Blood and balut with wormwood Tiết và trứng vịt lộn hầm ngải cứu
Tiết and trứng vịt lộn hầm ngải cứu is the afternoon bowl in Hạ Long. The balut is boiled, then stewed with young wormwood and shredded ginger for two or three hours. Steamed blood is the side.
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The blood is sweet and the wormwood is bitter, and each softens the other. The leaf is also lightly bitter and fragrant.
How to enjoy it
The cook wants young green ngải cứu, and shredded ginger. The balut is boiled first, then stewed on a low fire for two or three hours. In Hạ Long the blood is the usual companion.
The sweet squares of blood soften the bitter leaf, and the leaf takes the smell off the blood. Stalls add a balut to the blood bowl and keep the pot on the stove. Afternoon is the hour.
Where to try it
Chợ Cột 3, and chợ Hạ Long 1 and 2. A stall sits deep in chợ Cột 3, phường Hồng Hải. That ward name is from 2021.