For people in the forest area of Nam Cat Tien (Tan Phu - Dong Nai), rattan buds are considered a rare and delicious food. Because to get this dish, they have to go to the deep forest, go all day looking for the freshest clouds.

In fact, rattan is not unfamiliar to the people, but not everyone knows how to use rattan buds for processing and fewer people have the opportunity to enjoy the dishes from this specialty. Particularly for the people in Tan Phu, the dish of grilled wild rattan is not only a specialty of mountains, but also contains many profound meanings about life, human life and long-standing cultural traditions of the people. clan.

Clouds are vines, soft bodies tens of meters long, surrounded by dense thorns. Want to get rattan buds must cut the tree into many short segments to pull down gradually. When close to the bud, there are many rings of thorns at the top that hook into the surrounding branches, so collectors must be careful to avoid being stabbed.

Delicious rattan buds are chosen from young, plump saplings and stripped of the outer hard thorn bark. From the pure white rattan core with sweet taste and bitterness, people transform into many simple but equally attractive dishes. Among them, the grilled rattan buds have a very fragrant taste and are very attractive.

Coming to Cat Tien, visitors have the opportunity to enjoy specialties from rattan will be very interesting and impressive. Because the taste of rattan leaves gives visitors the most authentic feelings about life, customs and traditions, cultural traditions of indigenous people. Just a meal together, enjoying a few pieces of sweet rattan is enough to remember forever.

Thanh Xuan