List of 20 delicious dishes in Can Tho must try once

If you have the opportunity to return to Tay Do and still do not know what to eat, try to refer to the list of 20 delicious dishes in Can Tho suggested by iVIVU in the following article!

List of 20 delicious dishes in Can Tho must try once

1. Grilled Spring Rolls with Cai Rang

Grilled spring rolls are a familiar dish and are available in all parts of the country. Especially in the Mekong Delta, spring rolls have their own unique characteristics. When it comes to spring rolls, people often think of the rustic, simple but equally luxurious features. If you have the opportunity to go to the Can Tho river region, you will definitely not miss the grilled spring rolls in Cai Rang here. Nem is made from ingredients such as fresh pork, shrimp, meat fat and some spices… Mix these ingredients together and then roll them into balls, pin them to a bamboo stick, and cook them until golden brown on a charcoal fire. .

The dipping sauce used to dip grilled spring rolls is made from glutinous rice, soy sauce, minced garlic and some spices such as sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, roasted peanuts and chopped chili… Served with grilled spring rolls with lettuce, raw vegetables , cake and rice paper to roll.

2. Cakes

Cong cake is one of the delicious food in Can Tho that you cannot ignore. The cake is made from the main ingredients of mung bean paste and shrimp. To make a delicious, proper cake, it takes a lot of small steps from kneading the dough to frying the cake. The crust has an eye-catching yellow color, the flavor blends between the greasy green bean paste and the delicious shrimp meat filling. When eating the cake, you will feel the crispy taste, dip the cake into sweet and sour fish sauce or rich seasoning sauce, served with green vegetables to make the dish more round.

3. Grilled snail with green pepper

Grilled snails with green pepper are a delicious dish often seen on drinking tables in Can Tho. Snails live a lot in fields, ponds or small creeks in the West. After catching snails, soak the snails in water mixed with chili, rice water, let the snails release all the slime and mud, then rinse with clean water many times. Snails are often used to make many delicious dishes, the simplest is boiled with ginger fish sauce, or braised snail meat with fish sauce, and bacon, fried snails with lemongrass and chili to eat with rice, but especially snails combined with green pepper and cooked on a charcoal stove will bring a strange delicious dish. After washing and draining, marinate with seasoning powder and green pepper for about 15 minutes, then put the snails on the griddle and cook on the charcoal stove. Grilled green pepper snail has the crunchy taste of snails combined with the spicy taste of green pepper with pangolin tip to attract people to eat.

4. Banh Tet with Camellia leaves

Banh tet leaf is a familiar dish for people in the South, especially in the Mekong Delta. In that familiarity also contains a unique feature that other places do not have, which is reflected in Can Tho’s tet cake, which leaves a strong impression on the cuisine of the Southwest region in general. The ingredients for making tet leaf cake include glutinous rice, brocade leaves, coconut milk, salt seasoning, sugar, green beans, pork, salted duck seeds and banana leaves to wrap the cake. The cake has an eye-catching purple-pink color of sticky rice. Take a bite of a piece of tet cake, immediately feel the aromatic plasticity from the sticky and fat blends in the soft, melted meat with the taste of green beans, salty salted eggs.

5. Three aspects roasted tamarind

Ba Khiem is a type of sea urchin, living a lot in the brackish mud areas of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu… If you have the opportunity to come to Can Tho, remember to enjoy many delicious dishes from Ba Khiem such as steamed beer, boiled, roasted tamarind… , especially the dish roasted with tamarind. Roasted tamarind dishes bring together the sour, sweet, fatty, crunchy flavors of Ba Khiem and tamarind mixed with the spicy and spicy taste of laksa leaves.

