TasteAtlas, which is dedicated to discovering fresh ingredients, traditional dishes, and authentic restaurants from all around world, placed the Vietnamese dessert at 82nd on its list.
The colourful local delicacy belongs to the category of desserts, drinks, puddings, porridges, and soups regarding its consistency. It might include sticky rice, tapioca pearls, lotus seeds, sweet beans, water chestnuts, or agar jelly, it wrote.
Regardless of the wide variety of ingredients used in Chè, they are almost always drenched in coconut milk and additionally garnished with bananas, crushed peanuts, or other toppings, TasteAtlas recommended.
The dish can be served either hot or cold, although it is especially popular among people who eat it as a chilly treat on hot summer days, the website noted.
TasteAtlas was originally founded in 2015 and is an experiential travel online guide for traditional food that collates authentic recipes, food critic reviews, and research articles about popular ingredients and dishes.
Describing itself as "a world atlas of traditional dishes, local ingredients, and authentic restaurants", it features an interactive global food map with dish icons shown in their respective regions and purportedly contains nearly 10,000 dishes, drinks, and ingredients, as well as 9,000 restaurants.
The site hands out TasteAtlas awards for categories like best traditional dish, best cuisine, best traditional food city, and others.
