Pay a visit to Ben Tre to enjoy wonderful coconut
mouse food
Ben Tre is famous for its coconut products; the reputation is all over the world. However, you guys may not have heard about the coconut mouse dishes here, it seems strange, right? We are going to give you some suggestions for these special dishes. Come and have a taste, you cannot forget to give a compliment.
Ben Tre is famous for its coconut products; the reputation is all over the world. However, you guys may not have heard about the coconut mouse dishes here, it seems strange, right? We are going to give you some suggestions for these special dishes. Come and have a taste, you cannot forget to give a compliment.
Coconut mouse looks like a vole, but its teeth are much
sharper. It gets food from the coconut, all of the nutrients. Therefore, it
tastes good and delicious.
1. Coconut
mouse baked by steam rice
Coconut mouse is processed many
ways: grilled, baked, or curried… according to most of the gourmet, the most
wonderful dish is coconut mouse baked by steam rice. At the time rice is cooked,
the mouse is also cooked and starts to give an irresistible aroma. The meat is
white and has a special flavor. Mangle
the mouse and blend with laksa leaves, some black pepper, salt with chili and
lemon, even much more delicious than chicken. That’s a wonderful thing to have
a taste of this food.
2.
Deep
fried coconut mouse
No gourmet in Ben Tre does not know
about this greasy food. In Ben Tre, especially at the end ò the year, there are
a lot of coconut mice. Because they take a lot of coconut for eating, the mouse
itself contains a lot of nutrients. The first reason people kill the mice are
to prevent them from devastating
the crops. Gradually, they realize that this is a good source of succulent
food. The process to get this food is quite simple: Firstly, wash the mice
carefully to give out its smell. Then, marinate the with some chili, garlic, five
spice powder, fish sauce, sugar, Monosodium Glutamate in 15 minutes. Next, fry them on a pan, after a
while, pour the coconut water in, turn down the fire, and turn over some times
until they get brown yellow.
3. Grilled coconut mouse
Marinate the mouse meat with finely
chopped chili, onions, garlic, citronella; Monosodium Glutamate, salt, black pepper, sugar and five
spice powders in some hours to have permeable mouse meat. Then bask them in the
sun shine before you grill. It’s better to use coal fire, the meat can be put
on a furnace bar or tongs. Until the meat is dried, its color turn brown
yellow, you can enjoy. Use with chili fish sauce, pepper salt or soy, the same of
appetite. The residents here like to enjoy this dish with coconut flavor rice
or sticky rice, that’s wonderful.
4. Stewed
coconut mouse
Susan,
