its growth and the veggie does not require much care. Used to be known as rustic veggie of the poor, water spinach has become an intergal ingredient in

Some Vietnamese cuisines such as sauteed garlic spinach. In the south, morning glory is often chopped into thin chips and eaten raw as salad or verved with many kinds of noodles. For most Vietnamese, water spinach is considered as important as rice in their daily meals.

2. Cabbage ( bắp cải)

Cabbage is one of the indispensible that Vietnamese housewives take to their top list of ingredient in the cold season. It is a round vegetable with large greens or white leaves. It is common knownledge that cabbage is a good source of vitamins disease preventative properties. Cabbage looks like lettuce but the favor is subtly diffirent. Its gently sweet taste could certainly charm vegetarian lovers.

3. Bamboo shoots ( măng)

Coming to Vietnam, the image of green bamboo trees surrounding rustic villages seems to be engraved in tourist's mind as an unforgettable beauty. Not many guests know that bamboo shoots are regarded as valuable source of food. According to scientific research, eating bamboo shoots is one of the best ways for you to lose weight and maintain good general health as they high in dietary fiber and vitamins as well as mineral substance. While fresh bamboo shoots are commonly used in some kinds of soups in Vietnam, its fermented state is prefered to be eaten with a lot of dishes as a kind of Vietnamese Kimchi.

4. Chayote ( su su)

Chayote is gettting popular in the north of Vietnam. It could be easily processed into totally diffirent kinds of dishes as everything in the chayote fruit is edible. The roof and leaves are often sauteed with garlic while the sweet flesh is prefferred to be boiled and served with roasted peanuts. Both dishes are emerging specialties in Vietnam.

5.Kohirabi ( su hào)

Kohirabi is veggie of the cabbage family whose thick round white stem is eaten. It is said that should you are keen on broccoli stalks, you would definitely like Kohirabi. It tastes sweet and super crunchy. While hot Kohirabi soups with pork pone or chicken are bound to warm your belly in the winter, boiled kohirabi is likely to bring you a cool feeling in the summer, not mention to fermented kohirabi with the crunchy flavor remained.

6. Biiter melon ( mướp đắng )

Through the name, we could certainly image how it tastes. However, the rough surface and the bitter flavor are unable to prevent Vietnamese from enjoying the veggie. So, just try it and find your answer. Chopped bitter melon if often stir-fried with eggs, but the most favorite dish could be bitter melon soup, integral part of the menu for the summer in the south. This specialty is taken into Tet holiday menu as it is Vietnamese firm belief that sadness will pass and the happiness will come over after biterness has been eaten.

7. Ceylon spinach ( mồng tơi)

Ceylon spinach has appeared in poems and folk verses of a rustic attractiveness in Vietnamese little villages. the veggie seems remind people living far away their countries of their passed days gathering with their family members around cozy plain meals. The perfect combination of the veggie with crab meat, jute, and luffa creates a mouth-watering soup, a cool dish for hot days in the summer.

8. Cucumber ( dưa chuột)

Hardly any submarine in Vietnam does not have sliced cucumbers as the main ingredient inside. It is certainly an idea veggie for summer due to its mild, almost watery flavour or light melon taste. While raw cucumber is also integral part of most kinds of salads in Vietnam, pickled cucumber is another delicacy in Vietnamese cuisines.

9. Chinese broccoli ( ngồng cải)

Many types of soups in Vietnam has chinese broccoli as the main ingredient. With a subtly bitter flavor and long-lasting sweet taste, the veggie is commonly đippe into broth to enrich the flavor of hotpots. In addition, it can be eaten raw in salads, stir-fried with beef or mushroom and boiled as a normal vegetable. however, the veggie should be washed thoroughtly before processed due to the fact that Vietnamese farmers currently spray many kinds of pesticides onto the veggie.
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