Những món ngon đặc sản không thể bỏ qua khi đến Buôn Ma Thuột

Vùng đất Ban Mê, nơi hội tụ văn hóa độc đáo của các dân tộc Tây Nguyên, không chỉ cuốn hút du khách bằng những địa danh đẹp và đặc trưng văn hóa của người Ê Đê, Ba Na mà còn hấp dẫn với những món ăn ngon mang đậm bản sắc của rừng và núi. Hãy cùng khám phá không gian ẩm thực tuyệt vời này!

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harvesting coffee (Photo: ST)

Blessed with vast red basaltic soil providing excellent soil conditions and a distinctive climate suitable for growing industrial crops, Buon Ma Thuot is rightfully known as the coffee capital of the country. Carefully tended plantations and timely harvesting produce a variety of coffee with different flavors, most notably Robusta, Arabica, and Espresso. There's nothing better than enjoying a cup of rich, hot coffee as the mountainous weather turns cool, accompanied by the gentle melodies of the forest. If you're not a fan of the intense bitterness found only in Buon Ma Thuot, you can add milk to your coffee to create a delicious drink that still carries the unique essence of the region. One of the beautiful coffee shops in Buon Ma Thuot that you shouldn't miss is Trung Nguyen Coffee Village, a prestigious brand that has significantly contributed to promoting the region's coffee. It's also one of the specialties of Dak Lak as a gift for relatives and friends at home.

Buon Ma Thuot Coffee is the most suitable drink to start a new day (Photo: Nguyen Quoc Thai)

Address: Trung Nguyen Coffee Village, 222 Le Thanh Tong, Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak.

Roasted Chicken with Bamboo-tube Rice

For a long time, Lam rice and grilled chicken have been familiar symbols when it comes to the cuisine of the Central Highlands. Therefore, you can't help but be delighted when tasting these two Buon Ma Thuot specialties with a unique and intense flavor that cannot be found anywhere else. Villages in the Central Highlands always consider the forested mountains as their root, so their food mostly comes from the natural resources around them. Take Lam rice, for example, a dish made from the Nương sticky rice variety, hand-planted and cooked buried in fire through a tightly woven bamboo tube wrapped with banana leaves. The sweetness and purity from bamboo will infuse into the rice during the cooking process, creating a distinct sweet and refreshing flavor.

Lam rice and grilled chicken (Photo: ST)

If we've mentioned Lam rice, we can't overlook grilled chicken. Whether it's wild or free-range home-raised chicken, cleaned and marinated with spices, then skewered on a bamboo stick. The cook will then light a fire and grill the chicken over the hot flames for a few hours to evenly cook and give it a golden color. The 'quality' and 'uniqueness' of these two dishes are ready to satisfy any discerning traveler who has come to Buon Ma Thuot. A delicious Buon Ma Thuot restaurant to enjoy Lam rice and Grilled Chicken that you shouldn't miss is Yangsin Restaurant - Central Highlands Cuisine, at the end of Tran Nhat Duat Street, Buon Ma Thuot City.

Tamarind Dipping Beef

Tamarind Dipping Beef (Photo: ST)

From the name of the dish, tourists can already see the uniqueness and difference of this dish, considered as the second version of Bo Ne when it comes to Buon Ma Thuot specialties. Instead of enjoying beef with pate, sausage, or normal meatballs, you will savor this specialty with a unique sauce found only in Buon Ma Thuot, which is tamarind sauce. The soft beef combined with the sweet and sour taste of tamarind sauce on the hot cast-iron pan will delight the 'foodie' souls. This dish is also served with hot bread and delicious wild vegetables or raw vegetables to enhance the flavor. To fully enjoy the delicious taste of Tamarind Dipping Beef, you should visit Ca Te Quan, 158 Le Thanh Tong Street, Buon Ma Thuot City.

Folded Plate Rice Cake

Folded Plate Rice Cake (Photo: ST)

Another unique Buon Ma Thuot specialty dish that you can only find when you set foot in the mountainous town of Ban Me. The most interesting point that makes diners fascinated with this dish is the unique 'one-of-a-kind' way of serving on a plate. Banh uot, also known as rolled rice cake, is a type of cake made from rice flour and rolled very thinly. A plate of thin rice cake costs from 1,000 to 2,000 VND and is served with fragrant grilled meat or fatty and flavorful grilled nem (fermented pork rolls), along with various green vegetables, sour mango, and pickled radish. The soft and smooth rice cake is rolled with the accompanying ingredients when put in the mouth, giving a soft, not too hard, and thin feeling compared to rice paper.

However, to have a 'full stomach' meal, you have to order many plates of rolled rice cakes because each plate has only one layer of cake. The image of the plates stacked together has created the strange name for this dish. The dipping sauce is just right, not too salty or too sweet, is also a standard to evaluate the deliciousness of the folded plate rice cake. Therefore, this can be both a main dish and a snack in Buon Me Thuot that you must try when coming to this land. Don't forget, the best places for Folded Plate Rice Cake are all on Tran Nhat Duat Street.

With the list of Buon Ma Thuot specialties that mytourblogs.com has provided, you will no longer have to worry when you want to enjoy local cuisine in Buon Me Thuot. And now... pack your backpack and go!

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