Le pass is 6km long, located on provincial road 611, about 20km from National Highway 1A to the west. This is quite a famous place since the war time because of the strategic location of the pass. After reading Khuong Huu Dung’s collection, in 1946, the poet used to set up a small shop called ‘pass-back shop’ in the middle of laurel, whose menu is certainly indispensable for chicken raised in the back of the pass.
The shop owner does business in the way of a poet: his poetry is pasted at both ends of the pass, on Trung Phuoc side, Que Son side: From now on, the road is less lonely
Once again, there is a “passenger shop” to rest
Gifts to eat some refreshing dishes
Simple seating on a grassy field. Le pass chicken is famous from the past to the present. Usually a medium sized ant chicken (rooster). Chickens raised on the pass, around the slopes looking for food, so the meat is very firm (but not tough), fragrant and strangely delicious. There are poets who taste it, find it interesting, so they also “strongly say” that: “Lee pass chicken is delicious because it is imbued with the quality of the midland mountains”. During his lifetime, Professor Hoang Chau Ky, when he was over 80 years old, every time he returned to his hometown (Trung Yen village across the pass), the Tuong master stopped to enjoy the specialty of Le pass but according to him: “Country food but taste is not where can be…”. Reaching the top of Le pass, passing a long way, everyone needs to rest, so they stop at the restaurant on the top of the pass to order a chicken. While waiting for the owner to boil the chicken, go to the stream to take a bath. The stream is cool all year round, so it’s called Mat Stream, and restaurants “specialize” in chicken dishes are located along this stream. Mat stream water flows down from the mountain, through the rocks, cool water. Being shaken off the road dust, relaxed soul, hungry stomach… it’s the right time to enjoy the boiled chicken that has just arrived with the steaming pot of chicken porridge, there’s nothing better than that! Leisurely visitors can climb up the flat rocks like table jelly, lay out the chickens with a little glaze. In the middle of the mountain wind, eating a piece of boiled chicken with salt and pepper, laksa leaves and a little lemon leaf, oh why is it so delicious! After the meal, guests are invited by the owner to have a cup of tea cooked with forest leaves, drink it to cool down and ease digestion. So Chi has passed on the proverbial saying: Who goes to Trung Phuoc Le pass?
Please send a handful of tea on the fifth day…
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