Bitter tomato soup often has a lot of hot and “bitter” chili peppers to enjoy, not … complain. More sophisticated, pork skin cut about two knuckles cooked in a pot of bitter tomato soup, increasing the fat, chewy and delicious taste significantly. Dried fish is a popular reserve food of the mountainous people and it is unknown when the Ede people can choose the head of a dried herring cooked with bitter eggplant – it is deliciously compatible. Perhaps the aromatic herring oil, which is often canned, is “different”, using canned fish to cook bitter tomato soup instead of crushed herring heads – still not inferior to each other. Ede people often use this dish with rice. Because they have a habit of eating quickly, they often cook this dish a bit thick to eat with rice. They often squeeze into handfuls with eggplant and eat, the bitter and spicy taste makes the dish more delicious, bitter eggplant is also a valuable medicine to help increase resistance. According to the Ede, bitter eggplant is not eaten raw like eggplant, but only cooked. Can buy a lot to cut pieces to dry, hang the kitchen truss gradually; Before cooking, soak in water for about 5-10 minutes, the eggplant is soft and the bitter taste is not lost. Bitter eggplant grows wild on upland fields and is planted in many gardens, almost every house of the Ede has bitter eggplant. The tree has thorns, has fruit all year round, has few and many thorns; The more thorns, the more bitter, bitter like bitter melon.

I told you yesterday, I have started my summer vacation. He was so happy, he jumped up and down. Thinking about it, seeing it as I was when I was a kid, but hearing that the teacher was busy, sick, and on vacation, the students were more busy playing than studying. Particularly for Summer is a very long excitement, because it brings so many plans, plans and games ahead. “Dragonfly bites navel and knows how to swim” – so many children have been tricked into this. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. I still remember, when I was a kid, Summer was an opportunity for a lot of “starts” at first. From the first time going to see crabs (crab hooks), fishing for frogs, catching fish, slapping fish… to children’s activities: exercising and kicking football early. As for the games, there are many, from shotguns, passing, marble shooting, fighting, fighting, umbrellas… Part of a memory. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. In those days, the field after the harvest was a big stage for the country kids. In my house, there are no buffaloes or cows, but because I crave the country atmosphere with many games and strange dishes, I often follow my brothers and friends in the neighborhood. After the harvest, the countryside is temporarily empty. After the harvest, all the grasshoppers, frogs, and especially mice were gathered in the fields of elephant grass. These are the fields converted by dairy households, from rice to grass for food. At that time, during the day, they fished frogs, at night they looked at locusts and caught birds. But the most fun is still the sessions to dig mice. Usually groups of several or three children will bring a bucket, basket or bag, a spade and a dog. Dogs have the ability to sniff out and catch mice very well, buckets can make water with simple burrows. Field after harvest. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. Rats this season are fat because they are full after a rice season. After catching, bring back, peel off the skin, cut off the head and legs, just take the meat of the body and thighs and then marinate it and bake it. In the summer, every child does not have a small cage. In the countryside, usually every house has a few areca trees. In the summer, those who are good at climbing will be responsible for finding the nests of young birds and sharing them with each other. The young sparrows are hungry, full of shit, their mouths are always wide open to eat when they see people. The food is cold rice, but the most common is grasshoppers, so if you don’t go to the field every day, you have to run to green vegetables (5% field area for households to grow vegetables) to catch some locusts to bring back. make bird food. Draw sketch. