Rice Balls with Roasted Pork Filling Sweet Soup (Chè Bột Lọc Heo Quay): A Delightful Fusion of Savory and Sweet in the old capital of Vietnam

Sweet soup is a familiar dish for Vietnamese people. In each place, sweet soup is processed in many different ways, ranging from ingredients to flavors. However, in Hue there is a strange sweet soup dish that makes diners shy, but enjoy it and then “nod” to praise it. It is roasted pork sweet soup.

Right from the name, this dish has made diners curious and somewhat confused because sweet soup and roast meat are two sweet, salty, unrelated dishes when combined. However, for the people of the ancient capital, roasted pork sweet soup has become a famous dish, wherever you go, the taste of this country’s gift will forever be remembered.

Roasted pork sweet soup is actually filtered powder coated with roasted meat. Hue people have very delicate eating habits, so the combination in the dish is not accidental, but also hides the philosophy of yin and yang, the five elements. Therefore, roasted pork sweet soup sounds strange, but when eaten together, it has its own taste.

Scoop the filter powder into a bowl or cup, fill with sugar water and sprinkle with roasted sesame seeds, creating a strange roast pork sweet soup

With the main ingredients are filter flour and pork, to make delicious sweet soup, the processor needs to have finesse and skill.

You must choose a delicious filter powder, knead it with warm water until it is smooth and supple, and it does not stick to the standard. Then break the dough into small balls to cover the filling.

Finished roast meat is chopped into a pomegranate seed, mix well with salt, sugar and ginger juice and simmered on a low heat. The finished meat filling is placed in the middle of the filter dough, wrapped thoroughly and made into circles. 

Finally the sugar water slug. The alum sugar is put in a low heat pot, when it turns yellow, add filtered water. When the water is boiling, gently drop each powdered pellet. Wait a few minutes, the ripe dough will turn clear, float out then take out. You can add ginger and glutinous leaves (pineapple leaves) to the sugar water mixture for a better flavor.

Scoop the filter powder into a bowl or cup, fill with sugar water and sprinkle with roasted sesame seeds, creating a strange roast pork sweet soup. The salty, muddy taste of the roasted meat has been seasoned with the toughness, crispness of the filter powder, mixed with the sweet sugar water, making diners remember to eat once.

Recommend places to eat Rice Balls with Roasted Pork Filling Sweet Soup:

  • Mo Ton Dich Sweet Soup: 20 Dinh Tien Hoang, Phu Hoa, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue
  • Chè Hẻm (Alleyway Sweet Soup): Alley 1, 29 Hung Vuong, Phu Hoi, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue
  • Chè Cung Đình Huế: 31 Nguyen Hue, Vinh Ninh, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue

The combination of savory and sweet flavors in the Rice Balls with Roasted Pork Filling Sweet Soup is truly unique and delicious. The roasted pork filling is flavorful and juicy, while the sweet syrup is fragrant and refreshing. The glutinous rice balls are chewy and provide a satisfying contrast in texture.

If you are ever in Hue, be sure to try this unique and delicious dessert. You won’t be disappointed!

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Source: Vinlove.net