From simple recipes with a unique and delicate combination to create the perfect delicious Ben Tre banana dam, everyone can enjoy it.
Banana and coconut – the perfect addictive ‘couple’
In the southwestern region, bananas and coconuts are considered the most familiar fruits because they are widely planted everywhere. To eat each type separately, it doesn’t cost much, but when combined together, the correct song cannot be better. They can form many different delicious dishes such as banana cake, banana tea, fried banana, banana ice cream or tea with coconut milk, … Among them, the famous banana dish is simple but extremely addictive.
Besides the banana beat, there are many dishes made from bananas and delicious coconut milk
Banana ice cream is also an irresistible combination of these two ingredients
Wandering around the neighborhoods into small alleyways during your travel, you can also find street vendors smoky everywhere. Perennial stalls, whether on a hot day or when it rains, always stand at a corner of a crowded street waiting. Wait for your turn to enjoy the Ben Tre beaten banana that looks both eye-catching and delicious. This seems to have become something deeply ingrained in the consciousness of every citizen. 
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Banana battered Ben Tre – a popular dish of ‘coconut land’
Ben Tre land is known to everyone as the capital of coconut, here you can also see the silhouette of this familiar tree. From the front of the houses, on the banks of the pond or to the gardens and fields of immense green coconut trees. The siamese coconut tree gardens on one side are rows of cool canals, besides, to save land, people also plant bananas. Therefore, they are often cared for and watered together to create familiar images. 
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Each region has its own specialties that everyone knows when it comes to them and especially when they are away from the countryside, they do not stop remembering the familiar taste. Banana battered coconut milk in Ben Tre is also a typical example not to be missed. From elderly grandparents, employees, students, students to young children, … all love the taste of this simple dish. 
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Not only that, every time tourists have the opportunity to visit, everyone wants to once enjoy the original and addictive taste of the Western coconut land. Traveling to Ben Tre without enjoying the specialties will miss many good things. Because this place converges countless delicious and novel dishes. Among them, the banana dish soaked in coconut milk will be an irresistible taste that makes you lingering on this land every opportunity to visit. 
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How to make banana, break coconut milk in Ben Tre
It can be said that the making of this dish is simple but also delicate and requires no less meticulousness. The correct taste of “coconut land” comes from the carefulness of the selection of ingredients to the finished product. You can buy it from outside or if you like it, you can make it at home with an oven, charcoal grill. First, choosing a banana should be a Siamese banana that is neither green nor overripe, and the peel just turns yellow. Note that you do not choose overripe bananas because they will be soft and crisp when they are broken. 
Choose green bananas that are still green and yellow to make banana beat
Peel the grill first over the heat and beat flattened to continue baking
Bananas are baked on the crispy charcoal outside, giving off a sweet aroma on the corner
After that, bananas are peeled, pinched vertically, and placed on an embers stove for baking. When the fire is over for 5 minutes, bring it into a plastic bag, beat flat, then bring it to grill again. During baking, the worker is required to turn 2 sides continuously until the hard outer layer turns from white to yellow. Thus, when eating dots or sprinkling with coconut milk, you can still feel a certain crunchy characteristic of Ben Tre dam banana . 
Grilled bananas are delicious, especially coconut milk
It is also possible to make home-beat bananas for a delicious result
Squeeze the dried coconuts and boil the concentrated juice properly
As for the coconut milk served, do not use the processed type, but choose the dried coconut cake. Then, carefully grated and squeezed water, put on the stove to simmer until thickened. You can add more flour to make it smoother, until you are almost done, add a little salt and sugar and not forget a little chopped onion to add flavor to the coconut milk.
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Bananas beaten in Ben Tre, when eaten, will be on a plate, the seller will ask if you want to sprinkle coconut milk on top or put it in a bowl and then dot. This dish is best enjoyed on cool, rainy days. Sitting together under the coconut trees or beside the river, eating and enjoying the cool. The price of a full plate of bananas is also very cheap, only a few thousand to tens of thousands for a meal to play but also full of stomach. 
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Famous selling place you should go to buy
This idyllic dish is sold in almost every lane so you can come to buy and enjoy. Some of the places that are well known and crowded are:
– Banana dam with coconut milk – No. 311B and 285B right at Dong Khoi Avenue, Phu Khuong Ward, City. Ben tre.
– Bananas dam Ba Tam – on Nguyen Van Tu Street, Ward 5, City. Ben tre.
The burdock of bananas are still red with fire and smoke, rain or shine
If you have the opportunity to travel the West to the home town of Ben Tre on the way to the attractions or after hours of tiring fun, do not forget to drop by the banana shops. To enjoy popular food and feel the essence of the homeland here.