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People made floating cakes, vegetarian cakes hustle on the real Korean New Year

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Every Korean Lunar New Year of the 3rd March of the Lunar New Year comes, the baker’s drifting, vegetarian cakes have the opportunity to go all the way from early morning to late at night by the smoky pot of cakes in time to deliver to the people of the capital. .

The Vietnamese custom of offering floating cakes and vegetarian cakes reminds the story of “wrapping a hundred eggs of Au Co’s mother”. Floating cake represents 50 eggs hatched into 50 children to the forest following their mother. Vegetarian cake represents 50 eggs that hatch into 50 children following their father into the sea. Therefore, the real Korean New Year of the Vietnamese people mainly means towards the origin, commemorating the merits of the dead.

However, with a rather busy, hustle and bustle life due to the current work reel, many families choose to buy drifting cakes, ready-made vegetarian cakes to worship their ancestors. Recorded by PV on the morning of April 14 (March 3 of lunar calendar), on the streets and markets in Hanoi, small merchants sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients. to serve the people.

Sharing with PV, a baker at the Nghia Tan market area said: “These days, the demand of people coming to buy ready-made cakes is relatively high, so most small businesses trading this item have to Prepare ingredients such as sugar, green beans from early and carefully, after being bought, rice for baking, after being bought, must soak enough time, then grind and then go through many other stages to make cake dough. In actual welding, the baker has to get up at about 4:00 am to make it to have the cake for customers to buy … “.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are all made from fragrant glutinous rice flour. Floating cakes made small balls of longan fruit, in addition to white, in red sugar filling, while vegetarian cakes are round and flat, filled with cooked green beans and pureed with sugar.

A cake floats after it is finished with the filling by the baker.

After the kneading is finished, the cake is placed in a pot of boiling water. The freshly boiled cake will sink on the bottom of the pot. When cooked, it will float and be picked up and put into a plate.

Vietnamese people in the past have created floating cakes, vegetarian cakes which are cool and cool dishes. This dish is sweet, very suitable for hot days.

People wait in line to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes at Nghia Tan market area (Cau Giay, Hanoi). This year, the average price of vegetarian cakes is 20,000 VND / bowl, floating cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate.

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