"Hey! Come to Thap Muoi area,
Fish and shrimp are ready to catch, rice is ready to eat.
When visiting Dong Thap Muoi, tourists can not only enjoy dishes made from various types of fish and wild vegetables, but also savor delicious and unique dishes created by the local people using readily available ingredients, such as: cobra snake cooked with mung bean porridge, grilled snakehead fish wrapped in young lotus leaves, linh fish sour soup with water hyacinth flowers, grilled rat... These dishes are simply prepared but very nutritious, carrying the flavors of the countryside.
The first dish to mention is "sour fish soup cooked with water mimosa flowers".
Catfish cooked with sour soup
Same with the wild cotton flower, no dish is inferior.
During the flood season, paddling a boat through the vast expanse of water, casting a few nets, one can catch a bountiful haul of fresh snakehead fish. While waiting, people steer their boats along the banks of the water hyacinth to pick the bright yellow flowers. With that, the ingredients for sour soup are ready; adding some herbs, sawtooth coriander, cinnamon, dill, and a few chili peppers makes for a wonderfully fragrant and delicious pot of sour soup.
On a cool afternoon, next to a pot of steaming rice, enjoy a bowl of sour soup with linh fish and dien dien flowers, accompanied by a bowl of dipping sauce..., all blend together to create the wonderful flavor of Dong Thap Muoi region that cannot be found anywhere else.
Another specialty of Dong Thap Muoi region is snake. Snake is a favorite dish of gentlemen, especially in parties in the countryside. All kinds are delicious, but the best is "cobra cooked with green bean porridge".
Tiger onion green bean porridge
Delicious beyond words, cool and refreshing.
Enjoying a bowl of steaming green bean porridge with snakehead fish, we will feel the toughness of the snake skin, the sweetness of the snake meat, the fatty taste of green beans, and the spicy aroma of fish sauce. There is nothing better.
The rice harvest season in the Dong Thap Muoi region coincides with the field rat harvest season. A bunch of field rats, a charcoal grill, unripe mangoes, unripe bananas, and herbs can be used to prepare grilled rat. The sweet, fragrant taste of the rat meat, combined with the aroma of the fresh herbs, the salty, spicy dipping sauce, and the sourness of the mangoes, makes it a dish you can eat again and again without getting tired of it.
One must-try specialty when visiting Dong Thap Muoi is "grilled snakehead fish wrapped in young lotus leaves".
"Catch a snakehead fish and grill it.
Make a tray of white wine to treat a distant friend.
Grilled snakehead fish is a rustic dish that does not require any preparation (meaning no scaling, no slime scraping, no gutting, and no seasoning). The cooked fish is removed and the burnt scales are scraped off, revealing a golden, dry skin, covered with fragrant white fish meat inside.
To fully appreciate the deliciousness of grilled snakehead fish wrapped in young lotus leaves, it must be served with vermicelli, cucumber, fresh vegetables, and a tamarind fish sauce dip. The slightly bitter and crunchy texture of the lotus leaves, the slightly bitter taste of the fish skin, the naturally sweet and fragrant flavor of the fish meat, and the tamarind fish sauce combine to create a unique and satisfying taste that you can eat again and again without getting tired of it.
And it would be a big mistake not to mention the braised fish dish because it is the most complete expression of local specialties, imbued with the Southern style because this dish contains almost all the natural products here, from fish, eel, shrimp... braised with fish sauce or linh fish sauce, served with natural vegetables such as bitter vegetables, water mimosa, elephant ear, wild vegetables..., especially water lily and water chives are two indispensable types.
Want to eat lotus and fish sauce
Then go to Dong Thap to eat to your heart's content.
Visiting Dong Thap Muoi is like returning to the roots of history, admiring breathtakingly beautiful and indescribable natural scenery, breathing in the fresh, cool air, gazing at the vast rice paddies, endless melaleuca forests, and fragrant lotus fields. Visitors will also enjoy the flavors of rustic dishes made with readily available natural ingredients, easy to prepare, delicious, and very healthy. This is the unique culinary characteristic of Dong Thap Muoi.
HONG LE
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