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05/09/2016 19:50

Can Tho City’s Nice Dish: Ba Khía Rang Me (Freshwater Crabs Cooked with Tamarind Sauce)

If you have an opportunity to visit Can Tho City, you should save time to go Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Thoi Binh Ward, Ninh Kieu District to enjoy many unique delicacies from Ba Khia cooked in various ways such as boiling, frying, steaming… This street is also called "Ba Khia Street" by the locals!                 Pre-processed Ba Khía Every year in the flood season (from August to October, lunar calendar), when the dense holes beneath mangrove trees submerged in water, Ba Khia must move its homes on the surface of the water, up the tree trunks and roots. Ba Khia is in season during this time and people are ready to catch Ba Khia. When the tide is up in dark nights, people have their sampans approaching the roots of mangrove trees along the banks of the small irrigation canal.  All they have to do is to gently pull those lunaris Ba Khia off the trees and put them into the bags. During the rising...

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05/09/2016 19:47

Hotpot of Linh (Cirrhinus jullieni) Fish and Điên Điển (Sesbania Sesban) Flowers

It goes without saying that Linh Fish and Dien Dien flowers are typical features of the Western South during the flood season. Westerners have been proud of the abundant produce from the nature, especially the dish called Lẩu cá linh hoa điên điển (Hotpot of C.jullieni Fish and Sesbania Sesban Flowers). To prepare a delicious hotpot, you should choose very fresh Linh Fish, then gut them thoroughly, clean and put them in a little for drainage. After that, the fish will be marinated with garlic, pepper, sugar and salt for about 10 minutes.             Pour fresh coconut milk into a pot; add a few tablespoons of fish sauce, some sugar, scrap, tamarind in. Put in some fried garlic, some chopped coriander and then cook until it boils.  Such tender fish can be cook very quickly, so you can put them into the pot whenever the dish is served. While enjoying the dish, you can dip as many Sesbania Sesban flowers into the boiling broth in...

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05/09/2016 19:45

Phong Dien Fine Rice Vermicelli

Whenever you come to Can Tho City and have a chance to visit Phong Dien District full of fruit laden orchards, enjoying a 1-day picnic tour to try working as local farmers doing harvest activities such as vegetable gardening, boating and fishing, you should not miss Gardener Minh Canh’s house to enjoy fine rice vermicelli with roast pork prepared by himself.               Allium tuberosum are soaked by drizzles Allium tuberosum are soaked by drizzles I love a fatherless man Plain rice flans and round rice pancakes must have green onion to be delicious Fine rice vermicelli without allium tuberosum will be tasteless. Fine rice vermicelli is made from rice flour, is served with roast pork, herbs and fish sauce or spicy sweet and sour soya sauce. Southerners can have this dish covered by green onion slightly fried in fat or oil. People in the Central Part prefer it with groundnut or coconut oil , mixed with chopped...

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