Vietnamese sweets and desserts

Thursday of Asian flavours. Today from the luxury hotel in Alicante Asia Gardens Hotel & Thai Spa, we are travelling to Vietnam to discover the most famous Vietnamese sweets and desserts.

Vietnam´s tropical climate favour the growth of many fruits such as bananas, mangoes, papayas, coconuts and pineapples. Vietnamese people usually eat a piece of fruit after their meals. These fruits are also included in most traditional desserts.

Let´s go over these desserts:

Chè Chuoi. It is a very popular dessert in South Vietnam. Bananas are simmered in a coconut milk pudding. The recipe includes tapioca pearls, sweet potato and yucca roots.

Banh Cam. Also known as sesame balls, this Vietnamese dessert consists of flour, sugar, salt and sodium bicarbonate. The dough is rolled into small balls and then rolled in sesame seeds and deep-fried. They are usually served cold.

Che Ba Mau. It is often called “rainbow dessert”. It is one of Vietnamese people´s favourite drinks to cool themselves off. The recipe includes Chinese beans, tapioca pearls, coconut milk, longan and adzuki beans, which give the drink its bright colour. This dessert is usually served in a frozen glass.

Chè Trôi Nuoc. This Vietnamese dessert is made of glutinous rice balls which are covered with ginger and coconut sauce. The balls bathed in a liquid made of water, sugar and ginger. It is usually garnished with sesame seeds.

If you are an Asian food lover, you have an upcoming date at the 5 stars resort Asia Gardens Hotel & Thai Spa. Are you going to miss our Mediterranean gastronomic paradise?