Now is the ideal time for tourists to come to the Central Highlands to experience traditional festivals, admire the beauty of the highlands, and especially enjoy delicious dishes with rich mountain flavors.
The Central Highlands consists of 5 provinces: Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong. Each place has its own special delicacies, such as Kon Tum leaf salad, which surprises diners from afar because the dish combines about 50 different types of leaves, from forest leaves that only the ethnic people know by name to familiar green vegetables and medicinal herbs such as: mustard leaves, perilla, ginseng, fig leaves, dream leaves, onions, basil, mango leaves, guava leaves, sour leaves, star gooseberry leaves, Indian laurel leaves, ground ginseng...
The way to eat this dish is also quite meticulous, first, roll the mustard leaves or perilla leaves, add sour leaves or some other types as desired, into a small funnel shape, then add pork belly, fried shrimp, thinly sliced pork skin, indispensable whole peppercorns, salt, onions, green chili. The dipping sauce for the salad is not the usual fish sauce or soy sauce but fermented sticky rice. The fermented rice has a fragrant smell, fermented with shrimp, pork belly and then pureed. When enjoying it, you will feel many flavors, slightly astringent, sweet, slightly sour and fatty.
An option for breakfast is Gia Lai dry pho, also known as two-bowl pho, which is quite unique because the pho noodles and the soup are served in two different bowls. The pho noodles are made from rice flour, round and thin like soft, chewy rice noodles, boiled and then sprinkled with minced meat and fried onions. The delicious broth is a combination of pork and beef bones, with a few pieces of beef, beef balls or shredded chicken depending on each person's taste, and is accented with the green color of onions and cilantro.
Dry pho is served with lettuce, basil, and blanched bean sprouts. You will season it with soy sauce, chili sauce, lemon, and vinegar to taste. This dish cannot be without black bean sauce. The chewy taste of pho, the salty taste of soy sauce, the soft and sweet taste of beef and chicken, the crunchy taste of bean sprouts, and the sweet broth create a wonderful experience for diners.
If you come to Ban Don (Dak Lak), you cannot miss grilled chicken. The chicken is clamped on a bamboo stick and placed on a charcoal fire, roasted evenly until the skin is golden brown and shiny with fat, giving off a fragrant smell that makes your stomach rumble. This way of cooking does not add too many spices, so it retains the original sweet taste, with a light scent of lemongrass and honey. To enjoy it properly, you must dip it in chili salt or lemongrass salt, pound the salt with green forest chili for a crispy and fragrant taste so you can fully enjoy the unique flavor of grilled chicken.
Catfish is also an extremely interesting dish when visiting Dak Nong. Catfish on the Serepok River has a sweet, fatty, delicious taste that can be processed into many special dishes. Grilled catfish rolled with rice paper, herbs, star fruit, green banana and many kinds of wild vegetables such as Indian laurel, fig, apricot... served with a bowl of spicy fish sauce. Braised catfish with banana marinated with rice vinegar, chili and some spices creates a sour, spicy, fatty taste.
When visiting Lam Dong, don’t forget to try the Chu Ru people’s rice wine. The Chu Ru people live on the plateau but they are good at growing rice. From rice, combined with unique forest plants, they have created a type of rice wine that cannot be found anywhere else.
The Chu Ru people always have rice wine in their homes, and the elaborate secret of making the wine has been passed down from generation to generation. The rice wine of the Chu Ru people carries the strong cultural identity of the people, famous for its strong but gentle intoxication. On a cool highland night, in the space of the Rong house, sipping a sip of wine with the rich flavor of the wild forest by the crackling fire is an unforgettable experience.
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