Bustling on the Lunar New Year

Today (March 3 of lunar calendar) is the real Korean New Year. Many families and in kindergartens, children are also organized by the school to make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as a form of preserving culinary culture.
The actual Korean New Year is on Wednesday midweek, so from early morning, the housewives have taken advantage of getting up early to prepare offerings. The stalls selling floating and vegetarian cakes have also become more crowded. From big streets to small streets, from big markets to toad markets in Hanoi, small businesses sell a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients very early to serve the people.

In Hanoi, floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are available from the early morning

There are many vegetarian cakes floating in the streets of Hanoi

There are also some people who are not people who specialize in selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes every day, but take advantage of the large frontage and available cooking space to take advantage of making vegetarian cakes to sell for profit.

At the kindergartens, the children are also organized by the school to make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes

The children enjoyed floating cakes, vegetarian cakes very enthusiastically

Drifting cakes, vegetarian cakes in the traditional form

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are enriched in color

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes on the Vietnamese New Year’s Eve

On this day, Vietnamese families often make vegetarian rice cakes to worship their ancestors, show their respect and wish for good and peaceful things in life.

Floating cake, vegetarian cake with eye-catching shapes and colors

Vietnamese vegetarian rice cakes are made from delicious glutinous rice flour with brown sugar. Glutinous rice flour is added to a mill with water to make it smooth, filtered out the flour and then molded into round, smooth white balls. The filling is chopped sugar balls. If there is no mill, the flour can be ground by machine, but the flour is still ground for the most delicious, softest flavor.

After being made, the floating cake will be dropped into a pot of boiling water on the stove. When the cake is cooked, quickly pick it up and put it in the cold water so that the cake is cool and does not stick to each other. The cake is arranged on a plate and placed on the altar to worship.

Vegetarian cakes are also made from glutinous rice flour but without filling. The cake is molded flat, then boiled like a floating cake. People will cook more sugar, add a little flour or tapioca to compare the water. That water was poured into bowls that had already been prepared with boiled vegetarian pancakes. You can also sprinkle a little more roasted peanuts for fragrant.