Food6 min read
What to eat in the Mekong: 12 dishes by season
Straw-grilled snakehead in the dry season, fermented fish hotpot with sesbania in flood season.
Mekong food follows the water. Understand the seasons and you understand the menu.
Dry season
Straw-grilled snakehead, snails and sizzling pancakes – food from the fields after the harvest.
Flood season
Linh fish, sesbania, water lily and fermented fish hotpot – the sweetness of rising water.
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Cai Rang floating market
A river market at dawn – the icon of the Mekong Delta
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