The floating market on the Mekong Delta

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The 1st home food world tour - Le 1er tour du monde du repas chez l'habitant

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After having tasted the food specialities of north Vietnam, Food Sweet Food went to the Mekong Delta to discover the floating market of Can Tho.

Here all the activity is centered around the river. The tributary streams irrigate the field of the region which is the wheat storehouse of Vietnam. Farmers go up the river in their sampans to sell their goods on the river in the floating markets.

Mrs Lee insisted to show us a floating market at dawn. The activity at this time is impressive, clients navigate with their boats between sampans selling fruits and vegetables, one can also stop on a boat restaurant while residents wash their clothes directly in the river.

Mrs Lee brought us to a market and then invited us to have lunch at her parents' place who leave in a house opened on a tributary stream of the Mekong Delta. We ate lemon grass chicken and a hot pot with fish and shrimps from the Mekong Delta.

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Après avoir goûté aux spécialités culinaires du nord du Vietnam, Food Sweet Food s'est enfoncé dans le Delta du Mekong à la découverte du marché flottant de Can Tho.

Ici toute l'activité de la région s'organise autour du fleuve. Les affluents du Mékong irriguent les champs de cette région qui fait office de grenier à blé. Les agriculteurs remontent le fleuve dans leurs sampans pour vendre leurs produits à même le fleuve dans les nombreux marchés flottants qui s'y trouvent.

Accompagné de Madame Lee, nous avons découvert aux aurores la valse des sampans dans le marché flottant au gros de Can Tho. L'activité y est impressionnante, les clients déambulent entre les bateaux des vendeurs de fruits et légumes, on croise également des cantinettes embarquées sur des sampans tandis que les riverains se lavent ou font leur lessive à même le fleuve.

Après avoir fait nos courses accompagnés de Madame Lee, nous sommes allés cuisiner et manger chez ses parents qui habitent dans une maison ouverte de part et d'autre sur un des affluents du Mékong. Nous avons pu y déguster du poulet à la citronnelle et un hot pot au poisson et aux crevettes, issus directement du Mékong.

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