Snake fish smoked in rice straw recipe

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  • Cuisine: Vietnamese

Ingredients

1 snake head fish, 600-800 g, cleaned and gutted
1 thin bamboo stick 60 cm in length
5 kg rice straw
1 cup water

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Preparation

This recipe needs to be cooked in an open outdoors area - away from children.

Insert the bamboo stick through the fish's mouth, through its body and out the tail. Move the fish along so it’s sitting in the middle part of the bamboo stick.

Now dig the base of the stick into the ground, enough to make the stick stand on its own upright with the fish's mouth pointing to the sky.

Pour the cup of water down the fish’s mouth, and then form a pyramid like shape with the rice straw enclosing the fish on the stick.

Set the rice straw alight and move away.

When the rice straw has finished burning, the fish is ready.

Scrape any charred skin with a sharp knife and eat directly off the stick.

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Comments (8)

   
14 Feb 2011 04:32 AEST
Mel
It's wonderful to see Luke embark on this fabulous journey, learn his roots and do what the locals do. I love vietnamese cuisine and to see that Luke opens our eyes to his culture through food makes me realise that eventhough he's ''aussie'' with a vietnamese background (a migrant like me), he clearly is so proud of his heritage and wants the world to experience it with him. Well done Luke and more power to you. And Thank you SBS!
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30 Dec 2010 08:07 AEST
suman
ashfield
We too do
In my country Nepal , we do eat this kind of fish!! it is awesome with salt and chilli!!!
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22 Dec 2010 06:33 AEST
Andrew
You can tell at 18 seconds Luke is obviously scared of piercing the fish, it was probably his first time doing it. Lol.
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03 Dec 2010 02:05 AEST
Tim
Sydney
You rock!!!
They said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". Here, Luke is doing exactly that - or should I say, he's cooking like the true Vietnamese . Bravo Luke.
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04 Nov 2010 10:59 AEST
TA
I dont like this recipe. its very cruel to do that to an animal.
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21 Mar 2010 09:07 AEST
daniel huynh
It's awesome . I've tasted this kind of fish, but it smelled with smoke and little bitter taste of carbon. It's amazing. I wish I could try it one more time. I love Vietnamese food so much.
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16 Mar 2010 10:30 AEST
Tanya
USA
Awesome!
Stuff like this is hard to come by when you live outside of Vietnam in the Western countries. How often would you see something like this or even know of this technique? How fun! I remember eating this when I was young but didn't know how it was done. Now I do and it sure is tasty!
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21 Feb 2010 06:40 AEST
Kevin
It is very very Vietnamese style for the cuisine.
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