The land located in the southernmost part of the country – Ca Mau is not only a famous tourist destination but also possesses many delicious – unique – strange dishes. U Minh fish sauce hotpot, salt roasted turtle, wild bee sauce, ba khia, Ca Mau dried shrimp, … are Ca Mau specialties that make it difficult for visitors to resist visiting this place.
Discover 12 delicious Ca Mau specialties – unique – strange
1. U Minh fish sauce hotpot:
Referring to Western cuisine, the hot pot can not be ignored. This is a familiar dish from the restaurant to the restaurant of the Southern River. So is U Minh fish sauce hotpot dish, this is the most famous specialty of Ca Mau. With main ingredients including delicious sauce, carefully selected fish, shrimp and other seafood combined with typical vegetables of the U Minh – Ca Mau region, through skillful cooking hands of The housewives or by their talents of making super delicious drinks, you will create the famous
U Minh sauce hotpot. Sauce sauce after buying will be carefully combed bones and seasoned with monosodium glutamate and sugar to taste. For when cooking, the hot pot broth is flavored, people also add a little minced lemongrass leaves until smooth, the base of the lemongrass is used by beating it into the hotpot. The more special thing is that the hotpot broth is also seasoned with a little cow’s milk instead of sugar for a fat, aromatic and smoother taste. U Minh fish sauce hotpot is suitable for many types of meat or fish, seafood, but the most suitable is copper fish. The best choice is to add eel, perch, big snakehead fish or white catfish, …
U Minh fish sauce hotpot is a famous culinary brand of the Southern people.
The vegetables served with this Ca Mau specialty hotpot are very diverse and unique because of the full convergence of flavors of domestic wind. Water lilies, water spinach with broccoli, bitter vegetables combined with cilantro, fresh green longan, banana, and also mushrooms, crayfish … all neatly arranged like a colorful picture Color evokes the excitement and curiosity of each customer.
Vegetables served with hot pot varied and rich.
U Minh fish sauce hotpot is really not easy to eat for many people, but once eaten, it can only be crushed.
2. Three grooves:
Ba Khach Goc is one of Ca Mau specialties that is quite strange to many tourists. Learn more closely, this kind of three knots is a very unique specialty of Rach Goc because only here, the three-ribs are really delicious and attractive. Especially around July and August of the lunar calendar every year, the three grooves of Rach Goc are even more “delicious” because this is the time in season. Local people believe that the bacon here is more fragrant and firmer than the three groats in other places because they often eat the black fish sauce that falls into the mud, the coastal alluvial soil, so it is firm and also has a lot of lipstick. delicious.
Salt-roasted three grooves – a specialty dish at the end of the country.
The three aspects brought back are not only used to make the famous three-faceted fish sauce, but also processed into other equally delicious dishes such as: Three fried salts with salt, three aspects boiled lemongrass, fried tamarind, three aspects fried fish sauce, …
Salted rice with white rice, delicious food all rice on rainy days.
3. Fried rice with tamarind:
Ca Mau’s specialty dish, called ram, has a small shape, at first glance quite ugly but very popular with “food connoisseurs”. Many people believe that this dish is even better than crab because the fleshy meat is soft, sweet, fatty, and crunchy (when eaten, you can chew the shell) but there are many bricks. The most special is the brown egg. When fully cooked, the glossy black viscous part, which is bound by tiny particles inside the female plait, will become a brick red plastic block with a fatty taste, fragrant and delicious.
The dish has an unforgettable taste.
4. Dried goby fish:
Being a land adjacent to the sea, many rivers with an alternating water wave area, the list of Ca Mau specialties is indispensable for fish, both sea fish and copper fish, but the most prominent is goby. Ca Mau dried goby fish is always in the top of the most delicious Ca Mau specialties. Ca Mau peninsula region has been famous for so many goby fish in the past that the saying that the mouth of the people here is “floating goby fish is like falling blind”.
Dried goby fish is the favorite drink of the uncle here. For visitors to Ca Mau, this is an attractive sip and extremely suitable for a cup of tamarind fish sauce. This dish served with white rice is also extremely attractive.
Dried goby fish with delicious tamarind fish sauce forget melancholy.
5. Bee pup salad:
Not only is the land of rivers and seas, but Ca Mau is also famous for its vast primary mangrove forests. So this place has a lot of bees, both natural and raised by the people. These specialty Mau nực so indispensable dishes from bees. Bee wax after being brought back from the forest by workers will make many dishes, but the best dish is still bee pupa salad. The combination of the sticky, fatty and slightly creamy flavors of the bee pupae and the sour, spicy flavors of lemon, vinegar, and chili make a unique and interesting dish.
Bee pupae are a famous Ca Mau specialty.
Bee pupae salad who eat once will remember forever forever.
6. Forest bee sauce:
In the southernmost land of Ca Mau, when the bee is honey, people will guard the bee and use a sharp knife to cut the nest to extract the honey. The small, soft and fragrant bees in the hive will be taken out and used to cook porridge, fry fat or dry storage … However, Ca Mau people also think of a very unique way of processing. is bee sauce. This new dish is extremely strange, often used “lai rai” to relieve sadness and can be stored for longer. This is a Ca Mau specialty that anyone who has eaten will hardly forget its taste.
