Canh chua Canh chua
Canh chua is Can Tho’s sour soup, cooked with bông điên điển flowers and cá linh, the small river fish of the flood season. The downtown dinner version uses fish or shrimp with pineapple, tomato, sprouts, and elephant-ear stems.
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Where it comes from
Can Tho. The điên điển and cá linh bowl is the city’s own, and the pineapple bowl is eaten across the region.
How to enjoy it
Order it at dinner in town.
Ask for the cá linh bowl in the flood months, when the fish is in season.
Where to try it
Downtown Can Tho, at dinner.