Do you dare to try top 4 the most exotic food in Vietnam?

Coconut Worm – Duong Dua

Coconut worm is a yellow larva with a brown head. It usually lives inside the coconut stem. In the Mekong Delta, live coconut worm is a specialty dish. Coconut worm is a yellow larva with a brown head. It usually lives inside the coconut stem. In the Mekong Delta, live coconut worm is a specialty dish. It will surely be a little scary at first glance because the worm will still be moving in between your chopsticks. But if you can get over your fear and eat it, you will love the flavor. you will enjoy it by dipping them in fish sauce with chili and then chewing them carefully in your mouth. It has a creamy texture and tastes like real coconut.

Trung Vit Lon (Balut)

Balut, also known as duck embryo, has a special texture (soft, tender and crunchy). Hard-boil is the most popular technique to cook balut. It is served with a pinch of salt, pepper, lime (kumquat) and Vietnamese mint. The fact that you are eating a whole baby duck from bones to feathers is a strong burden in mind for anyone who loves animals. Even the food adventurers will have a hard time to finish one balut.

Duck fetus is listed one of the creepiest foods in Vietnam as well as in the world. It is not only a favorite food of Vietnamese people but also a special food of Vietnamese

cuisine. However, with foreigners, they feel guilty when they eat a baby duck which will be given birth soon. Duck fetus is also popular in Cambodia, Philippines, etc.

Special Sauces

Shrimp paste sauce is the specialty of the North. It is made from shrimp and salt. After the fermentation process, the sauce is dark purple and so strong. A strong smell can keep any food lover away from the dining table. The first bite will be an explosion of tastes in your mouth. It’s salty and fishy that combine together to make a unique favor. The sauce is used in a lot of traditional northern Vietnamese food.

Mekong Delta’s fish sauce is also made from fish like fish sauce, but the process is totally different. Common fish sauce is the juice of fish and salt after fermentation, Mekong Delta’s fish sauce uses whole fish bodies. After fish is salted and fermented, it is mixed with a few additional ingredients such as a powder made from toasted rice, pineapple, sugar … to create a special taste.

Tiet Canh (Fresh Blood Pudding)

If you’re down to try some exotic foods in Vietnam, then this dish is just another tasty challenge for you: blood soup (tiet canh). Blood soup is a dish from the North of Vietnam, and it has a special ingredient. Yes, that would be raw blood. This bloody dish is made of animal blood (duck, goat, pig and so on). The raw blood is collected in a bowl and then mixed with fish sauce. The salty fish sauce prevents the blood from premature coagulation. Now once the blood is set, like a jelly cake, minced cooked meat and organs are added into the bowl with peanuts. To keep body warm, locals eat them along with herbs such as coriander, mint, and pepper, along with spicy chili. These ingredients will create a really beautiful layer on the top of the jelly-like blood, just like a pizza. The blood mixture is diluted with watery broth from the previously cooked meat and it is served so the blood can set.

People used to believe that this dish is a great protein-rich breakfast. However, with the situation nowadays when it comes to food safety, it is only reliable when you know the blood is from a healthy animal.