BAN DON GRILLED CHICKEN
To have delicious grilled chicken that pleases tourists, the people of Ban Don have to be very careful in raising and selecting chickens and have their own way of preparing the dish. First of all, the chickens must be genuine free-range chickens. The land in Ban Don is large, the gardens are sparse, the chickens raised here are free-range, their main food is young grass, insects and upland rice.
The chickens chosen for grilling are the newly grown ones, weighing about a kilo each. After cooking, the chickens are left whole, then they can be flattened and marinated with salt, chili, lemongrass water and a little wild honey. To eat grilled chicken in Ban Don “properly”, visitors must dip the chicken in salt, chili or lemongrass salt.
BAMBOO SHOOTS
The Le tree belongs to the bamboo family, quite typical in the Central Highlands. This plant has a strong spreading ability and a strangely resilient vitality. Le shoots taken from the top of the Le tree will be used fresh or sliced and dried. Le shoots are the most delicious among other types of bamboo shoots such as bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots... thanks to their dense core, sweet, rich taste, and lack of bitterness.
Fresh bamboo shoots can be processed into simple but flavorful dishes such as mixed bamboo shoot salad or bamboo shoots cooked with duck meat, bamboo shoots stewed with pork leg, bamboo shoots stir-fried with liver. In the villages, you will be invited to a meal of upland rice with bamboo shoots cooked with dried venison, accompanied by salt and crushed betel leaves, rare chili, guaranteed to be unforgettable after just one meal.
Ban Me Grilled Pork Rice Cake
Northern wet rice cake is called banh cuon, a familiar dish. But Banh uot thit heo in Buon Ma Thuot is different. The strangeness and interestingness of the dish comes from the way of enjoying it, making diners feel like they are eating a salad or roll in which the spring roll is the wet rice cake.
The dish consists of many ingredients: wet rice paper, grilled meat, cucumber, shredded green mango, pickles, herbs, chili fish sauce... When eating, diners roll all the ingredients into wet rice paper. Then dip it in rich fish sauce. The flavor is truly delicious and unique.
To enjoy this dish, visitors can go to Tran Nhat Duat street in Buon Ma Thuot.
CATFISH HOT POT
The wild, mysterious and fierce Serepok line has been blessed by nature with a precious fish, the solid catfish with famously delicious meat. Catfish can be processed into many dishes, but the most impressive is still the catfish hotpot with a unique flavor imbued with the Central Highlands. This is a delicious dish and has a very good cooling effect on sunny days.
Braised Waterfall Goby with Galangal
Waterfall goby fish braised with galangal is a traditional dish of the ethnic minorities in Dak Lak. The Central Highlands goby fish lives right in the waterfall. This type of fish only adapts to the environment of water pouring down from high places, its body is small and white, round and firm like a finger.
The fresh, jumping fish is rinsed to remove the slime from its body, and a little salt is added to marinate it until it hardens, then the galangal is washed and crushed. People heat the pan, add a little cooking oil or lard, and let it boil, then fry the fish until golden brown, then pour in the prepared galangal. Wait for the galangal and fish to blend together, and the aroma to waft up, then add fish sauce, salt, and spices such as onions, pepper, chili, sugar, and MSG to create a delicious taste. Traveling to Dak Lak and forgetting to enjoy the dish of waterfall goby fish braised with galangal is a big mistake.
VENISON
Venison is a specialty of the Central Highlands, especially in Dak Lak. Fresh venison is different from beef in that it has less tendons, ivory-white fat, and is softer than veal. Venison can be processed into many dishes: grilled venison, stir-fried venison, vinegar-dipped venison, shaken venison, fried venison ribs, stomach porridge, and finally dried venison, making up 7 dishes like beef. However, grilled venison, vinegar-dipped venison, and dried venison are the most typical dishes.
Bamboo Rice
Bamboo rice is a famous dish of the ethnic people in Ban Don. Bamboo rice is considered the most typical dish of the mountains and forests because it is distilled from the sweetness of the cool, clear stream and the fragrance of the green bamboo on the top of the mountain. This dish was formed from the long trips to the fields and forests of the men of the Central Highlands in the past.
When enjoying, just peel off the outer layer of bamboo, cut into pieces and you will have a sticky, fragrant and attractive sticky sticky rice dish. The Central Highlands people often eat sticky sticky rice with sesame salt, grilled chicken or wild boar. The clear spring water of the mountains and forests combined with the sweetness of bamboo tubes at the top of the mountains have created a sticky sticky rice dish with a special flavor, captivating anyone who has ever enjoyed it.
