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Cơm hến Hoa Đông
Family-run alleyway kitchen serving clam rice from a recipe passed down twelve generations.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cơm hến Hoa Đông in Huế follows Bà Hoa, the twelfth generation of a family that has kept one clam-rice recipe alive, from years spent selling it street by street on a shoulder pole to running this small alley restaurant today. It traces the dish back more than two centuries to a nameless fishing couple on Cồn Hến island, and to the question of how a meal built from leftovers found its way toward Huế's royal court. Listen for how far one bowl of rice and clams can travel.
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