Remembering the smell of smoke, my husband and his wife worked as a wood kitchen in the middle of the city.

Born in the countryside and now have a spacious and full life in the city. But the memory of the straw stove, the wood stove with the smoke stinging her eyes was still intact, Ms. Vuong Mai persuaded her husband to make a wood stove in the heart of Hanoi.
“The wood stove in the heart of Hanoi”, friends call Vuong Mai’s house like that every time she comes to her house to eat.

Ms. Vuong Mai shared on the culinary forum, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of a house in the street was initially opposed by her husband due to fear of explosion, heat downstairs … but then she was convinced. husband.

And then, the wood kitchen right in the high-rise house of Hanoi was formed. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by Mai and her husband, built away from the wall, creating openings to reduce the heat of the oven …

When the construction was completed, Mai returned to her hometown to buy galangal, pineapple, peanut shell and pick up longan firewood from her garden and find some cast-iron pots to cook rice as well.

Ms. Mai shared her idea of ​​the wood stove: “I am a rural girl, so memories of dishes from the wood stove. I miss very much … the smell of kitchen smoke enters her hands, in, hair, into food. The food is so dear, the food is also amazingly delicious. ”

“I do all the daily dishes of fish stock, cook rice with cast iron to burn, boil meat, grill fish, grill meat …”, Ms. Mai said. And now her kitchen is a place to regularly welcome friends and relatives to enjoy dishes cooked from firewood.

Mai’s words made the forum members extremely admired and touched.

“When I was a child, every time I went back to my hometown, the first thing I did was rush to the kitchen, to see if my grandmother was there, to sit with her by the aromatic fire, to enjoy the happy and simple moments of hometown … “, many people recalled their childhood through sharing of Ms. Mai.

The firewood kitchen was built by Ms. Mai’s house on the 5th floor of the house

Stir-fried beef with green onion is made on a wood stove

The old pots of parents in the countryside should be reused (in the countryside, nowadays, it is rare to cook firewood, let alone in the city)

Roasted peanuts

Fry the meat

Boiled rice cooked in a cast iron pot, which friends often order Ms. Mai

Cast iron pot to cook rice, fish grilled on wood stove

Braised fish with soil

Fried tofu

Boiled potatoes

Last Tet, Ms. Mai’s family boiled 4 pots of banh chung. Everything is carefully and meticulously made by her family and boiled by wood stove.

The lovely wood stove, making all the dishes of Ms. Mai’s house