Dragon fruit flower soup appetizer, why not?

With similar nutritional value to Lam Dong's Artichoke flower soup, dragon fruit flower soup or Binh Thuan 's dragon fruit flower soup and hotpot, tourists deserve to know when traveling to Binh Thuan.

At the party after the 40th anniversary of Ham Thuan Nam district's founding at TTC World - Ta Cu, guests were looking forward to enjoying dragon fruit flower soup, because the menu listed it as an appetizer. There were many reasons for that anticipation. Partly because this is a strange and new dish for many people, when exploited from flower buds. Another part, because in the context of the dragon fruit market always fluctuating, has been threatening the sustainable development of specialized growing areas in the province, which is clearly shown in 2022, so that appetizer soup seems to carry the responsibility of representing an open direction and hope.

“Yes, the sweet soup blends with the essence of meat and vegetables, and the dragon fruit buds are crunchy”, “Great, dragon fruit buds usually have a lot of slime but in this soup they are not slimy”, “The chef must have a special way of handling it, because if fresh dragon fruit buds are boiled they are slimy, and when you pick them up they fall off”… Many guests at the table discussed dragon fruit flower soup and all agreed that if restaurants and hotels in the province added this appetizer as a way to affirm the typical dish of Binh Thuan, it would help many dragon fruit growers in the province to have more income and thereby also contribute to preserving the specialized growing area. That is a good idea, because in finding a typical dish of a land, almost every province and city is trying to build and maintain it to affirm. With similar nutritional value to Lam Dong's Artichoke flower soup, dragon fruit flower soup or Binh Thuan's dragon fruit flower soup and hotpot, tourists deserve to know when traveling to Binh Thuan.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Tho, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Ham Thuan Nam district, who proposed the need for dragon fruit soup at the party celebrating the 40th anniversary of the district's founding, said that for a long time, diners who are familiar with cuisine often order crab soup, chicken soup, crab soup as appetizers at restaurants, but recently, tourists coming to Ham Thuan Nam have enjoyed homegrown dragon fruit flower soup and all nodded in praise. Therefore, if we introduce dried dragon fruit flower products to the Binh Thuan Tourism Association so that interested members can process them into typical dishes of Binh Thuan, it will contribute to further affirming the brand. Especially during this National Tourism Year, we need to diversify the products served so that when tourists come to the province, when they think of food, they immediately think of dragon fruit flower soup or soup.

According to the leader of Hoa Ba Vuong Company Limited, a dried dragon fruit flower producer in Tan Thuan Commune - Ham Thuan Nam, the dried dragon fruit flower of the unit has been certified by Ham Thuan Nam District as a 3-star OCOP. In foreign supermarkets, dried dragon fruit flowers are sold under the name Hoa Ba Vuong, which is often in high demand because of its nutritional value to human health. Therefore, Binh Thuan has a great advantage when it has a large dragon fruit growing area, which has created conditions for the unit to produce new products and move towards official export. To build a typical dish for Binh Thuan tourism from processing dried dragon fruit flowers, it is necessary to coordinate with all parties, especially the restaurant and hotel system. Thereby, it also increases income for farmers as well as increases the value of dragon fruit flowers.

According to Oriental medicine, dragon fruit flowers are rich in vegetable protein, soluble fiber, vitamins and anthocyanin, with many uses of cooling, anti-oxidation, cough relief, eye-brightening, anti-aging. At the same time, dragon fruit flowers are also a nutritious, low-calorie, low-fat food. Usually from the finished product of dragon fruit buds that have been split and dried (like at Hoa Ba Vuong Company Limited, the flower buds are 20 days old, using modern drying technology at 65 0c, the product still retains its eye-catching color, and the nutritional value of fresh flowers is retained up to 100%), can be used to cook hot pot dishes or soups with the effect of detoxifying, relieving colds, increasing the body's resistance, better for people who smoke.

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