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Roasted forest chestnuts with salt – Lao Cai | Famous specialty of Lao Cai Province

Salt-roasted forest chestnuts, or almonds, are a nutritious and healthy food. You can receive guests, make gifts or prepare dishes from this seed.

Almond trees grow on high mountains, at the end of summer, in the cold early autumn, the ethnic people go to the mountain to harvest. After peeling, the seeds are dried in the midday sun and then dried completely.

The H’mong or Thai ethnic people often roast them with spices to make the shells crunchy, and when eaten, they get the filling inside. This dish costs about 250k – 300k to buy at dried fruit stalls in the North on Indochina Street, Sapa town.

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