How to pronounce Cơm hến

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kəːm˧ hen˧˥/. In plain English letters that is GUM HEN, 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 Cơm hến?

Cơm hến is a rice dish of Vietnam. Where it comes from: Huế. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are seafood and rice. It tastes spicy and savory.

Where Cơm hến comes from

Cơm hến is one of 36 signature dishes of Vietnam on this map. See all dishes from Hue.

• Nem chua · Snack · Thanh Hóa

  Nem chua is fermented pork: lean pork and thin strips of cooked pork rind, seasoned with garlic and chilli, mixed with roasted rice powder and wrapped in leaves such as guava, fig or Ming aralia, then in banana leaf, and left for a few days until it turns pink, firm and pleasantly sour.

• Bún bò Huế · Noodles & pasta · Huế

  Bún bò Huế is the spicy beef noodle soup of Huế, the old imperial capital.

• Bánh bèo · Snack · Huế

  Bánh bèo are tiny steamed rice cakes from Huế.

• Bánh bột lọc · Snack · Huế

  Bánh bột lọc are small, chewy, see-through dumplings from Huế, made with tapioca starch rather than rice flour.

• 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.

Food of Vietnam

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