After work, I was craving a sweet snack, something to fill
me up for a couple hours before dinnertime... so I stopped for my first
streetside Chè, a traditional Vietnamese snack.
It’s “part-drink, part-snack, part-dessert pudding” and definitely fills
that hole when you’re feeling a bit hungry!
It is often
traditionally called or described as the tri-colour dessert/drink by locals.
Chè can have a variety of ingredients and you can custom-make
it to your tastes by simply pointing at the ingredients you want when you
order! Here are some of the *common (and less common) ingredients inside:
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*Beans (i.e. sweet red beans, mung beans, kidney
beans, black-eyed peas)
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Tapioca
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*Jelly (grass jelly or clear jelly)
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*Fruits
(mango, aloe vera, sugar palm, durian, lychee, jackfruit, etc.)
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*Coconut
milk or cream
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Taro
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*Sticky (glutinous) rice mixtures (often with
various fruits, beans, sweet ingredients…)
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Sesame seeds or lotus seeds
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Seaweed
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Small dumplings
Nothing like some chè
in the park to relax you after a busy afternoon of teaching 3 kindergarten
classes with 30 children in each class with no air conditioner!
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