Fermented-fish hotpot Lẩu mắm
Lẩu mắm is the Châu Đốc dinner pot: a broth built on mắm cá chốt and mắm cá sặc, loaded with stuffed fish cake, meat, seafood, and greens, and eaten with noodles. It is the meal not to leave town without.
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Châu Đốc, the kingdom of mắm. The hotpot is the evening dish people come for.
How to enjoy it
Order it to share in the evening.
Into the pot go chả cá thác lác stuffed with chili, meats, seafood, water spinach, pumpkin blossom, kèo nèo, banana blossom, chili, and spring onion. Eat it with bún, and mix a little sweet-sour mắm me or chili mắm at the table.
This is a different order from the seafood hotpot of vegetables, mushrooms, noodles, and herbs.
Where to try it
Town restaurants in the evening. The restaurant inside Trà Sư serves it at lunch.