Young linh fish, a delicious fish from the West, this is a specialty fish that only appears once a year.

Fragrant, delicious, soft, sweet… are the adjectives that diners use to describe linh fish, a specialty fish of the Western region that only appears once a year during the flood season.

As an eternal rule, the flood season in the West and linh fish have a relationship like shape and shadow. When the Mekong River floods into the Mekong Delta, it is also the time when linh fish appear in overwhelming numbers among the aquatic species of the flood season, especially in the upstream localities such as An Giang and Dong Thap.

But what's more unique is that when the flood in the Mekong Delta recedes after more than 3 months of rising according to natural laws, linh fish also disappears from the natural environment, except for a few that fall into ponds and lakes... In other words, this is an endemic aquatic species of the Mekong Delta flood season and only appears once a year.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why people honor the fish species whose adult body is only as big as an adult's finger, with an extremely great title: "spiritual" as in spiritual response...

And more magical when following the appearance of linh fish are a variety of special vegetables eaten with it, such as: water lily, sesbania...

Linh fish can be processed into the most dishes in the list of aquatic species in the West. With its fragrant, delicious, soft, sweet quality, Linh fish becomes a specialty dish when processed in any form from braised, fried, sour soup, etc. corresponding to its age.

The Mekong Delta is in flood season, tourists should come and try linh fish. Then surely tourists will expand their culinary experience to appreciate and love the southern land of the Fatherland more.

Starting from July, when water from the upper Mekong River flows strongly, the Mekong Delta enters the flood season, recently known as flood. This is also the time when linh fish appear.

Although it only appears in the Mekong Delta for more than 3 months during the flood season, linh fish grows quickly. Therefore, people in the West have been very smart in inventing many types of suitable fishing gear.

When linh fish are at the beginning of the season, they are still small, so they use a bait and a bottom trap. When they are a little bigger, they use a pestle, and then a net to catch them... In the photo, people use bait to catch linh fish.

During flood season, linh fish dominate the aquatic species list in natural river environments.

A fresh batch of linh fish.

The fish has a small body, the adult is only as big as an adult's finger. Because the meat is naturally fragrant, soft, sweet... linh fish can be processed into many delicious dishes depending on their age. At the beginning of the flood season, when the fish are still small, it is the best time to process the dish of braised with sour tamarind, or cuc fruit...