“Com hen
Song Huong” is a dish served at room temperature, made with mussels and
leftover rice. It is a complicated recipe that includes sweet, buttery,
salty, sour, bitter and spicy flavors.
Com
hen Song Huong (or Com hen in short) is the very simple and low-priced
specialty of Hue, the ancient citadel of Vietnam. Accordingly, the way
of serving this special kind of food is of great ancience, simplicity
and deliciousness.
Com hen
has a sweet-smelling flavor of rice, onion, and grease, as well as
strange tastes of sweet, buttery, salty, sour, bitter, and peppery-hot.
You have to arrive to Hen river-islet in the Perfume River to have the
original Com hen. However, you can find out the dish on some
streets in Hue City. It requires 15 different raw materials to prepare
for the dish, including mussel, fried grease, watery grease, peanuts,
white sesames, dry pancake, salted shredded meat, chilly sauce, banana
flower, banana trunk, sour carambola, spice vegetables, peppermint,
salad, etc.
Com hen is always attractive to many customers since it is tasty and, at the same time, economical to anybody.
What makes this simple kind of food popular is
revealed in the great endeavor to adopt and process its main ingredient
– mussel. Mussels are sea species, which must be dipped in water for a
long while before being processed. Accordingly, people often say that com hen somehow expresses the strenuous work of the maker.
Where to find it? Very
easy as it is popular everywhere in Hue and these days, elsewhere in
Hue restaurants in Vietnam. More favorably, it is a low-priced specialy,
thus you could eat it in luxurious restaurants in Hue or even in
vendoring mobile shops on the streets.
“Visiting
Hue could not miss Com hen, or else you have not come to Hue ever!” is
the most common remark of visitors elsewhere to Hue. So, please come and
enjoy it yourself!
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