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. I remember, when I was a child raising birds, my parents taught me to give the birds light salt water to drink, so I got used to it, even if the birds fly away when they grow up, they still have to come back to drink water. That pure joy keeps growing, from the time the bird is young until the bird is full of feathers, flying and growing. I remember back in the 90s, raising snails was fashionable among the kids. In the new wave of that movement, I had to ask my parents for money to buy it. Where 1,000 VND/pair of small snails, or a few thousand a tool snail, bring back and drop into a crock pot or fish tank to raise. Day by day, go to pick duckweed, water hyacinth, or gather all kinds of leaves for snails to eat. When the snail lays, each pink ovary as big as a strawberry will gradually turn white, it’s time to take out toothpicks to get the baby snails. Raising snails and birds is also meticulous and takes time, but fun. Then, only later, did I know that the “toy” once was a terrible thing to destroy the rice fields. The imprint of the game in childhood has not ended many times when returning home many times, on ditches or bamboo poles in ponds and lakes, still full of eggs of this agricultural “rebellious” group. The nest of golden snail eggs is associated with the childhood of many rural children. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. Summer brings showers. After such meals, the pond is filled with the sound of frogs, hawks, and owls. Me and my friends carried fishing rods. Frogs with nuggets (a baby frog about the size of a big toe) are brought back to be raised somewhere in the garden or pond. Big frogs have to buy long bamboo sticks and melon flowers to lure. If there is a frog, there will be a pot of melon soup. In those days, finding a frog with 3 fingers was already very big, unlike now, frogs raised as big as fists, why eat frivolously. Summer is coming, for the children of the countryside, it is also the season of petty theft, because this is the most fruitful season. From sugarcane, guava, alligator, toad, citrus, mango, queo, papaya, etc. The day before yesterday, when I returned to my hometown, my friend also read aloud the “directory” of sweet and fragrant flowers, who had what tree, what delicious fruit. , it’s by heart. See, the taste of stolen fruit is so delicious and attractive that, after more than 20 years, people still remember it. In those days, the children often looked at Gac fruit, any house that had a ripe gac fruit, even if it was new, but did not cut it quickly, it was stolen by the children, just to get the seeds to play. As for the other fruits, they are extremely different, each day they change a dish. In those days, the booty was often carried by the children to the bunker on the embankment to raid. I don’t know how many moonlit mornings, the village dike was filled with laughter, eating and talking like that. And the most interesting thing, that day, the matter of stealing fruit was rarely concerned by parents, it was an accepted thing. Maybe it’s just a few reprimands from time to time, because everyone seems to implicitly admit that it’s a part of everyone’s childhood.

The 2017 Victoria’s Secret show is an unforgettable milestone in her modeling career Clown Mong Dao . While performing in lingerie with a long flowing skirt, she stepped on it and tripped. The Chinese beauty once said that if she fell on the Victoria’s Secret catwalk, she would retire. However, after that, He Mong Dao continued to work as a model. Currently, she is pregnant with the second child with Ha Du Quan – the son of a Macau casino tycoon. Image: Teen Vogue. September 2016, Bella Hadid painful fall on the runway of the Michael Kors show. Her high heels made her lose her balance. Despite hitting hard on the runway, the female model quickly regained her composure. Hadid stood up, finished the performance with confidence. Image: Teen Vogue. At Givenchy’s spring 2016 show, Candice Swanepoel crash. The female model tripped over her shoelaces, slipped, and fell forward. Despite his injured knee, Swanepoel was still smiling and continued to perform. Another model fell during the same show as Candice Swanepoel. Image: Getty. Year 2014, Catherine Loewe lost balance on the runway of Jean Paul Gaultier four times. The female model continued to walk unsteadily before falling to the floor. Image: Getty. Lindsey Wixson impressed at the Versace Spring 2012 show with a gorgeous beaded one-piece dress. Minutes later, the female model tripped while walking the catwalk to the end of the runway. Image: Vogue. At the Burberry show Fall 2010, Nina Porter wearing shoes that don’t fit her feet. As he moved to the end of the runway, Porter staggered and slipped. The female model decided to remove one of her shoes to complete the performance. Image: PopSugar. At Alexander McQueen show Fall – Winter 2009, Karlie Kloss difficult to move with bulky dress. She almost tripped over the dress, but thanks to timely handling, she was lucky not to fall. This moment became iconic in Kloss’s career. By designer Alexander McQueen chose it for the global advertising campaign. Since then, the name Karlie Kloss has also become more known to the fans. Image: Pinkville. Models dropped their shoes on the catwalk Despite having problems with shoes on the catwalk, many models still confidently strode in the excitement of the audience.

