When coming to An Giang, you will explore the breathtaking scenery with numerous destinations such as Chau Doc Lady Pagoda; Sam mountain; the magnificent mountain. Moreover, you can get close to the amazing cuisines of the Cham, Khmer and Vietnamese people. Whenever, you wonder what to eat in An Giang, just check it out!
What to eat in An Giang
Neem salad (Goi sau dau)
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(neem salad-source from @huyhuymeo)[/caption]
You can not miss this food in your An Giang travel because this province can deliver the best quality dish. It might be a challenge for you at the first try. However, if you chew slowly, the aftertaste will become sweet.
The neem can be made into many types of dishes: braised fish with neem; braised pork with neem; or used with fish jam and so on. Neem salad is an all-time choice. The local people will collect the early leaves and flowers, then clean and soak them with boiling water to reduce the bitterness. After that, the leaves, boiled shredded bacon, steamed shrimps, dried fish, mango, cucumber and other spices go well together to make a flavorful taste.
Grilled naked snakehead fish (Cá lóc nướng trui)
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(grilled nake snakehead-source from @ngaan.ngann)[/caption]
Grilled naked snakehead fish is one of the best specialties in An Giang. The chef use a stick to skewer the fresh fish from head to tail. The fish is grilled on the burning charcoal.
The fish is also served with tamarind sauce, and herbs such as sand dunes, two ladies, silk, lotus, coriander, tamarind leaves. The best way to eat the fish is to wrap it with rice paper, and dip in fish sauce to notice sweet and fat of the fish, the spicy of chili, and the bitterness of many types of herbs.
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Hau river dolphin (Ca heo song Hau)
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(hau river dolphin-source from @phantanloc)[/caption]
How can you eat a dolphin at once time? Just kidding! In fact, the Hau river dolphins are flat, with blue-white color and big stripes on their skins. When they are caught, they make the sound of the dolphin, so its name is Hau river dolphin.
If you do not know what to eat in An Giang, you can try several water-mouth dishes cooked from this fish. All you can eat such as grilling with chili salt, making sour soup, making hot pot, or braising. The fish hot pot is also exquisite when cooked with on special vegetable of the South, the Sesbania sesban or “bông điên điển.” To sum up,there are so many options from one type of fish.
Braised climbing perch with Vietnamese coriander (Ca ro me kho rau ram)
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(Braised climbing perch with Vietnamese coriander-source from foody.vungliem)[/caption]
Perch is a freshwater fish lives in ponds, rice fields in the Mekong Delta, especially in the Chau Doc, An Giang region. Its meat is sweet, fat and easy to cook into so many delicious dishes: braised perch, grilled, deep fried… and the best and the simplest is the braising technique.
The braised perch is eaten with hot white rice and steamed herbs with braised fish sauce. The sweet and fat braised perch combined with the strong flavorful herbs and white rice will make nonstop eating. It is one of the best Long Xuyen street food as well as the daily meal of local people.
Sesbania sesban sour soup (canh chua bong dien dien)
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(Sesbania sesban sour soup-source from @maimummim219)[/caption]
The sesbania sesban sour soup is very popular in An Giang, especially in the rising season. The sesban is collected during the early time of flood season. To create a perfect dish, the main ingredients are required such as the sesban, lotus branches, tamarind, herbs, chili, dangila fish or perch.
You will never forget the sweetness of vegetable, the sour taste of tamarind, tasty dish and the spicy of chili. All of the dishes combined to make a nice and delicate banquet of the countryside which no restaurant can offer. In the midday of the flooding season, with the rains are pouring outside, there is nothing better than a bowl of sesban soup and hot rice.
Danio dangila (Ca linh)
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(linh fish hot pot-source from @ficivn)[/caption]
The dangilas, after laying eggs in the Lake Sea, come down to Tien and Hau rivers to find food during the flooding season in the Mekong Delta. There are 2 kind famous dishes made of the fish: the fried floured dangila and the hot pot of dangila and sesban. When cooking, you do not have to remove the fins, just remove the guts, soak with salt water to remove the slimes and cook the fish.
This dish is cooked with sour soup and eaten along with rice vermicelli. When the soup is cooked, put the fish and the sesban into the soup together. The fish is soft combined with the crunchy sesban is a wonderful combination.
