Sa Sung

The waters of Quang Ninh province are very famous for a variety of fresh seafood. Among them, it is impossible to mention an extremely rare seafood used to advance to the ancient king, Sa Sung. Sa Sung brings extremely high economic value to fishermen, currently the price of 1kg of delicious dried Sa Sung on the market is equivalent to 1 gold thread. Sa worms have many other names such as earth ginseng, sea worms, bi bi, earth scrapers ... and people in Van Don island, Quang Ninh province call this prey. Mollusks live only in the coastal sands where the tides occur every day, at first glance they look like worms. This species when alive has a reddish brown color, the body has many small horizontal veins and contains a lot of sand inside. Each Sa Sung usually has a length of about 5-10cm but can also be up to 15-20cm. To catch the Sa Sung, the catching tool is very simple, a homemade shovel with a small head to poke deep into the sand and a carrying basket. Catching Sa Sung requires very experienced catchers, if they make a loud noise near the Sa Sung nest, they will quickly slip into the sand. When poking the shovel into the sand, one must also be careful to poke the right nest, if the wrong position breaks Sa Sung, it is considered invalid. After forcing people to bring it home to process, wash the sand inside, dry or cook dishes from fresh Sa Sung.

Sa Sung with high nutrition and sweet taste should be processed into many delicious dishes. Fresh Sa Sung people cook soup with guise leaves, Sa Sung porridge or stir-fried with kohlrabi, carrots... And dry Sa Sung cooks pho, soaked in wine, fried sweet and sour, fried dough... According to many pho cooks Just put a few Sa Sung in the pot of pho, the noodle soup will become sweet, this is also the secret of some delicious pho restaurants. Dry roasted Sa Sung is the most favorite dish of beer drinkers, because of its simple processing but still retains the delicious taste of Sa Sung. In oriental medicine, Sa Sung is a tonic, tonic, and heat-clearing medicine for people with weak health... Sa Sung is definitely a gift and delicious food for his relatives and family. friend.