Food · 20 October 2025 · 5 min
Hue's court cuisine, refined and meticulous, is still handed down in a few garden houses.
Legend has it that Emperor Tu Duc demanded fifty dishes at every meal, prepared by fifty cooks. Imperial cuisine inherited this taste for detail: rolls carved as phoenixes, tiny rice cakes, layered sauces.
Today, a few families descended from the court keep these recipes alive in their garden houses. We arrange private dinners there, accompanied by court music.
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