U Minh forest bee sauce is a unique specialty of the southernmost part of the country.
7. Fried brown fish with lemongrass and chilli:
Brown fish in Ca Mau has fatty, sweet and delicious meat. The fish is quite large, so there is very little bone, especially with many nutrients, so housewives in the Cape region in particular and the West in general are very popular. Ca Mau brown fish can be processed into dishes such as fresh fried, grilled salt and chili, stewed with white radish, cooked hot pot, … But the best dish is still fried brown fish with lemongrass and chilli. This Ca Mau specialty is an addictive dish for any diners. So if you travel to Ca Mau, you must be extremely “careful” lest you gain uncontrolled weight again.
Brown fish in Ca Mau has fatty, sweet and delicious meat.
8. Ca Mau dried shrimp:
Dried shrimp is one of the famous Ca Mau specialties. For the Ca Mau, it is the best dried shrimp made in Rac Goc commune, Ngoc Hien district, Ca Mau province. Every November of lunar year is the time when people in Rach Goc re-start the dry shrimp season. In order to produce delicious dried shrimp with moderate salinity while still achieving food safety quality, in the past, people used to boil and dry them manually, but today with increasing demand from customers for quality. And in quantity, many households have invested in a dryer to produce more and still ensure the deliciousness of the shrimp.
Dried shrimp are imbued with the flavor of the Ca Mau river.
7. Turtle roasted with salt:
Ca Mau is a land rich in products from rivers and seas. Among Ca Mau specialties known to many people, it is indispensable for turtles. In the past, there were large number of stork turtles here that were processed into many delicious dishes. But recently, in order to protect wildlife, including natural turtles, the Ca Mau province government has banned and restricted hunting and trading of natural turtles, only allowing the trade of farmed turtles. Wild turtles or farmed turtles can make many delicious and nutritious dishes. The most delicious of them is still the salt roast turtle, easy to make, easy to find spices. Visitors who enjoy this dish will experience the special rustic cuisine of the native Ca Mau people using their hands to tear the tortoise meat.
Delicious food for gourmet.
8. Ground squid egg rolls:
Squid eggs caught from the waters of Ca Mau are famous for their deliciousness and freshness. Crispy squid and then bring it into rolls will have a golden color like cinnamon rolls, both beautiful and fragrant. Finished fried pies are sliced roughly with fingers and then served on the table with herbs and rice paper. Rolled each roll of fragrant egg rolls, dipped in fish sauce, or salt and lemon pepper, you will enjoy delicious Ca Mau specialties that cannot be denied. This dish offers to eat the soft taste of vegetables, the soft texture of the rice paper, the soft and creamy part of squid eggs that no dish can replace.
Squid eggs, then rolled into rolls and then fried, will have a golden color like cinnamon rolls.
9. Mantis shrimp:
Mantis shrimp is a special gift that the people of Ca Mau coastal area or reserved for friends or relatives from the mainland to visit. Ca Mau shrimp meat is both delicious, sweet with a gentle sweet taste different from the taste of tiger prawns and lobsters, even though the two types are more expensive, making anyone who tried it once will remember forever.
Ca Mau tiger shrimp is famous for its deliciousness and meatiness.
10. Crispy fried tilapia:
After catching, the perch will be cleaned, fried whole in a hot pan to transform into a famous delicious Ca Mau specialty . Ripe anchovies will be taken out to drain the oil for a while and then put in a plate with green vegetables.
When you come to Ca Mau, remember to visit U Minh Ha forest canteen to have delicious fried tilapia with girls only 90,000 VND. Each piece of sweet and crispy fish meat dipped in ginger fish sauce and rolled together with rice paper, Ca Mau forest vegetables will create a delicious dish.
Crispy fried tilapia served with Ca Mau forest vegetables is a delicious food to forget.
11. Fried rock crab with salt:
Ca Mau has long been famous as the land of the freshest crabs in Nam Ky Luc Tinh and is well known throughout the country. And not only crab crab or crab meat, crab crab is also a famous specialty Ca Mau . Stone crab is slightly different from crab meat in that it is very firm meat. Coming to Ca Mau, you can go to any restaurant or seafood restaurant, order a portion of rock crab, enjoy the wind while separating each crab meat with delicious chili salt and sipping with some real beer ” chill “, would like to come back to this land again and again. Visitors to Ca Mau love to enjoy salt-roasted rock crabs at the shops at the foot of Ganh Hao Bridge.
Ca Mau has long been known as the land of the freshest crabs.
12. Grilled sardines with salt and chili:
The mudskipper is also called tree climbing fish by Ca Mau people. This is one of the specialties of Ca Mau that tourists love the most when traveling to Ca Mau . This mangrove fish has a peculiar shape, but the meat is exceptionally sweet, fragrant, and soft. Sardines can be processed into attractive dishes, each dish is delicious but the most delicious is grilled because only that way, the delicious and firm meat taste of the fish is most clearly demonstrated.
Mudskipper is one of the most favorite specialties when traveling to Ca Mau.