Sau chit Sâu chít

Sâu chít is a plump, milk-white worm taken from the stem of the chít plant. It is kept in weak wine, then steeped into a wine or cooked into porridge.

Sau chit, Sâu chít
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FromDien Bien Phu
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Where it comes from

Dien Bien Phu.

How to enjoy it

Split the chít stem, take the worm, and put it in a basin of weak wine so it does not change. Vietnamnet then says it is steeped as wine or cooked as porridge.

Vietnamnet calls it highly nutritious.

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