Cham cheo Chẩm chéo

The Thái dip of salt, chili, garlic, and herbs, pounded dry for fruit or wet for sticky rice, grilled meat, and stream fish. It is hot and fragrant.

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FromBáo Sơn La, 16 July 2026, 9 September 2025, and 4 September 2020
PriceBáo Sơn La, 16 July 2026, prints about 30,000–60,000 VND for a 200 g box of the dry dip. A wet price is ask locally.

Taste

Báo Sơn La calls the dip hot and fragrant. The 16 July 2026 article does not put mắc khén in the dry or wet ingredient sentence. The 9 September 2025 article does. Both stay.

How to enjoy it

With bamboo, boiled greens, sticky rice, grilled meat, stream fish, boiled chicken, forest greens, or seasonal fruit, depending on which account you are holding.

The dry dip is packed to carry. Báo Sơn La prints about 30,000–60,000 VND for a 200 g box. The wet dip is made to order because it does not keep.

Where to try it

The Thái table, and the dry dip as something to carry. No shop is a pick. The wet dip is served where you eat.