Visit Phu Quoc January 2020 Visitor's Guide

Local Produce
Island
Harvest
Famous for and blessed with
abundant export quality
seafood, Phu Quoc also
produces world-class fish
sauce and pepper, so much so it’s
become a thriving industry.
In more recent years other cottage
industries have also popped up
producing many products locally such
as sim berry, rice & herb wine, honey,
draught beer, organic salads and
vegetables just to name a few.
The top products of the Island
though are certainly the Fish Sauce
and Pepper.
Whilst you can't take the fish sauce
with you by air (it costs a lot of money
to fumigate a plane from just one
sauce spillage!) you should not forget
to purchase some pepper to take
home!
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PHU QUOC FISH SAUCE
It took me a long time to come to
grips with it, usually flaunted under
my nose and just the smell alone,
there was no way I was going to taste
this stuff.
One day though I took the plunge
without the thought of a sniff. You
know what it was amazing and from
that day on fish sauce become a part
of my daily diet!
The French champagne of fish
sauces – it’s intense, it’s rich, and
comes from perhaps the most famous
region in the world for fish sauce, yes I
am talking about Phu Quoc Island!
Success of its world-class quality is
partly due to the local seawater, which
is rich in plankton and nutrients that
nourish the growth of the anchovies,
the main ingredient of the sauce.
Phu Quoc fish sauce is made
from these freshly caught anchovies
then fermented in wooden barrels
for 1 year while blended with salt to
What makes it so good?
These are not your
ordinary anchovies they
are fat and full of absolute
goodness. This is what
makes it such a unique
product and you should
give it a try with just about
any dish but of course with
seafood it’s a marriage
made in heaven!
develop intense aromatic flavors,
before being filtered and bottled for
distribution.
Nước mắm Phú Quốc
Nước mắm Phú Quốc từ lâu đã nổi
tiếng không chỉ ở Việt Nam mà còn
được biết đến ở nhiều nước trên thế
giới. Hàng trăm năm qua, người dân
trên đảo đã tận dụng nguồn cá cơm
tươi ngon dồi dào từ đại dương, lên
men, ủ chượp 1 năm với muối trong
các thùng gỗ lớn để tạo nên một thứ
nước chấm quyến rũ không đâu có
thể sánh bằng.
Điều gì tạo nên hương vị tuyệt vời
cho nước mắm Phú Quốc?
Đó chính là nguồn cá cơm than tại
đây, bạn có thể chấm nước mắm Phú
Quốc với bất kỳ món ăn nào nhưng
tuyệt nhất là ăn kèm với hải sản.
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