Mam Tom Chua (sour shrimp sauce)

The center of Vietnam is known for its Mam Tom Chua and Hue is the best place to try this unique dish. Unlike normal shrimp sauce, Sour shrimp sauce is orange in color with the shrimps maintaining their original shape.
To make this sauce the shrimps are cleaned in salt water and “cooked” in a strong rice wine. The shrimps will turn red from the wine. Carefully mix the shrimp with sticky rice, sliced galangal, garlic and chili before combining the mixture into a jar covered by guava leaves. In just 5-7 days and the mouthwatering sour shrimp sauce will be ready.