Specialty of fatty fish in Phan Thiet

Soft, sweet and fragrant fish meat, served with raw vegetables, rice paper dipped with sweet and sour fish sauce is a dish you cannot miss when coming to Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan.

Fatty convex fish is a specialty that attracts many diners when coming to Phan Thiet. Quite like a stingray, it also has smooth skin, soft and fatty meat, a lot of crispy cartilage, but the fish is smaller in size. Convex fish can be processed into many delicious dishes, the most popular is steaming, drizzled with onion fat, called slurry. When eating, you will roll fish with rice paper, raw vegetables, sour star fruit, acrid banana, dipping sauce or sweet and sour fish sauce… Photo: Vietlifetj. In the waters of Phan Thiet, fresh herring is often used to roll spring rolls, instead of meat and shrimp filling of the usual spring rolls. Herring is fillet, boneless, chopped, marinated with spices, onions, peppers, then mixed with cassava, carrots, scallions… as filling, rolled up with thin rice paper, fried until crispy golden brown. Served with herring rolls, there are also spring rolls, spring rolls, boiled eggs, skin hearing, herbs, peanut fish sauce… Photo: Nguyentuyet0302. Phan Thiet can cake dishes usually have a plate of cake, a portion of fish sauce and food of their own choice. In particular, the ingredients served with banh can are quite attractive and rich, including minced mango, fat omelette, boiled egg, shumai, boiled pork skin, especially braised fish, usually fatty pangasius. service according to customer preferences. Photo: Wheretoeat.inphanthiet. From fish such as apricot, transparent, opaque, herring… the people of Phan Thiet have processed them into attractive and flavorful fish salads. The ingredients for fish salad are usually peanut sauce mixed with a paste, lots of garlic, chili, using delicious fish sauce. When eating, you will use thin rice paper to roll fish, herbs, minced mango, cucumber… Photo: Chocolate_2992. In Phan Thiet, fish cake soup is quite popular. Fish cake is made from fresh, chewy, sweet sea fish that can be steamed or fried. In addition to fish cakes, the bowl of banh chung also has lean fish, quail eggs, pork hoof… depending on each restaurant. Photo: Dbngoc__. Phan Thiet fish sauce is a famous specialty and has protected geographical indications. According to documents of the National Office of Intellectual Property, the main source of raw materials for making traditional Phan Thiet fish sauce are white chalk striped anchovies, charcoal striped anchovies, scads, small scads, etc. Binh Thuan sea area, for fish sauce products with bright colors and high protein content. Photo: Dinh Hoa. Phan Thiet has many delicious dry specialties, which are loved by tourists to buy as gifts. Dried yellow snapper is among them. The fresh yellow snapper is split with butterfly wings and then dried and dried, usually dried or seasoned with spices. You can use dried yellow snapper to bake, fry, rim, mix salads… Photo: Bach.hoa.ngu.