Suddenly there was an ear-piercing explosion, like a bomb. I’m sure lightning knocked down some big tree in my village. I was pale, just afraid that the innocent coconut tree towering in front of my yard would also be punished by God. Rain started to fall. My whole village was immersed in the first rain of the season, also known as the summer rain. Torrential rain, torrential rain, showers of drains. I was excited to rush out to the yard to shower in the rain, bathe naked, take a bath like that, it would be nice. I stood in the middle of the yard, immersed in the rain, the rain pouring down on my head, my hair soaking wet, the rain running down my cheeks. I could not rub my face. I raised my face to the sky, letting the rain fall directly on my face, so that I could feel the same joy of showering. And yet, I lay on my stomach on the brick yard, let the rain water water my bare back, then I turned over, let the rain fall on my stomach, so that I could be satisfied, that I was “full of rain.” “. Next, I ran to the far end of the yard, plugging the drain. About five minutes later, God gave me a free rainwater swimming pool. Although this pool water is only up to my knees, it is enough for me to swim, dive, swim, swim on my back on the brick floor that is just a normal rice drying yard. I am happy, I am delighted, I am happy, I scream, I scream loudly under the cool first rain of the season that is covering my village. These are the sublime moments of my childhood, when me and nature, me and heaven and earth were intertwined and intertwined. Rainwater flows abundantly, slick, flooding villages, fields and gardens. The air became cooler, people, animals and plants were refreshed, craving more than usual. We still call the first rain of the season the “rain of frogs”. Only about half an hour after this “lucky” rain, all over my village, in the garden, in the fields, echoes of the hum, the croak, the chorus of male frogs calling for their mates. That was also the signal telling me, let’s go to the frog, that is, shine the torch to find and catch frogs (“man frog” is the language of my village, many locals call it “soi frog”). I quickly put the bamboo basket on my waist, lit a torch made of dry bamboo and bamboo that had been built up in the corner of the kitchen for a long time. And I aim for the fields, where the echoes of the male frogs croak to call for a mate. I lit the torch, watched, and one by one I saw frogs embracing each other in the rain puddles in the field. I just reached out and grabbed a pair of frogs who were in love, no longer knowing what heaven and earth were, and put them in the basket deliciously. Frogs have a very respectable “quality”, that is, once they are mates, they are determined not to leave each other. Even when she spotted me, the female frog still tried to carry her partner, the male frog, on her back, jump around and run away together. They live and die together, no matter how strong, everyone runs. Looking back now, I somewhat regret it, willing to destroy the climaxing love of the “frog lovers” in the cool and romantic summer night, the innocent and harmless frogs. People say “hundreds of torches can catch frogs”, but for me, on the first rainy night of the season, with favorable weather conditions, just one torch was enough to catch more than a dozen frogs. It was a normal thing in the past, in the 50s of the last century, but now it is impossible to dream, because where are the natural frogs in a toxic environment full of pesticides and chemicals. . Copper frog meat, that is, natural frog meat, not farmed frogs, is delicious and nutritious, so you probably won’t even know it. Especially the fried frog with lemongrass and chili, or the frog braised with banana and beans (my mother often cooks and I love it). As for the dish and stir-fried frog with bamboo shoots, every drinker will say it’s a top favorite, if not unique…

Prices of many seafood products decreased due to slow purchasing power Similarly, in the Mekong Delta, the price of vegetables and fruits also decreased. Choysum is priced at 19,000 VND/kg, down 2,000 VND/kg, broccoli is 16,000 VND/kg, 2,000 VND/kg, green onions are 18,000 VND/kg, 2,000 VND/kg, bitter melon is 22,000 VND/kg, 3000 VND/kg , gourd 12,000 VND/kg down 2000 VND/kg, okra 18,000 VND/kg down 2000 VND/kg, tomatoes 12000 VND/kg down 4000 VND/kg… Prices of some fruits continued their downtrend. Currently, the retail price of fragrant mangoes, four quarters mangoes, acacia mangoes and Taiwanese mangoes are only from 5,000-10,000 VND/kg, while Australian mangoes, Cat Chu mangoes, Hoa Loc sand mangoes are priced at 15,000-30,000 VND. /kg. Meanwhile, the price of many kinds of jackfruit, longan, strawberry, orange, tangerine, guava, dragon fruit, watermelon, pomelo, etc. are also quite low, with prices only from 5,000-20,000 VND/kg. Grade 1 green skin pomelos cost 25,000-28,000 VND/kg. Seafood and fresh meat products, after a long period of stable price, tend to decrease due to the decrease in domestic consumption and export demand. Due to the slow consumption due to the impact of the epidemic, many freshwater aquaculture products such as perch, tilapia, goby, slicing, frog, giant freshwater prawn, etc., are currently down at least from 2,000 to 10,000 VND/kg than a month ago. In Can Tho City and neighboring provinces such as Vinh Long, An Giang, Hau Giang, etc., fish slices are sold to traders by farmers for only 43,000 VND/kg (2-3 fish/kg), while in the next few months. At the beginning of the year, the price is 46,000-48,0000 VND/kg. The price of farmed frogs started at more than 40,000 VND/kg, now it has dropped to around 35,000 VND/kg. Farmed perch is sold by farmers to traders for only 23,000-24,000 VND/kg (6-8 fish/kg). Tilapia and red tilapia at 30,000-35,000 VND/kg (2-3 fish/kg).

