Sa Dec dry noodle soup
Referring to Can Tho specialties, one cannot fail to mention the dried noodle soup, the most famous in Sa Dec. Thanks to the way it is processed, the ingredients are slightly different from the noodle dish in other provinces, but the dried noodle soup in Can Tho has a strange and more attractive taste.
Although it is a dry noodle soup, the fibers are large, soft and chewy, served with many ingredients such as heart, liver, pork, boiled shrimp,... and especially blended with the thick, dark yellow sauce, awakening the aroma of fried onions.
To add flavor to the dish, you can serve it with raw vegetables, add garlic, chili or fried onions. Many diners from far away who have enjoyed dried noodle soup commented that this is a delicious dish that must be tasted once if visiting here.
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Phong Dien roast pork cake
Phong Dien district, Can Tho city is known by many diners for its famous roasted pork cake specialty. The cake here is made from rice flour, microfibers, pure white, covered with fragrant onion fat on top.
This dish is enjoyed with tender roast pork in addition to crispy and herbs, dipped in fish sauce with sweet and sour chili garlic fish sauce that makes anyone who tastes it once remember it forever.
Roasted pork cake is a specialty associated with the childhood of many generations of Can Tho people in general and Phong Dien in particular, often appearing at banquets, wedding parties, and funerals,... or to entertain friends, relatives, and distinguished guests to visit the house.
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Sewer cake
Gong cakes are also known as frozen cakes because they resemble cylindrical crockery containers, wide mouths, with lids, slightly bulging stems, and convex bottoms. This is also a famous dish of Ninh Kieu wharf that visitors here should not miss.
This dish is crispy, delicious and greasy with a plump filling, including green beans, meat, shrimp, served with raw vegetables such as fish lettuce, mango, bitter cabbage, lettuce, basil, or added vermicelli and dipped with sweet and sour dipping sauce.
Among many Western gifts, Can Tho dumplings still "win the hearts" of tourists because of the crispy taste of the crust, the freshness of shrimp, and the spicy and sour taste of the dipping sauce. Although it is a rustic dish, banh cong has become an indispensable specialty in the "journey" to discover Can Tho specialties.
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Silkworm cake
Although it is a rustic dish, Can Tho silkworm cake attracts customers because of its strange and delicious taste. To have a portion of the standard cake, the locals must stir the rice flour, spin it into fibers and take it to steam. The skin will be marinated with a variety of spices, then fried golden and mixed into the cake. Soft, thinly sliced boiled pork skin mixed with rice, add garlic and golden minced onion, season with a little sugar and salt.
This cake is indispensable for smooth coconut milk, which is obtained directly from fresh coconut water. Coconut water is boiled on a simmering stove, add a little salt, sugar and rice flour, then stir well until a mixture is obtained, then turn off the heat.
Silkworm cake has the juicy taste of meat, the chewiness and crunchiness of pork skin and fried onion and garlic, evoking the aroma of accompanying vegetables such as bean sprouts, raw vegetables, pickles,... extremely attractive.
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Grilled glutinous bananas
Coming to Can Tho, visitors can easily find and enjoy grilled glutinous bananas at many shops or roadside stalls because this is a fairly famous street snack.
To make the grilled glutinous bananas delicious, from the preliminary stages to processing such as plucking banana tendons, soaking rice, cooking coconut milk,... Wrapping,... must be implemented meticulously and thoroughly.
Baked glutinous bananas have a tough, golden and crispy outer glutinous skin and a soft and sweet banana inside, served with a little roasted sesame, grated coconut and coarsely pounded peanuts. In particular, this dish must be enjoyed with sweet, greasy coconut milk, adding chewy and crispy semolina seeds to create its own unique flavor.
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Source: VNN