Goi toi Gỏi tỏi
Gỏi tỏi is Lý Sơn’s young-garlic salad, tossed with sweet-sour fish sauce and roasted peanuts and often with shrimp, pork belly, and rau răm. The garlic smells strong but not harsh, and the salad is rich, nutty, sour, and hot.
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Price120,000 VND a plate (Vietnam Airlines).
Taste
Vietnam Airlines says the smell is strong but not harsh, and the plate is rich, nutty, sour, and hot. ZaloPay says mildly hot, rich, and cool.
How to enjoy it
Vietnam Airlines: only in the season when the garlic starts to bulb. Steam the young garlic, shred it, and mix it with boiled shrimp, pork belly, rau răm, roasted peanuts, and sweet-sour fish sauce.
ZaloPay: the young garlic stem, mixed with sweet-sour fish sauce. Shrimp and pork may be added. Roasted peanuts go on last.
Where to try it
Lý Sơn.