Ca Mau has the rich flavor of both the sea and the forest, which has been clearly imprinted in the culinary culture. In addition to crabs, and shrimp, clam is a specialty you must definitely taste.
By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | All Best Foods & Restaurants in Ca Mau
1. Better to Know as a Food Lover
Find them: Ca Mau city.
Best time: Dusk-Dawn
Don’t miss: Grilled Vop clams with salt and pepper
Local’s pick: Seafood restaurant
Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in Ca Mau
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Facts: For many people, perhaps, clams are still quite strange “as if they have never met” but for Ca Mau people, no one does not know about clams and clams are one of the delicious and popular seafood in the last land of Vietnam map.
2. Better to Know Grilled Vop clams with salt and pepper
Vop is a bivalve mollusk, living in coastal alluvial areas, especially in the mangrove forests of the Mekong Delta provinces.
In the process of accretion and encroachment of more forests in Ca Mau land, the mam tree went first, the mangrove tree followed, under the vast canopy of mangrove forest, the magpie hid itself and proliferated. Therefore, in the two famous series of Southern land, Southern forest land and Uncle Ba Phi, both mentioned the copter in the mangrove forest of Ca Mau, even exalting it as one of the four most delicious specialties. the land of “shrimp, crab and shellfish”…
The forest clams keep silently burying themselves in the mangrove alluvial soil to reproduce and flourish, so the Ca Mau clam has a larger body than in other areas and is not fishy. The meat is sweet, chewy, very delicious, and can be processed into many attractive dishes such as: steamed crab with ginger, grilled with onion fat, fried with tub, cooked with porridge, stewed with lemongrass and chili, and cooked with sour soup. … The simplest and fastest is to boil the soup with sweet and sour fish sauce, if it’s a little more sophisticated, it should be boiled with ginger, the food will be more delicious.
Select the clams that are equally large, scrape and wash the layer of moss clinging to the shell. Cook a little water, put in a few slices of crushed ginger. Wait for the water to boil, drop in and boil, let it open for a few minutes, that means it’s cooked. At that time, you have to remember it immediately because if you boil it for a long time, it will shrivel and lose its appetite. There is nothing more interesting than removing the meat of each hot clam, dipping it with sweet and sour fish sauce, spicy fish sauce or lemon pepper salt depending on each person’s preference, while sipping a few glasses of cold beer. The chewy, sweet, and chewy pork belly mixed with the sour and spicy taste of the dipping sauce, with a bit of passionate ginger, has created a favorite dish.
3. Grilled Vop clams with salt and pepper in Ca Mau
When enjoying the salt-pepper-lime grilled ham, you will feel the sweetness of the shrimp. The aroma of the herbs served, the sour and spicy taste. The aroma of lemon pepper and the salty taste of salt. Somewhere is the characteristic scent of charcoal of the stove smoke… All these flavors have created delicious and unique dishes with unique local identity. This dish can hold anyone back when coming to Ca Mau land.
4. How to Make Grilled Vop clams with salt and pepper
Grilled Vop is very simple to prepare. Just choose the live clams, wash, drain and put on the grill on the charcoal stove. Spices for grilled clams include salt, pepper, lemon, and monosodium glutamate, vegetables including laksa leaves, herbs, basil…
When preparing grilled clams, you can also add a little onion and peanut fat to enhance the rich, fatty flavor of this rustic dish. When grilled, the mouth is just ripe, and eaten very sweet, if left too long, it will be overcooked, dry, chewy and no longer delicious and sweet. With salt and pepper lemon sauce, you will see the sweetness of the crab, the aroma of the accompanying vegetables, the sourness of lemon pepper and the saltiness of salt, blending in with the characteristic scent of charcoal of the kitchen smoke. The oven … all have made delicious and unique dishes with local identity, the flavor of the forest and the sea can hold any visitor when coming to Dat Mui Ca Mau.
5. Pro tips:
Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.
Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you’re eating hot street food, it’s always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.
Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.
Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.
If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.
Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.
Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.
If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.
Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.
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Hopefully, the above tips will help you to come up with a great plan for your adventure in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. Have a safe trip!
“Sleep less, travel more, respect more” – Thomas Vietnam – Local travel expert.
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