6. Cooked duck

Cooked duck is one delicious food in Can Tho famous near and far. According to the chefs here, duck cooking must go through many stages to produce the right flavor. The duck used to prepare the dish must be a large copper duck, washed, preliminarily processed with ginger and wine. Chao is the “soul” of the dish, marinated with chopped pieces of duck before being stewed or even added directly to the broth, increasing its richness. A pot of duck hot pot cooked with chao also has blood, taro and straw mushrooms that make the broth more sweet, served with vegetables such as water spinach, spinach, broccoli, rafter…

7. Dumplings

Dumplings are a Chinese dish that is “welcome” by young people in Can Tho. The dumplings have a moderate crust, the inside is seasoned richly in the Chinese style, and the meat and shrimp are packed tightly. When eating, you will feel the sweet and rich taste of the filling layer filling your mouth, making the eater always excited.

8. Pancakes with coconut tofu

Western pancakes are not difficult to find when returning to Can Tho. In particular, the dish of coconut tofu has a unique flavor that always attracts diners from near and far. Coconut tofu is the upper part of the coconut tree, located deep in the trunk, including young buds that have not yet sprouted outside and petioles. Coconut tofu combined with whole green beans, minced meat, shrimp, bean sprouts … makes the pancakes have a fragrant, fleshy and sweet flavor. Pancakes with coconut tofu are golden and fragrant, served with a typical dipping sauce and raw vegetables. Western pancakes are divided, put directly on the leaves and then rolled, dipped with fragrant fish sauce.

9. Silkworm cake

In the Southwest region, you can easily find and enjoy silkworm cake with coconut milk in any province. And when coming to Can Tho, you cannot ignore this dish. The soft taste of the cake mixed with fatty coconut milk, chili garlic fish sauce, crispy skin, sweet meat and the slight aroma of vegetables create a wonderful dish. Just eating a plate of silkworm cake is enough for a full breakfast!

10. Grilled goby fish with reed tube

Goby fish is also known as goby fish, can process many dishes such as Braised goby with pepper, deep fried goby, braised goby with laksa leaves, grilled goby with salt and pepper, grilled goby with bamboo tube, grilled goby with garlic butter, goby porridge… The most special is still Grilled goby fish with reed tube, has a taste that captivates diners near and far.

The reed used to grill the goby must be young reed, fat and watery. Cut the reed into pieces, with a hollow end to put the fish in. Live goby fish, after being washed, seasoning with liqueurAlready put the fish in the reed and grilled on a charcoal stove. This type of grilling makes the goby tender, sweeter. When the reed tube is golden and deflates quickly, the fish is also cooked thanks to the heat of the water secreted by the reed tube. You can eat grilled goby with reed pipe with herbs, acrid bananas and a cup of salt and pepper lemon or dipping sauce as you like.

11. Crazy Linh Cotton Fish Hot Pot

When the fields of the West are bright yellow, it is also the time when the spirit fish follow the flood water. At this time, many people here will enjoy the rustic and attractive dishes from Linh fish. Linh fish is abundant in the fields of Dong Thap, An Giang, Can Tho… Although it is simple, Linh fish hotpot is a famous specialty of the people in the West. And about Can Tho, you cannot ignore this famous delicious dish. The two ingredients to create hot pot are Linh fish and Mad Dian cotton. Served with hot pot is water spinach, spinach, fresh vermicelli or white rice, and indispensable cup of pure chili fish sauce.

12. Dried shrimp vermicelli

Dried shrimp vermicelli is a favorite dish of many diners when coming to Cai Rang market, Can Tho. This noodle dish is quite similar to vermicelli. The broth is made from fried dried shrimp, duck blood… has a characteristic sweet taste. The full bowl of shrimp vermicelli also has beef, crab sauce, spring rolls, dried shrimp, blood, fat and raw vegetables. It is indispensable to eat shrimp vermicelli with fish sauce to enhance the taste.

