Garlic stuffed whole lobster on pasta

Vietnam’s first lobster festival is scheduled to take place in the southern central province of Phu Yen on July 30-31. The 2022 Lobster Festival will be organised at Xuan Dai Bay Urban Area, Song Cau Town. Song Cau Town's lobsters Song Cau Town, Phu Yen’s lobster hub, is home to lobster farms which cover a total area of 1,000 hectares. In the first six month of this year, the town’s total lobster productivity reached around 630 tonnes. The 2022 Lobster Festival will also discuss the application of blockchain technology and digital transformation in lobster breeding. At the event, a Vietnam Guinness book record 100 dishes made from Song Cau lobsters will be announced. Phan Tran Van Huy, Chairman of the Song Cau Town People’s Committee, said that the locality will try to develop the festival into a Phu Yen attraction. This is also an opportunity to promote Vietnam’s lobster breeding and the sale of Vietnamese seafood products. … [Read more...] about First lobster festival to be held in Phu Yen

The festival aims to promote lobster as the speciality of Song Cau town, which is known as the capital of lobster in Phu Yen. The festival is also targeted to foster the consumption of seafood in the local market, push exports, and attract tourists. The festival will be held every three years. Phan Tran Van Huy, chairman of the People’s Committee of Song Cau town, said the festival’s aim is to arouse pride in the homeland – which has more than 30 years of aquaculture history – towards building a strong and sustainable lobster capital that the needs of the market. The first lobster festival will feature a trading signing ceremony and a seminar on how to apply blockchain technology and digital transformation to lobster farming, which was researched by a leading blockchain technology expert of the Blockchain Vietnam Group. The report aims to improve the position of Song Cau lobster farming in the domestic and international markets. Besides this, at this festival, for the first … [Read more...] about First lobster festival to be organised in Phu Yen in July

Besides, surging global demand has caused the prices of some lobster species to double. Tropical rock lobster has risen to VND1.7 million ($73) a kilogram and scalloped spiny lobster to VND1.4 million. Exports of shrimp products also rose in the first half, with shipments of processed whiteleg shrimp going up by 17 percent and those of black tiger shrimp by 20 percent. They fetched $2.3 billion, up 33 percent from last year. Shrimps account for 40 percent of Vietnam’s seafood exports. Shrimp exports to China, where production is affected by Covid restrictions, doubled to $275 million in the first five months. VASEP said Vietnam’s shrimp exporters face challenges like supply shortage and inflation but are coping by expanding farming areas and focusing on more demanding markets. … [Read more...] about Lobster exports skyrocket in first half

With Chef Đỗ Minh Hạnh from Pane e Vino Italian restaurant in Hà Nội Spaghetti alle Vongole Serves: 3 Time 25 minutes (after clams were soaked in salty water for 2 hours) Ingredients: - Fresh clams: 1 kg - Spaghetti: 240 g - Garlic: 6 cloves - Olive oil: 30 ml - Butter: 2 tsp - Tarragon: a bunch - White wine: 30 ml - Martini: 20 ml - Thyme & parsley leaves - 1 red chilli - Salt and pepper to taste - Tomato sauce: 1 cup - Spaghetti: 500 g Chef Đỗ Minh Hạnh Method: - Soak the clams in water with a dash of salt, and slice a hot red chilli into the mixture, after two hours, drain the clams, wash clean. - In a pot add a bowl of water, bring the clams to boil, drain, and keep five shells for decoration. - In a pan on high medium heat, add olive oil, then add garlic cloves, lower to medium heat and cook the garlic until golden. - Add the clams into the garlic oil, salt and pepper, and white wine for five minutes. Add thyme, … [Read more...] about Spaghetti alle vongole

Coconut has become an essential part of people’s lives in Hoai Nhon District, Binh Dinh. The coconut trees provide food, shade and protect the area from the sun and the storms. That's why the people here add coconut flavor in many of their dishes. Banh trang dua (Coconut rice paper) The main ingredient for making banh trang dua is flour. Cassava are peeled and pureed into a floury and watery mixture. Then the water is separated from the flour. The final product is mixed with clean water in a certain ratio along with some other ingredients to make the rice paper. Coconut rice paper, of course, cannot be completed without coconut. The coconut must not be too ripe so that the pulp is sweet, thick and soft. The pulp is then mixed with thick coconut milk with some spices, scallion, pepper and put into the rice paper mixture. The final mixture is steamed to make a batch of delicious coconut rice paper. In the past, coconut rice paper here was quite big. But later, for convenience … [Read more...] about Three signature dishes of Binh Dinh’s coconut region

Earlier this month, Johnson survived a vote of confidence by Conservative lawmakers in which 41 percent of his parliamentary colleagues voted to oust him, and he is under investigation for intentionally misleading parliament. On Friday Conservative candidates lost two parliamentary by-elections held to replace former Conservative incumbents who had to step down, one after being convicted of sexual assault and the other for watching pornography in the House of Commons. The by-election defeats suggest the broad voter appeal which helped Johnson win a large parliamentary majority in December 2019 may be fracturing after a scandal over illegal parties held at Downing Street during coronavirus lockdowns. Under Conservative party rules, its lawmakers cannot formally challenge Johnson for another year, but overwhelming dissatisfaction or resignations by a series of senior ministers could make his position untenable. Britain is also in the midst of its deepest cost-of-living crisis in … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson seeks to stay in power until the mid-2030s