Don’t Be Scared – Enjoy Hades’ Rice
Published: 26/04/2013 11:31
Coming to a Hue restaurant, diners will be startled with the name "Cơm âm phủ" (Hades’ rice) on the menu, but then will crave it with its eye-catching presentation and flavor.
The name sounds very strange due its underworld connotations making some diners afraid to touch it but it is a delicious unique culinary art of Hue city. It will be a mistake if we don’t mention about the origin of the intriguing dish name. Legend has it that one day, a king from the Nguyen Dynasty traveled incognito around the city and at that time asked residents to close their doors and to keep lights low and not look at the king. The king remembered the gloomy space and because the house was built on lowland, it was dark outside, there was no electricity and the poor lady wasn’t lighting candles, the king’s dinner had an underworld feel to it (and the Greek god of the underworld is called Hades) so he called the dish ‘com am phu’. Vietnamblogs |
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