Return to the land of the great mountains and enjoy a series of delicious Pleiku specialties.

Crab noodle soup

Bun mam cua, also known as vermicelli with crab, is considered a picky specialty dish because of the distinctive flavor of the crab sauce. Tourists can easily find this dish on the streets of Pleiku.

A standard bowl of crab noodle soup is a mixture of many different ingredients such as pickled bamboo shoots, fried pork skin, field crab, pork belly and vegetables, all presented in an eye-catching and attractive way.

Although it has a strange, strong smell of pure fish sauce and fermented crab juice, crab noodle soup has the ability to "addict" any tourist who has ever enjoyed it with the characteristic strong and salty taste of fish sauce, the aroma of vegetables, the spiciness of chili, the crunchiness of pork skin... All blend together to create a very attractive and delicious dish.

Yellow ant salt

Yellow ant salt is made from wild yellow ants in Ayun Pa, Krong Pa, Gia Lai and is one of the famous delicious specialties of Pleiku. To exploit it, people have to work hard climbing into deep forests to catch large ant nests and then bring them back to process into salt.

At first glance, yellow ant salt may seem intimidating to many people, but once you taste it, you will find that the salt has a slightly sour, strong, fatty, sweet and spicy flavor that is extremely unique and appealing. In particular, yellow ant salt contains very high nutritional content.

Grilled beef tube

The reason it is called "beef in a tube" is because the beef is put in a tube and grilled.

The main ingredient of this Pleiku delicacy is beef cut into bite-sized pieces, mixed with spices such as lemongrass, basil leaves, etc., crushed, marinated for about 30 minutes, then put into tubes (tubes are fresh bamboo or reed tubes, young plants), then sealed with pandan leaves and grilled.

This Pleiku delicacy attracts diners not only by its name but also by the smell of the meat coming from the bamboo tube, stimulating the taste buds.

Dry Pho

In Pleiku, dry pho is a famous delicious dish that you can easily find dry pho shops all over the streets. This dish has another name, Pho hai to, because when enjoying, diners will be served two bowls, including pho noodles and broth.

A bowl of dry pho in Pleiku must have minced pork, shredded chicken and fried crispy shallots. The broth includes chicken broth, rare beef or beef tendon, beef shank or beef balls depending on each person’s taste. Vegetables served with dry pho include lettuce, basil and raw bean sprouts.

When enjoying dry pho, you will feel the chewy sweetness of the pho noodles, the sweetness of the broth mixed with the rich, delicious soy sauce.

Sun-dried beef

After cleaning, the beef will be marinated with spices, then dried in the sun for a day. When finished drying, the beef will continue to be grilled in the traditional way on a charcoal stove. At this time, the meat will be fully cooked, with the fragrant aroma of smoke, the rich sweetness and toughness of the meat, and the salty and spicy taste of spices. This is also a very suitable dish to buy as a gift when traveling in the mountain town.