You are a foodie and desire to enjoy all elites of the Vietnam cuisine, right? Yes, right now get started with the cuisine of the Mekong Delta – a water area rich in culture and interesting things to explore. See what to eat in Chau Doc here as useful recommendations for this exploring during your Mekong Delta trips.
Bun Ca Chau Doc (Chau Doc fish soup)
Bun Ca Chau Doc
It is possible to state that fish soup in Vietnam varies according to each region through the county. For example, Nha Trang is famous for soup with mackerel while soup with snakefish is found the most in the Mekong Delta. Bun Ca Chau Doc is supposed to be a good choice when you are looking for what to eat in Chau Doc for your Mekong Delta day trips. To make the soup in the Chau Doc style is not too difficult. First, fish is clean, sliced, and fried until it looks crispy and slightly yellow. Another ingredient is rice noodles at the medium thickness putting in a big bowl. The stock is rather light and has some dill on the water. At times, you can find the stock with more ingredients, such as tomatoes or some pieces of pineapples floating on the water. The chewy fried fish is perfect when being placed in the scrumptious stock; it deserves to be tried.
Tung Lo Mo
Tung Lo Mo
Tung Lo Mo – what to eat in Chau Doc for your Mekong Delta day trips is another name of beef sausage – a unique dish with the strange taste of the Cham people in An Giang Province. The reason for such sausage made from beef but pork is that the Cham people are Muslims who are not allowed to eat pork. For a long time, the Kinh people (the majority of Vietnamese are Kinh people) also love making and enjoying different types of beef sausage. As for how to make the food, the locals will choose beef without fat and sinew, grind it, and remove the bad smell from it by wine and ginger. Then, mix this ground beef with fat according the rate of 2:1 and add rice to the mixture (it is a point to distinguish Tung lo mo from other normal beef sausages). Some spices will enhance its flavor. Enjoy it when you come to the Mekong Delta.
Banh bo thot not (thot not cake)
Banh Bo Thot Not
Banh bo thot not is known as one of the famous delicacies in Chau Doc, An Giang for Mekong Delta day trips. It is actually what to eat in Chau Doc when you are thinking about the cuisine here. Thot not is a common tree in An Giang; it also means palmyra or palm used to get palm sugar. The locals use it to make thot not cake. The sweetness of the cake is light and easy to enjoy, so it is indeed preferred by lots of foreign tourist to this region. It is easy to find where to sell this kind of cake. Just walk along the streets or in the market, and you can find small food stalls where the vendors cry out for their cakes.
Fish sauce hotpot
Fish Sauce Hotpot
An Giang Province, the Mekong Delta is renowned for a diversity of fish sauces which are also the wonderful ingredients for specialties here, e.g. fish sauce hotpot. The broth in the hotpot is really special and tangy because it is made from the fish sauce. The main ingredients are different types of fish in the Mekong Delta. It is great to enjoy it with local fresh vegetables and noodles. Perhaps, for those who have ever experienced the food in the rain, it is surely an awesome moment in your journey to uncover the Vietnam’s beauty.
