Delicious Sunday Lunch of Fish - Good Spirit Meal too !

Among our daily meals at home, I have always had my special interest for fish dishes. It is partly because I have learnt from various information sources and through my own experience too that fish is very good for human brain for all ages, especially for our memory. Yet more importantly, it is because I always feel those fish dishes dexterously prepared by my husband Thang are really delicious.

Last Sunday, seeing me and our little boy Tuan very busy revising many lessons for his coming exams, our chef cook Thang considered it best to improve our spirit by treating us a special lunch with an unique and changed delicacy – that was Sour Bamboo Shoot Soup with Tipilia Fish taken with rice sticky noodle.










Since Tuan’s smaller age, both Thang and I have agreed to gradually get our son used to almost all the Northern Vietnamese popular dishes for daily meals and even some necessary seasonings and spices such as lemon, chilly, vinegar, pepper etc. So now at his age of 10, Tuan seems to enjoy even chilly dishes like the bamboo shoot soup as said above. Moreover, after a whole week having had lunch at school with repeated dishes, he apparently showed very delighted to eat a special dish of a changing taste. So he kept smiling while quickly arranging the bowls and chopsticks for his parents and for himself too.












Truly, the soup was so hot, good-smelling and delicious. Not only Tuan but all of us were enjoying its rich-tasty and sweet-smelling flavor of the tipilia fish getting on well with the strange sour and chilly taste of bamboo shoots, combined with tomatoes, and more flavored by some fresh chilly slices, appropriate herbs,and onions.











Only spices or seasoning in this soup but quite worth our keen impression were the two special herbs called Culantro (Mui Tau in Vietnamese) and Rice Paddy Herb (Rau Ngo), both with very distinct strong flavors, thus making an excellent match for fish. For myself, such a Sunday meal is valuable not only for its special delicacy but also for its spiritual meaning of our family's close tie, mutual care and love. That's our simple happiness.

After lunch, I washed the dishes without feeling any tired. Then I and my son surely had a higher spirit to continue working in the afternoon and for the whole new week to come.