A List Of Ho Chi Minh Specialties To Buy As Souvenir
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Durian Pancake – a specialty of Ho Chi Minh City
Durian pancake, or also known as “pia cake” in Vietnamese, is one of the specialties of Soc Trang province, created by Chinese immigrants in the Southern area of Vietnam. Pia cake is made with flour, durian and egg yolk. This delicious dish of Ho Chi Minh is also known as bia cake or skinned cake. The word “pia” comes from the Chaozhou word "pi-é", means “cake” in Vietnamese.
The pia cake - filled with durian in Ho Chi Minh CIty
The ingredients and the origin of the cake are also often printed directly on the wrappers. The original pia cake only had pork and green bean fillings, the layer consists of many thin layers with fat. The cakes are packed and preserved more carefully so they can be used longer. Each cake is wrapped in a specific wrapper, so customers can eat one cake at a time, without having to open a whole box with lots of cakes inside.
Crispy burnt rice
Burnt rice is a specialty of Ho Chi Minh City - a brand that has been highly appreciated for many years. Not only associated with the people of Ho Chi Minh City from their childhood days, burnt rice now has become a special gift as a special attraction to tourists when traveling to Ho Chi Minh City.
Made with clean raw materials, having the crispness flavor and sweet aroma, and the main ingredients are fresh and delicious meat, ensuring food hygiene and safety, burnt rice has really become a famous dish in Ho Chi Minh City. The spices are made from pure anchovy sauce, sugar, scallions, buffalo horn peppers, creating such a unique and charming taste.
Cripsy burnt rice - Ho Chi Minh City
Pieces of burnt, delicious, crispy golden rice that are mixed with the rich flavor of ingredients such as onions, chili, fish sauce, spices will make it extremely hard for you to resist. Even the fastidious food devotees can not help being dissatisfied when trying on burnt rice. The dish is very suitable for snacking together with friends.
Saigon dry lotus seed
Dried lotus seeds are a dish with many good uses, such as cooling your body, improving health and making eating better and easier to sleep, which is suitable as a gift for grandparents, families with babies, or ill people.
Dry lotus seed has many benefits to health
Dried lotus seed in Ho Chi Minh City is packaged in small bags or by weight, which makes it very easy to buy and bring home as a gift. Each bag of dried lotus seed can last for 12 months from the date of packing on the package. Dried lotus seed in Saigon can be easily purchased at Cho Lon market or Ben Thanh market.
Fresh fruit – something normal but extremely good in Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon fruit is always a highlight to attract tourists whenever they have the opportunity to visit Ho Chi Minh City. Across the road, the market or the alley, you can come across all kinds of fruits in Southern Vietnam. Depending on the season, the fruits have different species, but in the summer, the fruits ripen the most and are the best.
Fresh fruit in Ho Chi Minh City is juicy and delicious
Saigon is also home to many fruits from the large fruit granaries of the South. Visitors can choose to buy famous fruits such as durian, rambutan, mangosteen, bananas, dragon fruit. Better than that, you can enjoy a delicious bowl of various fruits topped with coconut milk and sugar, which is also a famous snack in Vietnam. Bring home some fruit from Ho Chi Minh City and you will absolutely love it.
E seed – a specialty of Ho Chi Minh City
E seeds have quite small shapes like black sesame seeds, bloat when soaked in water. When you eat, you will find it quite interesting with the feeling of roughness, like crackling in the mouth.
E seed is used to slow down the aging process, help replenish nutrients in the body, reduce fat or laxative, diuretic and many other benefits. So this is definitely something you should bring home to your loved ones from Ho Chi Minh City.
E seed can be eaten as dessert as well
This specialty of Ho Chi Minh City is also processed in many different ways such as soaking with sugar, eating with yogurt or used to cook soup.
Baked coconut cake
The delicious dish of Ho Chi Minh City to buy a gift is for sweet lovers is coconut baked cake. This is a reasonable choice for travelers coming to Saigon by the delicious and great favorite. Coconut rice cake is made entirely from natural ingredients baked on crispy embers. With just one bite, you will be satisfied by the moderate brittleness and the aromatic smell.
The baked coconut cake from Saigon
The taste must be said to be delicious with the aromatic fat coconut with a little sweetness. If you are looking for some unique gift to bring home, this is one of the best choices.
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