Tam Ky jackfruit: Eat a piece, remember for a lifetime

For Quang Nam people, jackfruit can be processed into many attractive dishes such as boiled young jackfruit dipped in female fish sauce, jackfruit salad, and most importantly, jackfruit – a specialty of Tam Ky city.

Coming to Tam Ky, you should once try the delicious and simple jackfruit dish that makes many people who eat once have to flutter. It is a familiar snack, proud of many generations of Tam Ky people or students who have studied here. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhan (84 years old, owner of Ba Nam jackfruit shop) has been selling jackfruit for nearly 40 years. At that time, she saw people making this dish and selling it on the side of the road, then went home to try it and everyone praised it, and then sold it until now. Because of her advanced age, she now mainly helps her 2 daughters to sell. Jackfruit is sprinkled with a little crushed roasted peanuts, grated coconut, and fragrant fried peanut oil According to Ms. Nhan, in order to get a delicious piece of jackfruit, one must know how to choose the jackfruit that has begun to “return” (nearly ripe) rather than choosing the old, overripe fruit. After that, the ripe jackfruit tree is split in half, separates each segment, and then uses a knife to make a vertical cut to get the jackfruit seeds as the filling. Take jackfruit seeds and steamed green beans, puree, mix spices, stuff the jackfruit and hips (ie steamed) again, serve with roasted peanuts and grated coconut rice, very mouth-watering. A batch of jackfruit is not ripe for about 40 minutes. Eaten when hot, the smell of jackfruit is sweet, giving off a fragrant aroma that blends and spreads with sweet, fatty, and fleshy flavors. To taste delicious jackfruit, it takes a few hours with dozens of different stages. What makes the difference, the heart of the jackfruit dish is the secret to making the filling of the people of Tam Ky. From familiar spices every day but through the hands of seasoners, applying experience through many years of processing, plus the smell of compressed phi to make up the fragrant aroma that holds diners. A plate of six-pack jackfruit costs only 10,000 VND but has a rustic taste, reminiscent of generations of Tam Ky people and tourists who have had the opportunity to enjoy. I don’t know since when, jackfruit has become a famous snack in Tam Ky city. If you try to eat one piece, you will have to eat 2, 3, 4 more pieces. If you have the opportunity to visit Tam Ky, don’t forget to try this jackfruit dish with the flavor of your hometown and people of Quang Nam!