Back in Long An, tasting 5 special foods that “pierce people’s hearts”, just mentioning their names makes you hungry

Fish and Sour Soup

For the simple and rural Vietnamese, sour soup is all too familiar in the everyday diet, but in Long An, sour soup is a well-known dish, this rural specialty.

This long fish sour soup is special because the main ingredient is fish peg – a type of catfish, not big in size, the largest is only 1kg. Many peckfish live in the Southwest region, it is not difficult to find them in this area. Fish pins are used to prepare various types of dishes such as chili lemongrass, boiled, fried, … but the best thing is to keep cooking sour soup. Long An people know very well how to choose fish to cook soup, they choose quality, fresh fish and lots of eggs. The ingredients are only fish, young tamarind leaves, okra, tomatoes and spices, but with separate processing, sour fish soup is the specialty here.

Tamarind fish soup has a fatty and fleshy fish taste, a slightly tart sour taste and a spicy aroma that combine to create a delicious and rich dish.

Can Giuoc fish sauce?

The specialty of Long An that captivates people’s hearts, next is the Can Giuoc fish sauce – a Southern dish.

The best crabs are harvested on May 5th. At this time the taste is very good and the processing is not complicated. First, after washing the handcuffs, the chef would grind them with salt, then dry them in the sun for 3-4 days. After this period of time, the handcuffs will be squeezed to extract the juice and continue to be dried in the sun until the fish paste thickens and turns black like mud.

Fish sauce goes well with pork belly, raw vegetables, fresh vermicelli or cucumber. This dish plays an important role in the diet of the Southern people. While enjoying the fish sauce, don’t forget to sip a glass of wine to fully absorb the delicacy of this special dish.

Siamese noodle soup

Bun Xiem Lo is a dish originating from Cambodia, but is very popular with Vietnamese tourists because it has been slightly modified to suit the tastes of the Vietnamese people.

Unlike many types of vermicelli in Long An, the vermicelli noodle broth is usually cooked from cork fish, not pork bones. Therefore, this dish always has a sweet taste and distinctive aroma when eaten. In addition, enjoying vermicelli noodles is also very necessary with complementary vegetables such as: rafters, ears, kale, …

pickled pork

Pickled pork is a dish that originates from the customs of the Muong people, often appearing at festivals, festivals or weddings. To make this dish it is necessary to know how to prepare it specifically because it is combined with various types of forest leaves such as jackfruit leaves, cinnamon, areca nut… besides pork.

The pork used for preservation needs to be carefully selected in order to produce the best quality, the tastiest. People often choose sprouted pork that is raised in a freestyle for a long time to ensure the firmness of the meat. After the pork is cut into pieces, salting and pounding the dried rhizomes, mixed with glutinous rice wine and brewed with jungle leaves. Only one to two weeks later, you can open and enjoy this special dish of pickled pork.

The Long An pickled pork has a special flavour, both fleshy and rich, with the salty saltiness and sour taste of the jungle yeast, all blended together to create an interesting specialty. Therefore, it is not difficult to find this dish in the big markets in Long An province.

Grilled cork fish

Grilled cork fish is a famous specialty food from the land of Long An. This dish attracts diners because of its delicious and irresistible taste. After the initial processing, the snakehead fish will take fresh bamboo sticks to be stabbed into the fish’s mouth. Next the fish will be plugged into the ground and covered with dry straw so that until the straw is completely burned, the fish is also cooked.

Snakehead fish after roasting will be peeled off the charred skin and sprinkled with a little peanut fat and onions. This will definitely be a dish that you can’t stand if you come to Long An land!

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