Ken noodle soup is probably a dish that is too familiar to Vietnamese people. The bowls of Ken noodle soup with water filled with Ken noodle soup, meat, and spring rolls all over the top will make it easier for diners to eat and feel the sweetness of the Ken noodle soup. If you are a fan of Ken noodle soup dishes, you definitely can’t miss the Ha Tien Ken noodle soup noodle dish

By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | Official Ha Tien Visitor Guide

1. Better to Know as a Food Lover

Find them: Ha Tien City.

Best time: Dusk-Dawn

Don’t miss: Ken Noodle soup

Local’s pick: Ken Noodle soup restaurant

Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in Ha Tien

Blog: https://vemekong.com/ken-noodle-soup-ha-tien/

Facts: This dish is a delicate combination of ingredients such as fish, raw vegetables, pickles and broth cooked according to a special recipe. This dish was created by Khmer people living in Ha Tien (Kien Giang). The name “Ken” also known as “Khen” is a loanword of the Khmer people with the meaning that dishes cooked with coconut milk are collectively called “Ken”.

2. Better to Know Ken Noodle soup

The types of fish commonly found in the West are the raw materials to make this famous Ken noodle soup noodle dish such as: tangerine, mackerel, yellow bream, barracuda, etc., which will make the dish taste more special than other fish. noodles elsewhere.

The fish is carefully selected, cleaned, cut into pieces, removed the skin and bones, then pounded, then sautéed with garlic, chili and turmeric. The cook will use coconut water to boil the fish and season it to taste. The most special thing is that absolutely do not use fish sauce because fish sauce will overwhelm the remaining spices so that the dish is not attractive.

When customers order Ken noodle soup, people will quickly put the Ken noodle soup in a bowl, add some raw vegetables, bean sprouts, papaya, dried shrimp, basil… and pour the prepared water into the bowl. Just like that, you will have a delicious bowl of Ken noodle soup with bold flavors of the Southwest.

The broth of Ha Tien Ken noodle soup has an extremely attractive consistency and red color, accompanied by the green color of vegetables, the white color of Ken noodle soup and bean sprouts, the yellow color of curry, turmeric, and the red color of chili. colorful and attractive Ken noodle soup.

3. Ken Noodle soup in Kien Giang

When eating Bun Ken, you can feel the fatty, fleshy taste of coconut milk, the aroma of vegetables, and the sweetness of fresh sea fish. Although the broth is cooked from coconut milk, there are many herbs to eat, so it is not boring. There were many diners who enjoyed it from 2-3 bowls at once. In addition to Ken noodle soup, you can also dip it with bread, which is also very rich and delicious. For those who do not like to eat sweets, you can add a little sweet and sour fish sauce that is already on the table to make the dish more suitable for your taste and delicious. Although the bowl of Bun Ken Ha Tien is small, it is still very full.

4. How to Make Ken Noodle soup

Ingredients for Ken noodle soup

5 mackerel fish

1 banana

1 green papaya

300g bean sprouts

600ml coconut milk

Lemon, minced shallot, minced garlic, turmeric, lemongrass, chili, curry powder, cooking oil, red cashew

Served with: vermicelli

Seasoning: Fermented Fish, salt, seasoning, monosodium glutamate

How to make Ken noodle soup

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients

After buying green papaya, you peel it, wash it to clean the latex. Next, you cut into strands.

You mix a bowl of clean water and squeeze 2 lemons into the water. When cutting the bananas, you immediately put the bananas in this bowl of water so that the bananas are white. Slowly cut the bananas into thin slices about 3mm and then wash them in lemon juice.

Put a pan on the stove and add 4 tablespoons of cooking oil, then you add the red cashews used to create color and stir well so that the cashews turn out a beautiful red color.

Step 2: Boil the fish and remove the fish meat

You boil the fish by putting a pot of boiling water on the stove, then add 2 teaspoons of minced shallot, 1 teaspoon of minced garlic, 1 teaspoon of salt, ½ teaspoon of MSG and slowly Put the fish in the pot. When the fish is cooked, the water is also boiling, you take the fish out to cool.

After the fish has cooled down, remove the meat and remove the fish bones.

Step 3: Make a fragrant lemongrass and turmeric mixture to stir-fry fish

You mince the lemongrass, turmeric is also cut into small pieces, 2 teaspoons of curry powder, 2 chopped chili peppers, 1 teaspoon of minced garlic, 2 teaspoons of minced shallot, and then pound them with a pestle.

Step 4: Stir-fry fish

Heat a pan on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, add 2 teaspoons of minced shallot and 1 teaspoon of minced garlic and stir until fragrant. Next, you put the pureed mixture in step 3 into the pan, stirring well.

When fragrant, you add the fish that has been removed in step 2, also add the colored cashews, add 2 tablespoons of curry powder and start stirring.

You add 2 tablespoons of seasoning, 1 tablespoon of MSG and then stir-fry for another 30 seconds, then turn off the heat.

Step 5: Cook noodle soup with Ken noodle soup

You add 600ml of coconut milk to boil on the pan, remember to stir well lest the coconut milk be burnt and lose its taste. After the coconut milk boils, put all the fish that was sautéed in step 4 into the pot.

When the broth boils, turn off the heat. So, completed.

5. Pro tips:

Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.

Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you’re eating hot street food, it’s always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.

Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.

Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.

If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.

Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.

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Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in Ben Tre: Phu Le Rice Wine, Ben Tre’s Coconut Candy, Flat Banana, Coconut Rice, Snail Pancake, Sea Snail with Coconut Milk, Coconut Worm, Young Coconut Salad with Shrimp & Pork, Son Doc Puff Rice Paper…

Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in Cai Be: Puffed Rice Cake…

Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in Vinh Long: Elephant Ear Fish (fried giant gourami)…

Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in My Tho: Fried Sticky Rice, Snakehead Fish Rice Porridge, Hu Tieu My Tho (Noodle Soup), Coconut Banana Cake…

Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in Tra Vinh: Macapuno Coconut, Bun Nuoc Leo Tra Vinh’s Noodle Soup, Tra Cuon’s Sticky Rice Cake…

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Hopefully, the above tips will help you to come up with a great plan for your adventure in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. Have a safe trip!

“Sleep less, travel more, respect more” – Thomas Vietnam – Local travel expert.

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