The West is famous for its typical river dishes such as shrimp, fish, fish sauce,... and indispensable vegetables with strange names, rustic flavors but once eaten, you will remember forever.
Watercress
Nần bộp is a vegetable with a cylindrical stem, as big as a chopstick, a hollow, elongated stem, can be up to 1m high, inside there are spongy partitions, at first glance it looks like a onion stem. The outside of the Nần bộp root is covered with a yellow-brown color due to alum contamination, when peeling off the outer part, the eye-catching ivory-white inner part appears.
The water spinach, also known as Eleocharis dulcis, is a sedge plant with the scientific name Eleocharis dulcis, and belongs to the sedge family. In particular, Eleocharis dulcis is a type of vegetable that often grows wild on the water surface, and is a native plant of tropical regions such as Asia, Africa, and parts of Australia.
The shoots, buds and tubers can all be processed into dishes. This vegetable is often dipped in the broth of braised meat, braised fish, or braised fish sauce, or eaten with fried tilapia, grilled snakehead fish or grilled catfish with ginger fish sauce.
young vegetable
Rau choai, rau ran, and dau ran are common names for rau dot choai, a vine of the fern family. This vegetable can live in low-lying areas or acid sulfate soil thanks to its roots that have the ability to absorb water strongly. It often climbs on cajuput trees and grows abundantly during the rainy season.
Dot choai is a vegetable that can be found almost everywhere in the Southwest region. It belongs to the vine family, its stems creep to where they take root, it can live in low-lying areas thanks to its roots that have strong water absorption, and is especially well adapted to the alum-contaminated soils in U Minh.
The young shoots of the choai have a slender stem, the young shoots bend like a millipede, the stem crawls to where it attaches roots. The taste of this vegetable is bitter, chewing carefully will reveal a characteristic sweet aftertaste.
When this vegetable is used to prepare dishes, it has a unique flavor. People often pick young choai shoots to stir-fry or boil and dip them in braised fish, steamed fish sauce, or eat them with fish hotpot. They can also be mixed with fish sauce, vinegar, garlic and chili to make an appetizer salad.
Water spinach
The water lily belongs to the reed family and is also known as “water incense”. Water lily grows abundantly in the Mekong Delta, most notably in the provinces of Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Ca Mau. It is usually harvested from June to November every year during the flood season.
Water spinach grows and develops well in wetlands such as ponds, lakes, and marshes. The plant can adapt to brackish water, brackish water with little alum, or fresh water.
The water spinach is actually a wild vegetable, but people collect it to make dishes and gradually it becomes a specialty. The harvest time of the water spinach ranges from June to November.
Westerners often stir-fry this vegetable with shrimp or cook eel soup, both of which go well with rice. Bon bon melon can be processed into many delicious dishes that attract diners such as: pickled bon bon, stir-fried bon bon with shrimp, eaten raw bon bon, bon bon salad...
Vegetables
Rau trai is also known as white jasmine grass, belongs to the jasmine family, grows a lot in fields and gardens, where the soil is moist. The branched stems often bend downward, the leaves are oblong or lanceolate, with a base sheath 2-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, and petioleless.
Rau trai is often called white jasmine. The characteristics of this vegetable are easy to recognize. This vegetable has many small branches, weak stems, purple flowers, and often grows on most rice fields and ditches.
The stems and young leaves of the water spinach can be processed into dishes. Westerners often cook water spinach with shrimp soup, crab soup or stir-fry it with shrimp, which is very delicious.
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