''Tiết canh'' is a Vietnamese dish of raw

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pudding served with cooked meat across

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and

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are the most common animal used to create this raw blood pudding. The most popular is ''tiết canh vịt'', made from freshly killed duck blood, pork and

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. Tiết canh can be made from duck, goat, pig, goose, chicken, calf, as well as from snake, crab, lobster, blood cockle, or vegetables. Consumption of tiết canh is also associated with good fortune.

Typical preparation

The freshly drawn blood is collected in a bowl, and prevented from premature coagulation ( hãm huyết), by mixing it with some

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of certain proportions, usually three to five soup spoons of fish sauce for one quart (approximately 1 liter) of blood. Finely chopped meat such as cooked duck innards (gizzards, for example) and duck meat are put in a shallow dish along with a sprinkling of crushed

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s and chopped herbs such as

Vietnamese coriander ''Persicaria odorata'', with common names Vietnamese coriander, rau răm (from Vietnamese), laksa leaf (calque from Malay ''daun laksa''), Vietnamese cilantro, phak phai (from Thai language, Thai: ผักแพว), praew leaf, hot mint, Cambo ...

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, etc. The blood and fish sauce mixture is then diluted with some watery broth left from cooking the meat and/or gizzards to promote blood coagulation, then quickly poured into the prepared meat dish. The finished dish can be kept cool in the refrigerator, which allows the blood to maintain its coagulated state, when immediate consumption is not called for right away. If the dish is removed from the refrigerator and left to sit at room temperature for a while the blood will return to a liquid state.

Health risk

Raw pig's blood often contains swine

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, and ingesting them may cause severe bacterial infections. For example, a S''treptococcus bacterium'' infection may cause respiratory decline, blood contamination, and severe necrosis in arms and legs, and is potentially fatal. There are reports of human casualties after eating raw blood pudding.

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Photos of ''tiết canh'' by Tristan Savatier
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Typical preparation

Health risk

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