Sweet culinary features in Hanoi dessert

There is a dish that Hanoians almost cannot miss every noon or afternoon, and tourists also really like, which is sweet soup.

Coming to Ha Thanh land (Hanoi, Vietnam), there are many delicious dishes and specialties that diners cannot miss to enjoy or buy as gifts. However, there is a dish that Hanoians almost cannot miss every noon, afternoon, or tourists also love, which is sweet soup.

At noon, or late afternoon, or even in the evening, at any time, walking through the streets of Hanoi, you will see crowded places where people gather, which are chè shops. Chè is now also carried by vendors on carts on the streets to introduce to customers. The weather at the end of summer turning to autumn with the cool breeze still makes everyone crave a cool cup of chè to dispel the feeling of thirst and the habit of snacking.

On the streets of Hanoi, there are many different types of sweet soup shops: mixed sweet soup, iced sweet soup, hot sweet soup, Hue sweet soup, Thai sweet soup, etc. Each shop has its own secret to keep customers coming back with its unique flavor. The grapefruit sweet soup shop on Hai Ba Trung street has its own flavors that customers will remember forever after eating it.

Perhaps that is why for many years, small sweet soup shops on the streets of Hanoi still exude the fragrant aroma of grapefruit, the pot of sweet soup is thick with beans that are cooked until soft but not crushed but still keep the beans intact, with a golden color. To help diners feel the freshness and sophistication of grapefruit sweet soup, the cook must put a lot of effort into it. As the shop owner shared: "Making this grapefruit sweet soup requires many small steps, the beans must be steamed twice, they are soft but the beans are whole, the coconut milk is smooth, the coconut flesh is both chewy and crunchy and sweet".

The owner of the chè shop is always busy, the cups of chè are thick, yellow like autumn, clear enough to reflect the beans, with the white color of coconut milk. The cups of chè are not full, the chè is not cooked too sweet, just the right amount of chè and coconut milk so that diners can feel the thickness, richness and coolness when enjoying.

Hanoians, no matter if they study far away or live abroad, when they return, they still do not forget to buy familiar specialties of Trang An people such as green rice cakes, lotus seeds, etc. as gifts. And sweet soup is still the dish that children far away from home seek because of its traditional flavor that has been preserved over the years. The sweet soup shop on Nguyen Huu Huan Street with the name CHE BA TOI is still a trusted address for diners.

There are many types of sweet soup here: black beans, green beans, red beans, pumpkins... but the dry sweet soups such as bee sweet soup, compressed sticky rice sweet soup, and dried sweet soup are still favored by customers because they have the old Hanoi style. The traditional flavor of the dry sweet soups and especially lotus seed and longan sweet soup makes gourmets always come to the shop.

Traditional sweet soup is still cooked by hand, meticulously and each shop, each worker has their own secret in their dishes. But to keep the unique flavor, to let diners clearly feel the difference in each sweet soup, each owner needs to put all their effort, feel and process with all their heart and hands. Once coming to the land of Ha Thanh, don't forget to find and feel the flavor of the sweet soups.

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