Phu Quoc herring salad
If you have come to Phu Quoc and have not tried this famous specialty, it is a big omission.
Fish meat for salad is taken from the sides of the breast of a fresh herring, squeezed into the salad with ingredients such as red onion, chili, grated coconut, and thinly sliced onion to create a moderately spicy sweetness. The chewy and sweet fish meat will bring you the rich flavor of the sea, eat it once and remember it forever.
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Bun Khen
Bun Ken is a dish that is rarely mentioned in the list of Vietnamese cuisine but is very popular in the meals of Phu Quoc families. Unlike vermicelli on the mainland which is made from snakehead fish, Phu Quoc vermicelli is cooked from marine fish available on the island, the most popular being honeysuckle.
The fish is not left whole, but will be pureed like mussels and then stir-fried with garlic, chili, lemongrass until dry, crispy and fragrant. Then it will all be cooked together with coconut milk to produce a delicious, attractive broth.
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Bun Quoc
Referring to delicious dishes in Phu Quoc, it is impossible not to mention the "same pair" of vermicelli - vermicelli. A bowl of vermicelli will have many types of fresh patties made from seafood such as shrimp cakes and fish cakes. When the broth is hot, the patties will gradually cook and still retain their inherent sweetness, eaten with squid, eggs, and finely chopped cilantro. When eating, you can mix your own spices to create a special bowl of vermicelli according to your own taste.
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Grilled brisket whistle with salt and chili
Periwinkle is a type of oyster-like mollusk, with only two layers of muscular muscles connecting two pieces of shell called whistles. There are many ways to prepare this banh mai whistle such as stir-frying sweet and sour, steaming, cooking soup, hot pot, cooking porridge,... But the most delicious must be mentioned the grilled banh mai whistle with salt and chili. The apricot whistle is marinated with finely pounded large grain salt with a few fresh chili peppers and then strung with coconut leaf raw to be grilled on a bright red charcoal stove, which is both delicious and chewy when eaten. This is a dish that is always in the top must try when you come to Phu Quoc.
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Crab soup section
This strange dish is a specialty of Phu Quoc. The crab used for soup must be sea crab, many bricks to ensure its juicy and nutritious taste. The dish is very sophisticated. White crab secretions are taken from crab legs, eaten with crab and crab meat, marinated with spices to create a salty, sweet and salty taste. The indescribable taste of crab soup, you have to enjoy it yourself to feel it completely.
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Grilled sea urchin with onion fat
Nhu, also known as cau gai, is a favorite dish for many people on a journey to discover the cuisine of Phu Quoc island. Although it has a prickly shape, the sea urchin is an extremely nutritious seafood. Crab is often grated to cook porridge, doubled to eat raw lime or grilled with greasy onion fat.
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Sea cucumber soup with fish abalone
Sea cucumber is often called sudden or sudden by the people of Phu Quoc. This is an expensive specialty that many people are "looking for". The delicacies made from Phu Quoc sea cucumber are very diverse such as stir-fried sea cucumber with vegetables, quail sea cucumber, stir-fried sea cucumber with cabbage, sea cucumber porridge... but popular and preferred by many diners is sea cucumber soup cooked with abalone and microfish.
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Sim wine
Phu Quoc sim wine is made from ripe sim berries picked from Ham Ninh forest. This is a type of wine that only Phu Quoc has and is often bought by tourists as gifts. Phu Quoc sim wine is made from sim persimmons with a characteristic aroma and strong sweetness. When the wine ferments, sim will increase the tartness, helping to stimulate the taste buds, so it is often sipped during meals.
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