Ben Tre Coconut Candy

Ben Tre coconut candy is a food speciality and a traditional handicraft manifesting the country’s culture. Ben Tre coconut candy is originated in Mo Cay. The raw materials for producing coconut candy are coconut juice, malt, sugar (now people use refined sugar but before they often used bottled sugar). The malt is filtered from the glutinous rice nourished to sprout shoot. Mo Cay candy officially has its brand name Ben Tre coconut candy since 1999 and has been exported to many countries in the world. Now international tourists know delicious dishes in Vietnam not only through bowls of noodle soup with fume, nice finical luxurious dishes from Hue imperial palace but also remember common simple but sweet coconut candies which were eaten once and become unforgettable.