Recently, the image of a rather expensive product line made from banana leaves produced by Appree (Korea) company continues to surprise Vietnamese netizens. This product is called “banana leaf tray” (roughly translated: Banana leaf tray), the price ranges from 3.15 USD to 4.95 USD. Specifically, the product line has 3 sizes depending on usage needs: Small round tray with retail price from 3.15 USD (72,000 VND)/piece, large round tray from 4.95 USD (113,000 VND)/piece, Long trays cost from 4.55 USD (104,000 VND)/piece. Alternatively, you can buy as a set. Set of 3 long banana leaf trays costs $9, a set of three large round trays costs $10, a set of three small round trays costs $5 and a set of nine assorted trays costs $25, equivalent to more than VND570,000. These trays can be used to store food, cosmetics, accessories, and stationery. The manufacturer wants users to be closer to nature through easily accessible items in daily life. Instead of using plastic or stainless steel boxes, we can completely use banana leaves to create very pretty decorative trays. Moreover, banana leaves are organic waste that is easy to decompose, so it does not affect the environment like when using plastic. However, some people wonder how these banana leaf trays can be preserved? Is it easy to tear, mold, and wilt like normal banana leaves? Minh Hoa (th)

I order food online quite often, especially when working from home because of the complicated epidemic situation. In the afternoon snack from 3pm to 5pm, I usually order cakes or light snacks to recharge for afternoon work. The epidemic situation is complicated, you can stay at home and order cake delivery from the addresses below. Because of the increasing demand for online food ordering, there are many online bakeries opening on social networks. Just search for an address, I will get dozens of suggestions of similar addresses. This used to make me fall into a difficult situation not knowing which restaurant to choose, deciding whether to try a new one or stay loyal to the old address. If you have trouble choosing where to order food, you should have a list of a few restaurants with specific reviews for each criterion. Below is a list of bakeries I’ve tried and recommended by friends. In addition to 2 shops serving tea, cake and coffee, Butter by Butterman also has an online cake account with nearly 100,000 followers. The cakes featured at Butter include cupcakes, tiramisu, brownies, cookies, panna cotta, cheesecake, plus marshmallows and chocomallows. Although the bakery is famous for its colorful cookies and marshmallows, I prefer the cheesecake here. The last time I bought a cake at Bo, I ordered lime cheesecake. The core of the cake is soft, tender, melts as soon as it is put in the mouth, fragrant with greasy cheese, mixed with a cool lemon scent. This type of cake comes in 2 sizes, round and small like a cupcake. Avocado also serves some holiday themed cakes. On Mother’s Day (May 9), the shop served avocado cakes like avocado panna cotta tart. In terms of packaging, the cake is placed in bagasse box with small cakes, cookies and marshmallow, sold by kg or by jar, large loaf is packed in paper box so as not to smear the cream. Diners can order cakes directly through the shop’s social media accounts. Every day, the shop also updates the release date of new batches of cakes. I found out about this online bakery while looking for a small birthday cake for a colleague. Most of the bakeries I know before that sell 16-20 cm cakes which are small. Another bake shop serves small cheesecakes, including 3 sizes of 8 cm, 9 cm and 14 cm. The cakes are priced from 70,000-310,000 VND depending on the size and taste. Besides, you can order small cakes for snacks. The cakes in this shop are not too diverse in taste. You can try 3 flavors: Oreo cream cheesecake, Japanese strawberry cheesecake or blueberry cheesecake. What I like about the shop is the simple but unique way of wrapping the cake. When ordering a birthday cake here, I chose the size 9 cm oreo cream cheesecake. The cake is placed in a small bagasse box. The inner box lid is written with the message of the giver to the recipient. Larger ones are packaged in a cardboard box to ensure the cake doesn’t wobble. Every day, the shop will update on its personal page the cakes available for the day. Cakes that are not available are also notified for diners to order in batches. This bakery is famous for 2 types of lava cheese and jerry cheese cakes. During a colleague invited me to eat cake, I came to know this address. Being a cheese fanatic, I regularly order cakes here. Both lava cheese and jerry cheese outstanding cakes are rich in cheese flavor. However, I prefer lava cheese because it has a spongy, fragrant cake core, soft cheese, not greasy, sprinkled with many cheese fibers. Lava cheese loaf is about 16 cm, priced at 150,000 VND. Jerry cheese has a more salty cheese taste, the cake is a bit less and quite hard. Each box has 3 cakes, eye-catching creamy yellow cheese color. The price for each box of 3 is 115,000 VND. In addition, the shop also serves black sugar pearl cake, garlic cheese bread, macaron, oreo cheese cake, cream cheese… In general, the cake menu here is quite diverse, for sweet lovers. many choices. If you fall in love with small, colorful macarons, you can refer to Oris. This online bakery serves macarons, cakes sold by the box. S-size box (22 cakes) costs 86,000 VND. Box of size M (33 cakes) costs 130,000 VND. L-size box of 44 cakes costs 172,000 VND. In addition, diners can try cheesecake and tiramisu here. Cheesecake at