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JA Vietnam is a coastal country with a coastline of over 3,260 km stretching from North to South, with nearly 3,000 large and small islands and 2 archipelagos Hoang Sa and Truong Sa. Of the 63 provinces and cities of the country, 28 provinces and cities have seas and nearly half of the population lives in coastal provinces and cities. With the great advantage of sea and islands, Vietnam's sea and island specialties are extremely diverse. Not only fresh and attractive, each region also has special dishes, helping to retain visitors every time they visit. Phu Quoc Express will suggest the TOP 5 typical specialties of each region, hoping to help you better understand the culinary culture of Vietnam's sea and islands in general. If you have the opportunity to buy a high-speed train ticket to travel to these locations, remember to try the list of delicious specialties on this list!
Geoduck (elephant snail) specialty of Cat Ba island
Cat Ba is an archipelago that attracts a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to visit every year. In addition to the charming seascape, clear blue water and white sand beaches, this place also attracts tourists with a unique seafood called geoduck.
Geoduck also has another name, the elephant snail, on the list of Vietnamese island specialties, rarely found anywhere. Nowadays, geoduck has become a very rare seafood not only because of its delicious taste but also because geoduck almost only grows in the Cat Ba sea area.
Anyone who has ever tasted this seafood dish will feel the special flavor it brings. Moreover, this is also a type of seafood with high nutritional value, good for health.
When traveling to Cat Ba Island, you must definitely enjoy delicious dishes made from grilled, salad, porridge, garlic-fried or simply steamed geoducks. The fresh, soft, sweet geoducks meat combined with spices such as dried onions, pepper, garlic, fish sauce, etc. make the dish even more irresistible.
Moon crab, a specialty of Phu Quy island
Phu Quy Island in Binh Thuan Province is a beautiful island in Vietnam. Coming here, in addition to experiencing swimming and watching coral, visitors can also enjoy moon crab. This is a delicious and expensive seafood in Vietnamese cuisine.
Phu Quy Island is not the only place to have this precious crab, but the moon crab here is considered the most delicious. Unlike other crabs, the moon crab has very strange round dots on its body. When steamed, the crab has a beautiful pink shell, the round dots turn into a deep red color, just looking at it is attractive.
Eating each piece of crab meat, dipping it with salt, pepper and lemon, then feeling the sweetness and firmness of the crab meat melting on the tip of your tongue is a wonderful experience when traveling to Phu Quy island. Because the crab meat is delicious and the quantity is small, the price is relatively high, ranging from 400,000 VND/kg or more.
Ocean tuna eyes, Phu Yen specialty
Tuna eyes are also known as “ocean headlights” to indicate the size of the eyes is too big, like a big lamp on the seabed. Because the fish is big, the eyes are also very big and heavy, on average about 100 – 200 grams/eye.
Perhaps because the fish eyes are so big, people do not dare to throw them away and use them to make many delicious dishes. From there, a Vietnamese seafood specialty was formed, loved by domestic and foreign tourists. After being pre-processed, the ocean tuna eyes will be cooked into many attractive dishes such as steaming, stewing with Chinese herbs, stewing with green pepper, hot pot, etc. Depending on each dish, the chef combines different spices such as Chinese herbs, green pepper, lemongrass, chili, pickled bamboo shoots, etc. to make the dish more attractive.
Among the above delicious dishes, steamed tuna eyes are considered the most popular and most loved by tourists. The combination of lemongrass, chili, pepper, salt, Chinese herbs and the natural sweetness of the fish eyes makes the dish attractive. You should enjoy this dish while it is still hot to avoid the fishy feeling.
Phan Thiet specialty hotpot
Phan Thiet is one of the famous tourist destinations with a long, clean coastline and many famous specialties. One of them is hotpot. Although this is not a special type of seafood, the way to prepare the dish is really interesting. It can be said that hotpot is one of the specialties of Vietnamese islands that has both culinary value and feng shui significance. This dish originates from the philosophy of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, with a balance between seafood, vegetables and hotpot broth.
The name hotpot somehow reflects the way the dish is presented and enjoyed. All ingredients such as anchovies, shredded fried eggs, pork belly, and raw vegetables are cleaned and placed in banana flower stems. When the hotpot water boils, diners will take turns dropping these ingredients in and enjoy.
Blue bone fish, Nam Du specialty
If you have the opportunity to travel to Nam Du archipelago, you will enjoy the delicious blue bone fish. This is the fish species that grows and develops the most in this archipelago. True to its name, this fish has a beautiful, sparkling emerald green skeleton. Whether alive or cooked, the fish bones are transparent, completely different from the opaque white color of other sea fish. This fish species is abundant in Nam Du, becoming one of the delicious seafood dishes of Vietnam that is loved by tourists.
Traveling to Nam Du, you will have the opportunity to enjoy this fish processed into many different dishes such as hot pot, grilled in foil, cooked with sim lo. If you want to buy it as a gift, you can choose dried blue bone fish, firm and sweet meat.
Each dish made from blue bone fish has a different flavor, depending on your preference, you can choose to enjoy the dish that suits your taste. Fish hotpot has a rich flavor of the cuisine of the Southwest. Meanwhile, grilled fish has a fragrant smell and sweet meat, making you "addicted" to it.
Vietnam's sea and islands are vast and vast with countless delicious specialties stretching from North to South. Each dish has its own deliciousness, eating it once will make you remember it forever.
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