Ca Na fish sauce craft village

Ca Na is favored by nature, anchovy season is from April to September. Each year catches more than 30,000 tons. Anchovies are fish with more protein than other fish and are suitable for making fish sauce. Anchovy fishing in Ca Na is convenient because it is caught close to the night and brought to Ca Na port and fermented in the same day, so the protein content is high.

Black anchovies, charcoal rice, fresh striped rice, selected the right size, salted with a ratio of 3:1. This type of salt is stored for at least 6 months to drain the seeds, reduce the acrid, and then mix.

After the first period of water withdrawal, the fish is incubated for 12-18 months. After that, I began to stir continuously every day for another 4 months, to settle and begin to withdraw water. Ninh Thuan sunshine helps the fish to ripen quickly, but the tanks and incubation tanks are still placed indoors to avoid rain, limit dust and insects.

Standard Ca Na fish sauce will have a dark amber brown color, a characteristic aroma, and the highest protein level of 30.

Coming to the fish sauce craft village, you will see cement pedestals, stainless steel parts, wooden barrels to brew fish sauce. Fish sauce is processed with the same recipe, but fish sauce brewed from wooden barrels will taste better and be safer.

Wooden crates for fish fermentation are usually made of wood from the pulp and wood of the tree. The wood is sawn into sheets 3 - 4 cm thick, 10-20 cm wide, soaked in water and sun-dried for 2-3 months until all the sap and wood does not warp later. Then, cut grooves, close together, in the middle of the wooden bars with the bark of Tram tree, when it meets water, it will expand, sealing the slots of the barrel. The box is lined with bamboo straps, each bamboo belt is made up of dozens of spokes, bundled, twisted and tied together to form large bamboo corn. Due to the high cost of making wooden crates, to increase production, most production facilities make cement and stainless steel tanks for incubation.

Ca Na fish sauce craft village is concentrated from Ca Na toll station to near Hon Co resort (5 km of National Highway 1A). Many famous anchovy fish sauce brands such as Hai Non, Quang Minh, Huy Hoang, Be Bau have all this way.

If you have the opportunity to visit the craft village, buy a few bottles of fish sauce and eat it with minced pork. Best armpit!