In addition to beauty and grace, flowers also bring prosperity, luck and fortune, qualities to any home. Fresh flowers are the best choice for the home, as they bring an auspicious energy. In addition to fresh flowers, you can also decorate your home with high-quality flowers or silk flowers. 2. Buddha According to feng shui, the buddha is a symbol of peace, protection and good luck. If you want a peaceful, quiet and contemplative life, then add a Buddha statue to your home. 3. Horses Artwork, photographs or horse sculptures are often hung in offices or places of business. According to classical feng shui, horses bring success, fame, freedom, and speed. So the horse symbol is often used in the Fame area in the Bagua (South), as well as the Career area (North). 4. Fruits The feng shui energy of the fruit symbolizes flowering and fruiting. When choosing images of fruits for good feng shui, you must first understand the feng shui energy of the fruit. 5. Color The colors used in feng shui are symbols of the elements. Each feng shui element is represented by a specific color. Color is the easiest way to use the five elements in feng shui. 6. Fish Fish is a symbol of abundance and prosperity. The most famous feng shui fish is the arowana fish. The feng shui aquarium is a feng shui cure and has the effect of attracting abundant fortune. A properly placed and well cared for wing fish tank will amplify the energy in any space and make it richer. 7. Chim People have looked at birds since time immemorial for inspiration and freedom. Each bird species has its own unique qualities; For example, a peacock is very different from a dove, or a magpie. 8. Dragon Dragon is a symbol of good feng shui. Dragons come in many sizes, materials, and colors. The golden dragon is a symbol of wealth and the name dragon is a symbol of health. 9. Tortoise In feng shui, the turtle is a powerful symbol. It is one of the four celestial animals or guardians in feng shui, including the green dragon, the red phoenix, the white tiger, and the black turtle. Turtle symbolizes success and fame. 10. Frog sucking money The frog is a three-legged creature that helps attract wealth. Money frogs are placed in the feng shui money area or somewhere close to the door.

