page_title: Chè
section_title: Fruits and plants
hierarchical_section_title: Chè / Varieties / Fruits and plants
caption_attribution_description: English: Bowl of Vietnamese dessert. Purple taro, light yellow cassava, seaweed, green bean, tapioca, and water chestnuts.
context_page_description: Chè is any traditional Vietnamese sweet beverage, dessert soup or pudding. Varieties of Chè are made with mung beans, black-eyed peas, kidney beans, tapioca, jelly, fruit, and coconut cream. Other types are made with ingredients such as salt, aloe vera, seaweed, lotus seed, sesame seed, sugar palm seeds, taro, cassava and pandan leaf extract. Some varieties, such as chè trôi nước, may also include dumplings. Chè are often prepared with one of a number of varieties of beans, tubers, and/or glutinous rice, cooked in water and sweetened with sugar. In southern Vietnam, chè are often garnished with coconut creme.
  The preparations are named with the addition of qualifying adjectives referring to a wide variety of distinct soups or puddings which may be served either hot or cold. Each variety of chè is designated by a descriptive word or phrase that follows the word chè, such as chè đậu đỏ.
  Chè may be made at home, but are also commonly sold in plastic cups at Vietnamese grocery stores.
  In northern Vietnam, chè is also the word for the tea plant. Tea is also known as nước chè in the North or more commonly trà in both regions.
context_section_description: Chè hoa quả (northern dialect) or chè trái cây (southern dialect) - mixture of different fruits including pineapple, watermelon, apple, pear, mango, lychee, dried banana, cherry, and dried coconut with milk, yogurt, and syrup
  Chè nhãn - made from longan
  Chè xoài - made from mango
  Chè trái vải - lychee and jelly
  Chè bưởi - made from pomelo oil and slivered rind
  Chè chuối - made from bananas and tapioca (Vietnamese: bột báng)
  Chè sầu riêng - made from durian
  Chè thốt nốt - made from sugar palm seeds
  Chè mít - made from jackfruit
  Chè lô hội - made from Aloe vera
  Hột é - made from Sterculia lychnophora extract and basil seeds
caption: One version of the chè thưng
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