The good natural conditions in the delta of many waterways have created abundant specialities. Furthermore, this land is home of some ethnic groups like Kinh, Hoa, and Khmer, so that Can Tho people have a lot of dishes and diverse culinary ways. Upon coming here, we will have chance to enjoy specialities full of characteristic tastes.
Lau mam
Main ingredient of the dish is salted fish (made of ca linh (a species of small fish) or murrel, gourami, catfish, anabas, dwarf catfish, etc.,). When boiling the dish, it pervades distinct and mouth-watering smell of salted fished. The dish has other ingredients such as mixed lean and fat meat, eel, snail, soya curd, and so on. However, the most attractive and mouth-watering character is colour of dozens of vegetates namely lotus rootstock, water-lily, colza, coriander, banana inflorescence, water hyacinth, balsam-apple, duck potato, etc. This disk creates distinct flavours of the hick area.
