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Muoi Cuong Garden – Phong Dien district, Can Tho city

Muoi Cuong Garden  (Phong Dien district, Can Tho city) is a favorite destination for visitors. It is famous not only for various kinds of Southern fruits but also for cocoa. Beside visiting and enjoying fruits, visitors can buy products from cocoa as gifts.

It takes about 30 minutes by road and about 40 minutes by boat from Can Tho city to Muoi Cuong Garden . The first image in the visitors’ eyes is a cool and spacious place. This is known as a community tourist site of My Khanh commune, Phong Dien district, Can Tho city. As many gardens in the region, Muoi Cuong Garden has a lush orchard with a variety of Southern fruits.

The different point of Muoi Cuong Garden with the others in the region is cocoa. Cocoa is considered as an industrial tree, but it is grown in the orchard with many different trees. Especially, after the harvest, Mr. Cuong not only exports rough cocoa but also processes cocoa with manual methods into final products serving visitors.

With Mr. Cuong’s skillful hands, cocoa can be processed to some products, such as: cocoa wine, cocoa candy, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, ect. The cocoa processing is quite elaborate. After picking, cocoa is peeled, fermented, dried, roasted, and crushed. There are different processes depending on the product you want. Besides processing, cocoa fruit can be eaten raw. Its flavor is very specific, unlike mangosteen, Southern Ha Chau mulberry, wampee, Northern brindle berry, cocoa has the sweet and sour of a refined flavor which is difficult to describe.