Chao hau Cháo hàu
Cháo hàu is rice porridge with oysters, fried shallots, cilantro, and fish sauce. It is the soft bowl after a day out.
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Vung Tau, the soft bowl after a day out.
How to enjoy it
Eat it from the bowl, with the fried shallots and cilantro.
In Dong Hoi, Nhật Lệ oysters are shelled, rinsed, and stir-fried with scallion, chili, pepper, salt, and fish sauce, then added to rice porridge, with bone broth optional. A second way drops the seasoned raw oyster into boiling porridge. Herbs, or chili in shrimp-paste fish sauce, finish the bowl. Spring, around Tết, is the season; from July through November the oysters are fewer and less good.
Where to try it
Vung Tau.
In Dong Hoi the oysters come from the Nhật Lệ. The bowl is at Quán Hàu, about 7 km south of the center on National Highway 1A, in Lương Ninh–Quán Hàu, a white porridge finished with pepper and scallion.