Sap coconut - a strange, delicous and expensive kind of coconuts - a famous speciality of Tra Vinh province

Sap coconut - Cau Ke coconut wax was first planted in Tra Vinh province in 1924 after Thach So, the fourth head monk of Botum Saka Pagoda in Cau Ke District”s Hoa An Commune, was given Sap coconut by a Philippine classmate when he studied in Cambodia.

Sap coconut is also called coconut with thick pulp. Sap coconut is similar to ordinary coconut in form, but its pulp is very thick and sometimes fills most of the inside. The remaining coconut milk is as thick as glue.

Sap coconut pulp is as soft and viscid as condensed flour. In order to tell sap coconut and ordinary coconut apart, we use the back of a knife blade to knock on coconut shell. If it is a clear sound, it is ordinary coconut. But if it is an unclear sound or a heavy sound, it is sap coconut.

A bunch of coconuts from sap coconut tree usually contains 4 to 5 sap coconuts and even no sap coconuts. Sap coconut is used to make vitamin or we scrape the coconut pulp out to mix with milk and ice. One who ate sap coconut once would never forget its scent and fatty taste.

How to eat coconut wax, with many different styles. The most common is to use a tablespoon of grated fresh coconut meat to eat in place. White coconut meat in, soft as wax, taste, weird mouth, sweet and fat.

The second type due to variations very delicious and strange mouth. First, use a spoon scraping out the coconut (wax) for the disk, added sugar, condensed milk and crushed ice or in the refrigerator before eating. This taste like butter, chilled papaya but characteristic odor. Incense mingles with the aroma of coconut milk will create a sense of ecstatic, fat, cool and fresh, not mixed with any fruit.

If you want more attractive, possible for all the coconut mixture – the – milk into the blender will have a great drink items in hot season.

Commercial value of the coconut is very high. Average price of a coconut wax is from 200.000 VND to 300.000 VND depending on the quality and size.It is meaningful present for your family, friends and relatives.

 

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