Food and Beverage

Stir-Fried Coconut Shoots with Shrimp

Ben Tre is honored to have been selected by the Vietnam Record Organization as having 2 dishes among the Top 100 Vietnamese Specialty Dishes for the 5th time in 2021-2022, including Stir-Fried Coconut Shoots with Shrimp. The impressive experience of enjoying this dish will be the sweet and crunchy texture within each piece of coconut shoot, combined with the natural fragrant sweetness of the shrimp. 

Coconut shoot salad with shrimp and pork

One of the distinctive and famous dishes of the hometown of coconuts, Ben Tre, is the Coconut Shoot Salad with Shrimp and Meat. It is a must-try when visiting there.

Coconut porridge

Coconut porridge is a combination of rice and coconut milk. Ben Tre coconut porridge offers a delightful taste experience. It used to be a popular breakfast dish among rural residents in the land of coconuts and is loved by many. 

The soul of the coconut country through folk cakes

Through ups and downs, people of the Coconut Land have been constantly exploring, creating more and more delicious, delicate dishes. The formation of its own eating style is always associated with history, geography, and climate. Therefore, the cuisine of the Coconut Land mostly comes from the casual, brings the country-flavor. The typical dishes is the unique folk cakes. For the people of the coconut land, the cake is not only for eating but also for exchange the culture. Ben Tre is known as the land of "the spirit land", which is to absorb and preserve cultural quintessence from the reclaiming time of the ancestor, so the folk cakes in Coconut Land cuisine always reflect the rustic soul. It also shows up the love of grandmothers, mothers, and sisters, blends with the soul of local plants and flowers into each cake.

Vietnamese rice noodle soup (Banh canh)

Ben Tre has long been known as the "green coconut capital" with friendly people. Moreover, food here is always attractive and one of dishes brings delicious flavor is rice noodle soup (banh canh). Don't forget to try it when you visit Ben Tre.

The rustic variation in processing snakehead fish with coconut milk

Over the centuries, the Vietnamese family meal has never had a lack of braised dishes. Each region has its own dishes with different flavors. My hometown is no exception.  Being known as "Coconut land", many dishes which are combined with coconut milk always make customers feel not only charming but also fragrance and be hard for us to resist. On rainy days, there are a lot of fish in the paddy rice fields, and I remember my grandfather often used to make braised dishes from perch, catfish, snakehead fish. My most impressed memory has been snakehead fish cooked in coconut milk.

Unique “bananas knead with coconut” flavor

Along with coconut tree, banana is also a familiar one and planted around the garden by many people in Ben Tre province. Do not know ever since, banana and coconut are "couple" with a harmonious combination, create many featured dishes with fat, sweet flavor specially and be liked by many people, such as: banana grilled with coconut milk, banana baked with coconut, banana sweet soup, ... but there is a dish with special flavor and has imprinted into the memories of people here, that is “Banana knead with coconut”.

Lunar New Year and the capital of coconut in Ben Tre, Vietnam

In Viet Nam, we celebrate Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar, a lunisolar calendar. Tet Nguyen Dan or Tet is not only the most important but also the popular holiday and festival in Vietnam, as known as, Lunar New year.

Mien Tay Riverside Restaurant

Hao Ai Restaurant

Diem Phuong Restaurant

An Khanh Hotel

Ba Cây Dừa Tours Cultural Tourist and Service Co., Ltd.

My An Resort

Mai An Tiem Garden

The Champagne Wedding restaurant

Hung Vuong Hotel

Hung Vuong Hotel: 148-166 Hung Vuong Street, ward 3, Ben Tre city. The hotel is on the bank of the Ben Tre River, it is peaceful and romantic. The system consists of 40 luxurious rooms. Price per room is from 300,000 VND to 530,000 VND.

Ben Tre Green Skin Pomelo

For the past twenty years, special fruits that have become speciality on the island of Ben Tre, is green skin pomelo. Green skin pomelo is grown in My Thanh An commune, the commune of Ben Tre city, Chau Thanh district, Mo Cay Nam, Mo Cay Bac and Cho Lach district.

Restaurants – Specialty restaurants

To Ben Tre for using Specialty “Coconut”
From the coconut Ben Tre people processed into various specialties such as: coconut milk boiled shrimp, coconut milk fried shrimp, coconut banana stew, coconut candy, recently, more interesting dishes have been commented by visitors: Real characteristic of the coconut country, which is “coconut” – a specialty won Silver Medal at the Southern Land fair held by Saigon Tourist, 1999.

Coconut rice of Ben Tre

This article was sent to Tourism Information Promotion Center of Ben Tre from Tonnybao21 introduce new dishes of coconut Ben Tre "Coconut rice of Ben Tre". Invite you to "enjoy", please!