Bach Ma food guide
The meal before the climb is at chợ Cầu Hai: brick crab with a thin shell and sweet red roe, land shrimp, and brackish fish from the lagoon, then a thick coffee brewed the Huế way. Bánh ép Cầu Hai is the pressed cake, and inside the park breakfast is a short list.
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Eat at the market on National Highway 1A, then go up the mountain. Huế bowls stay in Huế. Lăng Cô’s beach dishes stay on that bay. In thị trấn Cầu Hai the morning starts with a thick coffee, brewed the Huế way, then a walk across the road into the market facing the lagoon.
The crab has a thin shell and red roe, and both the meat and the roe are sweet. The land shrimp is what Huế cooks as tôm chua, with boiled pork and pickled bean sprouts. The fish are cá kình, cá dìa, cá hanh, and cá đối, caught in phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai. People buy the seafood to cook, often for the weekend. It comes in still brackish, with the salt of the sea mouths.
The kitchens inside the park, allowed by the management, serve phở, bún, or mì bò at breakfast, and cơm đĩa or cơm phần. Grill or seafood can be ordered ahead.
Bach Ma specialties
Brick crab, land shrimp, four lagoon fish, a thick Huế-style coffee, and bánh ép Cầu Hai. Tôm chua is the Huế plate made from this shrimp. The park breakfast is phở, bún, mì bò, and set rice.
Cau Hai brick crab Cua gạch Cầu Hai
Cua gạch Cầu Hai is lagoon crab with a thin shell and red roe. The meat is sweet, and the roe is sweet.
Land shrimp Tôm đất
Tôm đất is the land shrimp at chợ Cầu Hai, caught in phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai. Huế cooks it as tôm chua.
Ca doi Cá đối
Cá đối is a brackish fish from phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai, sold at chợ Cầu Hai. It comes in with the lagoon’s brackish scent and the salt of the sea mouths.
Hue-style coffee Cà phê Huế
Cà phê Huế at the gate is a thick cup, brewed the Huế way, in thị trấn Cầu Hai before the market.
Pho Phở
Phở is a noodle-soup breakfast at the kitchens inside Bach Ma.
Set rice Cơm đĩa, cơm phần
Cơm đĩa and cơm phần are the set rice at the kitchens inside Bach Ma. Grill or seafood can be ordered ahead.
Cau Hai specialties
Buy the crab, the land shrimp, and the fish at chợ Cầu Hai, or drink the coffee in thị trấn Cầu Hai before you cross the road. Bánh ép Cầu Hai is the pressed cake from the same lagoon.
Ca kinh Cá kình
Cá kình is a brackish fish from phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai, sold at chợ Cầu Hai. It comes in with the lagoon’s brackish scent and the salt of the sea mouths.
Cá dìa is a brackish fish from phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai, sold at chợ Cầu Hai. It comes in with the lagoon’s brackish scent and the salt of the sea mouths.
Cá hanh is a brackish fish from phá Tam Giang and đầm Cầu Hai, sold at chợ Cầu Hai. It comes in with the lagoon’s brackish scent and the salt of the sea mouths.
Banh ep Cau Hai Bánh ép Cầu Hai
Bánh ép Cầu Hai is a pressed tapioca cake from the Phú Lộc lagoon, eaten hot. One account fills it with lean pork and shrimp and dips it in mắm nêm; another fills it with pork and dips it in mắm nêm or nước mắm.
Regional dishes
Tôm chua is a Huế dish. The land shrimp at chợ Cầu Hai is the ingredient, and Huế restaurants serve the plate with boiled pork and pickled bean sprouts.
Sour shrimp Tôm chua
Tôm chua is Huế’s sour shrimp, made from the land shrimp at chợ Cầu Hai, and eaten with boiled pork and pickled bean sprouts.
Casual dining
Chợ Cầu Hai is the buy, on National Highway 1A, about 40 km south of Huế, facing the lagoon. The rows are fish, crab, and vegetables. The market is the landmark for the left turn onto Trần Đình Túc.
The same morning’s basket, for a sour soup or a hotpot cooked later in Huế or Đà Nẵng, is fig, pickled taro stem, green banana, sour star fruit, herbs, green chili, pennywort, and malabar spinach.
Quốc lộ 1A, facing the lagoon
Buy the crab, the land shrimp, and the four fish here, then go to the gate.
Breakfast
A few kitchens inside the park are allowed by the management. Breakfast is phở, bún, or mì bò. Cơm đĩa and cơm phần are the set rice. Grill or seafood can be ordered ahead. Drinks and snacks are on request.
Bun Bún
Bún is a rice-noodle breakfast at the kitchens inside Bach Ma.
Mi bo Mì bò
Mì bò is a beef-noodle breakfast at the kitchens inside Bach Ma.