The sour plum soup mom cooked was so delicious, mom called me with her pure Western accent

A bowl of hot and sour plum soup had just been turned off the stove when Mom personally served it to the dinner tray with a call in a pure Southern accent: "Let's eat!".

Tet is also the most convenient occasion for people far from home to look forward to and enjoy sour plum soup that reminds them of the taste of their homeland - Photo: LAN NGOC

The rich river delta region not only attracts people by its beautiful scenery but also by its rustic dishes, rich in the flavor of the homeland.

Among them, plum sour soup is a rustic dish that anyone who tries it once will find hard to forget. The sweet and sour taste will be even more rich if cooked by the mothers and aunts themselves.

Finding plums and fish is easy.

According to the experience of Westerners, using white plums to cook sour soup is delicious beyond reproach. When catching a bunch of freshwater fish from the pond, mothers and aunts take snakehead fish and striped snakehead fish to cook.

The tip of your tongue will be tingling with the mild spiciness from the chili, the sweet and sour taste from the plums and fish will be an interesting culinary experience when visiting the West - Photo: LAN NGOC

Plum sour soup is not too complicated to cook. Mom picked some ripe plums from the backyard garden. The sour taste of the plums blended with the natural sweetness of snakehead fish and fresh anchovies.

Bring to a boil, season with a little spice, a little chili, and add cilantro.

In the countryside kitchen, seeing a pot of sour plum soup simmering, smelling the aroma alone is enough to make anyone standing nearby feel hungry and want to eat right away.

Mother's love in family meals

Whenever guests come to visit or during Tet when the family reunites, mothers and aunts are busy in the kitchen cooking sour plum soup to eat with braised fish.

Mom's hands deftly prepared the fish and seasoned it with experience, without needing to weigh or measure, but the taste was always just right.

Looking at the pot of sour soup, the aroma spreading throughout the kitchen, the feeling of love and warmth seems to permeate every spoonful of soup.

Catching fish from the pond to make sour plum soup is delicious - Photo: THANH HUYEN

For the people of the Western countryside, this dish is not only to fill the stomach but also a part of memory, a sharing in family affection.

If you want to eat sour plum soup with the authentic taste of your mother's cooking, try visiting and enjoying it once because it is a dish wrapped up with so much love and identity of the homeland of the river delta, the land of nine dragons.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/ngon-dut-luoi-to-canh-chua-man-ma-nau-rat-giong-mien-tay-ma-goi-bay-oi-20250126092735138.htm