Bitter-eggplant soup Canh cà đắng
Êđê bitter-eggplant soup, made either with pounded dried fish and rice-washing water or with beef offal and beef bung. Both are bitter from the eggplant and hot from chili, and the offal pot is also sweet and fragrant.
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Search on KlookFromBao Dak Lak calls canh cà đắng an Êđê specialty of Dak Lak
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Taste
Bao Dak Lak on 26 Jul 2023 calls the soup harsh-bitter from the eggplant and hot from the chili.
The 24 Jun 2013 article calls the beef-offal version deeply bitter, sweet from the offal, fragrant from the bung, and hot from the chili, with lá é and scallion.
How to enjoy it
Eat it with white rice. Culantro, lá é, and scallion go in at the end.
Where to try it
Stilt-house meals in Buon Don, Lak, and Buon Ma Thuot.