“Want to eat sour and sour sauce, wait for the water to float to eat.” Traveling to the West this season, if you do not enjoy the dishes made from the poor but extremely strange, the trip will not be complete.
What is the poor fruit?
The rise of September, October, not only brought the Southwestern region a lot of fish, shrimp, and fertile alluvium, but also was a good season for many other wild fruits, such as mad flowers or green hulls. These are also the two ingredients to create many Western rustic specialties that are extremely attractive that no one wants to ignore.
Farmers’ fruit in the southwestern region. Photo: cooky
The cork tree lives in the muddy waters of the two banks of the big rivers in the West, has small drooping leaves, grows best during the flooding season. Folk oral folklore many anecdotes related to the kumquat fruit, like the legend of many other popular fruits, including anecdote related to the name Thuy Lieu – the name of the tree.
There is also an interesting anecdote about the name. Photo: thamhiemmekong
Legend has it that, in the past, when King Gia Long was in distress to the southwest river region, the insurgent army disintegrated, food was exhausted, he had to rely on the local people’s house.
It was when he was most hungry that he was saved by a bowl of sour soup, which saved his life. Later, when the uprising won, King Gia Long returned, but he still remembers the taste of the folk dishes in the past.
When asking its name, people did not dare to answer because they thought that ‘poor’ cannot be used with kings or kings. Gia Long saw this and named this plant Thuy Lieu.
The name Thuy Lieu is bestowed by the king. Photo: thamhiemmekong
As the years passed, only the village elders still remember this name, humming it down to their descendants from generation to generation. And the young adults in the area are still used to calling this a cork tree, cork, and sound both familiar and loving.
The cork is round, slightly flattened, green, smooth, with a pointed tail, and the curl is spread out like a flower. The kumquat has a sour, sour taste, and can be eaten raw and cooked into a dish that also tastes great.
Green fruit, strange shape. Photo: thamhiemmekong
The dishes are cooked from the cultivated fruit of the Western people and
sour from the cork
The dish that once saved King Gia Long’s life was sour and sour soup . The way to cook is similar to other sour soups, but replace tamarind with poorly cooked fruit.
Ingredients to cook this dish include fish cooked with spinach, spinach, water lily, bean sprouts, pineapple, tomatoes and normal spices. Fish are marinated, put in boiling water to cook natural sweet broth, add vegetables to cook.
Thoroughly boil in warm water, remove the seeds and pour in while the broth is boiling, season with spices just eaten and add herbs, coriander to enhance the flavor.
Ingredients for cooking sour soup cork. Photo: cooky
Sour soup has a sour taste, combined with the fatty taste of fish meat, making diners more like it. This dish eaten with white rice can be full throughout the day.
Fish for cooking the soup are snakehead fish, catfish, catfish, basa fish, barramundi, rice flakes, available materials whenever the flood season comes. Taking the fish cooked in the soup, thick and fatty meat, dipping it into the garlic chili fish sauce, eating it while still hot will make you feel extremely satisfied.
Sour soup with cork. Photo: thamhiemmekong
Braised fish
The floating water season gives the Southwest region an abundant source of fish and shrimp, the meat is fatty, sweet and rich, cooked into any dish, it is irresistible delicious. One of the most prominent dishes this season is the pot fish.
Braised fish with beautiful colors. Photo: cooky
Westerners choose snakehead fish or catfish that are large enough, firm meat, stocked with delicious fish sauce and spices such as pepper, sugar, monosodium glutamate.
Next, people take the ripe, crushed fruit, remove the seeds, take the juice and pour it into a pot of fish stock, simmer until the fish juice until glued, the water turns beautiful cockroach.
Braised fish with poor sauce is very expensive to eat. Photo: cooky
Braised fish has a natural sweet and sour taste, fatty meat, little bones, and delicious ground pepper, this dish must be eaten with white rice while still hot, but simple but very delicious.
Hot pot
When flooding season comes to the West, how can we ignore the poor hot pot. People pickled with boiling water, poured into cooking to get the natural sour taste, add a little chili to have a pleasant spicy taste.
Large hot pot placed on the stove, cook continuously with moderate heat, in turn put the foods inside. The first is the pre-cut fish slices, followed by a variety of seafood such as shrimp, oysters, … then vegetables.
When flooding season comes to the West, how can we ignore the poor hot pot. Photo: cooky
Westerners’ poor hot pot has a strong impression of “local wind”, which means that any kind of leafy vegetables can be eaten this season, such as water lilies, crazy cotton, and water spinach. Noodles, water hyacinths … the mixed flavor is very flattering. Fish that often cook hot pot are fish, snakehead fish, long-lasting fish and basa fish, which are also available, easy to catch.
The western hotpot has a strong imprint of the local wind. Photo: pastgo
There is a bowl of fragrant garlic chili sauce on the dining table, soft, fresh vermicelli. Pick up each vegetable chopstick, each piece of fish dab in the fish sauce, while blowing and eating nothing like that. The hot pot dish is suitable for gathering with friends, eating and chatting, enough sweet and sour taste will make you remember forever.
This dish is served in many restaurants in the West. Photo: pastgo
Cork cotton salad
In addition to the cork, other parts of the cork tree can also be cooked into a dish, such as a cork salad or a deep-fried ham. Camellia bloom from about June to September of lunar year each year.
Pink purple petals and pistil are white. When new flowers in the form of buds have not yet bloomed too large, people will pick them, separate them, take the petals in salt water, then cut into fibers to mix with salad.
Hemp can also cook. Photo: cooky
Thinly sliced pork / beef, river shrimp, chopped fish, choose a small to taste, clean, boil through until it is cooked, then mix with cotton. Next, add garlic chili fish sauce and mix well, add a little lemon to have a delicious, spicy and sour taste. The cotton salad is also considered a famous specialty in Cu Lao Dung, Soc Trang.
Ham salad dishes in restaurants in the West. Photo: thamhiemmekong
Stir-fried hamster
Boiled rice field is a prey for western people to eat when drinking wine. They forced the rice rats to run in the fields, eat rice to come back to be round and fat, burn the straw, and then cut its feathers.
The rice ham has a bright pink color, which is more delicious than the chicken. People clean the intestines and heart, remove the radiation causing bad odor, just keep the liver and chop the meat into small pieces to eat, seasoning fully.
The hamster is like chicken but it tastes better. Photo: cooky
Choose the young cork shoots, wash them and cut them into fibers. After frying garlic onions for fragrant, pour the rat’s meat, stir-fry it, then continue to cook the cork into the island. When the buds turn brown, turn off the heat.
This dish is served with grilled rice paper, dotted with delicious garlic chili fish sauce. The sour and sour taste of the buds, combined with the sweet and fatty taste of rat meat, makes a unique dish in the river, making everyone want to enjoy it once.
Delicious food everyone wants to try. Photo: pastgo
Other uses of cork
These days, the juice is conveniently boxed and jam-packed for easy use when cooking sour hot pot or boiled meat. The coriander is also very useful in traditional medicine. Cork leaves, crushed, applied to the wound can dissolve the blood bruising.
In India, people often use fermented hibiscus juice to make medicine to prevent bleeding. In Malaysia, people pound leaves mixed with rice to make up medicine to treat urinary retention.
Needles also have many therapeutic uses. Photo: vnexpress
This season comes to the West, you should take the opportunity to enjoy the wild and wild flavors of the dishes cooked from this nut, and explore the rich and unique cuisine in the river here.