Fish Linh – a unique seafood species of Mekong

Attractive right from the name

“Water does not call the water standing,
Fish do not worship why fishing fish ”.

The hundred -year -old song in the watershed area Mekong River Particularly, the long -standing attachment of the spiritual fish to the land and revealing the secret of the poem about the strange name of the fish. Having a body is not too big, even very small, but Linh fish has a name in a heavy line in the Mekong Earth Water.

Regarding the name of the fish, there is a hypothesis that this fish only appears once a year at the time when the European region welcomes the flood water from the upstream of Mekong. When floodwaters, flexible fish are present on the natural river system in the Southwest region, so it is called fish. After reading the Fish Camp. The second theory argues that this fish is … Linh.

Researcher Nguyen Van Alkum, author of the book “Tan Chau 1870 – 1964”, said, as the law of thousands of generations, on the 10th of the 10th of the lunar calendar, the spirit of the river, to the Kinh, the ditch started the water surface, folk called fish up. Also with this spiritual tendency, there is also theory that this is a hierarchy with floodwaters. Floods are fish appearing, the floods are also empty in the wild. More specifically, every time there is rain, this fish is almost lost. However, there is another theory that this name is given by the king.

Forming a cultural chain …

As the rule of life, right on the 5th of the 5th lunar month, the Mekong River’s watershed began to “spin”, the Mekong Delta welcomed the flood season with the red water streams from the upstream of Mekong, which was also the time when the flexible fish followed the water to the water. No need to take care of, they eat creatures but grow very fast and especially go into a herd.

Due to the overwhelming output in the flood season, people in the watershed also formed a tool for fishing in each growth stage. It is still the hoes, the mesh, the bottom and the dong (fishing tools in the form of large scale, catching in large quantities) …, but in An Giang, Dong Thap … have improved many details associated with the name of Linh Linh to suit the fishing fish with small body, but the number is very large. And each type of fishing, there are worshiping activities, different elections …

Due to eating only creatures that large and constantly moving in floodwaters, although the body is small, the spirit has a very special meat quality. Fragrant, delicious, soft, sweet … so Linh fish is also the inspiration for creating cuisine and becoming a fish invested by the chef to process the most specialty dishes. From warehouse, fried, cooked whole soup, to processing into rolls, all bring interesting in people to enjoy.

That is not to mention the technology line of flexible fish brewing into the famous fish sauce: Linh fish sauce. But more specifically and most popular is the fish in the braised fish sauce. Perhaps today, the fish sauce is present in all parts of the country, but only when served with fresh fish whip will feel all the spirit and richness of the dish. Each person has a sense and difficult words to describe it all, but everyone has the same feeling … addicted.

The dishes with flexible fish also opened the creative journey of vegetables. Perhaps it is drawn from generations, the flexible fish dishes are used with vegetables such as lilies, dythons, vegetables, Cu Neo, lentils, bronze spinach … and depending on the type of processing, there is an appropriate way to prepare vegetables.

Having the opportunity to return to the Southwest to enjoy the specialties of fish, surely everyone more precious, more love of generations has formed and wings for the rustic dish to fly to cultural level.