The sour plum soup my mother cooked was so delicious, my mother called me with a pure Western accent.

A bowl of hot and sour plum soup had just been turned off the stove when Mom personally served it to the dinner table with a call in a pure Western accent: 'Let's eat!'.

Tet is also the most convenient occasion for those far from home to look forward to and enjoy sour plum soup that reminds them of the taste of their homeland - Photo: LAN NGOC

The rich river delta region not only attracts people by its beautiful scenery but also by its rustic dishes, rich in the flavor of the homeland.

Among them, plum sour soup is a rustic dish that anyone who has tried it once will find hard to forget. The sweet and sour taste will be even more intense if it is cooked by the mothers and aunts themselves.

Finding plums and fish is easy.

According to the experience of Westerners, using white plums to cook sour soup is delicious beyond reproach. When catching a bunch of freshwater fish from the pond, mothers and aunts take snakehead fish and striped snakehead fish to cook.

The tip of the tongue is tingling with the mild spiciness of chili, the sweet and sour taste of plum and fish will be an interesting culinary experience when coming to the West - Photo: LAN NGOC

Plum sour soup is not too complicated to cook. Mom picked some ripe plums from the backyard garden. The sour taste of the plums mixed with the natural sweetness of snakehead fish and fresh anchovies.

Bring to a boil, then season with a little spice, add a little chili, and add coriander.

In the countryside kitchen, seeing a pot of sour plum soup simmering, just smelling the aroma makes anyone standing nearby feel hungry and want to eat right away.

Mother's love in family meals

Whenever guests come to visit or during Tet when the family reunites, mothers and aunts are busy in the kitchen cooking sour plum soup to eat with braised fish.

Mom's hands quickly prepared the fish and seasoned it with experience, without weighing or measuring, but the taste was always just right.

Looking at the pot of sour soup, the aroma spreading throughout the kitchen, the feeling of love and warmth seems to permeate every spoonful of soup.

Catching fish from the pond to make sour plum soup is delicious - Photo: THANH HUYEN

For the people of the Western countryside, this dish is not only to fill the stomach but also a part of memory, a sharing in family affection.

If you want to eat sour plum soup with the authentic taste of your mother's cooking, try visiting and enjoying it once because it is a dish that is wrapped up with so much love and identity of the homeland of the river delta, the land of nine dragons.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/ngon-dut-luoi-to-canh-chua-man-ma-nau-rat-giong-mien-tay-ma-goi-bay-oi-20250126092735138.htm