Cham cheo Chẩm chéo

Chẩm chéo is the valley’s dipping sauce: toasted mắc khén pounded with fresh chili, ginger, salt, and herbs, with more mắc khén stirred in. It goes with boiled, roasted, and grilled meat, and above all with boiled Cổ Lũng duck.

Cham cheo, Chẩm chéo
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Taste

Made for boiled, roasted, and grilled meat.

How to enjoy it

As a dip with the meat, not a plate on its own.

Pound toasted mắc khén with fresh chili, ginger, salt, rau thơm, húng, mùi tàu, and rau mùi ta, then stir in more mắc khén.

Where to try it

The meal in the valley. Buy the mắc khén seed at Phố Đoàn.