What specialties should you eat when traveling to Kon Tum?

Bitter tomatoes

Bitter eggplant dish in Kon Tum is considered by people as a familiar and delicious dish, a bit bitter but gourmets will immediately recognize the strange taste. After the bitter eggplant is sliced ​​into thin slices, put it on a stick and grill it. Wait until the eggplant turns dark brown and the eggplant is cooked. Dip it with salt and pepper or eat it with grilled meat or hot rice. delicious.

Bitter tomatoes

Chicken stewed with ginseng

As a land blessed with valuable ginseng resources and no shortage of precious medicinal herbs, people also take advantage of that to create extremely nutritious dishes. And when traveling to Kon Tum, you cannot miss the chicken stew with ginseng, in many places called red ginseng, a dish that has the effect of nourishing vitality and detoxifying the liver.

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Sturgeon cooked with bamboo shoots

In Kon Tum, when mentioning products from the mountains, forests, rivers and streams, everyone here clearly understands sturgeon. Fish are mainly concentrated in many streams and lakes because the water is always cool all year round, creating conditions for localities here to develop sturgeon and salmon farming.

The experience of many young people traveling to Kon Tum is that they often follow the streams and see a lot of sturgeon farming, then you can catch the fish yourself and ask the chefs to prepare it. Here, besides fried, steamed, and dried fish, sturgeon with bamboo shoots has the best taste.

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Kon Tum grilled chicken rice

In Kon Tum, people often eat lam rice with grilled chicken, this is also a habit as well as a typical cultural feature here. In the cold Central Highlands, after a hard day trekking Mang Den and returning home at night to enjoy hot and fragrant grilled chicken rice, it is truly worth it.

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Roasted pig Mang Den

There is no shortage in other places, but it must be the Mang Dang pig breed to be properly prepared and delicious. This is a type of upland pig, naturally grazed by indigenous people in the forests, so the meat will have less fat, firmer meat and especially much more fragrant than pigs raised on bran. Visiting a few local houses to see all the fun of preparing this dish, the locals here say that to be delicious, roasted Mang Den pig must be marinated with spices from compressed tubers, coriander, and chili. When roasting, you must control the fire properly so that the pig is golden and fragrant.

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To know the taste of this wild pig, you should combine it with the experience of traveling to Kon Tum and going to Mang Den tourist area.

Wild vegetable leaf salad

The specialty wild vegetable leaf salad in Kon Tum is also different than many other places, so no matter how many times tourists return, they always enjoy this dish. The special thing here is that the salad is made by local people from more than 50 different types of leaves and vegetables, so the taste of the salad must be number 1.

Besides familiar vegetables such as mustard greens, fish mint, and basil, we must mention vegetables picked from the forest such as ginseng, ginseng, ruby, and fig. After these leaves are washed, they are served with pork belly, fried shrimp and pork belly, then dipped in wine dipping sauce. It all seems to create a dish with the full flavor of the mountains and forests, the more you eat, the more you want to eat forever.

Kon Tum travel experience suggests the most delicious and affordable places to eat

Ut Cung: 45 Tran Cao Van, Kon Tum

Le Van Lam Restaurant: Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Kon Tum.

Fish salad with yellow ants

A dish of the Ro Mam people, if you just hear the name, you feel a bit scared, but once you enjoy it, you will understand why people consider it a specialty. Let's talk briefly about this fish salad with yellow ants, everyone, it is a combination of two ingredients: stream fish and yellow ants.

Stream fish are fish caught on mountain stream banks so the meat will be very sweet and firm. As for egg ants, it is quite difficult to find, people have to work hard to find large ant nests, but they must be egg ants because they will have a more fleshy and fatty taste.

Address to enjoy: Sa Thay district is considered the region with the best yellow ant fish salad in Kon Tum. At any restaurant, you will easily find any dish on the menu. This is also one of the Kon Tum travel experiences that you must pick up right away.

Cement sticky rice

Kon Tum's specialties cannot lack wild bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots with a characteristic yellow taste and are especially delicious, unlike the bamboo shoots in the lowlands. When asked about Kon Tum's specialties, local people do not hesitate to immediately introduce wild bamboo shoot sticky rice, a dish that, although simple, still has a bit of the rustic nature of the mountains and forests.

Address to enjoy: In Kon Tum, if you drive along the road, you will see a lot of sticky rice with bamboo shoots sold, but if you are in the city, try enjoying it at the corner of Le Hong Phong and Le Loi intersection, the sticky rice with bamboo shoots there is quite great. great.

The typical culinary features of Kon Tum tourism are not only that but also countless surprises waiting for visitors to explore. Typically, the unique cooking method of the Ba Na people is that they often grill dishes in bamboo tubes. Ingredients such as meat, fish, and vegetables are put into the tube after being pre-processed and marinated. grilled with charcoal fire. The most special are still specialties such as fried crickets, porcupine meat, and salted bitter eggplants, as if the cuisine of a highland region is still encapsulated in products from the mountains and forests.