Travelling Ca Mau - the kingdom of the countryside fish - visitors do not miss the opportunity to enjoy delicious food, but will please the hearts of many customers - grilled broadhead catfish served with ginger sauce.

Grilled broadhead catfish on charcoal stove. Photo: Huynh Lam.

There are many types of catfish such as walking catfish (white catfish), coconut catfish, North African catfish (also known as hybrid catfish) and broadhead catfish. However, to process grilled fish, broadhead catfish is the number one.

Grilled broadhead catfish should choose live catfish, which live in the wild environment. The bigger the fish, the better the meat, especially the broadhead catfish is caught during the harvesting season (usually from November to March lunar year). This season, the fish is fat, and the meat is more delicious than the rainy season.

Grilled broadhead catfish is usually found in countryside parties.

Grilled broadhead catfish is easy to prepare. Broadhead catfish after being killed, leave whole, washed and then skewered to grill on charcoal stove. It is very ripe and should not be ignited. Grilled until golden fish skin, bulging, slowly cracking to reveal pieces of meat, yellow, fragrant smell is beginning to ripen.

Grilled broadhead catfish has a characteristic aroma and is difficult to resist, fish meat is fat. Grilled catfish is often served with rural vegetables such as lotus leaf, new nymphae stellata leaf, celtis occidentalis leaf, black currant sprout, gooseberry, chives, celery, mustard greens, cucumber, coriander, herbs, spearmint, basil, etc..

The best sauce of this dish is ginger sauce. Ginger is smooth, accompanied by a little chili, garlic and seasoning with some spices like lemon, sugar, MSG into fish sauce. Ginger fish sauce is salty depending on the taste of each person. The sour of rural vegetables combined with the piquant flavor of ginger sauce makes grilled broadhead catfish more attractive.

Grilled broadhead catfish is a familiar dish, close to Ca Mau people. At the end of the land, visitors do not miss the opportunity to enjoy savory dishes, bold countryside - grilled broadhead catfish with ginger sauce.