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Da Lat's specialties are truly diverse. According to local insiders, apart from well-known specialties like grilled rice paper, mini pancakes… Da Lat's gift options are equally varied.
Moreover, these are all delicious and affordable Da Lat specialties, exclusively available in Da Lat. These unique products are easy to purchase, store, and bring back.
Let's explore together!
Exclusive Da Lat specialties make perfect gifts found only in Da Lat.
Da Lat Red Wine
You've probably heard of Da Lat Red Wine, haven't you? While not as famous as French wines, Da Lat Red Wine is produced domestically, making it much more affordable compared to French wines. Typically, wines are fermented from grapes, but Da Lat Red Wine is fermented from mulberries, a distinctive ingredient of Da Lat.
Da Lat Red Wine comes in both white and red varieties. This will be one of the famous Da Lat specialties that many gentlemen will love.
Dalat Wine – the wine of the land of cool mist
Da Lat Strawberries
When it comes to the best strawberries, Da Lat strawberries are the top choice. Da Lat strawberries are plump, round, and when ripe, they have a sweet and slightly tangy taste. The best way is to buy fresh Da Lat strawberries as gifts. But if you're far away and have a craving for this treat, you can also go for dried Da Lat strawberries or Da Lat strawberry preserves – they are equally delicious!
You can choose to buy Da Lat strawberries directly from the garden or the Da Lat market.
Artichoke Tea from Da Lat
Artichokes are grown in the outskirts of Da Lat. Drinking Artichoke tea daily helps cool the liver, detoxify, and promotes relaxation. Alternatively, you can also buy fresh artichoke flowers to pickle or Da Lat artichoke extract for daily consumption.
Artichoke Tea - Famous Da Lat specialty as a gift for the family
Da Lat Coffee
Vietnamese coffee is renowned, from Trung Nguyen coffee, Egg Coffee, G7, to Da Lat Coffee. Da Lat is one of the famous places for excellent coffee in Vietnam. The best is to enjoy pure ground Da Lat coffee, with a natural flavor and no added artificial colors. You can easily buy pre-packaged ground coffee at local markets and tea and coffee shops.
Da Lat Specialty Coffee is best enjoyed in its pure ground form
Da Lat Persimmons
Persimmons in Da Lat are usually available from mid-September to the end of November in the lunar calendar. Especially, Da Lat persimmons are crisp and safe to buy directly in Da Lat as they are not sprayed with pesticides or soaked in preservatives.
You can purchase fresh Da Lat persimmons or dried Da Lat persimmons as a family gift.
Da Lat specialties include both fresh and dried persimmons
Da Lat Preserves
Da Lat is a paradise for various types of preserves
From various tubers and fruits, the people of Da Lat have crafted a myriad of different Da Lat preserves, boasting a spectrum of colors and flavors like chewy sweet potato preserves, persimmon preserves, strawberry preserves, kiwi preserves, rose preserves, and dozens more.
Da Lat preserves are fresh, not overly sweet, and incredibly delightful. Not just during Tet, even on regular days, a quick visit to Da Lat market will grant you access to a wide variety of these treats.
Da Lat specialties encompass a unique array of preserves
Da Lat Creamy Avocado
If you're a fan of avocados, don't miss out on this delightful and affordable Da Lat specialty. Unlike regular avocados, Da Lat Creamy Avocados have a rich, creamy taste, a delightful aroma, and are nutritionally dense. Particularly, they are thick and their seeds are small. Grinding Da Lat Creamy Avocados with fresh milk for daily consumption is highly nutritious.
Da Lat Creamy Avocado
Da Lat Flowers
Everywhere has flowers, but Da Lat flowers remain the most beautiful. Da Lat flowers are incredibly diverse and fragrant. If you love flowers or your loved ones do, why not buy a bouquet as a gift? If you're concerned about fresh flowers wilting over time, consider buying a few bunches of dried flowers – they look just as beautiful as the real ones.
Da Lat is the city of beautiful flowers
Dried Vegetables from Da Lat
This will be a specialty that many women will love. Typically, supermarkets only offer a few types of dried fruits like dried jackfruit, banana, pineapple, sweet potato, taro... but dried vegetables from Da Lat are exceptionally diverse. In addition to the mentioned dried fruits, Da Lat specialties also include carrots, corn, eggplants, and more. These are available individually for each type of vegetable or as a mix for you to freely choose.
Dried Vegetables from Da Lat – Delicious and affordable Da Lat specialty for gifting
Da Lat Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potato delicacy is a unique and delicious dish now available at major supermarkets nationwide
This is a specialty exclusive to Da Lat. Da Lat Sweet Potatoes are made from sweet and flavorful sweet potatoes, boiled in abundant syrup, sliced, and sun-dried for 1 to 2 sunny days. Da Lat Sweet Potatoes are easy to eat, chewy, and perfectly sweet.
Nowadays, this Da Lat specialty is mass-produced, and you can find it everywhere. Da Lat Sweet Potatoes are vacuum-sealed, making it easy for you to take and buy as a gift even if you're far away.
Da Lat Sweet Potatoes
Lâm Đồng Cashews
Cashews - The queen of all dried nuts
Evaluating various nuts is never difficult, they are always a favorite specialty for tourists to buy as gifts due to their deliciousness, easy availability, portability, and easy storage. In Da Lat, there is a famous type of nut that locals consider the “Queen of Dried Nuts,” and that is Lâm Đồng Cashews.
Unexpected benefits of Lâm Đồng Cashews
Da Lat Cashews have a sweet, rich taste, with a delightful chewiness and fragrance. Grown in the land of Lâm Đồng, these cashews are rich in beneficial vitamins and minerals, making them excellent for children and pregnant women. Additionally, Da Lat Cashews also support in reducing cholesterol, preventing artery clogging, and managing blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases.
Da Lat Cashews are cultivated in Đức Trọng, Lâm Đồng province
Da Lat Salted Cashews
Besides Lâm Đồng Cashews, Salted Cashews are another Da Lat specialty recommended by the locals for gifting. While Lâm Đồng Cashews have a sweet and rich taste, Salted Cashews have a unique salty, crispy, and fragrant flavor. Although salted cashews are available in some supermarkets nowadays, for the freshest, tastiest, and guaranteed quality, it's advisable to buy them in Da Lat if you have the opportunity to visit!
Salted Cashews from Da Lat have a rich, chewy, naturally salty taste
Bảo Lộc Lâm Đồng Tea
In addition to Da Lat Artichoke Tea, the Bảo Lộc Lâm Đồng tea brand is also quite famous in Da Lat. Bảo Lộc Tea is made from green tea leaves in Bảo Lộc town, Lâm Đồng province. Some recommended types of Bảo Lộc tea for gifting include lotus tea, pineapple tea, lychee tea, wolfberry tea, and more.
Bảo Lộc Lâm Đồng Tea is a renowned tea brand in Da Lat
Here, we've compiled 13 delicious and affordable Da Lat specialties recommended by the locals as perfect gifts for family and friends. If you know of any other Da Lat specialties suitable for gifting, please comment and share with us!
Additionally, if you have the opportunity to travel to other regions of Vietnam, be sure to check out some regional specialties on the PasGo Blog!
Thank you all!
Minh Phương & the PasGo Team.
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