Raw hypophthalmichthys and vegetables - a gift of the life

Raw hypophthalmichthys and vegetables is a dish which characterizes countryside. It has become one of the famous specialty in Vienam and looked for enjoy.

 

This dish is made very fussy. Fish must be fresh, be grown up in pond. They wash fish, shave scale, take bone out. Then, cleaning fish up by paper or dried bamboo leaf. Fish head, tail and bone are used for making sauce. Moreover, they can put fish meat into white wine to soak in 2-3 minutes, leave it dry and clean it up by paper, take small bones out. The next step, they exuviate and slice fish meat into big and thin pieces. After that, they mix slices fish meat with galangal and roasted rice, using hard paper to wrap in order to mash.

 

To have a good raw fish meal, in addition to prepare fresh fish, prepare spices are indispensable which are: galangal, brewed cooked rice, rice paper, green banana, sour star ruit, fish sauce, seasoning powder, herbs, peanut, sesame. The leaves can be chopped, mixed or retained for diners to choose their favourite leaf which they can eat.

 

To contribute for the success of this is, it is not only in way of processing but also in making sauce. It is made very fussy with the main ingredients: fish head and liver, bacon, duck egg and spices such as: onion, dried garlic, fish sauce, salt, seasoning powder, sugar, pepper, chili, etc. Fish head and liver are chopped with bacon, marinated with brewed cooked fish and above spices. Fry garlic and catawissa with oil, pour the mixture to fry with them and pour a little water, simmer about 15-20 minutes. Hiting duck egg into bowl, stiring it into pot, adding salt and seasoning powder.

 

Making this dish is very fussy but enjoying this is also an art. Pouring a little of sauce, you can use rice paper or leaves to wrap. Put the fish meat in the middle, dim into sauce and eat. The sweetness of fish, the sour taste, spicy taste, sweet taste of sauce. All tastes are mixed in your mouth, you can drink wine, a psychedelic and you must thank the life because the life gave a delicious like that.