Taste Atlas has announced a list of the 85 best seafood dishes in Southeast Asia and Vietnam's sour fish soup has ranked 4th with 4.3 stars.
According to Taste Atlas, sour fish soup has a characteristic sweet, spicy and sour flavor. This dish is often cooked with broth containing pineapple, tomatoes... and some other herbs. Sour fish is snakehead fish, carp... This is also one of the familiar dishes in every meal of Vietnamese families.
Not only sour fish soup, many other Vietnamese dishes are also on this list. Crab vermicelli soup ranked 11th with 4.3 stars, dried squid ranked 14th with 4.1 stars, sour tamarind soup cooked with fish ranked 21st with 3.8 stars, braised fish ranked 38th with 3.6 stars, crab fried vermicelli ranked 43rd, mussel rice ranked 47th, La Vong fish cake ranked 48th...
Along with that are many other dishes such as: Seafood hotpot, jellyfish vermicelli, jellyfish salad, Vu Dai village braised fish, crab noodle soup, grilled snakehead fish, fried elephant ear fish, linh fish hotpot with sesban flowers, sturgeon hotpot with salmon and pa pinh top.
In addition, at the top of the list is Indonesian Pempek with 4.6 stars. This is a type of deep-fried fish cake made from fish and tapioca, with an egg inside. Pempek is often sold on the streets or in markets.
Ranked second is also an Indonesian dish called Ikan bakar with 4.4 stars. This dish is made from fish or other seafood such as squid, clams, mussels... The special thing about Ikan bakar is that it is wrapped in banana leaves and grilled over hot coals.
In addition, Singapore's black pepper crab is ranked 3rd on the list with 4.4 stars.