With coconut cream, tropical fruits, and jelly, che Thai was named one of the top 100 cream-based dishes worldwide in TasteAtlas’s 2025 ranking of global culinary favorites.
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A serving of Thai-style sweet soup, topped with a piece of durian, in Da Nang. Photo courtesy of Tripadvisor |
Ranked 93rd, che Thai, or Thai-style sweet soup, is a dessert made with coconut milk or sweetened cream. This soup is filled with a mix of fruits like jackfruit, lychee, and durian. The dessert also comes with pandan-flavored jelly and water chestnuts, and is topped with ice and is best served cold.
In Ho Chi Minh City, a serving of che Thai costs between VND25,000 and 35,000 (US$1-140), depending on the toppings.
TasteAtlas had previously recognized that Thai as one of the top nine dishes featuring durian in a 2024 roundup.
For the 2025 “100 best rated dishes with cream” list, over 814,000 reviews were submitted, of which about 531,600 were verified as legitimate.
The top dish on the list is komplet lepinja from Serbia, a breakfast made of flatbread filled with kajmak cream, a dairy spread made from the top layer of milk fat. England’s clotted cream ice cream, made from Cornish milk and cream, ranked second, followed by the United States’ frozen custard, an ice cream-style dessert enriched with egg yolks.
