The Mekong Delta is well known for its specialties of the river water thanks to its shrimp and fish and many vegetables that grow from the garden to the fields.

If you want to enjoy almost all kinds of fish, fish sauce, vegetable of the Western region, the best way is to choose the fish sauce hotpot.

This is a special type of hot pot of the Western region by combining many typical culinary elements of the river region. Basic materials must be fish sauce (making broth), fresh fish (bait), all kinds of vegetables. About fish sauce, there are many kinds of fish sauces to make the broth delicious.

In particular, the most special ingredient and often used by the cooks is the fish sauce. The delicious sauce is added to the pot of boiling water to make sweet, then filter the bones continue to boil. Finally,  adding lemongrass, sugar, flavors in  the pot. This is the most important stage of the fish sauce hotpot.

While other hot pot types such as sour hotpot, sweet hotpot have a list of vegetables with suitable for its characteristics, particularly the fish sauce hotpot is almost unlimited of vegetables. Especially garden vegetables and wild vegetables. It can be said that more than 20 vegetables in the western region are used to eat with fish sauce hotpot from garden vegetables to forest vegetables.

Usually it is a bit hard to find a full range of vegetables. But at the beginning of the rainy season or when the flood water recedes in the Mekong Delta, the land is dry and the weather is warm, the  vegetables grow plentifully.

If you want to eat hotpot with more than 20 kinds of vegetables, 10 kinds of fish, you can go to Can Tho but remember to ask friends and relatives to order or search for sources of vegetables and fish. It is not difficult because these products are available in the market and in nature.

In Can Tho, in a restaurant or a normal restaurant both have delicious fish sauce hotpot, the average price is 150,000 – 250,000 VND /pot. The majority of spacious and beautiful restaurants located along Ninh Kieu wharf or in the area of ​​Bai Cat, Cho Moi and Nguyen Van Cu and Hoang Van Thu streets … have reasonable prices.

Traditional and modern medicine recommend that we should eat more vegetables because vegetables are high in fiber, vitamins, antibiotics … Some vegetables also have valuable medicinal properties, can prevent and treat many diseases. Particularly, “cá đồng” lives in the wild environment so it is considered a clean, delicious and healthy food.

After coming to the Mekong Delta, enjoying a hotpot of more than 20 kinds of vegetables and ten kinds of fish will give you many interesting surprises and unforgettable impressions!