Fish soup with dragon tongue – a specialty of Duc Pho waters. Photo: THIEN DI The ingredients are available, just boil the water and add the fish to a few slices of fresh chili to remove the fishy smell. When the fish is just cooked, put the long tongue on the island. A few minutes later, season with a little more delicious fish sauce, monosodium glutamate and eat with some cilantro. So, there was a fish soup cooked with a wild, sweet and cool tongue. The sweet aromatic fish meat blends with the mild sour taste of the dragon’s tongue, the mild broth creates the characteristic taste of this soup. This dish is characteristic of the people of Duc Pho, so the people who are far away from home also deeply remember its taste when going away. Mrs. Tra Thi Ut, in Pho Khanh commune (Duc Pho town), has reserved a small garden just to plant the dragon’s tongue. Mrs. Ut shared: “My children live and work in Canada, but each year they return to their homeland. This dragon blade garden I plant so that every time it comes back, I cook fish soup with dragon tongue. When he was bored with fish soup, Duc Pho people chose to cook fish soup, but more specifically, fish porridge had to be eaten with bread roll. Like all other types of fish porridge, the fish are boiled and removed from the bones, leaving only the white flesh. The fish meat is lightly oiled, then seasoned to taste. Fish bones are finely crushed, filtered for water, and then cooked in porridge with fish broth. Porridge cooked, add meat and fish to be finished. “But bread roll, it must be the type of bread that is coated in the bakery only in Pho Khanh or Pho Cuong,” said Pham Kim Oanh, from Pho Khanh commune. Crispy bread rolls on embers, dotted with fish porridge to leave a very special aftertaste for people to enjoy. Not only cooking soup, porridge, fish can also be baked or stored with pepper, hot chili in a clay pot, sour soup with giang leaves … Although the price is quite cheap, only from 40-70 thousand VND / kg, Depending on the size, but this fish is very popular and is a regular dish present in the meals of Duc Pho people from ancient times to now, becoming an indispensable part when it comes to the specialties of the land. south of the province.

One sunny afternoon, surfing through Facebook, I accidentally saw an article selling digging seeds. Childhood memories with peach picking summer noonas appeared right in front of my eyes. That day, in Pho Cuong (Duc Pho), my hometown, each house had at least a few trees. Peaches are easy to grow, with little maintenance, so it is especially suitable for the arid land of my hometown. The Lunar New Year has passed. In the February of lunar year every year, when the weather is warm, it is also the time for the trees to bear fruit. Although not sweet and easy to eat like other fruits, peaches are very attractive. Then when summer comes, our children are again eagerly facing the plump peach bunches, dangling from the branches. When ripe, peaches emit a very attractive aroma. So instead of getting tired of looking for peaches, we often walk around the garden, stand under the peaches to inhale to, where there is a fragrant peach smell, we know there are delicious fruits waiting for us to enjoy. The nut is divided into two parts: the seed and the fruit. Fruit eaten will have a sour taste, sweet sweet, slightly acrid. If you eat a lot, you still feel your tongue hurt. Especially eating peaches is easy to choke. Every time I saw me picking peach trees, my grandmother always told me to cut peaches into small pieces and squeeze out the water to remove choking and not to eat too much, lest my tongue get sick. However, my joy is to hold a large peach, dab in a bowl of salt and chilli and bite a piece of the teeth, then choke many times because of the peach juice. Although not sweet and easy to eat like other fruits, peaches are very attractive. Nuts are initially green, but when ripe, they can be yellow, pink, or red, depending on the variety. Whatever the color, the peach flavor is the same. The tree is planted with nuts mainly. Many ripe fruit trees fall in the orchard and whoever wants to eat the fruit, they just need to leave the seeds. So our children back then often gathered around the neighborhood to look for a basket of peaches of all kinds of beautiful colors to bring back. After eating, many new children discovered that they did not carefully fill the clothes with water, and then they were full because the clothes with peach pus did not come out much wash. Besides the fruit, peach seeds are also a very high-class dish. Every time she goes around the garden, she picks up peach seeds and waits for the day to sell, I often spend a small handful of fresh peach seeds. Put the peach seeds in the stove to burn back ashes. After little by little of the peach oil was burned and sizzled, the aroma gradually emitted that the seeds were ripe. Use a pearberry tree to hold peach seeds from the fire and then smash the outer shell to have a crisp, fragrant, delicious cashew nut that people often process canned and sold at a high price. A special feature of the peach tree that I like very much is the melted sap tree. In the summer noon, besides picking fruit and picking peaches, I often go to the big old peach stumps, a hug can’t help. Then notice if any ticks are disguising themselves on the peach stump or if there is a tree stump that is melting sap. The beautiful, frozen, orange-yellow peach resin droplets as well as the cicadas are a precious gift that any child would love at that time. Now, the children who used to walk around looking for peaches in the past have all grown up. The child is still in the countryside, who has moved to other cities for a living. The old peach gardens have also gradually thinned, giving way to other fruit trees or trees. But those years of peaches will forever be engraved in our memories with each sweet, sour, acrid and faint aroma of acerola.

