5 Ben Tre specialties that are delicious and affordable, attracting customers to enjoy

Coconut candy

When mentioning Ben Tre specialties, we cannot fail to mention the extremely famous delicious dishes made from coconut, including coconut candy - a gift loved by many generations and many diners from all over the world.

With the characteristic sweet and fatty flavor of coconut, the candies are made in many colors such as green, milky white, brown,... making anyone who enjoys them once remember them forever. The candies have a mild sweet taste, are not boring to eat, are soft and easy to dissolve, are carefully packaged so they can be preserved for a long time, and are convenient to transport to many places in and outside the country.

Chopped rice noodles

Unlike the rice noodles in some central provinces, the Ben Tre people's rice noodles are prepared with duck meat and served with ginger fish sauce. It is quite simple but has an attractive and unforgettable flavor.

To make delicious banh canh, locals must choose quality rice, go through meticulous manual processing stages to make the noodles soft, chewy and fragrant. Especially the cloudy broth from the rice flour secreted during cooking, combined with moderate seasoning creates a unique flavor.

The reason the dish has such a unique name is because when preparing it, the rice noodle dough is rolled thinly and cut into small, bite-sized pieces by hand, then put into a pot of boiling water to cook (Photo: Street Food Thao Vy).

Depending on the cooking method of each family, the duck meat can be put directly into the pot of noodles or stir-fried separately until cooked and then poured into the pot. The cooked noodles will be scooped into a bowl, sprinkled with some green onions, coriander and pepper to bring out the delicious and fatty flavor.

Sour soup with linh fish and water mimosa

Sour soup with linh fish and so dua flower is also one of the famous and widely known specialties in Ben Tre. This dish is made from familiar local ingredients such as linh fish, sky flower, water lily stem,... combined with a sweet and sour broth.

Sour fish soup is attractive in both taste and appearance (Photo: PN Restaurant).

According to the locals, seasoning sour soup is also an art because it must be seasoned so that it is not too sour or too sweet. Especially, do not stir too hard with chopsticks or the fish will be crushed and mushy.

Scoop the sour soup into a large bowl, looking at the tiny dots of fat from the linh fish floating on the surface of the soup and the fragrant smoke rising from the bowl looks very appealing.

Grilled snakehead fish

If you have the opportunity to travel to Ben Tre, visitors should try the famous grilled snakehead fish dish, which is elaborately prepared, demonstrating the skill and talent of the local people.

This dish uses live snakehead fish that is cleaned and left whole, then skewered and grilled with straw piled around.

Grilled snakehead fish dish (Photo: Dang Tai Gioi).

The fish does not need much seasoning to be fragrant and the meat is still sweet. The hot grilled fish, served with some raw vegetables, vermicelli and dipping sauce with garlic and chili, is enough to satisfy diners.

Giong Luong Coconut Cake

In Ben Tre, especially in the Giong Luong area, coconut cake is a rustic delicacy and has been associated with many generations of people here. The cake is small in size, tube-shaped, quite similar to banh tet.

To make a delicious coconut cake, one must be meticulous from the stage of choosing the ingredients to the stage of processing. The dough must be made from waxy sticky rice, with a soft and fragrant texture.

Giong Luong coconut cake is also often bought by tourists as gifts when traveling to Ben Tre (Photo: MIA).

Coconut milk is squeezed out, mixed with sticky rice, add a little salt and sugar and mix well. When the cake is cooked, diners can enjoy the salty taste of salt, the fatty and fragrant aroma of coconut mixed with the soft sticky rice, very attractive.

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