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Coconut Elegance Salad is a luxurious dish from Ben Tre province, as crafting it involves felling a coconut tree to extract the tender white portion from its trunk.
Experience the Culinary Marvel: Coconut Elegance Salad in Ben Tre
Ben Tre's rural roads and alleys are coconut havens, adorned with tall, shady coconut trees bearing abundant fruit. Local dishes here often include coconut to elevate their flavors. However, Coconut Elegance Salad is a specialty reserved for special occasions, a delicacy locals use to treat esteemed guests.
Coconut husk, found deep within the trunk, constitutes the upper part of the coconut tree, including young shoots and the leaf stem. Obtaining the coconut husk requires felling the entire coconut tree.
Coconut Elegance Salad delights with a balanced sweet and sour taste, offering a refreshing, crispy, fragrant, and light yet substantial experience. Ingredients include peeled baby shrimp, thinly sliced pork belly, pig's ear, cilantro, shallots, and crunchy roasted peanuts.
Shaved coconut husk transformed into long strands, mixed with various ingredients, seasoned with spices and sugar, creates a captivating and flavorful steamed coconut salad.
Experience this dish as a masterpiece, with the pure white elegance of coconut husk, the eye-catching red of shrimp, the subtle brown of meat, and the refreshing green of cilantro. Accompanying this delicacy is a bowl of sweet and sour fish sauce and crispy shrimp crackers.
Considered the culinary essence of Ben Tre, this dish is a must-try when visiting Bến Tre for tourism. Don't forget to savor it at restaurants along National Highway 60 – Binh Phu, priced at around 150,000 VND for a small plate.
Source: Vnexpress.net
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Reference: Travel guide from Mytour
MytourJuly 31, 2015
