The Cao Lau noodle.[CaoLau]

Cao Lau is the name of noodles in Hoi An, known as soul food cuisine made ​​Hoi. Hoi An attracts tourists not only by definition quiet with unique architectural style but also in food. Who to town can not ignore the Cao Lau noodle, a unique cuisine.
Visitors to Hoi An always walk the old town. There are three main streets running along the Thu Bon River is Bach Dang, Tran Phu and Nguyen Thai Hoc  built “on the boat .”Formerly, because the city businessmen wanted to look after their goods, often to sit up high floor. So the new dish called Cao Lau noodle. Today, Cao Lau noodle is bought in scattered markets, alleys, streets and other luxury restaurant in Hoi An.
The Cao Lau noodle is unique dishes and attractive. Not only by name but also by raw materials, flavors. At first glance, Cao Lau like noodles, But not that. Cao lau has rectangular fibers, but not to puree like noodles. The essence of the dish is high fiber ash floors are soaked in water, very meticulous process.
In particular, this type of ash firewood must first take from Cham Island, it is far from 16 km of Hoi An  only has delicious noodles. Rice straining carefully selected, then ground into flour water. Cloth wrapped several times to dry powder, plastics, rolling dough into medium sized pieces, cut into noodles, and steamed several times, dried in the city. Because so elaborately prepared high floor with a long shelf life.
Cao Lau noodle, but not hot dishes cold dish. When processed, Cao Lau is coated over boiling water for noodles but skillfully kept toughness, brittle. In cao lau has 3 dishes of vegetables as basic as frequency plots and bitter vegetables. Including full salad dishes used in Cao Lau has 12 kinds of vegetables such as basil, bitter vegetables, cilantro, salad, lettuce, small cabbages, banana, cucumber, ..etc.
Cao lau is beautifully decorated with yellow noodles, pink shrimp, barbecue pork, green vegetables. When  enjoying Cao Lau  it equally permeable to mix spices. It’s more special is the Cao Lau with no fish sauce, only two or three tablespoons of the sauce should keep the greasy taste, charming.
When eating, Cao Lau has flavor of the sauce, soy sauce and shrimp on the day of the fat mix with sweet shrimp, barbecue pork, enough spicy, bitter, acrid of vegetables. Today, as to the Hoi An, the best is to sit on a Cao Lau space to enjoy the convergence of the old town as a Cao Lau in a unique bowl.