Quang Binh's Dry Sweet Potato is a quite special dish that few people know about when traveling to Quang Binh. Surely everyone will want to enjoy it once or buy it as a gift for relatives. Please refer to our travel guide for more information.

The land of Quang Binh is sunny and windy all year round, so sweet potato have long become a flavor associated with the simple lives of local people. Perhaps because of that wind and sun, sweet potato grown on this land also have a unique, indescribable flavor, more fleshy and sweeter than in other areas. From those sweet potato, people have created the unique dry sweet potato dish of Quang Binh, which people often buy as gifts. Even though it's not sophisticated and has a strong flavor, if you taste this delicious dish once, you will always remember it.

The sweet potato variety in Quang Binh is a red potato variety shaped like a ginseng root, grown right on sandy soil. Sweet potatoe have very good ingredients for health, containing lots of vitamins A, C... good for the stomach, supplementing necessary minerals, balancing water in the body...

How to make Quang Binh’s dry sweet potato?

Once the potato are harvested, they must be left to drain for a long period of time. The best point is that people need to store it in a very dry place to avoid sprouting. After seeing that the potato are no longer plump, they will be washed and boiled. After the sweet potato are soft, they cut them into thin vertical slices, then dry them under the strong sun. After being cut, potato slices need to be dried high on the sand, lined with a layer of Ruoi plants (plants that grow in sandy areas) underneath to prevent them from sticking to the rack.

After drying for about 1 - 2 months, the sweet potato firm up and the color also changes to the color of cockroach wings, people also call it Deo slices. No matter how many times this potato is exposed to the sun and dew, it still retains its fragrant flavor and sweetness. Delicious sweet potato is dry but flexible like malt, has a red-yellow color like honey and tastes like rock sugar.

How to enjoy Quang Binh' Dry sweet potatoes?

Sipping the fragrant and flexible Quang Binh dry sweet Potato, you will feel a sweet flavor melting right on the tip of your tongue. The correct way to enjoy potato deo is to slowly sip, savor and feel the flavor little by little. When the potato piece is gradually soft, we will start chewing, and feel the fragrant sweetness of the potato spreading in our throat. It's a bit of rich, fragrant flavor mixed together that makes people remember it forever.

Surely anyone who has ever tried Quang Binh's dry sweet potato will find it both strange and familiar. If you eat a lot of it, it's easy to get addicted. Especially you can try sipping each slice of sweet potato with a cup of hot tea.

Quang Binh specialty gift

Quang Binh’s dry sweet potato is both rustic and extremely friendly. This is a specialty dish for all tourists coming to Quang Binh to buy as a gift. If we want to choose delicious potato, we must also know how to choose them. Specifically, the first thing to do is to carefully review the packaging with the place of manufacture, date of manufacture and expiration date. The packaging is clear so we can also observe the internal condition of the product. The standard Quang Binh sweet potato is orange-yellow or cockroach-wing colored, separate, dry and the surface is shiny.

Although it is neither sophisticated nor beautiful, Quang Binh dry sweet potato has still made an impression, making people miss it. So if have a chance come to quang Binh, don't miss this specialty gift!

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