Com henhas a sweet-smelling flavor of rice, onion, and grease, as well asstrange tastes of sweet, buttery, salty, sour, bitter, and peppery-hot.You have to arrive to Hen river-islet in the Perfume River to have theoriginal Com hen. However, you can find out the dish on somestreets in Hue City. It requires 15 different raw materials to preparefor the dish, including mussel, fried grease, watery grease, peanuts,white sesames, dry pancake, salted shredded meat, chilly sauce, bananaflower, banana trunk, sour carambola, spice vegetables, peppermint,salad, etc.

Com hen is always attractive to many customers since it is tasty and, at the same time, economical to anybody.

What makes this simple kind of food popular isrevealed in the great endeavor to adopt and process its main ingredient– mussel. Mussels are sea species, which must be dipped in water for along while before being processed. Accordingly, people often say that com hen somehow expresses the strenuous work of the maker.

Where to find it? Veryeasy as it is popular everywhere in Hue and these days, elsewhere inHue restaurants in Vietnam. More favorably, it is a low-pricedspecialy, thus you could eat it in luxurious restaurants in Hue or evenin vendoring mobile shops on the streets.

“VisitingHue could not miss Com hen, or else you have not come to Hue ever!” isthe most common remark of visitors elsewhere to Hue. So, please comeand enjoy it yourself!