In the early days of the rainy season, when the rice in the field has become green, the shoals of small tilapia begin to appear. It is also the time when people go fishing and have fishes cooked into rustic, bucolic dishes.
 

Fried crispy small tilapia

 
Small tilapia are black and light blue, can be cooked into many delicious dishes such as dried fish with pepper, fried flour, fried crispy, etc. depending on the preferences of each person, however the fried crispy small tilapia is the most popular food.

Small tilapia (fresh fish) put in the basket, take banana leaves (or leaves of lemon grass) to rub several times with water to clean viscous. Keep whole fish cooking, (no need to scab, remove the intestines, cut head, tail due to the small fish, soft bone).

Put the pan to the stove, add enough oil into the pan to dry fish. Wait for the oil to boil, have the fish fried on small fire, when the fish is crispy with a golden color, you turn the fish back to crispy two sides. Fry until crispy fish, pick up, dry oil.

Crispy tilapia eaten with vegetables and sweet and sour fish sauce, eaten with rice or snacks is delicious. Crispy golden tilapia dish can eat both bone and meat. Fish meat is sweet eaten with sweet and sour sauce is very attractive. When the fried fish has just been cool down, it is also the best time to eat fish, if put fish in the air too long, it will lose crispness and be hard.