Asiaplus Tours, an in-bound tour operator in Pham Ngu Lao Street,Hanoi, is designing a tour to enable visitors to taste Dong Tao chicken,which is well-known for its weird look and delicious meat.
Thechickens, native to Dong Tao commune, about 30km from Hanoi, in KhoaiChau district, Hung Yen province, were specially bred to serve the royalfamily and mandarins. Nowadays, they are bought by the rich.
"Thebird is in high demand but also in short supply," said Van Dinh Ha, achicken farmer from Trung Dinh hamlet told Vietnam News.
"Theyare very sensitive to weather changes and produce few eggs forreproduction. It takes eight months to one year for a small chick tobecome a sellable bird of three to five kilograms.
"My birdsattract many people from neighbouring Hai Duong, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh andHanoi," he said. "The sales are so good that now there are only tworoosters left in the coop. Last year, my income from chicken rearing wasup 60 percent," Ha said.
Customers like the chicken not only forits crispy, lean, delicious meat but also its odd look with huge legs,which can reach the size of an adult's wrist, Ha said, adding that somelike to keep them as pets, even using a silver chain to tie them up.
LuuMinh Chinh, 27, is a trader who deals with chicken-rearing households.His home is frequented by visitors arriving in expensive sedans.
"In2012, the Japanese prince Akishino visited my commune to see thechickens. Since then, the Dong Tao chicken has enjoyed even greaterpublicity," he said.
Chinh's business has also received attentionfrom the travel agency Asiatours Plus, said Tran Tho Binh, vicedirector of the company.
Binh said that his plan was to bringfour tour delegations to Dong Tao each month. The tourists, who arechiefly from Europe and America, will spend half a day in the village,watching the chickens and enjoying meals prepared from chickens theyhand-pick.
Binh pins high hope on this tour service as a way to diversify his tour products in the northern region.-VNA
Thechickens, native to Dong Tao commune, about 30km from Hanoi, in KhoaiChau district, Hung Yen province, were specially bred to serve the royalfamily and mandarins. Nowadays, they are bought by the rich.
"Thebird is in high demand but also in short supply," said Van Dinh Ha, achicken farmer from Trung Dinh hamlet told Vietnam News.
"Theyare very sensitive to weather changes and produce few eggs forreproduction. It takes eight months to one year for a small chick tobecome a sellable bird of three to five kilograms.
"My birdsattract many people from neighbouring Hai Duong, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh andHanoi," he said. "The sales are so good that now there are only tworoosters left in the coop. Last year, my income from chicken rearing wasup 60 percent," Ha said.
Customers like the chicken not only forits crispy, lean, delicious meat but also its odd look with huge legs,which can reach the size of an adult's wrist, Ha said, adding that somelike to keep them as pets, even using a silver chain to tie them up.
LuuMinh Chinh, 27, is a trader who deals with chicken-rearing households.His home is frequented by visitors arriving in expensive sedans.
"In2012, the Japanese prince Akishino visited my commune to see thechickens. Since then, the Dong Tao chicken has enjoyed even greaterpublicity," he said.
Chinh's business has also received attentionfrom the travel agency Asiatours Plus, said Tran Tho Binh, vicedirector of the company.
Binh said that his plan was to bringfour tour delegations to Dong Tao each month. The tourists, who arechiefly from Europe and America, will spend half a day in the village,watching the chickens and enjoying meals prepared from chickens theyhand-pick.
Binh pins high hope on this tour service as a way to diversify his tour products in the northern region.-VNA