The process of raising Ca cuong according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. Sharing about her start-up journey from the Ca cuong farming model, Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan said that Phuoc Chi commune is considered a pure agricultural commune, so people here mainly grow rice and since childhood she has been attached to it. with fields, garden vegetables, frogs, frogs…; in it, there is a Ca cuong However, due to the changing habitat, the wild Ca cuong is gradually disappearing in the wild. In 2015, through researching on the information pages, she learned that Tay Ninh has successfully propagated Ca cuong in captivity, so she came to buy seed for trial at home. Through many times of raising and propagating Ca cuong failed because she did not know well about Ca cuong species, but with determination, not discouraged, she finally understood the technical process of raising Ca cuong. At the end of 2016, she has invested in 10 ponds with 2,000 breeders. In 2017, she started selling the first batch of Ca cuong and was popular with consumers. The benefits brought back far exceeded the plan with the average price of 30,000 – 130,000 VND / commercial Ca cuong and 100,000-200,000 VND / Ca cuong seed. According to Lan, Ca cuong is a fast-reproducing species with large numbers and lays all year round. Each birth is only 1 – 1.5 months apart / litter. Each nest of Ca cuong has about 100 eggs, after 5-7 days the eggs hatch into larvae, the hatching rate is nearly 100%. From hatching to commercial sale about 45 days, while raising for spawning about 75 days. Currently, Ms. Lan’s Ca cuong farm has an area of ​​3,000 m2. Raising Ca cuong is not difficult, but multiplying Ca cuong herds is not easy because Ca cuong is very sensitive to the environment, especially pesticides, in order to raise Ca cuong, it is necessary to choose a cool place, the water source is not polluted. . Therefore, farmers need to continuously monitor the growth and reproduction of Ca cuong to adjust appropriate care to achieve the best results. However, according to Lan, the food for Ca cuong is fresh food such as fish, baby frogs, and baby frogs, so when the food is not consumed, it is easy to pollute the water source. To ensure that the water source for raising Ca cuong is clean enough, farmers must change the water regularly. In addition, the process of growth from hatching to maturity, they undergo 5 molting, each time the farmer has to follow up to remove the embryo, so it takes a lot of time. The process of raising Ca cuong according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. In early 2020, by learning about the aquaponist model (a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics grown hydroponics), she realized that this model was suitable for her Ca cuong farm. Investing in building 30 more Ca cuong ponds with a scale of nearly 10,000 fish and stocking dozens of pounds of fish, along with 1,000 m2 of organic vegetable gardens to produce under a closed process. Ms. Lan shared, when applying the aquaponist model, Ca cuong, the food of Ca cuong (which is a fish) and vegetables will be grown in the same circulatory system. Ca cuong eats food and produces waste products in the water. Water containing waste is fed into mechanical and microbiological filtration system. Thanks to the participation of beneficial bacteria, the wastewater from the aquarium will be converted to organic nutrients into vegetable growing tanks, vegetables absorb nutrients in the water, then purify the water and provide backwards. back to the Ca cuong and the spiny fish tanks. As a result of the application of aquaponist technology, Lan’s Ca cuong herd grows healthier, the wastage rate is low, thereby saving 30% of the cost of food for Ca cuong, 50% reduction in the amount of clean water supplied. daily and 70% reduction in labor force. Ms. Lan also said that each month, her Ca cuong farm supplies to the market more than 10,000 commercial Ca cuong, after deducting the cost, bringing in profits from 40 to 50 million VND per month. In addition, thanks to the reduction of input fees, the source of Ca cuong seed sold by Ms. Lan is also 40% lower than the market price. The process of raising Ca cuong, growing aquatic vegetables according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. According to Ms. Lan, at present, consumers are mainly aware of products processed from Ca cuong meat such as fried, steamed … because Ca cuong meat and eggs contain many proteins, lipids and vitamins. However, the most valuable of the Ca cuong is the bag of essential oils in the belly of the male Ca cuong. Foreseeing this, in addition to selling Ca cuong seeds, meat, realize that Ca cuong fish sauce is one of the products that still preserves the essential oils of Ca cuong, the delicious and fatty taste is accepted by the market. Lan continues to invest in production lines and fish sauce processing to diversify products from Ca cuong, increase value and have more stable output while more and more businesses and farmers invest. to cultivate this insect. In order to build a brand for the product, capture the One-Commune Program (OCOP), right from the moment the program was launched, she applied for the Ca cuong fish sauce product called “Phong Lan”. . Since registering for the certification of OCOP products, a good reputation, many companies, businesses, and supermarkets have come to find out about the product and more and more orders are placed, Ms. Lan chalk. Khoi said.

