Many tourists wonder what food to eat when coming to An Giang, what specialties should An Giang tourism choose or what to buy as gifts for relatives and friends, which is Chau Doc fish sauce. , jaggery, Seven Nui scorpion, Sam mountain’s seven dishes… Among them, there is Long Xuyen fish noodle dish, a rustic dish but once visitors taste it, they will remember the taste forever.
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Fish noodle soup is not a Vietnamese dish but imported from neighboring Cambodia. Over time as well as variations in ingredients and flavors, today fish vermicelli has become a familiar dish of Westerners. There are many brands such as Soc Trang fish noodle, Kien Giang fish noodle soup, Long Xuyen fish noodle soup, Chau Doc fish noodle soup… Among the above brands, Long Xuyen fish noodle is the most famous for its cooking and special taste, attracting many diners.
Long Xuyen fish vermicelli is considered one of the famous An Giang specialties. The ingredients to make this dish are very simple with snakehead fish, broth, fresh vermicelli and some vegetables. In particular, the main ingredient that cannot be ignored of fish noodle dish is copper snakehead fish. This is a fish with a long round body, a flattened tail, a wide, flat top and a very large mouth, appearing in many western provinces.
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In the stages of making fish noodles, choosing fish is the most important step, must choose the right type of snakehead fish, the fish meat is sweet and tough, not friable and fishy like farmed snakehead. After choosing the fish, clean it and put it in a pot of broth (water used to eat with vermicelli) boiled. When boiling, remember to add a little lemongrass and crushed turmeric so that the broth has a beautiful yellow color and does not have a fishy smell. When the fish is boiled, take it out, remove the meat and separate the bones. Take the marinated fish meat with a little spice and then put it in a frying pan lightly with turmeric so that the fish meat is both hunted and fragrant and has an eye-catching yellow color.
Cooking broth to eat fish noodles is equally important because sweet and delicious broth produces fish noodles according to the right taste. To cook the broth, the people of Long Xuyen often use the bones of the tube to simmer, both simmering and skimming to make the broth clear and sweet. When enjoying fish noodles, just take fresh vermicelli that is blanched in boiling water and then put in a bowl, above are a few slices of golden fish, the broth is filled with vermicelli, add a few herbs. In addition, to have a delicious fish noodle dish, vegetables are indispensable. Usually, people eat fish noodles with water spinach, bean sprouts or laksa leaves. Some western regions can add cowpeas and dandelion flowers. The bowl of fish vermicelli is served hot, with the yellow color of the broth and fish, the green color of the vegetables, and the white color of the rack, which looks very beautiful. Delicious hot vermicelli, slurping a piece of sweet broth, picking up a piece of snakehead fish with chili fish sauce, a strong aftertaste on the tip of the tongue, delicious like nothing.
Long Xuyen fish vermicelli with the sweetness of the broth, the fatty taste of the fish, the slightly spicy taste of lemongrass and a bit of bitterness of vegetables make this dish “hard to resist”. Not only attractive to locals, Long Xuyen fish noodle soup also attracts many domestic and foreign tourists to come and enjoy. You can go to the shops along Le Loi Street (My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province) to enjoy the typical fish noodle dish.
