Sa Dec dried noodle soup
Referring to Can Tho specialties, one cannot fail to mention the dried noodle soup, the most famous is in Sa Dec. Thanks to the way of processing, the ingredients are slightly different from the noodle soup in other provinces, but the dried noodle soup in Can Tho has a stranger and more attractive taste.
Although it is dried noodle soup, the fibers are large, soft, chewy, served with many ingredients such as heart, liver, pork, boiled shrimp ,... and especially blended with the thick, dark yellow sauce, with the aroma of onions.
To enhance the flavor of the dish, you can eat it with raw vegetables, add garlic, chili or onions. Many diners from far away who have enjoyed dried noodle soup commented, this is a must-taste delicacy 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, microfiber, pure white, topped with fragrant onion fat.
This dish is served with roast pork in tenderness in addition to crispy and herbs, dipped in garlic fish sauce with sweet and sour peppers that anyone who tastes once will remember forever.
Roasted pork cake is a specialty associated with the childhood of generations of Can Tho people in general and Phong Dien in particular, often appearing in parties, wedding parties, and commemoration ceremonies,... or use to entertain friends, relatives, distinguished guests to play at home.
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Sewer wheel
Sewer cake is also called frosting because of its resemblance to a cylindrical crockery container, wide mouth, with a lid, slightly bulging body, convex bottom. This is also a famous dish of Ninh Kieu pier 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 radish, lettuce, basil, or add vermicelli and dip with sweet and sour dipping sauce.
Among many Western gifts, Can Tho cake still "pleases" visitors by the crispy taste of the crust, the freshness of shrimp, the sour taste of 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 get a proper portion of cake, locals have to stir the rice flour, astringent it into fibers and bring it to steam. The packaging will be marinated with a variety of spices, then golden fried and mixed into the cake. Soft-boiled, thinly sliced pork skin mixed with rice, add garlic and minced onions and yellow balls, 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 heated over a simmering fire, add a little salt, sugar and rice flour, then stir until a mixture is obtained, then turn off the burner.
The silkworm cake has the juicy taste of meat, chewy and crunchy of pork skin and garlic onions, and the aroma of vegetables such as bean sprouts , raw vegetables, pickles,... extremely fascinating.
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Grilled glutinous bananas
Coming to Can Tho, visitors can easily find and enjoy grilled sticky bananas at many shops or roadside stalls because this is a famous street snack.
To make sticky bananas grilled delicious, from preliminary stages to processing such as stripping banana tendons, soaking rice, cooking coconut milk,... glutinous sheath,... must be done meticulously and thoroughly.
Grilled glutinous bananas have a tough, crispy yellow outer skin and a soft, sweet and fragrant inside, served with some roasted sesame, grated coconut and pounded peanuts. In particular, this dish must be enjoyed with sweet, greasy coconut milk, adding chewy, crispy semolinae (pearls) to create its own unique flavor.
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