Sour Fish Head Soup

Ingredients

2 scallions
2 ts salt
4 teaspoons fish sauce
1 fish head
1 qt water
1/2 sour bamboo
1/4 slices pineapple
1 ds msg
2 tb mixed
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons fish sauce over the fish head
1 quart water
2 dash fish sauce

Instructions

Boil the fish head for a total of 10 minutes. Transfer to a soup tureen, sprinkle on the coriander and scallion green, and serve. NOTE: If the fish head is dropped into water that is not boiling, it will fall apart. Makes 4 servings. From "The Classic Cuisine of Vietnam", Bach Ngo and Gloria Zimmerman, Barron's, 1979. This is real good with chunks of catfish, shrimp, whatever...