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Travelers should try abalone, sea cucumbers, or oysters as they are all delicious and highly nutritious.
Top 3 Must-Try Seafood Delicacies on Cô Tô Island
Cô Tô Island (Quảng Ninh) charms visitors with its delectable cuisine alongside its untouched landscapes and smooth white sandy beaches.
Abalone
Abalone is a rare seafood delicacy, often found in the meals of ancient royalties. Nowadays, it's favored by many not only for its delicious taste but also for its nutritional value.
The shape of abalone resembles that of conch and scallop, but it only has one shell, found in certain seas like Cô Tô (Quảng Ninh), Bạch Long Vĩ (Hải Phòng), and Khánh Ninh (Khánh Hòa).
Abalone can be prepared into various nutritious dishes such as soup, stew, stir-fry, porridge, or combined with other ingredients like abalone mushroom stew, abalone with broccoli in oyster sauce, abalone porridge with pigeon eggs... It costs around 800,000 – 900,000 VND per kilogram.
Sea Cucumber
Sea cucumbers (also known as sea slugs) usually inhabit salty and clean waters, and are a delicacy of Cô Tô Island.
Many delicious dishes can be prepared from this marine creature such as grilling, steaming, cooking porridge, or grilling with garlic oil... For coastal residents, freshly caught sea cucumbers grilled and dipped in chili sauce are the best, as they retain their sweet taste and distinctive aroma without being mixed with any other seasonings or ingredients.
Some restaurants often steam sea cucumbers with garlic oil, lemongrass, and spicy chili, or stir-fry, cook sea cucumber soup. With its crisp texture, rich sweet flavor of the sea, this is a tantalizing dish for even the most discerning diners. The price of one kilogram of sea cucumber is about 300,000 VND.
Oyster
Oysters are soft-bodied animals that typically cling firmly to coastal rocks or river mouths, coral reefs, bridge piers... and feed on plankton in sand, seawater.
To catch oysters, fishermen often use a sharp chisel to pry them off the rocks, carefully avoiding breaking the shells to preserve their flavor.
Oysters are rich in zinc, which helps boost the immune system, and they are prepared into various dishes. Popular dishes include oyster dipping sauce, grilled oysters with garlic oil, butter, porridge, oyster salad... The price of one kilogram of oysters is around 70,000 - 100,000 VND.
According to Di Vỹ/Vnexpress
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Reference: Travel Guide by Mytour
MytourJune 8, 2018
