Long An not only has many famous delicacies like other western provinces, but also has its own specialties that are unmistakable in the taste of the garden.
Long An delicious dishes visitors should try
Long An Banh Tet
Banh Tet is a dish chosen by many tourists to buy as gifts for friends and relatives after their Long An trip . The best place to buy banh Tet is in Duc Hoa town. The cake here possesses a rare and delicious taste which is explained by the origin of the baking materials such as sticky rice from Chau Thanh, Can Duoc, Can Giuoc; Bacon also chooses fresh and delicious options; round, firm green beans; large banana leaves. The cake has many types of filling such as bean, banana, coconut …, each has its own flavor and is very delicious for visitors to choose.
Long An fish sauce hotpot
Rarely is there such a dish as Long An delicacy – hot pot sauce , a full set of products from the sea, pond, field or garden. The ingredients of fish, shrimp, crab, squid, beef, pork, vegetables … are fresh and varied. Just vegetables alone have the presence of a dozen types: water spinach, spinach, gun stalks, crazy cotton, sprouts, herbs, star fruit, banana, cucumber, bitter vegetables, red pepper, fragrant … Especially the top of the coconut vegetable. The broth part needs at least 3 types: Sauce sauce to have aroma, fish sauce to increase the deep sweetness, fish sauce features a bit of a fat ring of copper fish … With a rich amount of animals and plants, adding variety in the broth, all blended to create a delicious taste, full of flavor, delicious, delicious, and also provide a lot of nutrients.
Sour soup with fish
The big-toe shark-shaped fish, almost as big as the big toes, with a round belly, each full of eggs, are chosen to process dishes such as lemongrass and chili, hot pot, and sour soup. In which, sour soup with fish is loved because it is not bored, it retains the sweet taste and is a little sour. When the soup is still hot, the soup sobs, bites the fatty fish roe and there is nothing more interesting. Sour soup also has more cotton, just cooked and chewed and has a unique sweet taste. Most of the meals of the Long An people never lack this dish, so if you have the opportunity to visit a family here in the middle of a hot summer day, sit down and eat a bowl of delicious and sour soup, make sure to bring rice and eat. finished still feeling hungry.
Grilled snakehead fish
Like the western provinces , coming to Long An, visitors should not miss the snakehead fish dish (grilled straw is the best). After the flooding season, when the rains are heavy, the fish in the season are the fattest. Snakehead fish in the wild is guaranteed to have a firm meat, sweet and fragrant, not friable and fishy like farmed fish.
Take a bamboo stick, pierce it from the fish’s head to the fish’s tail and then plug it into the ground, and burn the straw around until the fish is ripe. Then the fish is presented with banana leaves, scraping off the black scaly outside to reveal the attractive golden ripe skin. When eaten, they are often rolled in thin rice paper, on the outside there are vegetables and cakes and dipped in sweet and sour sauce or seasoning sauce, taking a bite to feel the rich, cool, delicious taste that is hard to describe.
From a rustic dish, grilled snakehead fish has become a Southern specialty for guests to enjoy from far away or on holidays, and this dish in Long An is the same.
Salt and sour pork
Salt and sour pork is a unique dish of Muong people often served during holidays, Tet, festivals, weddings and is a delicious dish Long An used to welcome visitors from all over the world. The pickled pork meat is processed carefully, only the leaves of the forest will fade all kinds of cinnamon leaves, jackfruit leaves, betel leaves … The salted meat must still be fresh, tender yellow; When biting, we can feel the sticky taste of the skin, the sourness of the yeast, the saltiness of the salt, the aroma of basil, the acrid taste of jackfruit leaves … and the aroma of rice hearing is indispensable.
Can Giuoc sauce
Mam cuffs are made a lot on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month every year and is also an indispensable dish when Tet comes, spring comes in the homeland of Long An. There are 2 types of fish sauce in Can Giuoc: whole and whole (pureed), the specialty is sauce.
The cause of making fish sauce is from the beginning to the middle of the year to ensure dry, sunny weather enough to dry the cuffs. To create its own flavor, sometimes people add more wine or add sticky rice, but only prepare the amount just enough so as not to lose the characteristic flavor of the cuffs. In the middle of Tet days, eating meat and fat and steamed rice cakes, a dish of bacon with raw vegetables, cucumber or simply tomato, dragon beans, cajuput, … fish sauce is also extremely delicious. This country-like flavor may make new eaters unfamiliar, but when you get used to it, you will remember it forever.
The above are Long An delicacies that appeal to customers when traveling to the West. If you have the opportunity to visit Tan Lap floating village , Dong Thap Muoi ecological area … do not forget to enjoy these specialties.