If you have a sweet tooth, don't miss out on trying Hue's sweet soups when you visit the ancient capital. Discover the top 10 outstanding Hue sweet soups for your trip to this poetic ancient city!
Irresistible Top 10 Hue Sweet Soups to Wow Every Diner
1. Grilled pork dumpling sweet soup
Grilled pork dumpling sweet soup is a unique delicacy of Hue, combining traditional flavors with culinary creativity. This Hue sweet soup, with its intriguing name and impressive distinctive flavor, is loved by many.



2. Bean sweet soup
Dau ngu sweet soup is a dish that used to be served to Kings in the old days, nowadays it appears on important occasions of people in Hue or to treat guests. The dish is made from ingredients such as green beans, rock sugar, pandan leaves... creating a refreshing and fragrant Hue sweet soup. When enjoying dau ngu sweet soup, people also decorate it with a few jasmine flowers or cute grapefruit flowers to enhance its attractiveness and stimulate the taste buds.

Corn sweet soup is one of the traditional sweet soups loved in Hue with its distinctive flavor. This sweet soup is made from fresh corn, corn kernels cooked soft with tapioca flour, combined with sugar and coconut milk. With the eye-catching color of corn kernels combined with the gentle sweetness and distinctive aroma of coconut milk, corn sweet soup is an excellent choice to enjoy on hot summer days in Hue, providing diners with a memorable culinary experience.


5. Almond jelly sweet soup

Almond jelly sweet soup in Hue originates from Guangdong, China. Almond jelly or almond tofu means crushed green beans. This sweet soup is made from ingredients such as green beans, tapioca flour, dried orange peel, and rock sugar. Almond jelly has a unique, mouth-watering flavor, combining the sweetness of rock sugar, the richness of green beans, and the aroma of orange peel. This is a refreshing sweet soup, helping to cool down, relieve colds, and is extremely good for health.
6. Jelly sweet soup
Jelly sweet soup in Hue is quite diverse for diners to choose from, you can eat coconut milk jelly sweet soup, dew jelly sweet soup, fruit jelly sweet soup... The process of making jelly sweet soup seems simple and does not take too much time but brings a very impressive flavor. Enjoying a refreshing jelly sweet soup in Hue on hot summer days will provide extra energy for your journey to explore the ancient capital.


7. Lotus Seed Wrapped in Longan Sweet Soup

Lotus seed wrapped in longan sweet soup is one of the famous specialties of the ancient land of Hue. The ingredients to make this sweet soup include lotus seeds, longan, rock sugar, and water. The special point of this sweet soup is the exquisite combination of smooth lotus seeds and fragrant longan, providing a unique flavor experience. After the lotus seeds are cooked until tender, they are 'wrapped' in longan. Then boil water in a pot and when it boils, add rock sugar, simmer over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Let the sugar water cool, then pour it into small beautiful bowls containing a few longan seeds wrapped in lotus seeds, then enjoy. You will feel the sweet taste of rock sugar, the crispy sweetness of longan, and the refreshing taste of lotus seeds.

8. Green Bean Sweet Soup

Green beans are a common type of beans appearing in many different sweet soups. Green bean sweet soup in Hue is a rustic dish worth trying when visiting the ancient land. This sweet soup has a refreshing, gentle flavor, suitable for many people's tastes. Green bean sweet soup has two common types: whole green bean sweet soup and mashed green bean sweet soup. To add more richness and deliciousness to green bean sweet soup, coconut milk can be added when enjoying.

9. Dew Almond Sweet Soup with Pomegranate Seeds


With beans such as green beans, black beans, red beans... you can create many different attractive sweet soups. Black beans are a type of bean rich in nutrients and characteristic delicious aroma. Black beans are carefully selected, soaked and cooked until tender, then combined with sugar and some other spices to create a sweet, attractive flavor. When enjoying black bean sweet soup, coconut milk is also added for a rich but not overwhelming feeling. This sweet soup is often enjoyed hot or cold, depending on personal preference and is a perfect choice for chilly or scorching days.

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Reference: Travel guide from Mytour
MytourNovember 30, 2023