Home » Mekong Delta » Mekong Eco Tour- “LAU MAM”-SALTED FISH COOKED IN HOT-POT WITH LOTS OF VEGETABLES

Mekong Eco Tour- “LAU MAM”-SALTED FISH COOKED IN HOT-POT WITH LOTS OF VEGETABLES

“LAU MAM”-SALTED FISH COOKED IN HOT-POT WITH LOTS OF VEGETABLES

“Lẩu mắm” is a Mekong Delta’s specialty and an amazing marriage of preserved fish and hot-pot as well. Guests are certain to love it at the first sight due to the eye-catching beauty of large dishes of colorful vegetables and the favor. It’s made from salted fish that is cooked until its meat and bone are separated, greasy and sweet-smelling.

We can add more fresh fish meat, water crab meat, snails, eel, slices of pork, silver shrimp accompanied with various kinds of vegetables, such as eggplant, bitter melon, water dropwort, some kinds of flowers, bean sprouts, water lily, straw mushroom will be dipped into the boiled sauce until well-done. For this reason, “Lẩu mắm” is considered as one of the ideal dishes for vegetable-lovers.

The more things are added, the more moreish the stock is. “Lẩu mắm” is scoop out into bowls and served with handfuls of rice vermicelli also. Enjoying the winter bitter cold with a hot salted fish hotpot, a medley of flavors, spicy, bitter, salty, sweet and greasy is not a bad idea!