Phu Quoc Culinary Specialties And Their Intestesting Facts

1. Melaleuca mushroom - Phu Quoc specialty is abundant in the rainy season

If the West is known for the termite mushroom then Phu Quoc is famous for its melaleuca mushroom. This is a delicious mushroom that is no less amazing than straw mushrooms, kimchi mushrooms or abalone mushrooms.

This is a natural fungus so people on Phu Quoc island have to go to the cajuput areas to pick and bring it for processing. People on the island have combined a harmonious way between melaleuca mushrooms with fresh seafood on the island such as squid, shrimp, oyster ... to create excellent melaleuca mushroom soup, delicious, attractive taste and nutritious food for every family.

2. Sea cucumber

Sea cucumber is also the ginseng of the sea, from ancient to present this species is classified into "four great names" - 4 precious foods: sea cucumbers, monkey brains, bear hands, bird nests.

Sea cucumber is a favorite seafood dish because of its high nutrition, a high quality food. So people in the area often go to the sea to catch sea cucumbers and process them into nutritious seafood. To catch sea cucumbers, catch them at night. After catching, we have to dry and then sell.

3. Crab emperor

Red crab with red roses, apricot square. Long crab heads, paws and short sticks. This type of crab is most popular in December of the lunar calendar.

The crab is washed and steamed to keep it fresh. Separate the tiles, seasoned crab meat and sauté them in an oil pan for infiltration. Porridge, for crab meat, boil again for crab, onion slices, cilantro and sprinkle with pepper. Fill the porridge with the yellow color of the fat layer, the red color of the crab bricks, the white color of the crab meat, both eye-catching and attractive.

4. Nhum - Phu Quoc specialties

Is a product that Phu Quoc people both love and hate and hate when diving into the sea is prone to sticking. But in exchange for pompoms is a "remarkable" product of the people here.

Prickly is a black, round sea urchin, spines about 15cm long growing bristling around the body. Amazingly, Phu Quoc sea jasmine flavor is not like any other seafood. Its meat and eggs are both sweet, fatty, fragrant like brick crabs and salty aftertaste of the sea ...

There are many ways to eat at Phu Quoc tourist destination. In Central Vietnam, fishermen often take spiced meat and eggs and sauté them before putting them in a porridge. Also in Phu Quoc, relatives choose fresh freshly caught jerks to cut thorns, split them, wash them and put them on a roasted embers, add the onion fat to the nose. New customers hear the smell would be very eager …

5. Ham Ninh crab

Crabs in Phu Quoc are all delicious, but the most special is Ham Ninh crabs. Ham Ninh crabs are much smaller than other places but the meat is firm, sweet, fragrant and flavor can conquer even the most fastidious diners. Come to Ham Ninh, Phu Quoc's oldest fishing village, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy these Delicious dishes made from crabs like steamed crabs, salted crabs, roasted crabs ...

Ham Ninh's crabs cost from 100k-150k / kg depending on the type of big or small. Big crabs in Phu Quoc are also only crabs in Central Vietnam, crabs are too big to eat well, meat is bad, crabs are too small, there is no meat, Ham Ninh's crab is about 6-7 heads a kilo is the best.

6. Phu Quoc abalone

In addition to the famous name of Phu Quoc abalone, the locals here are also called atoms, maybe because it is like a human ear.

After washing, use a blister set on a charcoal grill. When the ripe is coming, the abalone's mouth will foam, water. At that time, we used sauce including a mixture of fat, green onions, garlic, and pureed ginger poured right into the abalone mouth and enjoyed the hot time to feel the deliciousness and sweetness of the island's specialties.

7. Sim honey, sim wine - delicious, nutritious and cheap specialties

It can be said that there are many sims like that on Phu Quoc island in Kien Giang. Most can be mentioned in the protection forests of Ham Ninh, Cua Duong or Duong To.

Thanks to such abundant raw materials, the Sim fruit in Phu Quoc is made by local people, so it is a specialty of forest sim wine. With traditional wine production process by fermenting naturally from forest sims and white sand sugar, or can add a little alcohol to increase concentration.

Phu Quoc forest wine is considered to be a good medicine for health when it is easy to digest and enhance vitality for men.

8. Phu Quoc pepper

Dubbed the "kingdom of pepper", Phu Quoc is considered the largest pepper garden in the Mekong Delta.

Phu Quoc pepper is aromatic and spicy, especially darker than many types of pepper from other regions, including red pepper. Each bunch of red pepper is picked and dried in the sunshine, the red pepper from red to dark red looks very nice. It is enjoyed by the people of Phu Quoc in the ripening period and mainly by manual then they select individual ripe fruits divided into 3 types: red pepper, skull pepper and black pepper.

9. Phu Quoc fish sauce

Phu Quoc fish sauce has long been famous both at home and abroad not only because of its high protein content, color, smell and taste, but also by the tradition of making long-time fish sauce of the people here. The waters of Phu Quoc are bestowed by nature with a great quantity of aquatic products, which can be processed in Phu Quoc fish sauce famous at home and abroad. Almost in Vietnamese dishes, there is no cup of pure fish sauce to increase the flavor of the dish. Phu Quoc fish sauce is a culinary specialty of pearl island, bearing the national identity of Vietnam.