Eating story of the Southwest: It turns out that fish sauce is a typical dish for this reason!

The southwestern provinces are liberal and generous with abundant rivers and canals. That is what has created a very special culinary culture.
Westerners are quite liberal, relaxed but also somewhat easygoing and loose in communication and activities. It is this personality that has influenced the style in cuisine. Thanks to the inheritance, promotion and continuous discovery and creativity, the culinary culture in the West is increasingly rich and diverse. Since then, the food and “eating habits” of Westerners have their own unique characteristics.

1. The dishes are mainly cooked with fresh ingredients liệu Due to the natural conditions in the river delta, the abundant agricultural resources, the people of the West have a variety of dishes and ways of eating. With many ways of processing, from simple rustic to sophisticated, but most of the food is cooked from fresh food caught on the spot. 2. Mainly eat fish, shrimp, eel, scorpion The daily rice dishes of Westerners are usually fish, shrimp, eel, trach, … which are easy to find, low in fat, easy to digest. Not only in the countryside but even in cities and towns, in restaurants and parties, these dishes are not absent. Westerners have a saying: “There is nothing as delicious as rice and fish / There is no love like mother and child”, this sentence shows their love and respect for their main food source, fish. 3. Variety of tastes In terms of taste, people in the Southwest generally like to eat spicy food (using chili pepper, ginger, garlic, lemongrass… to reduce the fishy smell of fish, eel, frog, turtle, snake); likes to eat salty foods (all kinds of fish sauce, dried fish…); likes to eat sour (sour soup, pickles…); likes to eat acrid (banana, acrid banana, cork fruit, cashew leaves, sesame buds) and likes to eat bitter (bitter fruit, bitter vegetables, snakehead nectar, goby bile…) 4. Favorite food is fish sauce The Southwestern people like most is copper sauce with popular salted fish such as choke, snakehead, catfish, perch, peg, Linh, shrimp, shrimp… The long-stowed fish sauce is more and more delicious, at that time there was fish sauce to make Eat, just have fish sauce as a dipping sauce with a special flavor than sea fish sauce. 5. Mam is also considered a “hunger relief” dish. Seventy years ago, when natural food sources were still abundant, in every family in the countryside, every family stocked a couple of khaps and jars of copper fish sauce. At the beginning of the rainy season, the fry just hatch, it is difficult to find food, so farmers often eat fish sauce with pumpkin stewed in coconut milk, simple but strangely delicious.