Vietnamese desserts among the best in Southeast Asia
Tùng Anh•29/11/2024
The list of 100 best desserts in Southeast Asia voted by TasteAtlas introduces to the world's diners a series of delicious dishes originating from Vietnam.
Che ba mau is a colorful Vietnamese dessert that falls into the category of a drink-like dessert but has a thick consistency. It may include sticky rice, tapioca pearls, lotus seeds, sweet beans, water chestnuts or jelly...
Three-color sweet soup is a popular dessert.
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Regardless of the variety of ingredients used in chè, they almost always include coconut milk and are garnished with bananas, crushed peanuts, etc. The dish is served hot or cold, although it is especially popular as a cool treat on hot summer days. This dessert usually has three distinct layers: yellow (mung bean), red (bean), and green (jelly with pandan extract). In addition, Vietnam also has many other types of chè such as corn chè, turtle chè, black bean chè, but three-color chè still holds the number one position in terms of popularity. Bánh flan is the Vietnamese version of crème caramel. Soft and covered in a layer of sugary caramel, French crème caramel is a classic and timeless dessert. Vietnamese flan is directly influenced by French cuisine from the colonial period. Although simple in ingredients and preparation, bánh flan is a beautiful and sophisticated dessert. It typically uses a rich vanilla or coffee-flavored mixture of milk and eggs, topped with caramel. When cooked, the flan is turned upside down, leaving a thick layer of caramel sauce on top, which flows down the sides, coating the entire cake in a delicious amber color.
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Che troi nuoc is a Vietnamese dessert that combines a sweet ginger-flavored broth with a sticky rice cake. The broth is usually sweetened with palm sugar and sometimes flavored with pandan leaves, while the filling inside the sticky rice cake traditionally consists of a combination of coconut milk and mung bean flour. Che troi nuoc is always served warm, often garnished with coconut milk and roasted sesame seeds.
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Fried bananas are a popular Vietnamese street snack, usually made from small, fragrant, ripe Siamese bananas. Before frying, the bananas are flattened lengthwise and coated with a batter that is usually a combination of rice and wheat flour, coconut milk or coconut cream, sugar, and various optional additions such as cinnamon, shredded coconut, flavorings, or honey. Fried bananas are best served hot, sometimes topped with sesame seeds and coconut milk.
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Banh da lon is a traditional Vietnamese dessert consisting of chewy layers typically made from pureed mung beans, tapioca starch, rice flour, and coconut milk. Traditionally, each cake has a pale yellow layer made from mung beans and a green layer flavored and colored with pandan leaves, while optional ingredients include durian or taro.
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Other Vietnamese desserts on the list include: Jelly, green bean cake, sponge cake, banana cake, pomelo and orange sweet soup, floating rice balls, banana sweet soup, lotus seed sweet soup and green bean sweet soup.
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