As the central province of the Western River Delta, Can Tho offers far-away visitors with new and creative specialties that only when you come here will you be able to feel its deliciousness and essence.
Pizza with noodles
The first specialty of Can Tho that makes any customer coming to Can Tho want to try it is an “exclusive” Pizza with noodles. If the pizza that we often eat every day is made with the familiar ingredient of flour, Can Tho has a new creativity when using noodle soup as the main ingredient. The filtered rice noodles are then poured and then fried in a saucepan filled with oil, forming a round cake like the base of Italian pizzas. The highlight of the pizza is the topping. Not the familiar beef, ketchup or cheese, Can Tho people replaced with eggs. Meat loaf and sprinkle it with a bit of rich coconut milk.
The complete noodle soup will look really eye-catching and unique
The complete noodle pizza section will look really eye-catching, not inferior to the Western class pizza. Dotted on the topping is familiar vegetables such as coriander, cilantro, and roasted peanuts to create a delicious western flavored pizza. When enjoying this specialty of Can Tho , crispy noodle fibers soaked in the fat of coconut milk make diners delight, combined with the richness of the meat, the soft aroma of the eggs, making the appeal more attractive.
Phu Sa hotpot
When coming to Phu Sa Tourist Village, do not miss the poor hot pot. Every season of poor season, hot pot will be taken advantage of by the people of Can Tho and processed delicious dishes from extremely fresh ripe fruits. In which, the most special one must mention the poor floor. The ingredients to make the pot are very diverse, the fish used to cook hot pot depending on the season, which can be basa fish, or red snapper, even some people use all three or crab to cook ingredients. With cork, and whatever ingredients they cook with, they all have an irresistible taste.
Hot pot broth will be cooked from fresh fish to create a characteristic sweet taste
Hot pot broth will be cooked from fresh fish to create a characteristic sweet taste. Add pork bones and a little sour tamarind juice, then they add a little cut herbs, chili slices to deodorize and increase the spicy flavor of the hot pot. The hot pot, when served on the tray, has a very fragrant smell, when you eat it, you will feel a very sweet and sour taste, characterized by a special cork scent.
If you have the opportunity to enjoy this Can Tho specialty in the floating season, vegetables served in addition to cotton balls, banana popcorn, water lily, diners can also enjoy classic cotton – a typical folk flower of the region. River in the West.
Duck hotpot with soya
Can Tho delicious dish can not help but call the name of hotpot duck cooked with hot pot. Although duck cooked with soya is not only a dish available only in Can Tho, many provinces in the southwestern region also know the dish is cooked from this fermented tofu. However, only when traveling to Can Tho , the duck dish cooked in soya bean really becomes attractive and special. Also the main seasoning is soya, through the cook’s processing and marinade hands, when the hot pot is presented to diners to enjoy, the hotpot broth is fat, slightly thick and especially strong, the sweetness of the water. Use, make sure you will have to rub and recognize, the duck hotpot here is really very special.
This specialty of Can Tho is so welcoming that when eating, it is great to drink with a little wine from the garden
The vegetables served with hot pot are also very plentiful such as: broccoli, water spinach, industrious … dipped wherever you eat. This specialty of Can Tho is so welcoming that when eating, drinking with a little wine from the garden is as great as anything.
Grilled snail with green pepper
The capital of the West, which is famous for many popular dishes, always brings a strong flavor that makes diners remember forever. And the grilled snail with green pepper is no exception. To make this dish, the snail will be cleaned with rice water, then boiled and brought to the stove of embers and grilled.
When grilled, the snail will bring the spicy flavor of pepper, the richness of the fish sauce, and the crispness of the snail meat
The best grilled snail with green pepper must be baked on charcoal to retain its natural flavor. The outside snails grilled with fragrant pepper are also seasoned with ready-made spices including fish sauce, garlic, spices … so when cooked, the snails will bring the spicy flavor of pepper, the richness of the fish sauce mixed with a bit of crunchy snail meat. To increase the flavor of this special Can Tho , people also make ginger fish sauce to help regulate the welding properties of the snail.
Dry Snake
In the West, every flooding season is also the time of snake proliferation. Snakes from the wild are hunted and processed into specialties by people here such as green bean snake porridge, grilled snake, snake hot pot … even dried snake – a dish that sounds scary but according to people People are very tasty and nutritious.
Dried snake is very delicious and nutritious
To make delicious dry food, people often choose healthy snakes such as water snakes, elephant snakes, fig cotton snakes … When cleaned, they will be seasoned with spices and dried thoroughly, then bring them to reserve and eat gradually. Dried snake is used in salads or grilled directly on embers are very delicious, when it is cooked, dried snake will have aroma and sweet meat.
Cam leaf pancakes
According to the people of Can Tho, the best Cam leaf banh tet is the family’s bread of Huynh family in Binh Thuy district. Delicious Banh Tet is to choose sticky sticky rice not mixed with non-glutinous rice, soaked mint leaves must be fresh and remove the chlorotic leaves because it can make the color of the cake discolored and unattractive. The baker is the bacon that is only soaked and finally fried with coconut milk before wrapping it into the finished product.
The best Cam Banh Mi is an heirloom cake of the Huynh family
A delicious brocade cake, when cut, must ensure smooth purple color of the sticky rice, the inside of the meat is cooked but still fragrant, the egg yolk and green beans still have a characteristic fragrance. It is also a cake with glutinous ingredients, filled with green beans and fatty meat, but Can Tho Camaro Leaf Banh Mi is special not only because of the beautiful purple color, but because of the sweet taste of sticky rice and meat, and the aroma of salted eggs.