13. Hot pot

The cork fruit has a sour taste and is used to cook hot pot to bring out the broth with a sour taste. The cork sour hot pot is a special dish not to be missed when coming to Can Tho. If you want a good hot pot, you must use cooked cork. Hot pot broth is simmered from fresh fish for a sweet taste, adding pork bones seasoned to taste with a little bit of sour tamarind juice, then adding some finely chopped herbs and sliced ​​chili to add an attractive spicy taste. In addition, hot pot ingredients change seasonally, including catfish such as pangasius, catfish, catfish, red tilapia, baba, Dinh crab… When enjoying hotpot, you will feel The sweet and sour taste of the broth, the fatty taste of fish, the sweetness of raw vegetables is full of charm.

14. Goby fish hotpot

Goby fish is a common fish that occurs a lot in the Southwest region. Fish has a delicious white meat, fatty panther with high nutritional value, so it is popular with many people. People use goby fish to cook many attractive dishes such as goby fish hotpot, goby fish stock… In particular, goby fish hotpot is a famous dish mentioned by many diners when they return to the West. Like other provinces such as Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Ben Tre … Can Tho goby hotpot also has a very characteristic sweet and sour taste and when cooked, goby meat is very sweet, soft and has no bones. The hot pot has only two main ingredients, goby fish and spices including: banana flowers, bitter vegetables, bean sprouts, split water spinach… but it is attractive enough for anyone to enjoy.

15. Pineapple leaf cake

Pandan leaf cake is a sweet, beautiful green cake with a characteristic aroma of pandan leaves. This type of cake is served with two kinds of chan, coconut milk and sugar water, which is added to the candy, accompanied by crushed roasted peanuts sprinkled on top of the cake. Tasting a piece of cake, you will fully feel the unique flavor dissolved in this simple but delicate and attractive dish. Coming to Can Tho, you can find and enjoy pandan leaf cakes on street vendors.

16. Braised fried rice

17. Baked sticky rice

When it comes to snacks in Can Tho for sweet lovers, grilled glutinous bananas cannot be ignored. You can enjoy this dish at many shops or roadside stalls in Can Tho. Baked glutinous bananas have a tough, crispy outer layer of sticky rice and a soft and sweet inside, served with a little roasted sesame, grated coconut and coarsely pounded peanuts. In particular, when eating grilled glutinous bananas, it is indispensable to have sweet and greasy coconut milk, add chewy, delicious and hard-to-resist Bang Bang powder.

18. Noodles with fish sauce

Bun mam has long been a famous specialty of the Southwest region. The dish consists of vermicelli and broth with a characteristic aroma from fish species. Westerners often eat vermicelli with water lily, shaved water spinach, bean sprouts, bitter vegetables… A bowl of Can Tho vermicelli noodles is hot, fragrant with fish sauce, imbued with the natural sweetness of seafood, the spicy taste of chili… create a dish not to be missed when returning to Tay Do.

19. Phong Dien Roasted Pork Cake

Phong Dien district, Can Tho city has a famous specialty “rice cake with hammock face”. The cake is elaborately shaped, served with grilled meat, grilled spring rolls, roasted pork, sprinkled with peanuts, onion fat on top. Served with cakes with raw vegetables or rice paper rolls, especially indispensable cup of fish sauce mixed with garlic and chili is easy to “addict” diners.

20. Spring rolls

Goi cuon is considered as a special “play food” loved by many people in Can Tho. Like other regions, Can Tho spring rolls include familiar ingredients such as boiled meat, boiled shrimp, raw vegetables, cucumbers, bean sprouts, mango… and a few chives… The “soul” of this salad is located In the dipping sauce, it can be diluted garlic and chili fish sauce, a typical viscous soy sauce sauce or seasoned fish sauce to enhance the rich flavor of the spring rolls. If you have the opportunity to visit Can Tho, remember to visit Ninh Kieu wharf, to both enjoy spring rolls and watch the lyrical Hau River, which will surely bring many unforgettable experiences.

According to thuthuatcaidat.com

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Reference: thuthuatcaidat.com travel guide

thuthuatcaidat.com May 29, 2023