Published:  16:06 Saturday - December 17, 2011

A Fish Sauce Hotpot party at U Minh forest makes sure that it is the charming aftertaste, simple and tormenting which is never forget!

To the people in the southern part of Vietnam in general and in U Minh in particular, fish sauce has appeared for a long time in the history. Since the time when their ancestors discovered this land, fish sauce has become a familiar and important part of their life. It is also a must-have food for the international tourists in Vietnam. We can try as many different dishes made from fish sauce as we want, but the most unique one in U Minh is indubitably the Fish Sauce Hotpot.

Raw material of Fish Sauce Hotpot is also “sặc” fish. The fish will be cooked for meat falling off, remove its bone carefully, season some monosodium glutamate, sugar for fitting then pour into the hot pot. In order to smell strong one can add some more ground citronella leaves, the section root of citronella is also put into the hot pot.

Besides fish, salt fish hot pot can be added rice-field crab, snail, pork …

But the most interesting when enjoy the dish of U Minh Fish Sauce Hotpot is there are many kinds of wild vegetable.

Maybe it is correct when said that there is no dish on the world attached many kinds of vegetable like U Minh Fish Sauce Hotpot. Especially, U Minh Fish Sauce Hotpot can not lack of “the” vegetable, big longan, water lily, “trai” vegetable, “tau bay”, “mac” vegetable, …

Whenever you come to U Minh, Ca Mau Province, beside enjoy the many delicious and typical dishes, always remember to try the U Minh Fish Sauce Hotpot there. This is one of the indispensable dishes of southern Vietnam.