After we cross Thot Not Bridge, turn left and go for approximately 6 kilometers, we arrive at Trung Thanh Commune. Here almost all local people can show us how to go to the commune producing fermented glutinous rice balls. Following the instructions of the local people, we go more than a kilometer to Ba Dang Rivulet, along which there are 80-90 households making Com Ruou. This area is in Thanh Phuoc Village and Thanh Phuoc 2 Village of the edge of Thot Not District (Can Tho City). Ms. Huynh Thi Diem, Vice-Chair woman of Trung Thanh Women's Association, says, "Here, two out of every three households earn their living by making Com Ruou.                   No single elderly knows exactly when the trade of making Com Ruou began. They just know this trade has been passed through 4-5 generations. Ms. Tran Thi Chin has earned a living by making Com Ruou for nearly a half-century in Ba Dang Rivulet. Her family has lived on this...

The Mekong Delta’s cuisine is famous for its rich and diverse culinary culture. Such dishes like pork-stuffed fried cake, pancake, rice noodles in fermented fish soup, fish noodle soup and so on are familiar to the South westerners’ and they have long been favored by people in Saigon and all over the world. The Southwestern people usually have this tasty steamed rice noodle for breakfast. This popopular dish originated from Phnom Penh (Cambodia). However, when introduced and integrated into the Mekong Delta, it has been varied in many ways to become a delicious, diverse and tempting dish. The ingredients for steamed rice noodle are chosen from fresh rice noodle strips that are strong and soft. The strips for one serve are torn into smaller and shorter ones and then put into a steamer to be steamed. It is advisable not to steam too many strips at a time because this cannot make the dish hot enough to be delicious as expected. This dish is suitable for breakfast. Steam rice noodle...

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. Speaking to this place today (belongs to An Binh Ward, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City), visitors will think of two delicious dishes as pancakes and miniature fried pancakes. Recall recent years, Can Tho pancakes suddenly famous nationwide and famous in America, the remote land. The person ring the "bell" is artisan named "Muoi Xiem", a Southern farmer woman. Not like the way of the famous artisan named "Muoi Xiem", Ms. Dang Thi Huong from Ke Sach district, Soc Trang provinces who left the homeland to settle down with a job of pancakes and miniature fried pancakes which quite attractive, delicious and appetizing for fellow dinners. Ms....