On the occasion of the third lunar month, the mangrove area of Nhon Trach district is the time when the mussels are firm and the most delicious of the year, also known as the cashew mussels. According to fishermen along the river, during the season, the mussels are fat and eat sweet, especially when the cashew nuts are ripe. If you want to know the specific situation of harvesting mussels, how to win, just look at the cashew tree. Every year the crops fail, that year many mussels copy.
The carp digger has to use hoes to dig a cave to catch the carp, one for each cave. The guillotine in Phuoc An is quite big, dark green in color and very sweet in color, plump, thin shell, fragrant and not muddy, unlike the carp in the rainy season that has just spawned, the skin is thin but the flesh is pale and tough. Common carp sold in restaurants in Nhon Trach region can make many delicious dishes: grilled onion fat, steamed lemongrass, cooked with porridge, fried with cinnamon leaves or coriander, cooked with star fruit soup, fried with coconut water, steamed with a cake coated fish sauce ...
But the most unique dish made from carp is to cook soup with old cashew fruit, combining two Eastern specialties. What to cook carp must be that the fruit is so old that it is not yet cooked, it still retains the sour taste a little more acrid, cooked with chubby mussels, seasoned chili onions and served with vermicelli or rice. Taking the carp in a bowl of soup dotted with salty fish sauce and chili and then adding a few sips of sweet and fragrant broth is more than enough for a hot summer afternoon.
Nhon Trach is famous for its attractive dishes such as banh ask, banh beo in Phu Hoi commune, lotus seed in Long Tan commune. There are also special dishes in brackish water such as grilled brown fish, steamed carp, octopus, fried vegetables with garlic or cooked eel porridge, Phuoc An sour shrimp, Phu Hoi tea ... Come to Nhon Trach. This season, many people often visit the barn to buy chem carp to bring back, or visit the nearby seafood shops to enjoy some famous typical carp here.
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