Jellyfish Salad
This is one of the most stunning salad recipes in Vietnam, especially in Co To district. Besides, it is served in almost restaurant in the country. The food is different in each region. However, the popular ingredients includes carrots, cucumber, papaya, boiled chicken which are torn small, vegetables, lemon, chilly…. Including green mango, the salad will create the flavor with a little crunchy, sour and sweet flow to your throat and your stomach.
Grilled oyster
Oyster is not a strange dish in a gourmet menu. For those who are not keen on raw shellfish, oyster can be cooked in their shells on barbecue grill. The heat from the grill steams the oyster and pops the shells. Oyster has a wonderful texture and should be chewed. This also releases full flavour. The first taste when you tilt an oyster is a certain level of salt. Oysters can be prepared for a lot of different dishes. To prepare for delicious grilled oyster, pay attention to fire so that it can be picked out whenever it is cooked. Being overcooked can spoil its flavour and texture.
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Crab
There are two types of crabs in the island district in Vietnam: brown crab and blue one. Meanwhile, Phu Quoc Real Estate the later is more favorable and famous for good quality thanks to high salinity seawater in this area. The meat of blue crab has a rich, sweet flavor. The body is delicately flavored while the claw meat is nutty. Body meat is white, tender and flaky.
Abalone
Abalone is not only a nutritious ingredient but also valuable economic product. In the old days in Vietnam, only Kings are served food made from abalone. Abalone is a large marine with extremely rich and flavorful meat. It is also considered as the most delicious among edible shellfish. It can be eaten raw or with little grilled. Besides, tourists can taste rice noodle with abalone. However, it is hard to harvest abalone because it often sticks to the rock under the deep seawater.
Sa Sung
Sa Sung is known as a kind of sea worm with light pink color, which will terrify the weak minded people. However, no one can refuse the dishes made from Sa Sung. Sa Sung can be fried, baked or cooked to make porridge. Besides, they can be mixed with pepper and grilled. Real Estate Agent when eating the dishes from Sa Sung, diners can enjoy the crunchy, soft and tough with sweet and fatty taste. When eating Sa Sung, we use it with chili sauce. Sa Sung is also used to make stronger flavor of Pho. A very small amount of dry roasted Sa Sung will make the liquid tasted stronger and sweeter.
However catching Sa Sung is not easy at all because detecting the holes under the sand where they hide was so difficult. Furthermore, it requires digger to be very careful not to cut off their bodies while catching them. Selling dead ones is hard because the flesh is dirty and Sa Sung when cooked can lose it sweet flavor.
Be Be
Be Be is a popular seafood that every tourist wants to try at least once. It looks like as shrimp or lobster but a little difference due to its width and a huge numbers of its legs. Its meat is crisp and sweet. Compared with shrimp’s meat or crab’s meat, Be Be’s meat is much more solid and tasty. Be Be is cooked in a simple way as being boiled, little grilled, steamed and then eaten with spices. When cooked or grilled, it turned into pink with attractive flavor.
Trap fish
Trap fish is often cooked in special holiday with the meaning of bringing luckiness. It is also one of the most favorite dishes to Japanese. The head of trap fish can be cooked in sour soup while its body meat is used for cooking sashimi or grilled, fried meals.
Nail-shaped shellfish
Visiting this beautiful island district, you should add to your list the meals from nail- shaped shellfish. It is recognized by its sweet, crispy flavor and its special shape. It is caught during the whole year but mainly at the early of rainy season (in May and June) because its meat is the most delicious at that time. The shellfish can be used to make different fried up dishes varying on the ingredients to serve with. It is often soaked in water for at least 15 minutes before cooked.
Marble- shaped oyster
This type of oyster is quite different from the popular ones which are often used in the daily meals in Vietnam. The oyster is round, small not flat. Its body has a lot of meat. Especially, it is so clean. You just need to wash it over and then prepare for being grilled. As soon as it opens its mouth, the water from inside pours outside spreading the irresistible flavor. Marble- shaped oyster is cheap, only from 50.000VND for one kilo to 80.000 VND for one kilo.
