8 March, 2023

Khai Hoan’s Factory

One of the top things to do on Phu Quoc island is to visit one of the famous fish sauce factories. Fish sauce is considered one of the best products of Vietnam. You can visit the Khai Hoan fish sauce factory, one of the places that has been producing fish sauce for over 40 years.

You will be fascinated by the aroma of decomposing anchovies during the process of self-digesting enzymes, demonstrating the closeness of the Khai Hoan fish sauce factory. Typically, when you arrive here, you will see huge wooden barrels where the fish is gradually fermented for many months until the clear liquid drips out drop by drop, which can then be filtered and bottled.

Characteristics of Khai Hoan fish sauce

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“Nước mắm Khải Hoàn” and “Nước mắm Phú Quốc truyền thống trăm năm Khải Hoàn” are the two types of fish sauce produced here with extremely high protein content. The fish sauce is renowned for its traditional product, fragrant smell, and absence of chemical additives.

The most important ingredient is time. It takes eight to nine months for the amber-colored liquid to be ready for bottling and sale. The relatively high natural glutamate content of fish sauce adds umami taste to dishes, which is why fish sauce is so popular in Vietnamese cuisine.

Address of Khai Hoan fish sauce factory

In addition to Khai Hoan fish sauce factory, you can also visit Phung Hung fish sauce factory. It is located on Nguyen Van Cu street, opposite Phu Quoc Prison. If you want to buy good quality fish sauce ingredients, you can choose Khai Hoan located at No. 11, Hung Vuong Bridge, Duong Dong town. In fact, there is another fish sauce factory accessible to tourists, which is Hung Thinh fish sauce factory. This location is on 30 Thang 4 street of Phu Quoc island.

Buy delicious fish sauce

If you want to buy high-quality fish sauce, it is best to buy at showrooms and stores of the Khai Hoan brand. They sell two types of delicious amber-colored fish sauce. 40 and 43 are indicators of the strength and saltiness of the fish sauce blend. Fish sauce 43 is usually more expensive, but it has a longer shelf life and tastes better.

If you’re unsure which brand of Phu Quoc fish sauce to buy, you can try tasting it right at the Khai Hoan fish sauce factory to experience it for yourself. The price is around 99,000 dong or 155,000 dong for a large bottle of fish sauce. Phu Quoc fish sauce consists of anchovy fish, salt, and has no preservatives, no added flavors, no food coloring, or artificial sweeteners. It’s not only healthier, but it also has a much more balanced taste.

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8 March, 2023

NOTICE ON PACKAGING DESIGN CHANGES

Khai Hoan Trading Joint Stock Company (“Khai Hoan”) is pleased to inform our customers about the change in label design for glass bottles, plastic bottles and plastic bottles; change new 520ml bottle model and new 520ml bottle cap. About information including: brand, geographical indication, logo, information on brewing, nutritional ingredients, barcode, company address and other information on the label is unchanged.

8 March, 2023

NOTICE OF COMPANY INFORMATION

Khai Hoan Trading Joint Stock Company (“Khai Hoan”) is pleased to inform customers that recently, Khai Hoan received many feedbacks from customers about the information that Khai Hoan sold shares. for a few other companies; This makes customers worry about the quality of Khai Hoan’s fish sauce in the future.

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Khai Hoan Phu Quoc fish sauce: Confidence for domestic and foreign consumers

Phu Quoc fish sauce has long been famous both at home and abroad not only because of its high protein content, characteristic color, smell, and delicious taste, but also because of the long-standing tradition of making fish sauce of the people here. Phu Quoc fish sauce Khai Hoan is one of the traditional fish sauce production facilities “passed down from father to son”. Born over 40 years to now, Khai Hoan has gone through 3 generations of producing and trading fish sauce and now the Khai Hoan brand is famous in the pearl island.

8 March, 2023

Making the brand and cultural heritage of Phu Quoc fish sauce growing

The profession of making fish sauce in Phu Quoc is included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage, creating favorable conditions for people on the island to develop the profession, contributing to the promotion of a typical tourism product of the city. The island city reaches out to domestic and international markets.

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The competition between Vietnamese fish sauce and Thai nam pla through the perspective of foreign journalists: Where is the “spice queen” of dishes?

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The owner of Khai Hoan fish sauce: Making a traditional fish sauce job is very extreme, from the body to the mind

Khai Hoan is a famous brand of fish sauce known to many people in Phu Quoc pearl island, Kien Giang province. The captain of the Khai Hoan boat was once a doctor, Mrs. Ho Kim Lien. She used to be the deputy director of Phu Quoc General Hospital. Retired in 2000, she now devotes herself to Khai Hoan full-time.