Office tree frog Rhacophorus vanbanicus in the wild. The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology said that the Institute’s scientists, in collaboration with Russian and German scientists, have discovered and described three new species of tree frog in Lao Cai and Ha Giang. Based on analysis of morphology, molecular genetics and bio-sound, a team of researchers from the Vietnam Museum of Nature, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and Researchers from the Serbian Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and the scientists of Cologne Zoo, Germany have discovered and described three new species of tree frogs including Rhacophorus vanbanicus, Zhangixalus franki and Zhangixalus jodiae. The table frog species Rhacophorus vanbanicus Kropachev, Orlov, Ninh, and Nguyen, 2019 Named after the standard sampling site in Van Ban district, Lao Cai province, Vietnam at an altitude of 900m, with evergreen forest habitat on high humidity rocky mountains with frequent fog and drizzle. The table frog frog features a brown back with two green stripes on the back from the back of the eye to the groin and forms a green triangle at the top, the underside of the thighs yellow-orange with 5-7 characteristic black nodules. This species is of medium size with an adult male body length of about 34.8 mm, head width less than head length. This finding is published in specialized journals Russian Journal of Herpetology. Zhangixalus jodiae in nature (A & B), and front and hind limbs (C & D). Goat tree frog species Zhangixalus jodiae Nguyen, Ninh, Orlov, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020 Named after Dr. Jodi Rowley – The Australian Museum for her outstanding contributions to the study of amphibian classification in Asia. This species was found in Quan Ba ​​district, Ha Giang province. In terms of morphology, the new species has an average body length in the range of 36.1-39.8 mm, the width and length of the head are equivalent, the tip of the snout is round, with the teeth of the cane leaves; front and hind limbs have swimming membranes; blotchy green back, cream-colored armpits with large black spots, groin and anterior-posterior part of thigh with alternating black and orange spots. Genetically, the new species is on the same branch as Z. nigropunctautus, Z. yaoshanensis, Z. pinglongensis and Z. chenfui. Z. jodiae had the closest genetic distance to Z. pinglongensis was 3.57%. Biological tones were recorded at 17.3-20.9 degrees Celsius with each vocal lasting 1.1 seconds and consisted of six notes, each note about 6 milliseconds, the distance between two notes about 15 milliseconds. . The dominant frequency is 2.0kHz. The notes of a voice have variable amplitude, with the last note having the smallest amplitude relative to the other notes. The discovery of this new species of frog was published in the journal Journal of Natural History. Standard specimen of Zhangixalus franki (A & B) and a drawing of anterior and posterior swimming membrane (C). Species Frank tree frog – Zhangixalus franki Ninh, Nguyen, Orlov, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020 named after the late German professor, doctor, veterinarian and amphibian conservationist Frank Mutschmann in honor and recognition of his support in amphibian research and conservation projects. residing in Vietnam. The new species can be distinguished from other species in the Zhangixalus genus based on a combination of the following characteristics: large body (from 77.9-85.8 mm in males), a blue dorsal surface with spots small dark brown, with white stripes separating the upper face and lower face of the body, developed parotid glands. This species was found at an altitude of 1,300 m in Quan Ba ​​district, Ha Giang province. The typical habitat is tropical evergreen forest on the mountains. Genetically, the new species in the same branch is most closely related to the Z. duboisi species, the genetic distance between the two species is about 2.51%. Findings about this species were published in the journal European Journal of Taxonomy.

The most exciting game is the game to pick up anchovies and slit back to the water, just a female with eggs can pass through, the flock of floods will cross her tail. Very well, then they were not afraid of him and defied everything … Still the same … Seasonal rains. In the countryside, before Coc Vu period, every home had a few 3-pin lamps. Torch, hurricane lamp … well-off, we bought a Dong Nai battery … just for food, many families with many children (like ours) were scattered into fields, ponds, rivers … catch crabs, fish and frogs … and sell them to the market. Bright white rain. The bank of the plot is flooded, using stomping or circus (like the te sao of the people of the sea) to poke, rake on the grass patches to cover the water, crabs a lot. Once, my teacher came back from the field, full of baskets, full of two buckets of water full of crabs. He also put in both trousers long pants, also full of crabs. Later, I learned that the crabs and fishes that night … brought them to the market, enough money to pay tuition fees for a few months for our siblings … Catching frogs in the rainy night also likes. We are afraid of lightning. But the cave and the shelter hole was flooded with rain. Frogs and ransom to sit on a high bank, cover their eyes with their front legs to avoid the rain, when being lit with a flashlight (they must think it is blinking), they cover their eyes and cover their heads more tightly. He just … tipto! Home is still raining … Thanks to the civilization of the village of culture, for a long time, killing rats, killing yellow snails, insecticides … has little impact on the life of crabs, fish, and frogs … they seem to have revived as before .. . It’s raining. Going out to the village, I felt bewildered, there are still things from my childhood. Conceptualist!