Châu Đốc's House of Mắm

Mắm Bà Thạo

MẮM BÀ THẠO – CHÂU ĐỐC'S HOUSE OF MẮM

CÁ TRÈN FISH

View

GOURAMI

View

CÁ LINH FISH

View

Our story

A thousand years in a jar

Some foods are not only to fill you, but to remember by. Mắm is one of them: a jar in a Vietnamese kitchen holds a whole river, a whole flood season, the hands of a grandmother and a mother — and more than a thousand years of history.

Begin the story

I
Mắm in the chronicles
Mắm is no modern invention. It appears in Vietnam's official chronicles more than a thousand years ago.
II
Every region, its own mắm
Travel the length of the country and almost every region has a mắm of its own, made from whatever its waters give.
III
Flood season, season of fish
Every year, when the waters come down from the upper Mekong, the delta becomes a vast inland sea.
IV
Châu Đốc, kingdom of mắm
At the confluence of the Tiền and Hậu rivers, close to the Cambodian border, Châu Đốc has long been called the kingdom of mắm.
V
The maker's secret
It looks simple: fish and salt. But from a fish to a ripe jar of mắm is a process counted in months, and every house keeps its own formula.
VI
Mắm on the table
In the delta, mắm is not a side dish. Mắm can be the whole meal.
VII
The woman beside the jars
In 1956, in Châu Đốc, An Giang, Bà Ba Thạo cured the first batches of mắm to carry her name.
VIII
From clay jar to riverside factory
Keeping a craft does not mean standing still. In 2018 the Mắm Bà Thạo factory rose on the riverbank at Cần Đước, Long An.
IX
A taste of home, across five continents
Mắm Bà Thạo now offers thirty-two products in three groups: fermented fish, pickled vegetables, and ready-to-eat.

Mắm Bà Thạo Products

Fermented Snakehead Fish, Cut Pieces

Pure fermented fish

127.000₫

Mắm Nêm Dipping Sauce

Pure fermented fish

40.000₫

Fermented Ba Khía Crab

Pure fermented fish

150.000₫

Fermented Cá Chốt Catfish

Pure fermented fish

90.000₫

Fermented Anchovy (Mắm Cá Cơm)

Pure fermented fish

60.000₫

Fermented Cá Linh Fish

Pure fermented fish

80.000₫

Fermented Snakehead Fish Fillet

Pure fermented fish

150.000₫

Fermented Whole Snakehead Fish

Pure fermented fish

100.000₫

Sweet & Sour Pickled Eggplant (Cà Pháo)

Pure fermented fish

49.000₫

Fermented Gourami (Mắm Cá Sặc)

Pure fermented fish

80.000₫

Pickled Melon in Fish Sauce

Pure fermented fish

40.000₫

Shrimp Paste (Mắm Ruốc)

Pure fermented fish

50.000₫

Specialty Mắm

Fermented Ba Khía Crab

Pure fermented fish

150.000₫

Fermented Cá Chốt Catfish

Pure fermented fish

90.000₫

Fermented Cá Trèn Fish

Pure fermented fish

190.000₫

Sweet & Sour Fermented Shrimp

Pure fermented fish

199.000₫

Pickled Vegetables in Mắm

Sweet & Sour Pickled Eggplant (Cà Pháo)

Pure fermented fish

49.000₫

Pickled Green Papaya in Fish Sauce

Pure fermented fish

40.000₫

Pickled Melon in Fish Sauce

Pure fermented fish

40.000₫

Pickled Cucumber in Fish Sauce

Pure fermented fish

40.000₫

Mắm Thái (Shredded Papaya Fermented Fish)

Pure fermented fish

80.000₫

See more kinds of Mắm

About

MẮM BÀ THẠO – CHÂU ĐỐC'S HOUSE OF MẮM

Read the About page

A taste of Southern Vietnamese tradition. Anyone who has set foot in the Mekong Delta — the famous river country of southern Vietnam — is drawn to its people: honest, unpretentious, close and welcoming. Among them is the traditional craft village of mắm-making, passed down from one generation to the next thanks to fertile land where each flood season brings an abundance of wild fish and shrimp. Making mắm is a culinary art refined at every step, from ingredients to preparation, with the indispensable signature flavour that is Mắm Bà Thạo: clean, from 100% wild fish caught in the Mekong River,

where rich silt yields fish full of nutrition. Mắm Bà Thạo — food and seasoning for every meal.

Quality standards