HAVE A TRY ON 7 GOOD DISHES AT CHO LON- SAI GON (Part 2)

5. Ca vien ca ri (fish ball curry)

It is surprised that there is only one fish ball curry in the big Cho Lon area, right at the corner of Nguyen Trai street. Mr. Hung-the owner says that “This dish is easy to make, but not anyone like it. Therefore, with one who like the aroma of curry will love it at the first try.”

In Hong Kong, Taiwan,… fish ball is one of the most famous street dishes and worth to try. The crunchy, chewy fish balls are cooked in spicy curry broth brings you an extremely special dish. Fish ball curry can be served with egg noodle, with or without the broth.

Fish ball curry is a familiar dish in movie

This is an only one fish ball curry store on Nguyen Trai street, district 5

6. Dim-sum

Dim-sum is an aggregate of Chinese traditional breakfast dishes. According to somebody, this came from Guangdong, China. At the beginning, the tea stores usually served the entrepreneurs who always had long way travelling, so they required fast and convenience food but cheap. Thus, Dim-sum little by little appeared with different appearance, flavor, but still has a standard of “little but good.”

Dim-sum includes small but elegant dishes

It’s not easy to make Dim-sum because of its requirement. The stuff inside is selected from fresh ingredients. Beside shrimp, fish, crab, meat there are also vegetable and mushroom,…Everything is finely chopped and mix well together. The seasoning must be careful to keep the freshness of the ingredients. There are many type of cooking in Dim-sum: steam, boil, fry,…Besides, the skin outside has to be wrapped carefully and nice-looking. Dim-sum is placed in the small bamboo steamers with lids to preserve the hot and flavor of the dish.

Dim-sum is usually steamed, but some are fry

Dim-sum is one of the most article, elegant dishes in China’s culinary. In Cho Lon area, Dim-sum is available at any Chinese restaurant.

7. Cac mon che (Sweet gruel)

After getting full of the sour, spicy, savory dishes… the last thing you should do is try a little sweet of Che.

Totally different from “Che” at other places, “Che” in Cho Lon area is less sweet and fat. these are the most popular Che: che tra trung (egg tea sweet gruel), Cao quy linh, Du du ham (Slow cook papaya), bach qua (Ginkgo), Che me den (black sesame sweet gruek), che hanh nhan (Almon sweet gruel)…

Che tra trung is the egg cooked with black tea until tea absorb into the egg yolk. Because of the tea absorbing, the egg white is a bit acrid and chewy. But the egg yolk is fleshy but not fat, blending with the tea aroma can make the eater get addicted.

You might think it’s not good at the first try. But when you get used to it you can’t help eating this kind of Che

Cao quy linh is a really cool Che. But its flavor is a little bitter, so it’s usually served with condense milk or honey to reduce the sense of bitter.

Cao quy linh

*Taro**