In the face of the chilly rainy weather, enjoying a bowl of hot soup and pieces of greasy duck meat is an unforgettable experience for anyone who has ever tried duck porridge - a very popular dish in Da Nang.

A bowl of hot tasty porridge with a mouth-watering plate of duck meat and fresh raw vegetables

Duck porridge, a delicious, nutritious and easy-to-make dish, is a divine sum of its glorious parts. A delicious bowl of duck porridge features fragrant rice flavour and the fatness of duck meat.

As usual, porridge is made from already- roasted glutinous and plain rice, along with green beans. These ingredients are properly stewed in broth, whilst grilled onion and crushed ginger will be added to the broth to make it sweeter and more fragrant.

Pieces of countryside-raised duck are dipped in a special sweet-savory sauce.

Besides, such duck parts as gizzard and liver, along with seasoning, also make the porridge taste good and attractive.

The soupy dish shows off wonderful subtle meaty flavour, and is garnished with a handful of green onions and black pepper.

Meanwhile, a piece of countryside-raised duck meat, steamed to velvety tenderness, must be moderately thick, less fat and lean. It is dipped in a special sauce, an intoxicating sweet, sour, and lightly spicy blend of sliced hot chilli and, cider vinegar or lime juice, sugar, and indispensable loads of grated fresh ginger - a ‘heaty’ element to balance the duck's ‘coolness’.

Duck meat must be moderately thick, less fat and lean.

The amazing mixture of the various flavours really gives a pleasant texture and a smooth aftertaste!

To make the dish completely delicious, a must-have addition to this feast is raw vegetables which comprising thinly-sliced green mango, carambola and unripe bananas, cilantro, basil, sawleaf and dragrant knotweed, and other types of fresh herbs.

Let's slurp, enjoy, and marvel at the celestial combination of hot and cold, raw and cooked, crispy and soft, and bland and spicy that you’ve just devoured, and declare yourself a duck rice porridge devotee.

The price of a bowl of duck porridge is usually set at around only 20,000 VND.

In Da Nang, it is very easy to find eateries selling duck porridge and meat. Highly recommended venues are Thuy at 31 Ngu Hanh Son in the namesake district; Ba De at 386 Ngo Quyen, Son Tra District; Ba Lang at 6/6 Phan Thanh, Thanh Khe District; Hai at 271 Le Thanh Nghi, Hai Chau District, and Ba Thoi at 80 Le Hong Phong, Hai Chau District.