Sour shrimp Tôm chua
Lake shrimp kept in a jar, mildly sour and fragrant, with sweet meat, garlic, chili, and galangal. It is eaten with boiled trotter or belly, sour starfruit, green banana, and đinh lăng.
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The Thái Nguyên portal calls tôm chua mildly sour and fragrant. VnExpress calls the meat sweet and mildly sour, with garlic, chili, and galangal in the bite.
How to enjoy it
VnExpress eats it with boiled trotter or boiled belly, sour starfruit, green banana, and đinh lăng, and with a small cup of corn wine. The sourness is mild.
VnExpress printed 50,000–70,000 VND a box on 2 December 2014, and says it is sold at Bo Lu and Pac Ngoi.
Where to try it
Bo Lu and Pac Ngoi. VnExpress also says small shrimp and small fish that are not eaten fresh are salted in a jar for later.