Com Hen (Mussel rice – a speciality of Hue food)

Mussel rice- a speciality of Hue food

Huong river mussel rice (or mussel rice in short) is the very simple and low-prices specialty of Hue, the ancient citadel of Vietnam. Mussel rice is always attractive to many customers since it is tasty.

Mussel rice

Museel rice has a sweet-smelling flavor of rice, onion and grease as well as strange tastes of sweet, buttery, salty, sour, bitter, and peppery-hot. You have to arrive to Hen river-islet in the Perfume River to have the original mussel rice. However, you can find out the dish on some streets in Hue City. It requires 15 different raw materials to repare for the dish, including mussel, fried grease, watery grease, peanuts, white sesames, dry pancake, salted shredded meat, chilly sauce, banana flower, banana trunk, sour carambola, sour carambola, spice vegetables, peppermint, salad, ect.

What makes this simple kind of food popular is revaaled in the great endeavor to adopt and process its main ingredient-mussel. Mussels are sea species, wich must be dipped in water for a long while before being processed. Accordingly, people often say that musel rice somehow expresses the strenuous work of the maker.
Mussel rice is popular everywhere in Hue and these days, eleswhere in Hue restaurants in Hue restaurants in Vietnam. More favorably, it is a low-priced specialy, you coud eat it in luxurious restaurants in Hue or even in vedoring mobile shops on the streets.