Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival slated for March
HCMC – The 8th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival 2023 will take place in Buon Ma Thuot City in March, featuring
DAK LAK – If you like to drink coffee, and relax in the fresh natural space, Buon Ma Thuot can be your destination.
The two-day weekend experience in Buon Ma Thuot was suggested by Mr. Duy Khanh, a local and a group of friends from Ho Chi Minh City after a trip two weeks ago, mainly activities in the city. Meanwhile, a tour guide Buon Ma Thuot suggests activities in the suburbs.
Day 1
8:00am: Breakfast with vermicelli vermicelli
For a local, coming to Buon Ma Thuot, there are two things to definitely do: drink coffee and enjoy the green natural space. Let’s experience all the famous places in the city, eat vermicelli, grilled spring rolls and sit on sidewalk coffee, Khanh said.
Noodles with spring rolls is one of the dishes that attract tourists because of its strange name. The sausage is the part of the pig’s leg that is cut well, so that the lean and fat stick around a bone. Thoroughly stewed spring rolls, soft, the broth is a bit like Hue beef vermicelli but without fish sauce. When eating, diners add sweet and sour purple onion, chili pickled with fish sauce, a few slices of lemon, and raw vegetables.
Visitors can visit the shop on Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, right in the city center. In addition to spring rolls, the menu also has beef noodle soup, chicken and beef vermicelli, suitable for young children. Price from 40,000 to 85,000 VND a bowl.($1=24,000 VND)
9am: Coffee and a walk in Phu Dong park
Phu Dong Park on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street is recommended for visitors in the morning. Drinking coffee is a must when visiting Dak Lak. There are many large, beautifully designed cafes here. However, if you want to experience like a local, Mr. Duy Khanh suggests choosing a sidewalk restaurant in the park, enjoying the fresh air of the mountain town.
The quality of coffee in Buon Ma Thuot is quite uniform, so you can call any shop, the price is about 15,000 to 20,000 VND a cup, depending on the machine or filter. “Let’s order a cup of low-priced filter coffee and sip with the strong aroma of pure coffee. Buon Ma Thuot people are used to drinking boldly, but if tourists are not familiar, tell the shop owner to reduce the amount of coffee, otherwise if not easy to get drunk,” Khanh said.
11:30: Take a walk and take pictures in the city center
After drinking coffee, walk around the center, take photos at some beautiful and green roads such as Le Duan, Y Ngong, Le Hong Phong, Phan Dinh Giot… or Ban Me intersection right in the city center. street, where the Victory Monument is located.
The monument is considered as a symbol of the city, with the highlight being the steel tank number 980 – the vehicle that opened the historic battle of the Vietnamese army to retake the city of Buon Ma Thuot. This is the destination that tour programs all suggest to visit, where “seeing is knowing in Buon Ma Thuot”.
12h: Lunch with wet cake stacked on plate
Wet cake stacked plate, also known as 1k wet cake, Ban Me wet cake. This is one of the popular dishes in Buon Ma Thuot. Instead of serving each wet roll, the shop rolls the cake on a porcelain plate, spreads some cooking oil and adds dried shrimp on top. The plates are stacked on a high shelf, brought out for guests to roll themselves with grilled spring rolls, grilled meat, spring rolls, herbs, cucumbers… When eating, diners dip them with a handful of seasoning, sweet sauce or meat sauce. Each person eats full about 50,000 VND.
3pm: Coffee World Museum
The museum is a destination with a special design with a typical long house of the Central Highlands. The museum is located on Nguyen Dinh Chieu street, is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Buon Ma Thuot. In addition to introducing coffee and nuts, the museum also has a display area for many coffee-related antiques, a display area for works, books, newspapers and many beautiful photo corners.
From May to the end of August, there is an exhibition called “Trinh Cong Son – Inspiration from Zen and Coffee”. “I have learned about his life stories and his daily habit of enjoying coffee,” said Mr. Viet Anh. Buon Ma Thuot is also the place where musician Trinh Cong Son was born.
