My Tho seafood noodles
soup is different from Chinese one, Nam Vang,
beef noodles and Hue style beef noodles
soup, because it is used without herb or
salad but with bean-sprouts, lemon, chili
and soya sauce. The most important thing
makes the fame of My Tho seafood noodles
soup that so many people liked from 1960s is
the rice flour for the noodles and the pot
of boiled water with secret preparation of
famous shop in My Tho: Phanh Ky, Nam Son,
Tuyen Ky and generation recently. It is said
that the most delicious noodles soup should
be made by Go Cat rice (special food like
Tau Huong from Dao market rice), this is the
most famous rice growing area of My Phong
village, a suburb of My Tho. And the rice in
Go Cat can make the noodles, roll paper,
luck cake with the fame for over 40 years.
But the My Tho noodles soup is really
delicious with dried noodles, put in boiled
water, sour with onion-fried, cleaned water
for look good.
The noodle soup better in boiled water, of
course each shop has each secret. Basically,
the sweet in water is from grilled cracked
bone, meat and dried squid (cuticle fish)
and some particular condiments and it was
cooked for the taste of customers. People
can not ignore the food while the cook open
the pot of soup with rememberable smelling.
There for, so may people eat My Tho noodles,
even the noddle houses are printed in
guidebooks. Previously, for a good look of
noodles, they put a shrimp in disk but now
for reasonable price also, they put a couple
of small eggs or pieces of BBQ pork. My Tho
noodles soup is a special food with
traditional color of domestic people who
love My Tho or love the friendly, sincere
manner of people in the South Vietnam.
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