How to pronounce Chè

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /cɛ˨˩/. In plain English letters that is CHEH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Chè?

Chè is a dessert of Vietnam. People usually eat it at teatime. Its main ingredients are beans & tofu. It tastes sweet.

Where Chè comes from

Chè is one of 36 signature dishes of Vietnam on this map.

• Nem rán nem rán / chả giò · Snack · Vietnam

  Chả giò, called nem rán in the north and ram in central Vietnam, are Vietnamese fried spring rolls.

• Phở · Soup & stew · Hanoi and Nam Định

  Pho appears in records only in the early 20th century, in the north of Vietnam.

• Bánh mì · Street food · Saigon

  Bánh mì first meant simply "wheat bread", the baguette the French brought to Vietnam in the 19th century.

• Bún chả · Noodles & pasta · Hanoi

  Bún chả is Hanoi's lunch: grilled pork, both patties and slices of belly, served in a bowl of warm fish-sauce dressing with pickled papaya, alongside cold rice noodles and a basket of herbs.

• Chả cá Lã Vọng · Main dish · Hanoi

  Chả cá Lã Vọng is Hanoi's grilled fish, and a whole street is named after it.

• Bún thang · Noodles & pasta · Hanoi

  Bún thang is one of Hanoi's most painstaking noodle soups; the Vietnamese source estimates that it needs about twenty ingredients.

Food of Vietnam

Dishes like Chè in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Chè:

• Kralan ក្រឡាន · Dessert · Cambodia

  Kralan is the Cambodian version of sticky rice roasted in bamboo.

• Khanom mo kaeng ขนมหม้อแกง · Dessert · Ayutthaya, Thailand

  Khanom mo kaeng is a baked custard of coconut milk, eggs and palm sugar, thickened with taro, mung beans, lotus seeds or sweet potato and topped with fried shallots.

• Ching bo leung 清补凉 · Dessert · Hainan, China

  Ching bo leung, qingbuliang in Mandarin, meaning refreshing, nourishing and cool, is a sweet cold dessert soup eaten in Cantonese, Hainanese and Guangxi cooking.

• Halo-halo haluhalo · Dessert · Philippines

  Halo-halo, "mix-mix", is a cold dessert of the Philippines and is considered the country's unofficial national dessert.