Coming to Nam Dinh to enjoy the cuisine in winter, visitors certainly cannot miss the beef pho dish at the cradle of the traditional pho profession. One of the familiar addresses is the three-generation traditional pho restaurant in Dong Son commune (Nam Truc district, Nam Dinh province).
The shop is open for business at two times, from 4am to 2pm and from 4pm to 9pm. The outside of the shop is simple, located right on Provincial Road 490C, so the shop is always crowded at any time.
The restaurant's menu includes main dishes such as rare or well-done beef pho, pan-fried beef with red wine sauce, and flank steak. Prices range from 30,000 VND per bowl depending on the type.
The restaurant still maintains the family recipe passed down from their ancestors. Thanks to that, over the years, the number of customers coming to the restaurant has increased continuously. On average, the restaurant sells 500 - 700 bowls per day, and on weekends or holidays, it can reach 1,000 bowls.
Enjoying Nam Dinh cuisine in winter, you must try grilled chicken feet on a sidewalk corner of Quang Trung Street (Nam Dinh City). The restaurant is only open from 4pm to 10pm but is always crowded, especially in cold weather.
The special thing is that the chicken feet at this restaurant are grilled completely by hand, without using a fan to fan the fire. Everything is grilled by hand by the restaurant owner. Every time the chicken feet are grilled, the griller's two hands work continuously, in coordination, the left hand flips the grill, the right hand fanns.
In the evening, diners should not miss the opportunity to enjoy a hot bowl of sticky rice with pork when the weather is cold. In Nam Dinh, the sticky rice with pork restaurant on Hoang Van Thu Street (Nam Dinh City), which has been open for 60 years, has become a familiar destination for gourmet diners.
A portion of sticky rice with pork has white sticky rice served with a variety of side dishes such as pate, dried pork floss, char siu, sausage, Chinese sausage... The two factors that many diners consider to be the highlights that create the special flavor of the traditional sticky rice with pork are sticky rice and sauce. Each portion of mixed sticky rice with pork is sold for 20,000 VND, full of side dishes.
The last suggestion is chicken pho for 5,000 VND. For nearly 20 years, the pho restaurant has become a familiar address for locals and diners in the surrounding area.
At this time, although prices are increasing, this pho restaurant still maintains the price of 5,000 VND/bowl of pho. Thanks to the cheap price compared to the market, until now "Pho 5,000" has become a brand known to many people when exploring Nam Dinh cuisine.
