On June 17, global culinary consulting site TasteAtlas (headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia) announced a list of 84 best seafood dishes in Southeast Asia.

TasteAtlas experts have surveyed many street foods with strong local flavors to create this quality list.

Vietnam is honored to have 18 dishes included in the "guidebook". Among them, sour fish soup is ranked second in the list by the prestigious magazine.

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Canh chua ca is highly rated by TasteAtlas. Screenshot

TasteAtlas writes, the term "canh chua ca" is used to refer to a variety of Vietnamese fish soups, characterized by a combination of sweet, spicy, and sour flavors.

“Soups are often made with broths containing tamarind or pineapple, tomatoes, okra, bean sprouts or other vegetables,” says TasteAtlas.

The prestigious magazine revealed that most of these soups use catfish, but there are also some soups that use carp, eel and salmon. These soups are often added with cilantro and served with rice.

Other Vietnamese dishes made from fish also on the list include braised fish in clay pot, La Vong fish cakes, fish noodles, Vu Dai village braised fish, grilled snakehead fish, fried elephant ear fish, linh fish hotpot with water mimosa flowers in the West...

Vietnamese dried squid, crab noodle soup, jellyfish salad, mussel rice, and crab-fried vermicelli also received many compliments from experts and readers of TasteAtlas for their flavor and creativity.

Founded in 2015, TasteAtlas is known as a map that brings together traditional dishes from all over the world .

According to Matija Babić, founder of TasteAtlas, the food and beverage rankings are based on opinions and reviews from experts and food critics to ensure the reliability of the awards.

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