Seafood Ha Tinh – remember to eat once

Favored by nature with a long coastline and a large fishing grounds, Ha Tinh is famous for its delicious dishes made from seafood that once enjoyed by visitors, they will remember forever.
Vung Ang dance squid has become a trademark (Video: Thu Trang)

Talking about Ha Tinh branded seafood, maybe Vung Ang dance squid is the top dish. Unlike normal squid in other seas, Vung Ang skipping squid is famous for being able to catch squid that is still swimming in cages, and still jumping in pots. The squid dance season usually starts from mid-February to the end of the seventh lunar month. The fresh cuttlefish are fished by skilled workers at night, stocked in boats with available seawater and then sold to restaurant owners on floating rafts. The squids are still alive when picked up from the seawater storage compartment. Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh – owner of a seafood restaurant in Vung Ang said, squid jumps best when picked up from the cage, washed so that the whole child is boiled, steamed beer or ginger warehouse. The sweetness and fat, the crispness of the squid is still fresh, making Vung Ang squid not mixed with other squid. The crisp, sweet, and fresh taste of Vung Ang squid is difficult to mix with the squid in other seas. For Vung Ang gourmet squid dance, salad is an indispensable dish in the menu when coming to floating restaurants here. The biggest, strongest swimming squids are chosen by the chef, removing all parts, only the body with transparent color to make salad. Squid salad dish served with herbs, special spices and sauces prepared by each restaurant makes diners pamper. Along with dancing squid, Ky Anh sea area also has a famous jellyfish dish. The fresh jellyfish was mixed by the people of Ky Anh with acrid flavored leaves such as leaves and dung leaves. These leaves are collected in the forest, washed, sun-dried, misted, pureed and then used to squeeze jellyfish to help the jellyfish become bright yellow, not stale. Jellyfish are marinated with dung leaves – a miracle dish of the Ky Anh. Photo: Thu Trang The preparation of leaves was meticulous, and the process of marinating jellyfish was also very meticulous. Jellyfish are separated from the body and legs, then cut into small pieces. Fresh jellyfish is pressed with watermelon leaves, crushed leaves for 2 days, then washed, continued pressing with dung leaf powder one night. When the jellyfish has turned yellow, achieving fragrant and crunchy is a successful jellyfish batch. As a typical folk dish of the Ky Anh people, but anyone who has once enjoyed the jellyfish sauce, jellyfish salad, jellyfish salad is hard to forget the crispy taste of the jellyfish, the pungency of the chili, and the fat. of crushed roasted peanuts and the aroma of the accompanying vegetables such as mango, marjoram, basil, and ham … The dish is rustic but enough to make people “fall in love”. Coming to the coastal waters of Loc Ha district, visitors will easily be “held on by the feet” by delicious opaque fish salad that is hard to resist. The meat is white and firm, and the opaque fish is favored by diners with many ways of processing, but to feel all the deliciousness of this fish, the salad is the best. The opaque fish chosen for the salad are fresh and delicious, neither too big nor too small, and their body still has sparkling silver scales. The fish is beaten clean of scales, head removed, gutted, washed to drain; use a knife to separate the flesh on both sides of the fish body. This meat will be marinated with lemon juice for about 20-30 minutes and then squeezed dry. Processed fish is mixed with onion, pineapple, green mango, sliced ​​carrot, roasted peanuts … Chisel fish salad in Loc Ha horizontal sea makes but fastidious diners also “fall in love”. (Photo: Tuy Phong). To make the fish salad flavorful and bold, Loc Ha people eat with a sauce made from nearly 15 different spices such as: lemon juice, minced garlic, purple onions, roasted peanuts, chili, herbs, fish sauce … This mixture is boiled, fully mixed with the sour taste, sweet salty. Fish salad wrapped in spring rolls of the same kind of water makes the most demanding diners also nod. For the first time to enjoy the opaque fish salad, Ms. Pham Mai Hue from Ninh Binh shared: “I rarely eat salad, but the time I went back to Ha Tinh to play, I was introduced to the opaque fish salad, so I tried it and was correct. is delicious. Next time I have the opportunity to return to Ha Tinh, I still want to re-enjoy that special dish ”. Hen Duc Tho is properly processed to keep its taste and sweetness from being crushed. ( Photo by Duong Chien). On the contrary to Duc Tho, the cool sweetness of La river mussels will certainly not make you regret it for tasting. After the flood passed, it left phytoplankton a natural source of food to help mussels flourish and have a characteristic taste, sweeter than other regions. After the mussel is caught, it must be soaked in water to release mud, pick up grit and trash; then wash and boil the mussels to release the intestines. When you boil the mussels, the heat should be high enough so that the water will just boil for a short time until the mussels open, but the meat is not tender. Both the gut and the shell of the mussel sink but the flesh is lighter than the shell. When the shell is submerged, the intestines will float on the surface, so just quickly push the intestines of the mussels to another basket. The taste of the mussel dish holds many children away from home. Hen Duc Tho is often processed into many dishes such as cooking soup, cooking porridge, stir-frying bean sprouts with rice cakes … Hen is a clean food, completely handmade and living in a natural environment, today, it has become a specialty in restaurants and hotels. Many people in Ha Tinh who go far away still cannot forget the sweet taste of home specialties, so Duc Tho mussel also follows people to many other provinces and cities. The delicacies from aquatic and seafood have contributed to the branding of Ha Tinh cuisine, hidden in which the cultural values ​​of each region are unique features that attract tourists from near and far.