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Purple Potato Luc Yen – Yen Bai | Famous specialty of Yen Bai Province

The song that the Luc Yen people often liken to each other. But really, the Luc Yen potato dish has a very simple shape, but once you taste it, it makes people drunk when they don’t know.

Purple potato or taro is also known as Dao potato or Xa potato because it only appears in their upland fields. It’s not exaggerating to see people praising the taste of potatoes. Because almost all the quintessence of the whole potato string is concentrated on exactly one tuber. But growing this type of potato is like throwing away vinegar. In the spring, people bury themselves in the dirt. When the cold winds of winter come, people go to unload potatoes. The purple potatoes are like two hands facing each other if unloaded at the right time, sometimes weighing more than 1kg.

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People exchange potatoes at upland markets. The precious, fat, fleshy, aromatic sweet potatoes are handed from hand to hand as if giving each other a meaningful love. Then eat a piece  of purple potato from Luc Yen,  why listen to the words of the traveler’s heart and want to have a trip to the highlands again.

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