Oris has no sugar, has oreo, green tea, strawberry, blueberry flavors. Cheesecake prices range from 45,000 VND to 135,000 VND. Ms. Ha My (Binh Thanh district) said that she had ordered a box of M size macarons, the quality of the cake was commensurate with the price. “The cake is quite small, but the quality is quite good. The crust is not hard, the cream is just right. The cake box is carefully wrapped, although 1-2 pieces are broken due to transportation,” Ms. My said. Thao Anh, an office worker in Ho Chi Minh City, also shared that because she works from home, she often orders 1-2 boxes of macarons to snack on. This is an online pastry shop that specializes in serving gateaux of all sizes. Every day, the shop makes fresh cakes such as cheese kimchi, salted egg sponge, tiramisu. According to the recommendation of friends who have ordered cakes at Cake Delight, the cake to try is salted egg sponge. This type of cake is 16-22 cm in size, priced from 80,000-240,000 VND. Hungry afternoon, you just need to order 80,000 VND round cake to be full The salted egg sponge here has a thick layer of cream cheese, the salted egg is split in half, adding cotton and a layer of golden egg cream. The cake core is relatively soft, not too sweet, the salted egg part is a bit dry. In addition to fresh cakes, the shop also serves custom-designed birthday cakes, priced from 140,000 to 410,000 VND depending on the size. Besides, tiramisu is also a type of cake that many people order here. However, according to some diners who have ordered cakes, tiramisu is quite soft, easy to flow during transportation.

Remember when I was a kid, remember the first time my mother taught me and my sisters how to make a fire to cook rice. In the countryside that day, starting a fire was very simple, just a little dry straw, a piece of rubber band or a little bagasse is enough. Firewood is collected around the house, stacked and interwoven, leaving a space for the fire to enter; There are times when lighting the fire first and then arranging the firewood around. The fire burned, my sisters and I happily clapped their hands in excitement. Small round eyes looked curiously at the burning sticks. The gray-white smoke followed the slits of the tree trunks flying in all directions, piercing the eyes and noses of the children who were staring at them, stinging. Yet we were still laughing and joking, using our hands to “slash” the smoke like real warriors. I remember the most days when it was raining, when the firewood was wet, my sisters and I blew the stove and coughed because of the smoke. Or on summer days, when the southwest wind blows strongly, the fire is blown to one side by the wind, the rice cooker on the stove has a ripe day. For a long time we were attached to the wood stove, with the smell of kitchen smoke. When I remember those days when I was a child, my heart feels happy again… The strong aroma of the kitchen smoke lingers here and there. From the small kitchen, that smoke followed the wind up to the dark thatched roof, crept through each wall of earth, ran to the back of the house, and flew straight to the sky with many unique shapes. In our imagination, it is sometimes a flying dragon, sometimes a leaf in the wind, or a rope stretching up to the blue clouds… There are afternoons we are busy chasing in the fields, the smell of smoke The kitchen mixed with the aroma of food made us children stop, inhale, and then hug our hungry stomachs and run straight home. In the minds of the children, the smoke from the kitchen was rising and it was time for lunch. Grilled dishes in charcoal are always attractive to any child, are the favorite dishes of children in the countryside, and arouse curiosity for children in the city today. Sometimes it’s just a hastily dug sweet potato in the garden or a cashew nut that has just been picked from the tree, immediately put in the embers on the stove, buried in the gray ash and wait. The faint aroma follows the smoke into each cell, evoking each sense, making people irresistible. Hold the potato and just poke it out from the coal stove, blow it and eat it, hot and fragrant. Memories of a small day suddenly came back so clearly and warmly. For those who grew up in the countryside, the fire is also a place of peace and a place to return to. My mother often said: “On the first day of the year, what can be forgotten, but must not forget to light a fire to warm the house, it will bring good things to us”. And that was also the first thing my father did on New Year’s Day, no matter how many years passed. My sister and I sat around the fire with our hands warmed. The strong scent of kitchen smoke wrapped us again, interspersed with children’s stories. That lovely image keeps reminding me… In modern life, the wood stove, coal stove has gradually been replaced by gas stove, electric stove. The corner of the kitchen is also clean now, no longer black on the walls, and no soot flying around. I was also reeling in society, seeming to have forgotten the smell of smoke rising from the branches of the trees. Suddenly I realized how long I had rushed through the best memories. I am grateful and grateful for the habit of cooking water every morning with my parents’ dear wood stove so that today, I can smell the smoke from the kitchen. Even though my eyes sting because of the smoke, I still feel as happy as celebrating. Apparently, it’s been a long time since I’ve had time for myself, with my mother, back to the peaceful countryside that raised me up. And to return to my childhood days with the light, fragrant smoke in the morning… MAKEUP