Chot fish - a delicious freshwater fish in Bac Lieu, An Giang, rich people still crave for the fish sauce?

The fish sauce is delicious, soft, not too salty but has the toughness of the fish fibers that stimulates the taste buds.

Rumor has it that in the past, in the Bac Lieu and Chau Doc (An Giang) areas, goby fish would come up the river. In Bac Lieu, just by swinging a net, the goby fish would be caught in the net, and the net would have to be brought home and hung up to remove the fish.

In Chau Doc ( An Giang ), just use fragrant bait to attract fish, they will gather and shake their heads back and forth, their whiskers sticking out of the water.

People use three fingers to quickly grab them and bring them onto the boat, sometimes catching two or three at a time. Just one hour of catching goby fish is enough to make a small jar of fish sauce.

Soak the caught goby in cold water for about two hours, then shake it, cut off the two prongs at the head, remove the intestines, wash it, leave it outside to dry in the sun, then marinate it with salt. Salting goby is especially done with roasted salt to stop it from popping.

Chot fish - one of the delicious freshwater and river fish species, found in abundance in the countryside of Bac Lieu; Chau Doc (An Giang province).

Fish sauce is easy to eat after Tet.

For every 1kg of fish, add 1 cup of rice wine, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 cup of rice bran, 1 spoon of roasted salt. Mix well, put in a jar, seal tightly, let it ferment, after 7-10 days it is ready to use.

The secret to making good fish sauce is salt and alcohol. Fermented fish contains water vapor, so when eating, we should squeeze out the water.

Fish sauce is usually eaten raw – eat the fish, one fish is enough for one bite. A plate of fish sauce is eaten with galangal, ginger, chili…

Along with the vegetable plate, green banana, star fruit, pineapple are often present in home-cooked meals. In addition, fish sauce is also used to eat with cold rice, with sweet potatoes, indescribably delicious.

Nowadays, there are not as many goby fish as before, but goby fish has become popular in everything from braised dishes, sour soup to fish sauce.

And the goby fish has become an attractive specialty for gourmets, especially those looking to eat the goby fish sauce to remember their homeland.

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