Anyone who has been to Kon Tum once, certainly cannot forget the typical delicacies such as bitter eggplant, sour fish or fish salad… with the bold flavor of the Central Highlands mountains and forests. Thanks to the skillful hands of local people, very common and everyday foods have become exceptionally delicious. Here we would like to introduce to you the famous delicious dishes in Kon Tum, to help you have a complete and deeper view of the cuisine here.
1. Leaf salad of KonTum:
Visiting Kon Tum without eating leaf salad, it is considered not coming, Kon Tum leaf salad is recognized by Guinness Vietnam Records as one in the toplist of 10 Vietnamese specialties reachs Asian culinary values, Kon Tum leaf salad includes over 40 different types of leaves. Most of them are natural drugs that are safe and good for health.
The side dishes with the leaves are boiled pork belly, a few slices of carp, boiled shrimp, and pork skin.
A piece of leaf salad looks like a forest flower.
2. Kon Tum bamboo shoots and sticky rice:
Visiting Kon Tum, tourists should try bamboo shoots with sticky rice, "a special dish" with a combination of sticky rice, bamboo shoots and scallop. Soft and sticky rice, soft and fragrant fish, sweet and fresh bamboo shoots are wrapped in green banana leaves to create a rustic dish with a very unique flavor, very Kon Tum.
Sticky rice with bamboo shoots is an important and indispensable dish in Kon Tum cuisine
3. A Kay snakehead fish bread soup:
A pot of bread soup with the fragrant and sweet flavor of snakehead fish, It will be served with bitter vegetables is always a good choice for visitors in Kon Tum.
4. Chicken Hotpot with Ngoc Linh Ginseng Leaves:
It is the combination of the sweet, chewy taste of the chicken and the sweetness and bitterness of the leaves and the roots of Ngoc Linh ginseng and the natural spices of Kon Tum, extremely delicious and nutritious
5. A Biu cassava leaf and bitter eggplant:
Crushed cassava leaf and cooked with bitter eggplant, pork, river fish. The best recipe is cooked with smoked meat Fragrant cassava leaf, bitter and sweet eggplant, plus the sweet and chewy smoked meat, add some pieces of green chilli. The delicious dish is ready to serve.
6. "Don" Vegetables of Kon Tum:
It is the special vegetable in Kon Tum forest. The best time to harvest "Don" Vegetables of Kon Tum is from rainy season to the spring next year. "Dớn" Vegetables of Kon Tum itself fresh and sweet, boil then dip sauce or stir with garlic, make the salad with stir-fried beef or cook with grilled fish to have a delicious dish.
7. Kon Tum salad of banana flower:
The typical flavor of the forest banana flower salad is the crunchy banana flower with the aroma of herbs and roasted peanuts, the spicy substance of the chili. Tourists cannot against its attraction.
8. Dak Bla cricket:
It is a seasonal specialty from August to October. Fried crickets wrap with few herbs, sour mango, crab leaves, a little salt and pepper. Spread out in the mouth is a crunchy, sweet, and fragrant cricket taste that no other specialty has.
9. Bazana Smoked meat:
Mixed with the precious drugs from Central Highland forest such as: Luh, Roong Go, Lemongrass, ginger etc and smoke from burned coffee tree creates a difference with smoked meat from other regions. Just bake or steam to make it hot then enjoy. Each piece of meat is chewy, sweet and fragrant will make you fall in love with the first try.
10. Dak Ha goat:
Goats are raised on the hill, low in fat, delicious, the meat is neither too soft nor chewy. The fresh goat meat to cook the popular dishes such as: goat hotpot, fried goat with chili, steamed goat, goat salad, congealed goat blood etc.
11. Kon Plong grilled chicken:
Honored in the top 50 Vietnamese delicacies recognized by Guinness Vietnam Records. Grilled chicken is selected from the local breeds, seasoning with the spices from mountain, dip in salt of e leaves.
12. Mang Den Sturgeon:
Sturgeon is raised at Mang Den, with all bones are cartilage, the fleshy white, chewy and greasy fish is processed to many delicious dishes such as fry, steam, braised picked, hot pot etc. All dishes have its own taste that make you fall in love in the first bite.
13. Mang Den hotpot with pepper:
With the special spicy, fragrant aroma of peppers and chilli and the sweetness of the bone broth, goji berries, red apples and fresh vegetables. Combined with: Vietnamese sausage of river fish, shrimp, chicken, beef and fresh, green vegetables of Mang Den will make the delicious taste.
14. Dak Glei fermented fish:
It is a traditional dish of the Gie Trieng Dak Glei ethnic group. River fish mixed with special forest spices, put in a bamboo tube and fermented. After fermentation fish has a very attractive taste, can be eaten or processed into many dishes such as: Fermented fish cooked with forest leaves, braised or steamed ...
15. Other grilled bamboo-tube dishes:
Ingredients such as meat, fish, vegetables, after seasoning, are stuffed into a giant tube and then grill. The dishes will retain the inherent flavor and sweetness, combined with the aroma of bamboo tube to create an unique, delicious flavor
16. Kon Tum beef with yellow ant salt:
The block of beef are marinated with spices, half-dried to keep the shape of each fiber. Before eating, need grill to make it hot. Served with yellow ant salt, enjoy the sour, salty and spicy taste.
