🍽️ Jing Ethnic Fish-Sauce Seafood

Jing minority seafood with fermented fish sauce.

Jing Ethnic Fish-Sauce Seafood is a specialty of the three Jing ethnic islands in Dongxing, Fangchenggang, coastal Guangxi. The Jing are China's sea-fishing minority, living by the ocean for generations and seasoning with their own fermented fish sauce. Local seafood comes straight from the Gulf of Tonkin, including shrimp, crab, snails and fish, and is briefly boiled, steamed or even eaten raw, but the key is the dip: a sauce built on fish sauce, salty and savory with a fermented depth that draws out the natural sweetness of the catch. During festivals such as the Ha Festival, fish-sauce seafood is the centerpiece of island banquets. It embodies the unique seasoning system of the Jing fishing culture and is a seafood style visitors to Fangchenggang can taste that carries the stamp of a maritime people.