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.

1. Raw vegetables Raw vegetables are eaten directly, so preliminary processing requires you to wash properly, because pathogens can cling to raw vegetables, even penetrating inside vegetables. So, you should wash vegetables 3 times properly before eating. When washing vegetables, with lettuce should remove wilted, waterlogged leaves because bacteria can spread. As for cilantro, the leaves with brown or black spots should be thrown away. 2. Mushrooms There are many people who love to eat mushrooms. There are many types of mushrooms, so they are used for hot pot or vegetarian food. But most people do not know the difference between fungi, especially wild mushrooms. The poisonous mushrooms contain harmful substances such as orellanine, gyromitrin, alpha-amanitin. If you eat the poisonous mushrooms or don’t cook them thoroughly, you could die of liver failure. 3. Unripe omelets Eggs can become contaminated with Salmonella by spreading the germs from the hen’s “mother”. For young children, the elderly or people with weak immune systems, they should eat cooked eggs through boiling, fried or steamed processing to destroy dangerous bacteria and avoid poisoning. If you like to eat fried eggs, it is safer to cook them completely. 4. Undercooked meat The most likely to cause poisoning is undercooked meat. These meats may contain Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens and other bacteria. And they are only destroyed when cooked at high temperatures. Specifically, the ideal temperature for a steak or grill is about more than 62 degrees Celsius to ensure that the meat inside is fully cooked. Ground beef and pork need to be cooked at more than 71 degrees Celsius to be safe. 5. Sprouts In fact, a sultry environment is required for seeds to sprout, but this is also a favorite place for bacteria. Prominent was the growth of salmonella, listeria and E. coli. So if you eat raw sprouts in the form of salad because you think it ensures nutrition and helps you lose weight. Either or not thoroughly cooked, it is very susceptible to food poisoning. It is better to cook sprouts before using them to ensure safety for your health.