Vermicelli with duck bamboo shoots is quite popular among Vietnamese people from North to South. The noodle dish is a harmonious combination of chewy vermicelli with fragrant sweet duck meat, crispy sweet bamboo shoots and clear broth mixed with a strong ginger sauce, which will surely bring you unique and difficult flavors. forget. Let’s start doing it right here.
Ingredients to prepare to cook duck bamboo shoots vermicelli
- 1 duck (depending on how many people eat, you can increase or decrease the duck weight)
- 1kg of fresh vermicelli
- 500g fresh bamboo shoots
- Chili, scallions, herbs (coriander, basil, basil), lettuce
- 500g chicken bones
- Seasoning: Cooking oil, seasoning powder, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce

Steps to make duck bamboo shoot vermicelli
– Step 1: Select and prepare duck
First, when choosing ducks, you should choose copper ducks to have firm, aromatic meat. Do not choose industrially raised ducks because the meat will not be chewy. After buying, you pluck the duck’s feathers, clean the outside and the inside of the duck’s intestines, then rub the duck with a little white wine, wash it again and take it out to drain. Next, to cook delicious duck bamboo shoot noodles, you should remove the fishy smell of duck, by blanching the duck with boiling water and adding a few slices of ginger or lemongrass.
– Step 2: Season to taste
After blanching, use a knife to cut the duck into bite-sized pieces and then put it in a large bowl. Next, season the duck with seasoning, sugar, and monosodium glutamate, mix well, marinate for 2-3 hours so that the duck can absorb the spices evenly.
Step 3: Prepare other ingredients
When buying chicken bones, you bring the bones to wash them with diluted salt water and let them dry.
The bamboo shoots are thinly sliced, then washed and set aside. After that, you put bamboo shoots in boiling water to remove all toxins and help bamboo shoots not be bitter.
The accompanying vegetables, you cut the roots, pick them up and wash them with diluted salt water, drain, and serve with duck bamboo shoots vermicelli.
Green onions you bring cut the roots, wash and cut into pieces.
– Step 4: Start cooking
Put the peeled, minced garlic with cooking oil in a pot of frying, then add the water, then put the chicken bones in the stew for 60-90 minutes, then filter the water to make the broth. When filtering is complete, continue to boil the water, seasoning the broth with spices to taste. Then you put the marinated duck into the pot to cook. Put the duck in and cook for about 20 minutes, add fresh bamboo shoots to cook together.
– Step 5: Done
When the duck and bamboo shoots are cooked, season them again to taste, then turn off the heat.

So, the broth is complete, now you just need to put raw vegetables, noodles and sliced green onions into the bowl. Then add vermicelli, then add broth and add duck meat. Don’t forget, mix a cup of ginger fish sauce to serve with duck meat!
Note
For how to make duck bamboo shoot noodles, you should note the following:
When chopping duck, you should remove the duck’s fishing line, because this part makes the duck stink and it makes the broth lose its delicious taste.
Note, when cooking the broth, you should wait until the broth boils, then add the meat, so the meat will be delicious, quickly cooked and not chewy.