Cuisines
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Can Tho City’s Nice Dish: Ba Khía Rang Me (Freshwater Crabs Cooked with Tamarind Sauce)
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Hotpot of Linh (Cirrhinus jullieni) Fish and Điên Điển (Sesbania Sesban) Flowers
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Phong Dien Fine Rice Vermicelli
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Well-known Com Ruou (Fermented Glutinous Rice Balls) in Thot Not
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The Mekong Delta’s Taste in Hủ tiếu hấp - Steamed Rice Noodle
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Pancakes of Cái Sơn – Hàng Bàng
The name of Cái Sơn – Hàng Bàng, according to many people, this area has Cai Son small irrigation canal next to large malabar almond trees so this area has that name. Now, the small irrigation canal was quite large but large malabar almond trees is no longer appeared, however delicious pancakes and miniature fried phancakes remain as before.
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Grilled snails with pepper
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Bun ca Can Tho – authentic flavor of the wetlands
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"Nem nuong" Cai Rang (Cai Rang grilled meat roll)
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Thanh Van grilled meat roll
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Can Tho grapefruit compote
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Can Tho banh cong (one kind of cake)
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Banh xeo (rice pancake folded in half)
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"Banh tet la cam" (one kind of cylindric glutinous rice cake)
"Banh tet la cam" has distinct taste. It is made from fragrant sticky rice soaked with la cam to get purple colour. Fry sticky rice with coconut quintessence during 4 - 5 hours. When sticky rice is well done, it have velvety purple, covering stuffing of meat, egg, grease, green bean, etc. Covering the cake demand skilful hands to make it done to a turn completely. The cake is cut and laid out on plate, it looks attractive with different colours such as green, red, purple, yellow, and b...
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Sour soup of "ca linh" (a species of local fish) and "bong so dua" (local flower)
Select a big fish, then cut in two under gills and detain entrails. The fish is very fat in the flood season. The season of ca linh is the time for "bong so dua" booming - an important flavouring of the dish. It can use tamarind or lemon or ferment for the soup. Vegetable flavouring comprises eryngium, coriander, and some other spices like chilly, garlic, sugar, pure fish sauce to form tasty dish. When the water in pot is boiled, put fish into, cover the pot until the soup is boiled ag...
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Gruel of mullet "rau dang" (a species of a bitter vegetable)
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Culinary Art in Can Tho
The good natural conditions in the delta of many waterways have created abundant specialities. Furthermore, this land is home of some ethnic groups like Kinh, Hoa, and Khmer, so that Can Tho people have a lot of dishes and diverse culinary ways. Upon coming here, we will have chance to enjoy specialities full of characteristic tastes. Lau mam Can Tho’s Lau mam full of countryside flavours of South VietnamMain ingredient of the dish is salted fish (made of ca linh (a species of small fish)...
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Broiled mullet
Gastronomes can select mullet at medium size to broil hence it is well done. The fish is covered with clay, then broiled by straw or dried wood until the clay cover is dried and split. Take off the cover with fish scales, you can see white flesh of fish. The mullet can be enjoyed with some raw vegetables and fish sauce, chilly, garlic, shrimp paste, or peppers and salt or ginger salt to make it more tasty. The dish is rather savoury with different tastes such as sweet of fish's flesh, bitter...
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