Lecture Notes: Exploring Vietnamese Live Seafood Buffets

Introduction

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Vietnamese Live Seafood Buffet

• Venue: Buffet Heang
  • Meaning of Heang: Seafood
  • Cost: 199,000 VND (~$8.45)
  • 100+ items, including seafood and fruits

Initial Impressions

• Variety of seafood: oysters, pen shells, snails, clams, etc.
• First live tank: Some alive, some not.
• Grilling Process: Live crabs directly on the grill

First Round of Seafood

• Purple Shelled Clams
  • Grilled and dipped in fish sauce with chilies and garlic
  • Taste: Briny, delicious

Buffet Exploration

• Cooked seafood items available
  • Shrimp, razor clams, sucking clams
  • Protein and vegetables: fish fin, chicken feet, pork belly, okra, quails
  • Waste policy: $4 for 100g wasted food
• Dessert Section: Tropical fruits, pounded rice cakes

Shrimp Experience

• Live river prawns from an aquarium
• Grilling Process
  • Gave a eulogy for each shrimp
  • Dipping sauce: Fish sauce
  • Taste: Perfectly cooked, bouncy texture, flavorful

More Live Seafood

• Frog skin and meat
  • Texture: Leathery, like a cracker
• Freshwater crabs
  • Intense competition to get crabs
  • Taste: Sweet, semi-succulent, slightly underdone

Cooking Loaches

• Description: Slimy, slippery fish
• Grilling Process: Skewered, chili sauce
• Taste: Like freshwater fish, earthy

Transition to Premium Live Seafood Restaurant

• Location: High-end restaurant in Saigon
• Larger, higher quality seafood: king crab, giant lobsters
• Cooking Process: Steamed and cooked with butter and garlic

Cooking Method Comparisons

• Grilling vs. steaming
• Chef's skills in preparing seafood

Crab Experience

• Female and male mud crabs
  • Inner parts: Fat, eggs, meat
  • Cooking: Steaming, black pepper sauce
  • Taste: Sweet, slightly bitter, very flavorful

Final Thoughts

• Budget Buffet: Great value, variety, and atmosphere
• Premium Restaurant: Expensive, high-quality, expertly prepared seafood

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Conclusion

• Enjoy and explore the different ways of experiencing live seafood in Vietnam