A river flowing over time, over history, over millions of lives, over the heart of each person is both gentle and fierce. A river mumbling with waves in thousands of poem pages making villages, fruit, houses, and colors of human and trees....

A river flowing over time, over history, over millions of lives, over the heart of each person is both gentle and fierce. A river mumbling with waves in thousands of poem pages making villages, fruit, houses, and colors of human and trees....

 This is the poem showing profound patriotism of Luu Quang Vu poet through Red River-the majestic mother river which always protects and raises the children of Vietnam.

The Red River flows through Hung Yen territory with a length of about 57 kms, which not only has a favorable condition for the development of agriculture, industry, daily routine, waterway transport but also provides abundant aquatic resources such as shrimp, crab and fish. Among hundreds of dishes from aquatic species, Hung Yen is famous for dishes made from sardines, shrimp and fish.

Sardines

Sardines migrate from the sea to rivers to spawn. Spring, especially through the full moon of January, is the time when the fish flock back to the rivers. The fish has tiny silvery white scales, flat body, many small bones but a lot of meat. The flesh of sardines is sweet and fragrant, and the fish roe is even more delicious due to its irresistible aroma. To fully enjoy the deliciousness and nutrition of sardines, it can be processed in many ways such as frying, grilling and grill fished. Whether sardines are baked, fried or making into grilled fish, it must be preliminarily cleaned, marinated with spices, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, turmeric. Grilled fish should be ground with meat to make the patties spongy and greasy, and added herbs such as onions, dill, and piper lolot. Fish should be serve hot to taste better and retain its flavor, dipped it with a bowl of lime fish sauce or Ban soy sauce, adding a little garlic, minced ginger to further enhance the deliciousness of the fish.

Shrimp

Shrimp is an extremely delicious and nutritious aqua product that contains a high volume of protein, calcium and iron. Dishes made from shrimp are also good such as steamed shrimp, fried shrimp or roasted shrimp with lime leaves. On the occasion of new year days or family gathering, people often prepare a dish of shrimp rolls. River shrimps roasted with sugar and fish sauce creates an aromatic smell. The redness of shrimps mixed with the green color ofcorianders, salad, onion and Vietnamese mints, the color of minced silk rolls, fried egg, yellow fried tofu and white rice noodles create a vivid dish. Shrimp roll is a simple dish but nutritious and rich in flavor. The dipping sauce for this dish is the mixture taste of sour, spicy and sweet made from fish sauce with sugar, hot chili, lime and garlic.

Cranoglanis bouderius is a species of armorhead catfish . This fish is fleshy, has less bones, the flesh is soft and sweet. In order to cook the best dish with this fish, the ingredients include peeled green bananas, pork belly, turmeric, tomatoes, fermented rice, shiso and other seasoning such as fish sauce, salt, broth mix, pepper, hot chili. After preliminary processing, fish is cut into pieces and fried. The prok belly is stir fried and put in with banana and fish, and marinated with fermented rice and seasoning. Then pour water into the pot and cook with small heat until all ingredients are cooked and soft. In addition to braised fish with banana and fermented rice, it can be cooked with pickles or tomatoes.

Parachela oxygastroides ,

Parachela oxygastroides is a species with small body, silver white, flattened on both sides, 20mm long and 20g in weight. In March and April, the fish has much fish roe. This fish is an ordinary species but its flesh is delicious and able to be cooked into various dishes such as fish soup, grilled chopped fish, fish cooked with banana, fried fish or cooked with pickles. This type of fish is favored by Hung Yen residents because is cheap, yet delicious. This fish is often used to make grilled chopped fish because it's small and soft. It is ground with pork and herbs and then fried, cooked with tomatoes or vegetables.

On an occasion to visit Pho Hien, Chieu market (open in the afternoon) is the place tourists can wander to buy these specialties depends on each typical season such as longan season, orange season, lotus season, shrimp and fish season.  Shrimp bamboo baskets with jumping shrimp in berry look good. Visitors can choose fish from the batch that is freshly catched. Basins full of silver white sardines and parachela oxygastroides induce people to buy them all. In order to enjoy all tastes of these specialties, it's necessary to cook them immediately after buying, which takes much time. However, making dishes from these fresh ingredients and putting all efforts into them make the flavor more attractive. Accommodation in Hung Yen city from 1 to 2 days brings an exciting experience to those who love travelling.

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