The rising season not only brings alluvium to cool the fields and trees, but the dishes of the western floating season are also delicious and unforgettable.
Try the special Western floating season dishes right away
1. Classic flexible fish hotpot
People in the southwestern region have floods all year round, the season when the water comes back is very hard, but it is also the time most expected by people. When the water rises, the spirit fish from the Mekong River flows into the river and canals, the spawning season begins, so a lot. Besides the spirit fish, the golden flower is also the most familiar image mentioned. This duo creates delicious dishes that are hard to resist such as hot pot or classic Ganoderma sour soup.
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Famous for that, but the spirit fish and the crazy flowers are only seasonal, if you do not go on the right occasion, it is difficult to enjoy. The large, fat spirit fish are just the tip of fresh chopsticks, bring them to take away the gills and intestines and wash them. Hot pot broth is often cooked with pork bones, fish bones or also with coconut water to create sweetness. When eating, put in golden brown flowers and other vegetables, eat soft fish, spinach, and sour. Drink a bite to get a taste of Western cuisine during the flooding season.
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2. Cotton gun sauce warehouse
Along with lotus, the pink color of the lilies also adorns the attractive Western fields. In addition, water lilies also make the dish of the floating season and bring rice hard to resist. When the big water poured in, the long lilies rose up on the water, the mothers often rowed out in the muddy swamp to harvest. Water lily is like a very tasty vegetable, when brought back, washed, peeled off the outside and then interrupted to eat.
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To eat with water lily is indispensable warehouse sauce, often use flexible fish sauce, chopped fish, … Then add the boiling water to the water to remove the dew, add minced lemongrass, shrimp, snakehead fish, bacon to fat water. and a hint of spicy chili for a sweet aroma. When eating eggplant, water lily, bitter vegetables, pumpkin flower,… to eat with. The taste is so popular, but for every person who is far away from the countryside when it comes to them, they feel deeply nostalgic. 
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3. Grilled hamster
Referring to the Western delicacies you must try once in your life, do not miss this fragrant grilled hamster. The flood season is the time when adults and children go out to the fields to catch rats. The rats here are very big, they eat crops and fruits, so they are very clean. When the meat is finished, it can be steamed or steamed with coconut water, but roasting is the most famous. The meat brought out is seasoned with flavor, golden aromatic fragrant, the dish reminds many dear memories. 
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4. Three salt knots
Referring to the season of floating water in the West, especially in Bac Lieu, people do not forget the familiar three-sided dish. A rustic dish in the daily meals of most families. People choose the meaty three knots by breaking the ngoe to see if it is full of meat, then remove the skin and add a little lemon juice and sugar to infuse it. When eating, you can mix with shredded green jasmine or eat with white rice alone will also consume the whole pot. 
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5. Where there is a seasoning fish salad
This Cambodian dish was processed by the people of Kien Giang and An Giang, then famous and became a popular dish in the western water season , loved by many families. To make salads, people use the leaves or flowers to reduce the bitterness, then add boiled meat, thin sliced cucumbers, dried chopped fish, and add a few slices of thin peppers for color. Then mixed with sweet and sour garlic fish sauce to infuse, when eating, do not forget to dab with tamarind fish sauce to create a blend of all five irresistible, delicious flavors to the last piece.
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6. Grilled snakehead fish
For those who have come to the West, it is no stranger to this simple but delicious grilled snakehead fish. Snakehead fish is available all year round, but in the flood season the meat is firmer and sweeter, in addition to cooking sour soup, grilling is also an impressive way. Snakehead fish will be cleaned, gutted, then skewered on a stick and plugged in the ground, covered with straw and lit on fire. Delicious fish must be fully cooked, not burnt due to a lot of straw or bitterness, and live with little straw. Grilled fish rolled with rice paper, raw vegetables, cucumber, star fruit, green banana and then dipped in a bowl of tamarind fish sauce is rancid enough to melt in the mouth. 
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7. Classic cotton pancakes
Pancakes are known in many regions with different cooking methods, but this special floating season in the Mekong Delta has a taste that is not available anywhere else. In addition to the main ingredients such as bacon, shrimp, bean sprouts, etc., they will add stir-fried classic cotton to make the cake crispy. When eaten with mango buds or apricot leaves, sliced with a rice leaf and then dipped in a bowl of sweet and sour sauce, you will feel the distinct flavor that is crispy, sweet, and fragrant, leaving the aftertaste difficult to describe.
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8. Braised perch and perch with laksa leaves
Anabas is a popular type everyone knows, but in the West, when the water comes, the perch goes up to the field to eat the remaining rice flowers as well as lush plants, so it is round with 3 fingers, the flesh is firm and fragrant. People started to clean the intestines, remove the head and tail to make dishes such as hot pot cooking, sour soup, … but the best taste is still stocked with laksa leaves. To make this dish, you have to put the dried onions in the scent pan and add fish sauce, salt, and monosodium glutamate. 
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Next, add the fish and the coconut water to the fish, start the lighter to simmer until the fish is firm, firm, absorbed all the spices, then cut the herb leaves and put in the warehouse for a while. When north, add the drunk pepper and sliced ginger, the fish rice tray has a little thick water dotted with water lilies, bananas or garden vegetables that dissolve in the mouth. Simple and simple like that, but this dish of floating season , anyone who can enjoy it once cannot forget this indescribable delicious dish. It is famous from home kitchens to restaurants and is a specialty that is hard to find when it comes to the western flood season . 
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9. Spirit fish with sugarcane warehouse
Linh fish is a famous specialty of the beginning of the floating water season, when there is a lot of fish, in addition to storing pepper, cooking hot pot, sour soup, … people also think of a unique dish of spirit fish braised with sugarcane. This combination creates a delicious dish that is not boring. Sugarcane is peeled and split into small pieces and then placed at the bottom of the pot, followed by the fish, add coconut water and salt sauce to taste and then bring it to taste. Finally, sprinkle on a few green onions and sliced chili. After being stocked, the fish is absorbed with the sweetness of sugarcane.
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10. Western wild vegetables
If you once travel in the Southwest, you will see immense under the canal, in addition to the classic cotton, water lilies also has a multitude of clumps of wild vegetables growing across the water. From water hyacinth, lettuce, melon, coconut vegetables, … not only flourish, but also eat raw and combine to create some irresistible delicious dishes without losing their flavor. Just rowing the boat to pick up is to have hot pot dipping, sour soup, and fish sauce. That’s how people in the West are thrifty, a few wild vegetables also make a delicious meal with the family. 
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The flood season comes to create joy and excitement for people in the Mekong River region. Along with bringing alluvial alluvium, water also brings to this land many rich products. Do not forget to come to the West this season to explore and enjoy all the interesting floating season dishes here, you will never forget their taste.