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Chè

Bowl of chè xoài, a variety of chè made from mango
Type	Soup or pudding
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	Vietnam
Region or state	Regions of Vietnam
Serving temperature	Cold, hot or warm
Media: Chè

Chè (Vietnamese pronunciation: [tɕɛ̀~edit

There is a nearly endless variety of named dishes with the prefix chè, and thus it is impossible to produce a complete list. What follows is a list of the most typical traditional varieties of chè.

Beans and pulsesedit

• Chè đậu đen - made from black turtle beans; one of the most popular varieties of chè, particularly for northern Vietnamese
• Chè đậu đỏ - made from azuki beans, usually using whole beans, rarely using ground beans.
• Chè đậu huyết - made from red beans.
• Chè đậu ngự - made from Phaseolus lunatus (or moon beans) - specialty in Huế, an imperial dish
• Chè đậu phụng (or chè lạc) - made from peanuts
• Chè đậu trắng - made from black-eyed peas. Oftentimes, this dessert is just referred to as chè đậu as it is one of the most common bean dessert for southern Vietnamese.
• Chè đậu ván - made from Dolichos lablab (hyacinth beans); a specialty in Huế
• Chè đậu xanh - made from whole mung beans
  • Chè đậu xanh rong biển - made from mung beans and kelp
  • Chè đậu xanh đánh - made from ground mung beans
  • Chè đậu đãi - made from ground skinless mung beans (đãi means to remove the skin)
  • Chè hoa cau - a northern dish made from ground skinless mung beans with betel nut flower-shape (or chè táo xọn, uses less mung beans)

Rice, grains, tubers and cerealsedit

• Chè bánh lọt - made from bánh lọt - a cake from Huế (lọt means "to sift").
• Chè bắp (or chè ngô) - made from corn seeds and tapioca rice pudding
• Chè bí đỏ - made from pumpkin
• Chè cốm - made from young rice
• Chè củ năng (or chè mã thầy) - made from water chestnuts
• Chè củ súng - made from water lily bulbs
• Chè hạt lựu - in this dish, rice paste are cut into pomegranate seed-shaped pieces.
• Chè hạt sen - made from lotus seeds
  • Chè sen dừa - made from lotus seeds and coconut water
  • Chè củ sen - made from lotus tubers
• Chè kê - made from millet
• Chè khoai lang - made from sweet potato
• Chè khoai mài (or chè củ mài) - made from Dioscorea persimilis
• Chè khoai mì (or chè sắn) - made from cassava flour
  • Chè sắn lát - made from sliced cassava
• Chè khoai môn - made from taro
  • Chè môn sáp vàng - made from a variety of taro grown in Huế
• Chè khoai mỡ (or chè khoai tía) - made from Dioscorea alata
• Chè khoai tây - made from potato
• Chè khoai từ (or chè củ từ) - made from Dioscorea esculenta
• Chè mè đen - made from black sesame seeds
• Chè sen - made from thin vermicelli and jasmine flavoured syrup

Jelliesedit

• Chè thạch or chè rau câu - made from agar agar
  • Chè thạch lựu - made from seaweed and other pomegranate seed-shaped tapioca pearls.
  • Chè thạch sen - made from seaweed and lotus seeds
• Sương sâm - jelly with Tiliacora triandra extract
• Sương sáo - Grass jelly
• Chè thạch sen - thin, vermicelli-like jellies.

Dumplingsedit

• Chè bột lọc from small cassava and rice flour dumplings
• Chè con ong (lit. 'bee sweet soup'; so named because this dish is viscous and yellow, like honey) - made from glutinous rice, ginger root, honey, and molasses– this is a northern dish, usually cooked to offer to the ancestors at Tết.
• Chè bánh xếp - green bean wrapped in a tapioca skin dumpling eaten in a coconut milk base with smaller pieces of tapioca. Translated to English, the dish is "folded cake dessert".
• Chè trôi nước or Bánh chay - balls made from mung bean paste in a shell made of glutinous rice flour; served in a thick clear or brown liquid made of water, sugar, and grated ginger root.

Fruits and plantsedit

• Chè chuối - made from bananas and tapioca (Vietnamese: bột báng or bột năng). Traditionally served warm.^[4]
• Chè dưa hấu - made from watermelon
• Chè nhãn - made from longan
• Chè xoài - made from mango
• Chè bưởi - made from pomelo oil and slivered rind
• Chè sầu riêng - made from durian

Mixededit

• Chè ba màu (lit. 'three colours chè') - usually including green mung beans, white black-eyed peas, and red azuki beans, although people can cook with any ingredients making any three colours they like (compare with halo halo).
• Chè đậu đỏ bánh lọt - red beans and bánh lọt.
• Chè thập cẩm (chè lẫn) meaning ten-ingredient sweet soup or mixed sweet soup is a mixture of various kinds of ingredients such as black-eyed peas, azuki beans, lotus seeds, mung beans, coconut, syrup, ice cream, milk and trân châu. This is one of the most popular forms of chè served in Vietnam.
• Chè trái cây (or chè hoa quả) - mixture of different fruits including pineapple, watermelon, apple, pear, mango, lychee, dried banana, cherry, and dried coconut with milk, yogurt, and syrup
• Chè bà ba - made from taro, cassava and khoai lang bí, a kind of sweet potato that is long, with red skin and yellow flesh.
• Chè bà cốt - made from expanded glutinous rice
• Chè thưng - name translates to combo dessert in Vietnamese. One version is made from dried red jujube, peanut, and dried Auricularia auricula-judae fungus, while another is made from taro, cassava, green bean, sea weed, and water chestnuts

Savory chè (chè mặn)edit

• Chè lạp xường (or chè lạp xưởng) - made from Chinese sausage
• Chè trứng đỏ - made from eggs and other ingredients
• Chè trứng - served with boiled eggs, either hot or cold, in a sweet soup base or sweet tea
• Chè bột lọc heo quay - made from bánh bột lọc filled with roasted pork
• Chè cá rô đồng - made from climbing perch

Foreign chèedit

• Bubur cha cha or Bocha - a Vietnamese interpretation of a popular sweet soup originating from Malaysia and Singapore, found in Hanoi.
• Chè Thái - a sweet fruit soup, which is believed to be a version of Thailand's tub tim krob, but the Vietnamese version uses a variety of tropical fruits, while the Thai version uses strictly chestnuts.

Galleryedit

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  Chè khúc bạch
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  Some ingredients to make a bowl of chè thập cẩm
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  Chè bà ba
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  Chè bắp
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  Chè đỗ xanh
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  Chè Thái
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  Hạt lựu is used in chè
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  Chè Thạch Trắng Đậu Xanh Nhãn Nhục
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  Chè đậu xanh nha đam
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  Chè đậu trắng
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  Chè hạt sen
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  Chè đậu đen
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  A bowl of Bánh chay
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  Chè chuối
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  Chè xí má
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  Sủi dĩn
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  Chè hoa quả
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  Chè khoai môn
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  Sâm bổ lượng
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  Chè xoài
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  Some new types of chè

See alsoedit

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chè.

• Vietnamese cuisine
• Cendol
• Halo halo
• Boba tea
• Tong sui

Referencesedit