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Hot pot fish sauce - Typical Western cuisine

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Referring to Western cuisine, many people will immediately think of fish sauce hotpot. With a unique and attractive taste, hot pot fish sauce has captured the hearts of many tourists near and far when traveling to the West of the river.

Hot pot fish sauce is not only an everyday dish, hot pot fish sauce also clearly shows the unique characteristics of gentle and hard-working Western people. This is a land blessed with shrimp and fish full of rivers, fruit trees full of branches. Only Western fish sauce (especially Chau Doc - An Giang region) can be processed into such a delicious and attractive dish. The strong aroma of fish sauce mixed with herbs and other spices has created a unique and unmistakable feature of this dish.



Hot pot fish sauce has a rich, delicious, irresistible sweet taste. The commonly used fish to make fish sauce hotpot are spirit fish and choke fish. This new type of fish does not cause a fishy and unpleasant smell for people to eat.


Fish sauce is processed in many complicated stages. After cooking the bones, strain the bones and retain the water. To reduce the fishy smell, using fresh lemongrass root is essential.



When it comes to hot pot, there must be vegetables and so must fish sauce hotpot. The difference in Western fish sauce hotpot is that the vegetables used to eat hot pot grow under the water and have a bold flavor here. Many people who travel to the West will be surprised with their names such as pinch vegetable, bitter vegetable, crazy, gunshot, hyacinth, trusses, basil, chopsticks,...



Besides the abundance and diversity of vegetables, fish sauce hotpot can also be seafood such as shrimp, crab, squid, pork bones, pork belly ,... When enjoying this dish, you will feel the strong aroma of fish sauce, the spicy taste of chili, the sweetness of pork and seafood. All together create the irresistible characteristics of the Western fish sauce hotpot.  Tourists coming to this land also cannot forget the delicious taste, The appeal of the fish sauce hotpot as well as the love of the people here. Although life changes, people have enough material, this dish still follows Westerners throughout the long journey.



Enjoying hot pot fish sauce needs to be slow because this is not a hurry. People gathered around the hot pot waiting for the water to boil and talk about distant memories. Then when the water is boiling with smoke, you can put the vegetables in and enjoy this wonderful dish with your dearest ones.


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