Around 19:30 pm on April 23, MRCC received emergency rescue information from the ship QNg 94746 TS, led by Mr. Le Quang Trung (SN 1991, resident in Pho Thanh, Duc Pho, Quang Ngai) as captain. Rescue forces brought 2 crew members ashore. At this time, two crew members on board had an accident while fishing in the waters off the coast of Quang Nam province. In which, Nguyen Van Trieu (SN 1993, from Quang Binh) had broken jaw, deformed lower jaw, lost a lot of blood, crushed lips, lost consciousness. The other person, Pham Phung (SN 2000, hometown Ninh Thuan) suffered a facial injury, lost a lot of blood. Immediately after receiving the information, MRCC took the SAR 412 lifeboat with the medical team of Da Nang Medical Emergency Center on the way to the rescue. At 22:00 on the same day, the rescue team had approached the ship QNg 94746 TS. Medical staff conducted first aid right at sea, then urgently transferred 2 victims to the mainland. After many hours of crossing high waves, on the morning of April 24, the SAR 412 ship took the victim back to Da Nang and transferred to the hospital for treatment.

Nguyen Ngoc Ga, a photographer living in Da Lat (Lam Dong) often spends once a year to visit his hometown of Quang Ngai. Leaving the busy streets of tourists in Da Lat, he felt a peaceful breath in his days back home. “I come from Quang Ngai but only come back once a year so I don’t know the point, I have to look it up online. In the morning, I often go for a walk and record the daily life of the people. very beautiful, “shared Ngoc Ga. In the photo, a resident is catching mussels in Sa Huynh. During her return to her hometown, Ngoc Ga spent her time traveling to many places such as My A Sea, Sa Huynh Sea, Sa Huynh salt field, Ly Son island, Ba To mountain area … “Quang Ngai is a pristine land, The weather is harsh, hot and often subject to natural disasters and floods, “he said. My A sea mouth (Duc Pho) has a vague color in the moment of harmony between light and darkness. This is not a tourist destination that is often interested by tourists. This place mainly concentrates fishing boats of fishermen. Walking around this area you will also find breakwaters covered with green moss. People mentioned a lot about the breakwater and moss season in Phu Yen. However, few people know that in Quang Ngai, there are also wave-breakers in this beautiful picture. “The scenery here is beautiful but the tourism has not made a breakthrough. I think Quang Ngai needs to invest heavily in island tourism, connecting tours, routes, expanding the convenient shuttle system to Ly Son”, he commented. During the day wandering at the estuary of My A sea, Ngoc Ga waited until night to record the moment of the galaxy on top of the shipyard. A place with little light and fresh air like Quang Ngai is a great destination for photographers looking for “milky way” hunting. A corner of the starry sky above the waves covered with green moss. The gentle and peaceful life of the local people makes Ngoc Ga want to go more and record the moments of everyday life. These green fishing nets are indispensable tools for livelihoods for marine fishermen. However, it also often appears in the photos of many photographers. They often refer to these nets as “the ribbon of the sea”. “There are lonely trees in my hometown, but no one mentioned them,” said the photographer. This photo was taken by Ngoc Ga on Be Island (Ly Son). Compared to many other regions in Quang Ngai, Ly Son is more popular with tourists. However, according to Ngoc Ga, Quang Ngai deserves to be known more, instead of just Ly Son as it is now. “My hometown has a favorable geographical position such as Da Nang – Quang Ngai expressway, Chu Lai airport, Dung Quat deep sea port. More than 100 km of beautiful coastline with Ly Son, Yen ganh, Sa Huynh. .. Quang Ngai’s topography is also diverse and many relics, cultural and historical sites “, Ngoc Ga said.