Plei Op Village

According to some documents, Plei Op village was established in 1927 and is now nearly 100 years old. The village is located in the center of Pleiku city, only about 3km from Dai Doan Square. The natural area in the village is about 182 hectares, with about 105 households and 540 people located in Hoa Lu ward. Coming to Plei Op village, in addition to visiting the traditional communal house, where important ceremonies of the village take place, visitors can leisurely walk on the clean and airy village streets and chat with the locals. Friendly and hospitable people. Or visit Ia O Wharf, where Plei Op people often bathe and talk about farming in the late afternoon. Besides, in the village, there are a number of elderly artisans who still have the ability to convey, gong songs, gong songs, and flexible sinus tunes for boys and girls in the village to express the unique and distinctive features of Vietnamese culture. make Jrai. If lucky, when the artisans in the village are dedicated to imparting to young people, visitors can participate to experience and learn the movements of holding sticks to knocking gongs, and then the skills of performing musical instruments. the most basic gong. In addition, visitors will also be quite interesting to hear the village elder Puih Sir sing folk songs or be taken away by the elderly to learn the traditional crafts still preserved by the villagers such as forging, knitting, brocade weaving, statue carving. , making ethnic musical instruments ... Another interesting point in Plei Op village is that the village has three restaurants specializing in serving cuisine of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands. In particular, Plei Gong Gong restaurant is one of the three famous restaurants here. Here, visitors can not only enjoy clean food with mountain flavor but also be immersed in the space and spiritual life typical of Gia Rai people. The shop has an architectural space of small houses on stilts, airy traditional longhouses, and brightly decorated trees in the middle of the yard. Inside the small house on stilts, musical instruments such as gongs, goongs, silk instruments, brocade, and labor tools are solemnly hung on wooden and bamboo walls. Around there are many wooden statues depicting the daily life of the Jrai people such as the statue of a mother holding her child, a boy dancing drums, someone hugging a water gourd, a brave man, a girl dancing in the sinuses... The shop serves a lot of people. delicious dishes of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands such as grilled wild boar, lam rice, bitter eggplant, coriander leaves, noodle leaves, grilled stream fish with long tube, salted beef with ants, chicken soup with Giang leaves... However, the dish The most famous tourist attraction here is grilled chicken served with lam rice. This Gia Rai grilled chicken dish is unique in that it is grilled far from the fire, taking out the heat to let the chicken cook slowly. Chicken is usually selected from 1.5kg down, put in a pot soaked with spices to marinate, including honey, minced garlic, sesame oil, salt, pepper ... then clamp the whole chicken into a giant tree. sliced in half, then plugged into a row or circle around a large pile of coal, flipping every ten minutes so that the inner layer of meat is cooked evenly, the outer skin is golden or dark yellow. Drops of fat melt from the flesh, giving off a fragrant aroma that is enough to make people want to eat.

Address: Plei Op Village, Hoa Lu, City. Pleiku, Gia Lai, Vietnam