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

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

Rattan is a type of vine, with a soft body tens of meters long, covered with dense thorny bark. To get the rattan, you have to cut the tree into many short pieces to pull it down gradually. When approaching the bud, there are many rings of thorns at the top that hook into the surrounding branches, so the person who goes to pick it must be careful to avoid being stabbed by the thorns.

Tasty rattan buds are selected from young, plump trees and then stripped of the hard outer bark. From the white cores of rattan buds with sweet and bitter taste, people transform into many simple but equally attractive dishes. Among them, there is a grilled rattan dish with a very aromatic taste, a subtle sweetness that is very attractive.

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

Thanh Xuan