Wild vegetables cost up to 800,000 VND/kg but are still sought after by many people in Vietnam

Published Aug 31, 2022

Tridge summary

Sea rock vegetable, also known as Porphyra crispata, is a wild vegetable found along the coast and has become a expensive but popular dish. Despite its high price of about 800,000 VND/kg, it is widely sold on e-commerce platforms due to its nutritional and health benefits. The vegetable, which looks like a duck's foot, grows on sea rocks and requires specific harvesting techniques. It is considered a heaven-given treasure in coastal areas and is believed to have numerous health benefits such as reducing anemia, combating iron deficiency, and clearing heat and detoxifying the body.
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This vegetable is now widely sold on e-commerce platforms with the price of about 800,000 VND/kg. Sea rock vegetable is a wild vegetable that grows along the coast, but now it has become a sought-after dish despite its extremely expensive price. // This vegetable has the scientific name Porphyra crispata, usually grows a lot in coastal provinces such as Phu Quy, Phu Quoc, Kien Giang ... Sea rock vegetables have small stalks like thread, purple-brown color, grow in large blocks clinging to them. firmly on the rock face, from a distance it looks quite like a duck's foot. Therefore, it is also known as spinach jelly. People in the coastal areas consider sea vegetables as "heaven-given treasures" because of their nutritional and economic value. In the past, sea vegetables were abundant, but they were mainly present in the rustic meals of poor coastal people, but few people brought them to buy and sell. Now, this wild vegetable has become a famous specialty, known by tourists since ...

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