Along with the development of raft fish farming on the river, many fishermen in Quarter 6, Tan Mai Ward (Bien Hoa City) have "imported" raw fish salad from the West of the river, but there is a way. With more sophisticated processing, the fish salad not only has a unique flavor but also quite special, attracting many customers.

Fish salad is made from red tilapia, carp or giant fish. But "better meat" is still red tilapia. For a delicious fish salad, right from the stage of choosing fish to get meat, you have to be careful. Because fish salad is a raw food, to remove the fishy and slimy smell on the fish meat, after slicing the fish, the meat is not washed, but wrapped in mulch paper many times to absorb all the blood, slime and fishy smell. When the fish meat is dry and white, cut it into small pieces about 2 cm and mix it with lemongrass and galangal, not mixed with rice. It is this spicy and hot spice that will make the fish meat again.

Perhaps there is no other dish that can be eaten with as many vegetables as fish salad. There are up to 12 different types of vegetables such as: Vong Ca, Dinh Lang, Vong, figs, apricots, young mango leaves, young jackfruit, Dai bi, chrysanthemum ... along with 5-7 other herbs such as basil, cilantro, and cilantro. According to many people, fish salad is a dish that people can taste many different flavors. It is the acrid taste of young mango leaves, the flesh of apricot leaves, the aroma of chrysanthemums and the taste of calyx leaves along with the pungent taste of galangal lemongrass and fragrant sesame seeds from the rice paper. The vegetables eaten with the salad are also medicinal leaves, treating pain, indigestion, headache or nervous tension...

Thu Trang