Discover the land of salted fish in Vietnam

The brands of mam ca (fish sauce or salted fish) – a specialty of the southern province of An Giang – are usually named after teachers. Explore the world of mam ca through the following photos of markets in Tinh Bien district and Chau Doc city, An Giang province.

An Giang’s mam ca or fish sauce is different from the Vietnamese fish sauce that is worldwide known. If Vietnamese traditional fish sauce is made from sea fish and salt and only the juice from the fish is used as fish sauce, An Giang’s fish sauce is salted fresh-water fish and both the juice and the fish is used.  

There are dozens of kinds of mam ca, named after the species of salted fish, such as mam sac (salted sac fish), mam linh (salted linh fish), mam loc (salted snake-head), mam ro (salted anabas), mam ba khia (salted ba khia fish), and so on.

The brands of mam products in An Giang are named after teachers, such as Co Giao Thao (Teacher Thao), Co Giao Thanh (Teacher Thanh) or Ba Giao Khoe (Teacher Khoe).

Photo: Kien Thuc