Visitors to Kien Giang know all about fermented fish noodle soup, steamed noodles, herring salad because these are extremely attractive dishes of this land. However, when coming to Rach Gia – Kien Giang, visitors will also enjoy the delicious taste of Ut Oi fish noodle soup.
By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | Official Rach Gia Visitor Guide
1. Better to Know as a Food Lover
Find them: Rach Gia City
Best time: Dusk-Dawn
Don’t miss: Ut Oi Fish Noodle Soup
Local’s pick: Ut Oi restaurant
Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in Rach Gia
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Facts: Ut Oi fish noodle soup restaurant owns fish noodles with a very specific flavor. In addition to the sweetness from fish meat and tube bones, the restaurant’s broth also has the greasy taste of egg yolk. Besides, the space of Ut Oi restaurant is cool and clean, so tourists come to the shop more and more.
2. Better to Know Kien Giang Fish Noodle Soup
Fish vermicelli is a specialty dish of Kien Giang tourism that all Rach Gia people know. In Rach Gia City, this dish is present everywhere in and out of the city. Because this dish is very popular, every tourist in Kien Giang knows about fish noodles. Visitors can enjoy fish noodle soup inside luxury restaurants or street vendors… But in the opinion of most tourists, enjoying fish noodles at street vendors brings people to eat. Feel more realistic about the taste of this rustic dish.
It is called fish noodle soup, but in addition to vermicelli and fish, inside a bowl of authentic Rach Gia fish noodle soup, there are also bean sprouts and ground shrimp meat – ingredients familiar to many Rach Gia people.
Currently, Ut Oi fish noodle soup is available in many Mekong Delta provinces, however, the taste of Rach Gia fish noodle soup is only cooked by Rach Gia people.
3. Ut Oi Fish Noodle Soup in Kien Giang
When diners enter the shop and order fish noodles, the owner will give fresh vermicelli and bowls, add steamed snakehead fish meat and shrimp rim and bowl, pour broth and bring it out for diners to enjoy. Served with Ut Oi Fish Noodle soup is a plate of raw vegetables including bean sprouts, lettuce and herbs. A standard bowl of Ut Oi fish noodle soup will have a clear broth, sweet fish meat and a beautiful red color of rimmed shrimp.
If the broth is still pale, you can add fish sauce to the bowl of fish noodles to make the dish more flavorful.
4. How to Make Kien Giang Fish Noodle Soup
Ingredients for cooking fish noodles
1 snakehead fish
20g turmeric
30g Noodles
20g purple onion
60g lemongrass
10g garlic
1 jar of fish sauce
400ml coconut water
Accompanying vegetables: dandelion flower, grated water spinach, banana cabbage, bean sprouts, laksa leaves
Seasoning: sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, fish sauce, cooking oil
How to cook fish noodle soup
Step 1. Prepare ingredients
Buy snakehead fish, cut fins, scrape scales, rub salt to remove oil and fishy smell, then wash and dry. Next, use a knife to cut both sides along the backbone of the fish to easily separate the fish bones. Repeat this from the middle of the fish’s belly down to the tail. Then, you cut off the head of the fish so that the fish intestines are attached to the head and then remove the fish bile.
The fish is clean and slimy thanks to the ingredients available in the kitchen
The vegetables you eat with you wash, pick the leaves and cut them finely.
Minced garlic, purple onion, turmeric and wormwood noodles are smashed, and half of the lemongrass is minced and half crushed.
Step 2. Cooking the broth
Put the pot on the stove and add 2 liters of water, 400ml of coconut water, then add lemongrass, noodle soup, and turmeric to boil. Then put the fish in and boil until the fish is cooked, then remove the fish.
Next, remove the dead turmeric, lemongrass, and wormwood noodles and add 10g of fish sauce mixed with 30ml of water, 10g of seasoning seeds, 5g of salt, 15g of rock sugar, lemongrass, garlic, minced shallot and stir well to dissolve the spices.
Step 3. Separate the fish bones
Initially, we cut the fish along the backbone of the fish, at this time the fish meat after cooking has expanded, you just need to gently flip the knife to be able to filter the fish meat out of the fish bones. Then cut the fish meat into bite-sized pieces. The head of the fish remains the same.
Step 4. Stir-fry fish
Put the pan on the stove, heat it up, then add the cooking oil, add a little lemongrass, garlic and minced shallot, then add the boneless fish and fry until fragrant. Note that stir-fry gently so that the fish is not crushed.
At this step, you can put the fish in the broth or keep it separate as you like.
Step 5. Finished Product
You boil the fresh noodles until it’s hot and then put the noodle soup in a bowl, arrange the fish on top, then add the broth, add the dandelion flowers and chopped laksa leaves on top, and our famous fish noodle soup is complete. benevolent. Remember to take advantage of it while it’s still hot to fully enjoy the sweetness of the fish and the rich flavor of the broth.
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.
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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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