Fish jam (Mam thai)
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(fish jam-source from @tolunguyen)[/caption]
Fish jam is one of the best specialties in An Giang. It is definitely the symbol of the Southern culinary. The fishes are usually snakehead fish, fat catfish. Firstly, the fish is soaked in salt water for 15 days. After that, you remove the fish’s head, skin it, remove the bones, slice the meat into chopstick-like shape, marinate the meat with sugar, fish sauce, and mix the meat with sliced raw papaya.
The papaya, after leaving under the sun for one day, is good to use. Putting everything together into one can, you will need to seal it so wind cannot get inside for a week. The fish jam is a traditional delicacy of the locals, and the process to turn the fish into jam without cooking depends enormously on the skills of each food makers. With the best skill in the jam-making business, the people in An Giang have the most famous brand in the country.
Fish gut sauce (Mam ruot)
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(Fish gut sauce-source from @banhtrang_sate)[/caption]
The sauce is made of the guts of the big fishes, even better if the fish has eggs. After taking the guts out, the cook will have to meticulously remove the fat cover outside the guts, but leave enough to keep the smell down.
The sauce is eaten with herbs and chili. The sauce is also good to eat with bacon, duck eggs, with some pepper and some slices of ginger. If you like to have a hot dish, you can cook the sauce with lemongrass and chili, and eat with herbs.
Sam mountain seven dishes of beef (Bo bay mon nui Sam)
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(Sam mountain seven dishes of beef-source from @hientran3293)[/caption]
After visiting Sam mountain, you can make a short stop to taste the famous seven-dishes of beef, which are boiled tripe, boiled meat with rice vermicelli cake, cow’s head porridge, grilled beef with bread, fried beef with Aganonerion, beefsteak, and roasted beef.
Chau Doc Fish broth rice vermicelli (Bun nuoc ken Chau Đoc)
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(Chau Doc Fish broth rice vermicelli-source from @thaoci.90)[/caption]
The delicious broth rice vermicelli has many features: the broth is sweet and fat, the rice vermicelli is purely white. To have a perfect dish, a big snakehead is all cleand and boiled. You will also need to remove the bone, and take a partial amount of the meat and grinded into dried shredded fish and flour.
Combining everything with the fish broth, and marinating with the kroeung, a special ingredient of the Khmer, you will almost complete a perfect bowl of fish broth rice vermicelli. Adding in coconut milk, setting the fire to small, and finally adding in lettuce, raw Banana Flower, putting the rice vermicelli on top and pouring the broth in. Then you will enjoy a delicious dish.
Borassus pie (Bánh thốt nốt)
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(Borassus pie-source from @duytn.hcm)[/caption]
Jaggery is famous for its fresh juice, sugar and many other dishes from this fruit. The pie is good because it is made of the special rice from the Seven Mountains and the thick and delicious borassus. The pie is yellow in color with a simple recipe for a flavorful filling. A borassus pie, wrapped in soong leaves, is only found in An Giang.
Where to eat in An Giang
If you have the chance to visit Long Xuyen, you can try some best Long Xuyen street food such as Huong Duong rice-chicken which is a very popular dish. Some other must-eat dishes include grilled beef or Kieu Thu buffalo hot pot.
Here are some nice restaurants in An Giang:
Long Xuyen
1. Cay Diep broken rice at 67 Ly Tu Trong – Long Xuyen city.
Opening hours are from 9am to 10am.
2. 3P restaurant on Phan Dinh Phung street – Long Xuyen has several dishes. The best sellers are blood cockle porridge (Cháo sò huyết) and crab thick noodle soup (bánh canh cua).
3. Fish sauce hot pot opposite to Long Xuyen bus station
Chau Doc
4. Mi Hue restaurant in the center of Chau Doc market. It is famous for fish dishes.
5. Chau Doc fish noodle opposite the old movie theater or near Bo De pagoda (in Chau Doc town)
Tinh Bien
6. Grilled beef, beef porridge, and other dishes from beef is 4 km (2.5 miles) towards Cam mountain (Tinh Bien district).
7. Phuong Huong grilled beef opposite Ket mountain (Tinh Bien district). All food is very tasty and cheap.
To sum up, we are very happy if you like this post. Hope you find what to eat in An Giang and enjoy the best trip in either An Giang or Mekong Delta. If you are keen on some more info about your Mekong Delta tourism, please visit us at: Through the Mekong, Ho Chi Minh city to Phom Penh
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