Canadian golden heliotrope snail sells for nearly 5 million VND/head for Tet holiday in Vietnam

The Canadian golden heliotrope snail is the latest product that has just been officially imported to Vietnam by air to serve the Tet season with a retail price of nearly 2.5 million VND/kg. With a large size, each weighing from 1.3 to 2 kg, priced from more than 3 million VND to nearly 5 million VND. The Vietnamese market used to import many types of natural heliotrope snails, but mostly white ones. This snail is usually less than 1 kg in size, priced from nearly 800,000 to more than 900,000 VND/kg. Snails can be eaten raw (sashimi) or processed in a variety of dishes such as: grilled with onion fat, steamed with lemongrass, fried with tamarind, steamed with ginger, cooked with porridge... Talking to a reporter from Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Behzad Babakhani, Consul General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City, assessed that the seafood demand of the Vietnamese market has increased sharply. "In just the first 10 months of 2022, Canada's seafood exports to Vietnam have reached about ...