Phan Thiet flavor through dipping sauce

Phan Thiet's traditional fish sauce has been praised for its deliciousness ever since. With a rich source of various types of sea fish caught every year, a part of which has been fermented to make fish sauce, including the two fish species with the most protein, anchovies and mackerel, the rest are other types of fish. The salty, delicious flavor and rich protein of sea fish have created a type of fish sauce as a rich main spice to season dishes in Vietnamese cuisine and regional cuisine. However, fish sauce is only the main spice like a dish, only when processed, combined with other spices to suit each different dish, can it be called a dipping sauce. Fish sauce is a common name for a pure spice ingredient, but dipping sauce is a culinary art. It is combined, mixed to form each type to suit each main ingredient and create a delicious dish, suitable for everyone's taste depending on the region. The dipping sauce is always improved and supplemented to become a specialty dish recognized by everyone.

In the flow of Vietnamese cuisine, from ordinary everyday dishes, people have processed, improved, and combined to create new dishes. Types of cakes such as: banh cuon, banh xeo, banh can, banh beo, banh hoi. Types of pho such as: beef pho, pork pho, chicken pho. Mixed salad dishes made from fish, shrimp, snails or squid. From purely everyday dishes have led to more elaborately prepared dishes to change the way of enjoying, to reduce boredom, to reduce boredom, to eat the same dish all the time and also to increase novelty, change and stimulate the taste. But in general, the special thing about Vietnamese cuisine is in the dipping sauce and the way of mixing. Each dish, each type of processed food is associated with a special and suitable dipping sauce that has been summarized through each stage. When it is called a dipping sauce, it is no longer simply plain fish sauce, but has been processed, combined, and blended with other spices in different, more diverse and sophisticated ways.

In Phan Thiet, in addition to the usual dishes like other localities. There are also cakes, salads, grilled seafood. Harmoniously combined with each type of dipping sauce specially prepared according to local methods, suitable for everyone's taste without being confused with anything else. As for banh hoi, banh can, banh xeo, banh quai vac, banh canh, each type has its own combination. Banh can, banh hoi, banh xeo have similar dipping sauces, using large red ripe chili peppers, fresh garlic, tomatoes, sugar, fish sauce, crushed together and mixed with fish sauce to suit the taste of the eater. There is only one dipping sauce, but banh hoi is combined with boiled pork intestines or steamed fish cakes. Banh can must be accompanied by eggs, braised mackerel, meatballs, and pork skin. Banh xeo must have lemon juice in the dipping sauce. The same type of spices such as: chili, garlic, sugar, lemon or vinegar, but the mixture has a different taste depending on the dish. As for banh canh and banh quai vac, they are dipped or poured with a dipping sauce of sugar, sliced chili, and good fish sauce, just mixed and not pounded. For salads, because the main ingredients are often seafood from the sea with a strong fishy smell. So the deliciousness of the salad, which can overcome the fishy smell of fish, squid, snails, shrimp, and crab, depends on the dipping sauce. A typical example is mai fish salad, this type of salad has many versions: dry salad, water salad, mixed salad, and released salad, and the dipping sauce is also very elaborate. Also chili, garlic, sugar, fish sauce, but also roasted peanuts, boiled tomatoes, and ripe bananas. Crush everything together, add tomatoes and bananas and mash, then add sugar, fish sauce, and cooled boiled water to make the dipping sauce taste good. A delicious dish requires a lot of effort, this salad is served with Bac Binh sesame rice paper and cannot be criticized. Phan Thiet, invite everyone to come eat raw fish salad, eat hot banh can at night, eat steamed fish cake noodle soup, and other special seafood of the coastal homeland!

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