• Delicious dishes from goby fish
  • Ngoc Hien has many specialties and delicious dishes
  • Rich in delicious dishes of Ca Mau
  • Cuisine of the Chinese people of Ca Mau

Barramundi caught from the ecological shrimp pond of Ca Mau farmers.

According to the auspicious culture of the East in general and the Chinese community in particular, fish symbolizes abundance and wealth. In folk paintings such as: Tet paintings, housewarming or opening congratulatory paintings... the image of the carp is always associated with the blessing phrase written on the painting: "nien nien huu du". Likewise, in the offerings, New Year's Eve meals, or in the year-end thanksgiving ceremony, fish dishes are indispensable, mainly steamed fish dishes.

To date, the steamed fish dish of the Chaozhou community has become a cultural delicacy, expressing the desire to rise up, to reach happiness and to constantly develop. That is closely associated with many folk tales that people have long congratulated each other as “carp jumping over the dragon gate” to become a dragon. Among the dishes made from fish, barramundi and goby are always chosen as products that nature bestowed upon the land of nine dragons.

Teochew steamed fish dish combines color, aroma and taste.

With culinary talent, Teochew people's fish dishes are rich. If you want to eat it simply, you can steam it with soy sauce, red chili or satay sauce. If you want to eat it "luxurious", you can steam it with red sauce or soy sauce, black beans, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, snow fungus, vermicelli, ginger, red onion, green onion, celery, green chili... Not to mention the fried fish with five-spice sauce, which is both fatty and crispy, and has a light sweet taste, with the sour taste of eggplant, the aroma of pineapple, the salty aroma of pickled plums, along with Chinese cabbage, white onion and coriander. You can eat until the fish bones are exposed and you still want to eat.

The fish became a sacrificial object with the meaning of good luck and the desire for happiness of the Chinese community.

The most important thing that determines the quality of the fish dish is that the fish must be fresh, as well as the technique of removing the fishy smell of the fish with fresh ginger or rice wine...

Ca Mau is blessed by nature, so the inclusion of Chaozhou fish on the menu for tourists also needs attention when the fish has been raised to the level of identity. Not only that, the fish also has many stories, and the song "under the river there are goby fish, on the shore there are Chaozhou fish" is proof of the specialty which is considered a resource that creates strength, identity and competitive advantage for Ca Mau tourism . This resource will be maximized when fish, crabs and shrimp all become cultural delicacies.

Lam Hy

Source: https://baocamau.vn/mon-ca-hap-cua-nguoi-trieu-chau-ca-mau-khat-vong-hoa-rong--a121159.html