Line up for hours waiting to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to celebrate the real Korean New Year

Right from the early morning of April 14 (ie March 3 of lunar calendar), many people stood in line in front of Sau Sau tea shop on Ngo Thi Nham street (Hanoi) to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship the family. Cold Food Festival.
According to folk beliefs, the 3rd March of the third lunar month is called the real Korean New Year. On this day, people often make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to make offerings to their ancestors. This is an opportunity for children and grandchildren to look to their roots, express the tradition of “when drinking water, remember its source”.

Early in the morning, people lined up to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes at Muoi Sau tea shop on Ngo Thi Nham street (Hai Ba Trung district). Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes of a famous store are delicious, so every real Korean New Year, this is the destination of the people of the capital. With the mentality of going early to buy cakes to burn incense and then go to work, Ms. Le Thi Tuyet (Hai Ba Trung district) lined up for nearly an hour but still could not buy the cake. From the early morning, Mr. Pham Xuan Thanh, the owner, had to always hand to serve customers. Mr. Pham Xuan Thanh said: To have delicious cakes, the selection of ingredients is very important. On the Korean New Year, a lot of people come to buy cakes, so the whole family has to get up at 3am to make cakes to serve the people in time. In order for the cake to be soft and easy to squeeze, the baker must soak the sticky rice, stir well with a little salt and then grind it. A small ball of drift cake is filled with red sugar, a vegetarian cake with a larger size with green bean filling inside. The freshly boiled cake will sink at the bottom of the pot, when it is ripe it will float and be picked up, put into a plate and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Banh drift, vegetarian cake worship the ancestors on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month have many good meanings. Both types of cakes are made of sticky rice, a symbol of the fruits of the cotton farmer’s labor in making wet rice.