Fish salad – is one of the famous culinary specialties in Ninh Binh, fish salad has made many tourists fall in love when coming to Ninh Binh… The selected fish must be fresh and delicious. 400kg or more, white fat belly, dark stone green back, through many meticulous and sophisticated processing stages, it is possible to make a salad without the fishy taste of fish, when eaten, it has a delicious taste mixed with the flesh of fish. Roasted glutinous rice with the sour taste of vinegar and the warm spiciness of ginger, pepper, chili, and lemongrass in the dipping sauce.
Frog fish salad requires many stages and is very elaborately processed. In order for the salad not to be fishy, after catching the fish, take lime juice, water ash, and bamboo leaves to remove the sebum on the skin. Dissecting fish on the back, dissecting eel, filtering bones. Fresh fish meat cut into slices has a pink color similar to the color of fruit (banana fish). Tinh is made of roasted glutinous rice, pounded to have a fragrant and fleshy smell. Quickly mix fish meat with hearing for meat aroma. Take the crispy fried fish skin and roll it into a salad. Crushed fish bones to cook dipping sauce (also known as dipping sauce).
The frog fish salad is served with sesame rice cakes, many vegetables and spices such as fig leaves, guava leaves, clove leaves, sesame buds, apricot leaves, star fruit… People wrap those leaves into a funnel. Add the pork belly, brush it with water, add a few grains of white salt, a few slices of dried onion and a slice of fresh chili, and then wrap it up. Frog fish salad is very delicious, fragrant and fleshy, has a very specific taste, once you eat it, you will remember it forever. This is a must-try dish when enjoying Ninh Binh cuisine. A plate of frog fish salad ranges from 100,000-150,000 VND a plate, and also quite a lot of frog meat. Coming to Ninh Binh, you have to eat Kim Son fish salad to fully feel the delicious taste of this fish salad.
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