18h: Have dinner at Buon Ma Thuot night market
The night market is located at the crossroads, one of the busiest spots in the city center, convenient to explore food without spending too much time traveling. Visitors can enjoy many snacks such as grilled meat, spicy noodles, milk tea, ice cream or full dishes such as red vermicelli, vermicelli, chicken sticky rice, pancakes. After eating, visitors walk back to the square, a few hundred meters from the night market.
Day 2
8:00 am: Breakfast with dry noodles in Dak Lak
The noodle shop on Quang Trung street is famous for its dry noodle dish. The noodles are bigger and tougher than the southern noodles, mixed in a special sauce, topped with omelette, pork char siu, a few herbs such as celery, cilantro, lettuce and a piece. shrimp puff pastry. Diners eat noodles with a cup of broth.
“The first time eating this dish, the most obvious is the sweet and sour taste in the sauce, the noodles are soft, soaked in spices, with a little taste of vegetables that need to be eaten without being fed up,” commented Viet Anh.
10:00: Arrive in Buon Don and Lak Lake
After a day in the city center, on the second day visitors should go to Buon Don Tourist Center (Ban Don). This place is a small island of the Serepok River, a place for elephant taming along with the diversity of culture and cuisine of ethnic minorities.
From the beginning of 2023, Buon Don will no longer provide elephant riding services to conserve domestic elephants and switch to elephant-friendly tourism. Instead, visitors can still visit the Serepok River, admire the beauty of the 7-branch waterfall and the long houses of the people in the Central Highlands.
On the road on the outskirts of the city, visitors should combine visiting Lak lake. This is the second largest natural freshwater lake in the country, after Ba Be Lake. The lake is calm, the water is blue. Here, visitors can visit a long house with thatched roof, exchange gong culture, watch performances of stone and silk lutes with the M’Nong ethnic group in Buon Jun or take a boat trip across the lake.
Lunch on the lake with specialties of the Central Highlands such as bitter egg salad with anchovies, lam rice, ash soup, stone moss soup.
16h: Afternoon coffee by the stream
In the suburbs, about 15 minutes from the city center, visitors visit a cafe, a campsite by the stream. The campus is spacious, divided into many zones and has many spots for visitors to take pictures “virtual life” as they please without charge. On beautiful days, visitors can experience kayaking on the stream. After drinking coffee, you can have lunch here with a menu of hot pot and grilled dishes.
“Coffee by the stream or in the forest is a trend in Buon Ma Thuot recently. These types of coffee attract customers thanks to many check-in points, large space suitable for large groups. Cool day, just hold up. If you have a camera, you will have a good picture”, Mr. Duy Khanh suggested.
19h: Dinner with grilled spring rolls in Ninh Hoa
The row of grilled spring rolls on Ly Thuong Kiet street is Duy Khanh’s suggestion when “bored with rice”. There are two main dishes: grilled spring rolls and grilled spring rolls. Diners roll grilled spring rolls with vegetables, dipping meat sauce. And nem chua – the ideal target dish of men – dotted with sweet fish sauce.
In addition, in the evening, the weather in the Central Highlands is cool, suitable for visiting a restaurant specializing in grilled meat. In which, grilled wild boar with bamboo tube, grilled chicken and beef are popular with many people. Don’t forget to order a bottle of wine to warm your stomach. Garden stalls are usually spacious and airy, ideal for large groups or families to gather happily. Suggested address: Cuoi Garden, Hoa Kim Garden.
The attractions in Buon Ma Thuot are quite diverse. If you are a person who likes to relax, you can spend a full 2 days in the Lak Tented Camp area in Lak Lake with light sports activities such as walking, cycling, kayaking or relaxing reading books, listening to music. Dlieyang Wind Power Plant, Dak Lak Museum, Dray Nur waterfall cluster, Dray Sap, Gia Long – Dray Sap Thuong… can also be other alternative destinations.
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