5 seafood dishes you must try when coming to Cat Ba

Shrimp noodles, salt-roasted mantis shrimp or grilled sea cucumber are some famous dishes in Cat Ba that many tourists seek to enjoy.

Not only does Cat Ba Island enchant visitors with its beautiful scenery, it is also attractive for its "once-eaten, forever-remembered" dishes.

Shrimp noodles

If crab noodle soup is a Hai Phong specialty, then when mentioning Cat Ba, no one can forget the shrimp noodle soup. Whole sea shrimp, peeled and stir-fried until firm. Place the noodles in a bowl, add a few shrimps, fish cakes, golden lolot rolls, some sliced ​​elephant ear, a pinch of scallions, dill, then pour in the sweet broth simmered from bones.

A bowl of noodles filled with fresh shrimp, delicious and sweet, enough to fill you up for breakfast on the beach.

Mantis shrimp

Mantis shrimp is a type of seafood that is processed into many delicious dishes that are loved in Cat Ba. The mantis shrimp here are quite large, plump and firm, can be steamed with beer, lemongrass, a small cut along the back then separated to get the meat to eat. Or can also be fried with salt, arranged on a plate and covered with a layer of fried shallots that are so fragrant that even the most fastidious person cannot resist.

Sea cucumber

Horseshoe crabs are also called horseshoe crabs, although they do not look like crabs at all. Because they cannot be farmed and must be caught in the wild, this is a dish that ensures its origin and is always fresh. Horseshoe crab meat is a dish that is both delicious and nutritious. Cat Ba horseshoe crabs are often processed into many dishes such as blood pudding, soup, salad, stir-fry, fried in flour, grilled... served with hot spices such as galangal, lemongrass, chili.

The most attractive of which is grilled sea urchin served with pickled radish, roasted peanuts, dried onions, fish sauce, garlic, and chili.

Grouper

Grouper in Cat Ba is caught naturally. With white meat, delicious taste and high nutritional content, this fish is considered one of the specialties on the island. Grouper is cooked into porridge, hot pot, steamed, made into salad, grilled or steamed with soy sauce by restaurants here. Every dish is delicious and has a distinctive rich flavor, not mixed with any other fish. You can find it at some popular seafood restaurants on Mung Mot Thang Tu Street.

Geoduck

Geoduck, or elephant snail, is a dish loved by many men because of rumors about the ability to enhance sexual performance of this mollusk. Geoduck is a specialty of Cat Ba island with soft and chewy meat. Cat Ba people process this special seafood in many ways such as making salad, cooking porridge, grilling with fat, onions, pepper, fried garlic to create a fragrant smell, but the best is still steamed geoduck, which is both light and retains the delicious sweetness of the dish.

Grilled geoduck smells delicious.

According to VNE