We Vietnamese people love to eat snails (ốc) because it's a great social food to share with friends and family - and of course they taste great!
In big cities like Saigon or Hanoi you'll never find it hard to stumble upon a Quán Ốc, or a snail restaurant, where snails are displayed and people sit outside eating snails and drinking beer.
Plates filled with chewy and salty snails grace the tables accompanied by icy beer. The snails are relished with various techniques - sucking, forking, scooping, and slurping. The delicious little animals can come boiled, fried, with a noodle soup, in springrolls... every form you can imagine.
An absolutely necessary ingredient of of course a nice, spicy, flavorful sauce. I prefer the classic variety with fish sauce, chilis, garlic, lemon, lemongrass and a little bit sweetened.
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