directly on food or processed with other ingredients. In daily life, Ben Tre people often have the habit of adding coconut milk to all dishes. The quintessence of Ben Tre cuisine is coconut milk. Coconut milk is the key ingredient in Ben Tre dishes, especially sweet dishes. Ben Tre people have created many attractive desserts from the combination of coconut milk with ingredients in their gardens such as sweet potatoes, pumpkins, taro, black beans, red beans, cakes such as: coconut cakes, banh tet, coconut cakes, cassava cakes, banh tam bi, banh duc, grilled banana cakes...
- Coconut wine
Ingredients include : Dried coconut, sticky rice wine.
How to prepare : The melon is not too old or too young, peel off the coconut fiber to make it clean and beautiful. Then punch a small round hole on the top of the coconut, right at the coconut eye, because this is the place where the shell is weakest so it is easy to punch. Then pour all the water out of the coconut. The next step is to put the wine into the coconut: put the prepared sticky rice wine, pour it into the coconut, until it is almost full, then use a cork or coconut cork to seal it. To prevent the wine from leaking out and making the coconut shell wet and moldy, you can use 502 glue to drip around the cork. Steps to ferment coconut wine: take a plastic film or plastic bag to cover the outside and leave the coconut in a cool place and ferment the coconut wine for about 30 days before drinking. After fermenting, you can use a drill or lathe to punch a small round hole and insert a tap to pour the wine out.
How to enjoy : It can be said that each specialty of the coconut land is always simple, sweet, simple and gentle like the people here, and so is Coconut Wine. Ben Tre Coconut Wine with the sweet taste of coconut and the slight spicy taste of wine creates the characteristic aroma of the famous coconut wine in the West. With each sip of wine, you will feel the spicy taste and gradually turn to a sweet aftertaste. Even when drinking until the end of the bottle, the feeling of lightness and ecstasy before an irresistible charm remains. The wine has the aroma of yeast, sticky rice and coconut, all of these ingredients blend to give a wonderful feeling when used.
Grapefruit wine
Ingredients include: Grapefruit (should choose green-skinned grapefruit with a sweet taste, slightly sour when soaked will be very delicious) and white sugar or rock sugar, glass jar for soaking wine.
How to prepare : First, you need to prepare the grapefruit as you would with sugar. Next, arrange the grapefruit pulp and grapefruit segments in a jar of wine, one layer of grapefruit and one layer of sugar. Then pour in the wine to soak together. Every 10 days, mix the ingredients in the jar well. How to enjoy : After 30 days of soaking, you can take it out to use. The jar of grapefruit wine should be stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight, and not in the refrigerator. Ben Tre green-skin grapefruit wine has the effect of quenching thirst and also aiding digestion, laxative and diuretic.
- Phu Le Wine
Ingredients include: firm glutinous rice, yeast made from 36 different northern and southern medicinal herbs and Phu Le well water.
How to prepare : Cook sticky rice: soak sticky rice for a sufficient amount of time, then drain and cook into sticky rice. Be careful to add just enough water so that the sticky rice is not too mushy, not too dry or burnt. Pour the sticky rice into a tray, let it cool, knead it and mix it with yeast thoroughly. Then take the sticky rice and yeast mixture to ferment in a ceramic jar for about 7 to 10 days. Bring the fermented sticky rice and wine mixture to cook under a moderate flame to get genuine Phu Le wine.
How to enjoy : Used directly, wine is often used in holidays, entertaining distinguished guests. Phu Le wine is a famous wine of Ben Tre province, Phu Le wine has a strong, delicious and strong wine flavor. Phu Le wine is delicious thanks to yeast, village water wells, and sticky rice grown on the land of Phu Le - Ba Tri. The sticky rice is grown on this land and especially thanks to the fermentation of sticky rice in tins that are hundreds of years old, creating the unique flavor of Phu Le wine that cannot be found anywhere else.
Appendix 3. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW
Interviewer Name:
Hello Sir/Madam,
My name is Phan Thi Ngan, a graduate student at the Academy of Social Sciences - Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. I am currently doing a research thesis on: Vietnamese cuisine and tourism in Ben Tre today.
Dear Sir/Madam (Sir/Madam), please take a moment to allow me to interview you with some questions related to Vietnamese cuisine and current Ben Tre tourism. Your opinions on the cultural value of Ben Tre cuisine and the current status of culinary exploitation for tourism activities are very important bases for developing proposals and solutions for culinary development in tourism activities.
Thank you very much for your cooperation and support. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential.
1. How do you rate Ben Tre cuisine?
2. According to you, what are the typical traditional dishes in Ben Tre? How are these dishes prepared? Has the preparation method changed compared to before?
3. According to you, what is the source of ingredients for Ben Tre cuisine? Do you use ingredients from outside the province?
4. According to you, what are the characteristics of Ben Tre cuisine? Has there been any change in traditional cuisine?
5. How has the locality exploited culinary tourism development?
6. What are the obstacles in exploiting cuisine to develop local tourism?
7. According to you, how do tourism and culinary activities affect daily life?
8. According to you, how does cuisine affect local tourism activities? Why? Please list.
9. According to you, does tourism affect traditional local cuisine?
10. Sir/Madam, what changes have there been in the culinary culture in Ben Tre over time?
11. Sir/Madam, what are the characteristics of Ben Tre cuisine?
12. Sir/Madam, what is the current situation of exploiting cuisine to develop local tourism?
13. How do tourism and cuisine affect your life?
14. According to you, what is the solution to exploit local cuisine to develop local tourism?
15. In Ben Tre, what policies and strategies have been put in place to exploit the value of culinary culture in developing local tourism?
