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05/09/2016 19:58
Located on Cai Son - Hang Bang Street, a pancake diner outlying in Can Tho City is small but always crowded with customers.
A golden-colored Banh xeo dish, comes with sweet and sour sauce and fresh raw vegetables. Photo: Minh Duc
Western Region’s style banh xeo is not hard to find in Can Tho, but to find a“genuine” banh xeo diner with affordable price, tourists should not miss “Bay Toi”,a famous place for eating and drinking located on Cai Son - Hang Bang Street.
The first impression of visitors is on the kitchen close to the wall near the front door....
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05/09/2016 19:57
Duck braised noodles is an age-old dish in Can Tho, which is preferred by many people. This dish includes many spices, especially medicinal herbs, which make it has a light sweet and a strange taste.
To make the duck braised noodles tasty, the cook usually chooses musk ducks, because they have firm meat. After cleaning the duck, people usually rub it with white wine to reduce the fishy smell; then, marinate with spices as salt, glutamate, pepper,... and add a little soy sauce and honey to make color. The duck can be cut into four or preserved whole body, depending on the cook. When the duck meat imbibes the spices, it is fried to make the skin turn into a golden color and crispy.
The soup is making in a special way with many spices. This dish originates in China, so it contains some specific spices, such as jujubes, gingko, clove, shiitake mushroom, cinnamon, dried tangerine skin,... These...
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05/09/2016 19:53
Bun Ca (rice noodles and fish) is a famous dish in the Southwest of Vietnam, especially in An Giang Province and Kien Giang Province. But in Can Tho, Bun Ca (rice noodles and fish) has its own feature – Its luscious and fragrant taste will imprint in your mind forever when you have ever tried the dish.
In An Giang Province, Bun Ca (rice noodles and fish) often has a distinctive saffron, small noodles, flavor with strong spices from lemon grass, fragrant knotweed, while this dish of Can Tho has clear broth, without fat, so its favor becomes softened. This difference stems from the secret tip of cooking broth. Broth is cooked by boiling chicken bones, pork bones and some vegetables such as radish, pear, apple, sugar cane, mushrooms ... , all of which make it clear and naturally sweet. For a tasty Bun Ca (rice vermicelli and fish), main ingredient must be very fresh fish. Typically, in Can Tho, snakehead fish and Thac Lac...
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