Famous specialty of Thanh Hoa, once full of no one to eat, now popular with women, 350,000 VND/kg

Thanh Hoa is not only known for a series of beautiful landscapes and tourist beaches, but also famous for its delicious dishes, including fish mam – a sauce that only this place has.

Fish sauce is a type of fish sauce made from fish – crustaceans like field crabs, but they are smaller in size and move faster than crabs. There are many different types of fish such as black fish, windy fish, red fish… And the fish sauce made from red fish is considered the most delicious, while the feathery fish according to folk beliefs is often very toxic, so it is not should be used as a sauce.

Fish – crustaceans are similar to field crabs, but they are smaller in size and move faster.

Ms. Nguyen Thanh (27 years old, Thanh Hoa) said: “Around the 5th lunar month, the weather in Thanh country starts to burn, which is also the time when people in the countryside invite each other to catch fish to make fish sauce or make fish sauce. eat.

The fish are taken home to be washed, then people will peel off their bibs, cut off their heads and put them in a mortar to grind. Next, this part will be mixed with salt, hearing and put into the tools to make fish sauce. After finishing, they let the fish dry in the sun for about 1 month. If it is sunny, the fish will ripen faster and have a very attractive aroma.

When cooked, fish sauce will be red, when you smell it, it will have a strong smell, but when you eat it, it will have a very fragrant and sweet smell. Therefore, this is an indispensable dish in the daily meals of the Thanh people.

When cooked, fish sauce will be red, when you smell it, it will have a strong smell, but when you eat it, it will have a very fragrant and sweet smell.

“In the rice tray of the people in my hometown, there is often an image of a bowl of fish sauce made from fish, next to it is a plate of boiled water spinach, a bowl of salted eggplant and a plate of pork belly… Especially in cold weather or drizzle, you just need to eat hot rice under fish sauce and you will feel great. Some of my friends can’t eat shrimp paste and shrimp paste, but when they returned to Thanh Hoa, they found it strange that they tried it. Then they fell in love and said they couldn’t forget this taste,” said Nguyen Thanh.

In the rice tray of the villagers, there is often an image of a bowl of fish sauce made from fish, next to it is a plate of boiled water spinach, a bowl of salted eggplant and a plate of pork belly…

Fish sauce can be used to season the soup with one of the vegetables or mix it with minced garlic, chili powder, monosodium glutamate, and lemon juice to mix with boiled dishes or salads, pickles or have can be eaten directly with rice. But the most common use of fish sauce is to use it as a dipping sauce for boiled vegetables such as water spinach, sweet potato, amaranth, pickles, salted eggplant and fish sauce.

“Besides the shops selling fish sauce in Thanh Hoa, visitors can buy fish sauce on e-commerce sites for from 300,000 to 350,000 VND/kg,” said Ms. Nguyen Thanh.