What is the braised mallet fish, cooking sour soup that Le Tuan Khang 'invited 9 million people'?

Mallet and pangasius belong to the same family of catfish, which have quite a lot in common. However, it is not difficult to distinguish that mackerels in the West are often raised in home garden ponds.

In an evening of livestream attracting 600,000 viewers, Le Tuan Khang invited more than 9 million accounts to follow his TikTok channel for a meal with sour soup and braised mullet fish as a thank you, but the person who 'caught the dumbbell' was the male tiktoker's mother. "If I have the opportunity, I will ask my mother to cook a meal to treat 9 million followers to eat with my family. Certain... I will cook sour soup and braised mackerel," said Le Tuan Khang.

After the live broadcast, netizens left a lot of "concerning" comments for Khang: "Does Khang's house alcohol have enough capacity for 9 million people?", "Kang's mother knows that cooking for 9 million people will lose sleep", "Hammerfish are also afraid of extinction with Khang, brother". Also after the video, many netizens searched for "what is braised mackerel". Many followers of Tuan Khang said that they are from the North, so they have not heard the name "mallet".

Accordingly, many people deduce that the braised mallet mentioned by Le Tuan Khang is a braised mackerel. This is a popular fish in the West that has similarities with the content of the videos that he has posted that mention the "rainbow" (a creation from the photo of the familiar "pepper bridge" of the people here).

The mallet has a long body, a straight backline, a flat head, a blunt snout, and a small and short fish's whiskers with an upper jaw beard longer than the chin beard. Above the base of the pectoral fin there is a large black spot, forming a scab that is distinguishable from other fish.

In particular, the flag mackerel is considered the strongest freshwater fish in the world, can be up to 3m long and weigh 300kg, very aggressive, but the number of flag mackerel fish is increasingly scarce. In Vietnam, the flag mallet is listed by the Red Book as one of the 100 most endangered animal species in the world.

River mackerels are a typical product of many localities in the west of the river. In the past, this fish multiplied a lot, but they were cunning, very difficult to catch. People mainly eat fish weighing from 5-10kg, because the fish meat is very tough, delicious, and rich. Later, the river mackerels became rarer due to the extermination of the river by electric impulses. River mackerels cost from 120,000-200,000 VND/kg, depending on the time, are considered much tastier than farmed mackerel.

It can be processed into many delicious dishes such as fish sauce hotpot, grilled, pepper stew, soy sauce stew, deep-fried, and sour hotpot cooking fillets.

Dog mackerel, also known as sea mackerel, lives on the banks of estuaries leading to the sea, appearing most often in Ca Mau. This type of catfish has soft, sweet, fragrant meat, often processed by locals into fresh rice hotpot, or soy sauce stew. This is considered a specialty of the Thi Tuong lagoon area - a famous tourist destination of Ca Mau.

Mallet fish cooked in sour soup and braised by Le Tuan Khang are two daily dishes with Western characteristics, the cooking method is quite simple. The first is to preliminarily prepare the mullet by blanching it in boiling water, adding a little granulated salt, scraping off the viscosity, washing it thoroughly and then cutting it into small pieces. For sour soup, you can use dried tamarind or lemon mixed with 1 liter of boiled water, season with salt, a little sugar, chili peppers and let the preliminarily cooked mullet fish cook thoroughly.

Then add raw bean sprouts, tomatoes, pineapples, okra... then season again to taste and turn off the heat, finally sprinkle with cinnamon leaves (or celery) to create a fragrant aroma.

Mallet fish is also often prepared as braised rice. Preliminarily processed fish is cleanly cut into pieces, marinated in colored water, sugar, fish sauce, salt. Marinate the fish for about 30 minutes to absorb the spices and start stocking on low heat for about 3 minutes for the fish meat to firm. Continue to add cold water (or fresh coconut water) over high heat until boiling, to add 2-3 fresh chillies.

Wait for about 10 minutes to boil, then season again to taste, cook for about 10 minutes, then add green onions and turn off the heat. In some places, the fish can be fried and then seasoned, before stocking. Braised mullet fish is often served with hot white rice, adding some raw vegetables or cucumbers.

In the past, people in the West used to raise mallet fish in ponds a few hundred meters away from home, then "pepper bridges". Nowadays, to ensure aesthetics and environmental sanitation, these "pepper bridges" are rarely seen on the main roads between communes and hamlets.

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