Broken rice Cơm tấm

Cơm tấm is broken rice under grilled pork, shredded pork skin, and chả, with sweet-sour fish sauce poured over. In Châu Đốc the pickle plate adds mustard greens next to the usual daikon.

Broken rice, Cơm tấm
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FromA working meal of the Mekong Delta
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Where it comes from

A working meal of the Mekong Delta. The writer Sơn Nam described broken rice as the delta’s everyday base.

How to enjoy it

Eat it as a filling breakfast. Pour the sweet-sour fish sauce over the rice and pork.

The plate is sườn, bì, and chả, with scallion fat and pickled daikon and carrot. The Châu Đốc plate adds pickled mustard greens.

Where to try it

Along Lê Lợi, along Thủ Khoa Huân, and around Chợ Châu Đốc.