What to play in Chau Doc Mount Sam : The most famous mountain in the West. Covering an area of ​​about 280 hectares, 241 m high, Sam Mountain is covered with shady trees all year round. In summer, the red color of the phoenix is ​​added, nestled in the surrounding canals. Sam Mountain has an extremely rich system of temples, pagodas and caves, creating a beautiful landscape among the rich plains. In addition to the system of temples and pagodas, Sam mountain is also attracted by its majestic natural beauty. Photo: Hai Trieu. Cam mountain: Also known as Thien Cam Son, about 37 km from Chau Doc. This is the highest mountain in the Mekong Delta. Cam Mountain attracts visitors by its majestic natural scenery, cool air and many unique architectural works such as Bo Hong Palace, Maitreya Buddha statue… In addition, visitors also have the opportunity to participate in climbing activities, exploring caves or bathing in streams in Cam Mountain. The unspoiled landscape and quiet space in Cam mountain attract tourists. Photo: House of clouds. Chau Giang Cham Village: One of the famous Cham villages in An Giang, Chau Giang is famous for its Muslim activities and beliefs in cultural life. In particular, here still preserves traditional customs and practices in the style of stilt houses in the river region. Coming here, in the quiet countryside space, visitors can experience canoeing, weaving, learning about culture through hundred-year-old stilt houses and majestic mosques. Beautiful cathedrals in Cham village. Photo: Hoai Thu Pham. Tra Su Melaleuca forest : About 30 km from Chau Doc, the forest is a great eco-tourism destination with many rare animals. Coming here, visitors move on wooden boats drifting along the water, immersed in the shade of Melaleuca trees. The attractive and unique natural scenery along with a quiet space help visitors forget the chaos of the city. Poetic Melaleuca forest in the flood season. Photo: Phuong Mai Nguyen. Chau Doc floating village : A typical symbol of river culture, where people build wooden raft houses to live. Each house usually consists of many fish rafts around, creating a large and cool space. Here, people mainly use boats and ships to serve their travel and fish farming activities. Coming here, visitors can also sit on a boat to visit the village of fish farming in cages, learn about life floating on the river, and enjoy delicious dishes right on the raft. Unique floating village in Chau Doc. Photo: Phu Tan. What to eat in Chau Doc? trumpet noodle soup: A unique noodle dish of Chau Doc region, cooked with coconut milk. In terms of processing, this dish is similar to curry noodles, the difference is in the use of fish. Because this dish is difficult to cook well, with the right taste, there are very few places to process it to serve diners. In Chau Doc, there are only 2 places selling vermicelli noodles. The famous vermicelli noodle shop near Chau Doc market. Photo: Phong Le Thanh. Jaggery beef cake: An Giang is known as the land of jaggery trees, so it is not difficult to understand when the jaggery beef cake becomes a specialty of this land. Golden cake, the fatty aroma of coconut milk mixed with jaggery make visitors impressed. Delicious jaggery beef cake is a specialty of Chau Doc. Photo: PN PN. Types of fish sauce : Along with jaggery beef cake, fish sauce is one of the famous specialties of Chau Doc. Visiting Chau Doc market, visitors cannot help but be overwhelmed by the variety of fish sauce here. From snakehead fish sauce, Thai fish sauce, peg sauce, choke sauce, trout fish sauce, to ba Khiet fish sauce… the fish sauce stalls exude a distinctive smell, placed on clean, attractive high shelves. But the fish sauce stall attracts diners in Chau Doc market. Photo: Phuong Toan Nguyen. Sam mountain beef 7 dishes : Beef from That Son is famous for its softness and deliciousness, which is an interesting choice for diners when coming to Chau Doc. Here beef will be processed into 7 dishes to serve diners in turn, including: Beef dipped in vinegar, spring rolls, beef rolled with fish fat, beef with guise leaves, beef satay, beef steak and porridge cow. Beef 7 dishes of That Son region bring an interesting culinary experience to diners when coming to the West. Photo: Khanh Linh.

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.