Description

Frozen Featherback Fish Paste

(Vietnamese Name: Chả cá thát lát | Scientific Name: Notopterus notopterus | also known as Bronze Featherback, Grey Featherback)

Frozen Featherback Fish Paste is a premium processed product made from fresh featherback fish sourced from the abundant freshwater systems of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region.

Featherback Fish Paste is made from the meat of featherback fish. After cleaning the featherback fish meat, it is grated, pounded by hand or ground to create a smooth, fine paste. Currently, the Featherback Fish Paste is processed and frozen in small boxes, making it highly convenient for use and long-term storage.

With its tender, cohesive texture, delicious sweet and chewy meat, and complete absence of fish bones and skin, this product offers exceptional versatility for various culinary applications from traditional Vietnamese fried fish cakes and hotpots to soups and specialty Asian cuisine.

Farming Area

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, with its extensive network of rivers, canals, and freshwater ponds, provides ideal conditions for featherback fish cultivation. This species thrives in well-managed freshwater aquaculture systems with controlled water quality and sustainable feeding practices.

Vietnamese aquaculture farms employ responsible farming methods including pond culture systems, natural water circulation, feed management protocols, and ethical harvesting techniques to raise these freshwater fish year-round. Key farming regions: Mekong Delta provinces (An Giang, Dong Thap, Can Tho), Southern Vietnam freshwater zones, river-fed pond systems.

Key Features of Featherback Fish Paste

✅ Premium Quality: Made from fresh featherback fish processed immediately after harvest, delivering tender, cohesive texture with naturally sweet and chewy meat.

✅ Farm-Raised in Vietnam: Sustainably cultivated using responsible freshwater aquaculture methods in the nutrient-rich Mekong Delta ecosystem.

✅ Ready-to-Use Convenience: Pre-processed paste with no bones or skin eliminates filleting, deboning, and grinding – simply thaw and incorporate into your recipes.

✅ Convenient Packaging: Frozen in small boxes for easy portioning, convenient use, and extended storage life.

✅ Excellent Culinary Versatility: Perfect for frying, soups, hotpots, fish cakes, dumplings, spring rolls, or traditional Vietnamese dishes.

✅ Year-Round Availability: Consistent supply throughout the entire year for reliable sourcing and production planning.

✅ Healthy & Nutritious: High in protein, low in fat, rich in essential amino acids, omega-3 fatty acids, and important minerals for balanced nutrition.

Why Choose Vietnamese Featherback Fish Paste?

Vietnam is a major producer of premium freshwater fish products, known for its traditional hand-processing techniques and strict quality control standards.

Our Featherback Fish Paste is processed in internationally certified facilities following HACCP and food safety standards, ensuring hygiene, safety, and consistency. The pristine freshwater environment, optimal farming conditions, and expert processing methods of Vietnam contribute to the superior quality, delicious sweet taste, and tender texture of our fish paste.

This high-quality, versatile seafood ingredient is a perfect choice for food manufacturers, processors, importers, distributors, restaurants, catering operations, and home cooks worldwide.