9 famous specialties in Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

The story of the white sand on the blue sea with pristine and fresh space is nothing more controversial about the beauty of paradise island of Phu Quoc. However, Phu Quoc also makes people fascinated by 9 kinds of specialties are not easy to find in other places - "far away is remember, near the craving like: king crab, abalone, sim, pepper, .. .

1. Mushroom Melaleuca - Specialties Phu Quoc is more in the rainy season

Melaleuca is purple color like mangosteen fruit, started to grow gradually and lasted more than a month of the beginning of the rainy season, from the time until the end, the life of the mushroom melaleuca within 5 to 7 days. Because of the short life span of these fungi, they are less likely to be marketed as other fungi.

This is a natural fungus, so people in Phu Quoc island have to go to the field of cajuput for picking bring bring processing. The people on the island have a harmonious combination of mushrooms with fresh seafood on the island as ink, shrimp, moo ... to create mushrooms, mushrooms, cucumber delicious, attractive and nutritious food. for every family.

2. Sea Cucumber
Ginseng or ginseng of the sea, from ancient to present this species is listed in "four great titles" ie 4 kinds of precious food: sea cucumber, monkeys, bear hands, Salanganes'Nest. Ginseng is a species of invertebrate, living in the sea, on sandy or dead corals, most concentrated at depths of 2-5m, often found in the gulf and places with many reefs.

Currently, this species is rare but still exists in Ham Ninh market, so the price has increased many times. Ginseng is a species that carnives corpses of marine mammals and reproduces by releasing sperm and eggs into seawater. One of the ways they catch prey is to lie in the waves and catch the drift in it with tentacles as the tentacles open up. They can be found in large numbers next to the human fish farms. Their appearance is similar to that of a cucumber.

Sea Ginseng is a favorite seafood because of high nutrition, a high quality food. Therefore, people in the area often go to sea to catch sea cucumber and processed into seafood. To catch sea cucumber to catch at night. After catching we have to dry the night before selling.

3. Emperor Crab
Gray, red, square aphids. Long, crooked and short stems. This type of crab is especially in December lunar month.

Crab meat is not only strong, but the crab bricks are fragrant and greasy. King crabs can be processed in many ways such as steamed, grilled charcoal, but especially porridge.

Crabs are washed and steamed to keep sweetness. Separate pieces for the crab, marinated in crab meat and then fried in oil pan to absorb. Porridge, crab meat, boil again for the crab bricks, sliced onion, onion and sprinkle pepper. The yellow porridge of fat, the red color of the crab bricks, the white color of the crab meat, both eye catching just attractive.

4. Nhum - specialty of Phu Quoc sea
It is a product that Phu Quoc people have both love and hate, when diving into the sea is prone to stick. But in exchange for children is a "breeze" of the people here.

Turbot is a black sea urchin, round, thorns about 15 cm long sprouting around the body. In Phu Quoc, people call for spikes, which are often eaten with lemon or porridge. Strangely, the flavor of Phu Quoc sea wine is not like any seafood. Its meat and eggs are sweet, fat, fragrant like crab bricks and salty aftertaste of the sea ...
To make a rump, first use a scissors cut all around the spines. People cut open skulls, scoop the water along with other parts to splash out, only the brick is covered with membranes. Cleansing the membrane with sea water is a delicious bricks exposed. There is a yellow brick, the child is brown brown. Remarkably, if made with fresh water, the bricks will break as if you mixed the spice into the gourd.

There are many ways to eat in Phu Quoc. In the Central, fishermen often take meat and eggs seasoned and then fried before being put into the porridge. Also in Phu Quoc, people picked fresh raisins just picked up to cut thorns, split up, washed and put on the charcoal stove charcoal grill, add grease onions, aromas rush up the nose. New customers heard the smell was eager ...

5. Ham Ninh crab
Crabs in Phu Quoc are always delicious, but the most interesting is Ham Ninh. Ham Ninh is smaller than many other places, but meat is firm, sweet, fragrant, taste can conquer even the most difficult guests. To Ham Ninh, the oldest fishing village in Phu Quoc, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the delicious dishes made from crabs such as steamed crabs, roasted salt crab, roasted meats ...

Ham Ninh prices from 100k-150k / kg depending on type or small. Big cucumbers in Phu Quoc are also just kidding in the Central, big crabs are not eaten well, the meat is broken or the baby is too little meat, Ham Ninh cuckoo about 6-7 baby one is the best.

6. Phu Quoc abalone
In addition to the famous name abalone Phu Quoc locality is also known as the sea, it may be because it is like the human ear.

Fresh abalone can process many kinds of wild foods such as boiled, grilled, fried, porridge ... The most attractive is the abalone grilled charcoal fire.
After cleaning and then use the grill on the charcoal grill. As soon as ripe, the mouth of the abalone will effervesce, water. At that time, we used a sauce of grease mixture, green onion, garlic, ginger sliced right into the mouth of the abalone and enjoy the hot new feel of the delicious, sweet of the island specialty.
The abalone shell is also used by Oriental medicine as a "callus".

7. SIM sim, wine sim - special delicious, ton, cheap

There is no sim so much as on the island of Phu Quoc in Kien Giang. The most commonly mentioned are the Ham Ninh, Cua Duong or Duong To protection forests.
Thanks to the abundant source of raw materials such as fruit sim in Phu Quoc, people here make specialties of forest wine sim. With the traditional wine-making process by natural fermentation from wild fruit and white sugar, or perhaps by adding a little alcohol to increase the concentration.

Phu Quoc sim wine is considered a good medicine for health when it is easy to digest and enhance the strength of the force of the country.

8. Phu Quoc pepper
Called the "pepper kingdom", Phu Quoc is considered as the largest pepper garden in the Mekong Delta, where you will have to admire the green pepper garden, the pepper bunches ripen on the branches.

Phu Quoc pepper is fragrant and spicy, especially more peppery than other regions, including red pepper. Each bunch of red pepper is picked down and dried in the sun, the red pepper to turn red color is very beautiful eyes. The Phu Quoc people harvested each ripple and mainly by hand. There are three types of fruit: red pepper, black 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 high protein, color, smell, taste, but also traditional long-term fish sauce of people here. Phu Quoc sea is the source of great seafood from which can be processed Phu Quoc fish sauce famous in and out of the country. Almost in the tray of Vietnamese rice can not without the cup of pure fish sauce to enhance the flavor of the dish. Phu Quoc fish sauce is a culinary specialties of pearl island, bearing the Vietnamese national identity.