FechTin Go · Vietnam · Food
Flat rice-flour noodles, wide like bed slats, simmered into a silky porridge with flaked snakehead fish, fiery chili powder, fragrant turmeric and bright green scallions.
Cháo bột Kẻ Diên, also called "cháo vạt giường" because the dough is rolled thin and cut into wide flat strips resembling bed slats, is a celebrated specialty of the Hải Lăng area in Quảng Trị. Field-caught snakehead fish is boiled, flaked, marinated in turmeric and simmered in a sweet bone broth with rice-flour noodles. Its signature tongue-searing heat lingers in the memory of anyone who tastes it, warming the soul in this land of scorching Lào winds and white sand.
Flavour: Fiery and warming, silky-soft, sweet with snakehead fish