I picked up some fish in Tesco's this afternoon, described only as Vietnamese River Fish", it's a white meat and that's about all I know.

Anyone got any idea what it might actually be called and what to do with it?

I was thinking of pan-frying and having a curry sauce, but I don't know much.....

Often in Vietnamese restaurants you can get tilapia, which is a white fish. Maybe this is your fish?

There is a restaurant in London that serves it really nicely with dill (they say its a Northern dish, but I don't actually know if that's true, I didn't even know there was dill in VN).

Other ways of preparing it would be to deep fry it.

Looked again and they actually printed what it was on the label (I bought it from the counter)

It seems to be a Basa fish which I think is Pla Mong in Thai?

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It is a kind of catfish found in the Mekong river delta, apparently.

Enjoy!

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Often in Vietnamese restaurants you can get tilapia,

This fish in Thailand is commonly none as "Pla Nin"

I think basa fish is the one of cat fish family that called pla sa-waay(ปลาสวาย), it taste very nice in red curry with coconut milk got sweet, spicy & sour taste(แกงคั่วส้ม) or with out coconut milk but put the extra lemon grass, keffer lime leaves & galangal(แกงส้มต้มยำ).