Green tourism is a trend loved by tourists, and Tra Que vegetable village will help you both feel “healed” when returning to nature and experience harvesting clean vegetable.
Tra Que vegetable village is located in Cam Ha commune, Hoi An city, only about 3km from the old town center. Up to 400 years old, this place is famous for many vegetable products with folk medicinal flavors, grown using traditional methods, so the spice vegetables here always have a unique, distinctive aroma.
As an ecotourism destination, most activities are outdoors. The most ideal times are from February to April and from August to December. This is the time when Hoi An has cool, dry weather, and is also the time when vegetables grow the greenest of the year. Therefore, the air in the vegetable village is very fresh, cool and green.
Coming to Tra Que vegetable village, visitors can not only enjoy the green and poetic space but also have extremely unique and interesting experiences.
Visitors to Tra Que vegetable village will have the opportunity to experience the daily work of the people here. You will be guided step by step by local people to grow vegetables, from tilling the soil, mixing fertilizer, sowing seeds… and finally harvesting clean green vegetables.
Not only that, visitors can also directly cook famous dishes such as Quang noodles, pancake,… with the ingredients you just harvested.
After visiting and experiencing Tra Que vegetable village, visitors should not forget to enjoy Quang Nam specialties here.
The local dish – Tam Huu is known as a typical delicacy of the village, because only vegetables grown here can produce its true sour, spicy, sweet, bitter, and astringent flavors. The main ingredients often used for Tam Huu include: pork, shrimp, rolled with basil, wrapped with green onions, dipped in fish sauce with lemon, garlic, chili, just enough sweet and sour, it will definitely bring giving visitors a “unique” taste.
When you come to Quang Nam province, you definitely have to eat Quang noodles, just like visitors to Hanoi will eat beef pho. Quang noodles are a simple, familiar dish of the local people. Quang has many options such as chicken noodles, fish noodles, Quang noodles with shrimp, meat and eggs,… served with fresh vegetables just harvested from the garden, it will make the dish much more delicious.
The special thing about Quang noodles was revealed by the people: if it is chicken noodles, it must be pullet meat around September and October of the lunar calendar, because this is the time when chickens are the fattiest of the year, and if it is fish noodles, then will be fish from the Thu Bon River, and especially raw vegetables, if they are vegetables grown in Tra Que vegetable village, the flavor of the noodle bowl will be more rich and attractive.
Finally, when coming to Tra Que vegetable village, visitors should try harvesting vegetables themselves and join the people here to enjoy the most delicious dishes: sizzle cake and pork lemongrass skewer. It wouldn’t be too different from sizzle cake and pork lemongrass skewer, if visitors don’t experience these dishes with herbs and spices and raw vegetables grown using traditional organic methods in Tra Que. Each type of vegetable grown here has a unique flavor that is enough to attract tourists.
Because of those special and long-standing features, in April 2022, Tra Que vegetable village was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, with the desire to bring a rustic, peaceful village space, along with the Interesting hands-on experience, promoting local cuisine.
Source: collected by An
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