Remembering floating water season
Dammed cana – Photo: Đồng Văn The Mekong Delta during the floating season, oh how I miss the time I was a student internship. Back then, I stayed with a local family in Dong Thap. In that family, there was a girl who was the same age as me but did not go to school. She stayed at home to take care of her mother, did housework, and went to the market to buy and sell some local products. She had a warm smile and a radiant glow, like the girls in the countryside of the Mekong Delta. In her house, I enjoyed eating crispy duck pancakes and going to the floating market on the river and tasting different types of delicious cana. Talking about crispy duck pancakes, ducks that roam freely in the Mekong Delta have lean and flavorful meat due to their diet of fallen rice and earthworms in the garden. When there are guests at home, the duck is prepared in two dishes. The first dish is cabbage salad, and then the remaining meat is finely chopped and used to fill the p...