Cha Ca La Vong (La Vong grilled sliced fish)

Do you want to become a fish? You can swim as long as you want in water. But, you can be caught by fishing man. So, you want to become a fish or the man eating fish?. I think you would rather be a man than a fish. If you want to eat fish, I'll provide for you a special dish in Hanoi which was written in the book "1000 places to see before you die" of PATRICIA SCHULTZ. That is Cha Ca La Vong!. Are you ready to eat by eyes?


In those years of the French colonial period, a house at 14, Hang Son street, Hanoi, there is a family - the Doan, they used their home as a place for a insurgent with the name"De Tham". They cooked a delicious grilled sliced fish. Gradually, the insurgent helped the family open a restaurant, both feed the family and as a place to gather.
In the restaurant, they put a statue of La Vong - Khuong Tu Nha who is a talented man but had to wait the time. The secret of grilled fish is just passed to their children of the Doan. Time by time, the name" Cha Ca La Vong" became the name of the street because it is so famous.


Kind of fish to cook this dish is often less bone, sweet and aroma fish meat. Fish meat is scraped from two sides of fish, sliced slightly and marinated with galangal juice, turmeric,chili, brewed rice and fish sauce in a special way in two hours, then grilled by bamboo furnace bar on coal stove. After, they fry grilled fish in pan with fat, green onion and dill. They don't use oil because of lower temperature and less aromatic than fat.


There are two popular ways to eat this dish:
- Put grilled fish in pan of fat, put green onion and dill at the same time. When green onion and dill are welldone, take them out, put into a bowl, put roasted peanuts, basil, bun, shrimp sauce into the bowl. Mix it and an important step, it is eat!. You will feel the flavor of shrimp sauce blends with the sweet taste of fish, vegetables and fleshy of roasted peanuts.
- Put grilled fish, vegetables and green onion into a bowl, pour boiling fat on them, can be served with grilled rice paper.


In addition to the above two ways, you can put bun into pan and stir quickly with fish, dill, green onion. This way is very good but much fat. Another way, you can eat by your own way, your money, your way. This dish can be served with alcohol in the cold weather. In the hot weather, you can drink beer. It is quite much fat of animal so it does not conform for people with cardiovascular problems.

To have a look more vivid, you can watch this below video


You want to cook this dish when you have free time?, you can learn how to cook here