Can Tho city – center of Southern river region is famous for not only abundant fruits absorbing people, but also regional specialties which you cannot remove.

Reminding Can Tho’s dishes, you can tell dishes such as sauce hot pot, crepe, rice flour rolls, grilled mullet, and especially grilled snails with pepper – the dish can’s be said to make abundance more Can Tho’s gastronomies of the river region.

Grilled snails with pepper are a rural dish of Can Tho, with easy material to find, and simple process. However, to cook the dish very well and especially is mainly people’s secret here.

Normally, after snails are caught, they are soaked into washing water of the rice, so that snails pull out mucus. Soaking time is about 20 to 30 minutes. After soaking well, we boil snails in a short time, and then leave them onto hot charcoal to grill snails. Grilled snails only gain the best level when being grilled with coal, because at that time, the dish has a natural aroma and snail’s meat is grilled well. As grilling snails onto the coal fire, you do not forget to turn over gradual hands, and put snail’s face down the charcoal, if not, it is easy to fire snail’s shell and meat. During grilling, please adding spices so that the dish is more glutinous. Prepared spices include fish extract, garlic, and sugar. The aromatic and spicy snail dish is mainly the resonance of these spices.