Canh chua ca khoai Canh chua cá khoai

Canh chua cá khoai is a sour soup of a long, round fish with pineapple, tamarind, tomato, bean sprouts, ngổ, and spring onion. The flesh is soft and translucent, and the bowl smells of pineapple and tomato, sweet, then cleanly sour.

Canh chua ca khoai, Canh chua cá khoai
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Texture

Soft translucent flesh and very fine bones.

Taste

Pineapple and tomato fragrance, natural sweetness, and a clean sour from tamarind.

How to enjoy it

Eat it as a soup. The story says the fish was not popular in Cần Giờ until this sour soup.

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