Discussing delicious dishes and specialties of Ca Mau, we must mention crabs. Nam Can Crab – Ca Mau is delicious, sure, and famous both at home and abroad, and nowhere else on the S-shaped strip of land can match!

By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | All Best Foods & Restaurants in Ca Mau

1. Better to Know as a Food Lover

Find them: Nam Can District.

Best time: Dusk-Dawn

Don’t miss: Nam Can’s Crab

Local’s pick: CrabSeafood restaurant

Tourist’s pick: Restaurant in Nan can

Blog: https://vemekong.com/nam-can-ca-mau-crab/

Facts: The name Nam Can, when mentioning this place, people immediately think of the most delicious crab in Vietnam. If you have eaten this crab specialty once, you will not be able to forget the delicious taste that is famous at home and abroad.

2. Better to Know Nam Can’s Crab

Ca Mau is endowed by nature with three sides facing the sea along with a developed mangrove ecosystem, so the source of seafood is extremely diverse and abundant. In particular, this place is also an ideal and favorable environment for crabs to develop.

In the past, there were countless crabs in Ca Mau, but now there are very few crabs in the wild, most crabs are combined in shrimp ponds. However, the source of food for crabs is still natural, so the crabs here are very secure. The crabs are released in large and wide lagoons, so the crabs have an active environment and the crabs live in water with stable salinity, so the crab meat is firm, fragrant, sweet, rich in flavor. crushing that no other crab species of the region can match. Nam Can and Ca Mau crabs are divided into many types, including: Y crabs, Yem Square crabs, Xo crabs, Gach crabs and Com crabs. Y crab is male, the bigger, longer the bib and Y-shaped, the best crab meat is in the big and strong pair. The square bib crab is a female crab that is starting to form bricks, the large bib is shaped like a square, and the crab meat is firmer and tougher than other crabs. Bucket crabs are crabs with small meat or broken crabs, lacking claws but still as delicious as other types. Brick crabs are female crabs, with eggs, fragrant and fleshy crabs. Crab nuggets, also known as two-skin crabs, are all types of crabs that are in the process of preparing to peel, the old outer shell is slightly cracked and gradually peeled off, while the new inner shell is forming to develop. grow into a larger crab, this is the most delicious type of crab, very rare.

Nam Can and Ca Mau crabs are dark in color, with firm shells, not clear white and green like industrial-raised crabs. Delicious crab is like that, but it is not easy to enjoy the authentic specialty of Ca Mau crab.

3. Nam Can’s Crab in Ca Mau

Come to Bay Crab Seafood to enjoy authentic Ca Mau crab specialties

Just hearing the name of the restaurant, you probably think that this is a place specializing in crabs and must own delicious crab, especially Bay Crab Seafood can confidently take crab as a specialty dish and make the name of the restaurant. That’s right, this place is famous for authentic Nam Can and Ca Mau crab specialties, with a special feature that crabs are also shipped during the day, so they are very fresh and guaranteed as the name “Bay Crab”. Come to Sea Crab Seafood now, you will enjoy delicious dishes made from the best crab in Vietnam.

The crab here is dark, the shell is firm, just looking at it, you can see the shape of Nam Can crab in it. Whether it’s a meat crab or a brick crab, each one is big, beautiful, bigger, more stocky, not only has a lot of meat but also a lot of crab bricks, the fresh color looks very attractive.

Just looking at the appearance of crabs at Crab Bay Seafood has partly confirmed that this is a genuine crab, but once you eat it, you have no reason to wonder about the origin of the restaurant’s ingredients. The crab meat is thick, firm, fragrant, sweet, and has a unique taste that only Ca Mau crabs have. If you eat brick crab, you will never get bored of eating it. After enjoying the crab, the delicious sweetness still lingering on the tip of the tongue makes the eater really can’t forget that taste!

4. How to Make Food from Nam Can’s Crab

Just prepare the ingredients:

+ 1.5kg of Nam Can crab

+ 2 horny chili

+ 2 cloves of lemongrass, a few cloves of garlic

+ A few scallions and laksa leaves

+ Spices include: cooking oil, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate…

Processing

Step 1: Prepare and clean the prepared ingredients. Including:

+ Nam Can crab: Wash with plenty of water, remove the shell and cover of the crab, keeping only the meat on the crab body. Wash a few more times until the crab is completely clean, then take out the basket to drain. Then put the crabs in the oil pan, fight until cooked, then take them out.

+ Horny chili, lemongrass and garlic: clean the skin and mince it.

+ Lettuce and scallions: Wash and cut into small pieces.

 Step 2: Make salt and pepper. Put the chopped chili in a bowl, add 1 tablespoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar and mix well.

Step 3: Make a simple salt-roasted Nam Can crab

+ Fry minced lemongrass and garlic, then put the fried crab meat in the pan, stir for about 1-2 minutes.

+ Slowly spread the salt and pepper sugar made in step 2 into the pan. Use chopsticks to mix well to absorb the seasoning and crab meat. Stir-fry for a while until the irresistible aroma spreads throughout the kitchen, stimulating the taste buds.

+ You taste the seasoning. Then add chopped laksa leaves and scallions, mix 1-2 more times, you can turn off the stove and enjoy the delicious salted roasted crab right away.

Salt-roasted Nam Can crab after being done will have a characteristic orange-yellow color covered with salt, very attractive. Roasted crab with salt but by no means too salty. Enjoying the crab meat inside, everyone is sure to fall in love with the sweet taste, the spice permeates every fiber of the meat.

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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Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in My Tho: Fried Sticky Rice, Snakehead Fish Rice Porridge, Hu Tieu My Tho (Noodle Soup), Coconut Banana Cake…

Must-Eat Foods & Restaurants in Tra Vinh: Macapuno Coconut, Bun Nuoc Leo Tra Vinh’s Noodle Soup, Tra Cuon’s Sticky Rice Cake…

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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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