The taste of flood season with linh fish

The flood season brings with it many products of fish, shrimp, and wild vegetables. Among them, linh fish is a very popular specialty with many diverse ways of processing.

Linh fish is a white fish that lives in flowing water, so it only appears during the flood season, and usually eats algae. Following the tide, the fish swim in schools to the fields, rivers and canals. The fish are usually small: adults can be bigger than two fingers, while small fish are only as big as chopsticks. Accordingly, depending on size, linh fish are divided into many types: edge linh, tube linh, bran linh, and milk linh.

The best linh fish is the first fish of the season, the size of a chopstick, often called young linh fish or milk linh fish, sweet meat, soft bones, belly with lots of fatty fat. Linh fish has a lot of protein, high nutritional content, easy to prepare and cooks quickly, sweet meat so it is often loved by tourists.

Crispy fried linh fish in a rustic meal in the West. Photo: Kieu Mai

With linh fish, people can also prepare many delicious rustic dishes such as: linh fish braised with pepper, braised with salt, braised with sugarcane, fried, sour soup with sesban flowers and chopsticks or hot pot with fish sauce. The way to prepare the dishes is also simple and quick. The fish is washed, slimed with a little salt. With young linh fish, milk linh fish, people often keep the fish whole for processing; as for late-season linh fish, large fish, the intestines in the fish's belly are usually cleaned and removed. When the fish is cleaned, it can be dipped in hot pot, cooked in soup with a rustic, naturally sweet flavor.

In addition, linh fish is often loved when fried. For those who like the natural flavor, just fry it in a pan with oil to have crispy fish. If not, the fish can be marinated with a little salt, or coated with a little frying flour to create a new flavor. Fried fish has a sweet, fatty, crispy taste, mixed with the aroma of garden vegetables, very unique.

During the flood season, when coming to Can Tho , visitors can enjoy delicious dishes made from linh fish at restaurants, or eateries with the taste of home-cooked meals: Bep Xua Countryside Rice, Hoi Do Restaurant, Que Ngoai Claypot Rice, Bep Xua - Com Nha Ngoai...

MINH NHIEN

Source: https://baocantho.com.vn/huong-vi-mua-nuoc-noi-voi-ca-linh-a191051.html