Appendix 4. SURVEY FORM
PEOPLE SURVEY
I am a PhD student at the Academy of Social Sciences - Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Currently, I am conducting a survey on Vietnamese cuisine and tourism in Ben Tre to complete my doctoral thesis, so the information from you is very necessary for the success of the research, contributing to the exploitation of Vietnamese cuisine to serve the development of tourism in Ben Tre. Please take a moment to fill in the questions below. I hereby guarantee that all information and opinions from you are for research purposes only and not for any other purpose. I respectfully request you to provide some information by circling the answer items in the following questionnaire . Sincerely thank you!
1. Full name: .
2. Year of birth: ................................................................................................................................
Gender :
1
Male | 2 | Female |
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3. Address: ........................................................................................................................
4. Educational level (Choose only 1 answer)
1
Primary school graduate | 2 | Graduated from junior high school | |
3 | High school graduate | 4 | Vocational college |
5 | University/college | 6 | Postgraduate (Master/PhD…) |
7 | Other level |
5. Current main occupation (Choose only 1 main occupation)
1
Crop | 2 | Animal husbandry (including aquaculture) | |
3 | Civil servant/official/teacher | 4 | Workers of companies/factories |
5 | Handicraft production | 6 | Service business |
7 | Food service business | 8 | Housewife |
9 | Other professions |
6. Sir/Madam (Sir/Madam) have contact with tourists coming to the locality
1 | Never | 2 | Seldom |
3 | Sometimes | 4 | Frequent |
5 | Very often | 6 |
7. When interacting with tourists, what do you find them interested in or interested in about the local area? (Select multiple answers)
1
Climate, environment | 2 | Local natural scenery | |
3 | Temples, historical sites | 4 | Culture and customs of the people |
5 | Traditional profession | 6 | Culinary specialties |
7 | Culinary culture | 8 | Other……………. |
8. Where do you see tourists usually eat? (Choose multiple answers)
1
Specialty restaurants | 2 | At the hotel where the guest is staying | |
3 | According to the scheduled tour | 4 | Self-guided tour |
5 | Other….. |
9. Characteristics of Ben Tre culinary ingredients (Select multiple answers)
1
Nature | 2 | Available (on-site mining) | |
3 | Abundant | 4 | Fresh, alive |
5 | Tasty | 6 | Easy to use |
7 | Related to coconut | 8 | Other… |
10. Characteristics of Ben Tre cuisine (Choose multiple answers)
1
Always stick with coconut | 2 | Simple, easy to do | |
3 | No need for much seasoning | 4 | Simple, readily available spices in the family |
5 | Use what is available in natural seasoning | 6 | Rich processing methods |
7 | Other…. | 8 |
11. Characteristics of Ben Tre cuisine (Choose multiple answers)
1
Natural color | 2 | Sophisticated, delicate | |
3 | Natural taste of food | 4 | Related to coconut |
5 | Has a distinctive coastal flavor | 6 | Has a distinctive flavor and color garden |
7 | Has a brownish color | 8 | Other |
12. What is your local specialty food/drink?
1 | Mussel noodle soup cooked in coconut water | 2 | Ben Tre spring rolls |
3 | Coconut porridge | 4 | Chicken soup with leaves of Gac tree |
5 | Braised goby/snakehead fish with coconut milk | 6 | Steamed snails with coconut water |
7 | Grilled termite mushrooms with salt and chili | 8 | Fried coconut worms rolled in flour |
9 | Coconut Old-Fashioned Pancakes | 10 | Coconut candy |
11 | Coconut rice paper | 12 | Coconut water |
13 | Phu Le Wine | 14 | Other dishes… |
13. According to you, what local cuisine should tourists enjoy?:..........................................................................................
14. According to you, what are the reasons that hinder the introduction of culinary culture to tourists (choose multiple answers):
1
Lack of unique culinary culture | 2 | Promotion/propaganda work has not been done yet. Good | |
3 | Guests short on time | 4 | There is no good coordination with the tour. |
5 | Lack of investment capital | 6 | Lack of local strategy |
7 | Price is not reasonable | 8 | Other |
15. According to you, what should be done to attract more tourists to use Ben Tre cuisine:
Thank you very much!
BUSINESS SURVEY
I am a PhD student at the Academy of Social Sciences - Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Currently, I am conducting a survey on Vietnamese cuisine and tourism in Ben Tre to complete my doctoral thesis, so the information from you is very necessary for the success of the research, contributing to the exploitation of Vietnamese cuisine to serve the development of tourism in Ben Tre. Please take a moment to fill in the questions below. I hereby guarantee that all information and opinions from you are only for research purposes and not for any other purpose. I respectfully request you to provide some information by circling the answer items in the following questionnaire . Sincerely thank you!
1. Full name: ................................................................................................................................ .
2. Year of birth: ................................................................................................................................
Gender :
1
Male | 2 | Female |
3. Address: ........................................................................................................................
4. Are you involved in any of the following industries/fields of business (select multiple answers):
1
Restaurant/Hotel | 2 | Small food service | |
3 | Specialty restaurant | 4 | Tourist pick-up point |
5 | Travel agency | 6 | Tour guide |
7 | Other……… |
5. What do you think tourists to the area usually like to eat/drink?
1
Eat/drink at the hotel | 2 | Eat/drink at tour locations | |
3 | Eat at tourist attractions | 4 | Each group finds their own restaurant/bar. |
5 | Individuals find restaurants themselves. | 6 | Other: ……………… |
6. The culinary menu served to guests includes (select multiple answers):
1
Traditional cuisine of local | 2 | Common dishes of west |