Leaf salad has been around for 25 years but has gradually become a specialty of Kon Tum, Central Highlands.
Leaf salad is a dish all year round, but there is still a difference between the dry season and the rainy season, even between meals. In the dry season, the leaf salad tray may have only 30-40 types of forest leaves, but in the rainy season the trees in the forest are luxuriant then the leaves on the salad tray are diverse with 60-70 types of leaves.
A plate of leaf salad includes:
1. Shred leaves with at least 30-40 kinds of leaves from salad, cloves, perilla, mango to Central Highlands forest leaves: brooch leaves, red pronged branch, bear bile, rambutan leaves, great compassion...
2. The plate of pork belly is thin enough so that the piece is not too fat
3. Plate of ground shrimp (cut off the head, legs) roasted dry and soft yellow
4. Mixing discs
5. Plate of granulated salt, green pepper and natural chili
6. Sauce bowl: made from must, minced pork and shrimp with the secret recipe of each kitchen.
How to eat salad leaves:
Choose a large leaf (cabbage, apricot) wrapped like a small funnel, then add all kinds of leaves, on top put 1 piece of pork, 1 piece of shrimp, skin, salt, pepper, chili and 1 tablespoon of sauce. Then bring it to your mouth to enjoy the salad in one go. Next time you should choose different types. However, people will not roll many types of leaves to eat at the same time, but only roll about less than 10 leaves at a time to fit the mouth and easier to hold.
Leaf salad stands out with the characteristic flavor of leaves mixed with a very strange, mouth-watering sour, acrid, spicy, and intense dipping sauce. Therefore, many people just sit and eat and eat and eat forever.
It is also thanks to the variety of leaves that, when eaten, create a coolness and push in the throat, so this dish, although rustic, has become a famous specialty in the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands, not only in the mountains. in Kon Tum city.
Some leaf salad shops in Kon Tum: Ut Cung leaf salad, New Vitality, Yen Vy ...