Ms. Dam (Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district) is wrapping coconut leaf cake. Salted pork skin cake, also known as salty cake, is created into various types of flatbreads, vegetarian cakes. According to Ms. Loan, making savory pork skin cakes is not difficult, but you must have your own secret to make the cake crispy, chewy and have a characteristic fatty taste. To have a delicious pork skin cake, the main ingredient is rice flour; The filling is made from cassava root, red radish and dried shrimp. And an indispensable ingredient is coconut milk, which contributes to making the cake more flavorful, fatty and fragrant. Currently, when technology develops, many bakers switch to electric ovens, but Loan still maintains the method of manual steaming, pinching with rice husks to adjust the temperature accordingly. Every day, Ms. Loan steams about 150 salty pork skin cakes, priced at 3,000 VND/piece, with dried shrimp filling; 2,000 VND/piece for flatbread and cake filled with cassava, red radish. Ms. Loan said: “Every day, I sell salty pork skin cakes with other dishes, such as silkworm cakes, wet cakes, etc. Depending on the number of orders from customers, I increase or decrease the number of cakes.” For most folk cakes, although the ingredients are easy to find, it also requires a lot of care and ingenuity of the workers to produce eye-catching and delicious batches of cakes. Huynh Thi Ha’s family, commonly known as Ms. 3 Dam, 65 years old (living in Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district), making coconut leaf cakes has helped her family “eat well, made” over the past 14 years. Ms. Dam said that, when she was a girl in the countryside, everyone knew how to make cakes, because they were taught the craft by their grandparents and learned from neighbors. While quickly wrapping the cakes, Ms. Dam shared: “I can pack 17 cakes for 1 kg of sticky rice. To get a delicious, fragrant coconut cake, you have to go through many stages. First buy a plant (coconut leaves) used to wrap the barrel of the cake. Glutinous must choose to buy new sticky rice to stir-fry, squeeze coconut milk and mix it with coconut carcasses, add salt, sugar, and beans. To make the cake, must cook green beans, cut ripe bananas. After all the preliminaries were done, I started wrapping the cake.” Every day, on a small bicycle, Ms. Dam only sells coconut leaf cakes around the area of ​​Thoi An Dong market. Her cakes sold quite well, by 6 a.m. sold out. On average, she packs over 100 cakes every day, both retailing and removing termites for 5,000 VND/piece; minus expenses, she made a profit of over 120,000 dong. Particularly on holidays and Tet, neighbors come to her to order a package of Tet cakes. Although the money is not much, it also helps her to live with the profession, satisfying her desire to preserve the taste of country cakes. Currently, with the pace of urbanization, many types of cakes have been born, meeting the increasing tastes of customers, but folk cakes still have a certain place in the market, helping many small business households to earn income. stable input. Through the skillful hands of artisans, the folk cakes are more delicious, rounder, and converge the essence of home products.

Recently, a netizen shared a picture of a cocoa flan product (caramel cocoa) made by herself. This person wrote : “Hello everyone! Tomorrow is my lover’s birthday, I was planning to surprise her, so I looked at Google to find a recipe for Flan cocoa. I’ve been struggling all night and now I’m done, but the cake poured out like boiling time. Should I make another batch? Can anyone give me advice.” The image the girl posted makes everyone think it’s boiling time, no one thinks it’s cocoa flan. Many netizens are bored and think that if the girl can’t do it, she can order it, but it’s hard to accept it. “If you steam, keep the fire low and open the lid every 10 minutes. Your cake is due to the high fire, it bubbles up and is about to boil, so it’s pitted.” one resident said. However, some people expressed their admiration because: “Haven’t read the caption yet, I think you intend to surprise her by using boiled blood instead of cake. It must be said that the chef’s level is not certain to make a flan like blood to each small hole, to the color. water is the same. Admiration.” “Go to the store and buy it, don’t make other people’s stomach hurt, especially the ladies who cook are bad but still like to be creative.” one netizen frankly advised. Not long ago, a netizen shared a picture of a batch of homemade cakes. This person makes a cake with a smiley face in the picture on the internet. While the picture on the internet shows a round, beautiful and attractive batch of cakes, this girl’s cake is crushed and has nothing attractive. Not to mention the original one, the other one lost an unsightly corner of the face. Many netizens also expressed sympathy and said that making a cake is not simple, just a little carelessness can destroy the whole batch of cakes. “ I’ve done it before, baked at too high of temperature so the cake is burnt black, not to mention once made, it was crushed, unable to eat. Giving it to everyone, no one dares to eat it for fear of stomachache ” said one person. Some say: “ Making these cakes must be meticulous little by little, it’s not right to do it in a way that can’t be eaten, if you look at the recipe again, something must be wrong, but how can this be. It looks so scary “.

In Can Tho, Ms. Tran Van My Tram (46 years old) said she bought a lot of potatoes to help farmers in Vinh Long. “I bought a few times now, just bought another 5kg today. All week, my family eats potatoes, mainly for breakfast, just hoping to be able to partly help people” – she laughed. Ms. Tram creates many unique dishes such as meatballs with potato sauce, potato donuts filled with cheese, mochi cakes with potatoes, purple sweet potato noodle soup, Doraemon donuts filled with potatoes, … Donuts are created by Ms. Tram from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC Cake soup with noodles made from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC Mochi cake filled with purple sweet potato. Photo: NVCC Purple sweet potato soup with minced meat. Photo: NVCC Ms. Tram confided: “The dishes made from potatoes are very diverse, easy to make, but also very delicious. I hope more people know to buy potatoes to help farmers, but see that they work too hard. It’s hard to grow but still not enough. For export, they cannot be sold. Those who have no one to carry them to retail must dump the fruits of their labor.” And in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Kieu Diem (27 years old, district 7) also makes small cakes from glutinous rice flour and purple sweet potatoes. The purple color of the potato helps the familiar cake to become beautiful and attractive. Diem also uses this ingredient to make purple sweet potato rolls. “Purple sweet potato is both good for health and beautifies the food. This roll cake is very simple and quick to make, delicious and easy to eat. Mothers can make babies eat weaning too. I just making cakes, while filming and editing the instructional clip for making cakes so that many people who want to do it can follow, and join hands to rescue purple sweet potatoes to help people in the West,” said Kieu Diem. Two cakes are made by Kieu Diem from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC The epidemic lasted for a long time, worried that her children would be bored during the summer vacation, so Nguyen Thi Hong Quynh (32 years old, Thu Duc City) and her two daughters made cakes from sweet potatoes. She and her children boiled potatoes, used them to make tea and made fried purple sweet potatoes. These are the children’s favorite dishes, and easy to make, so Quynh let her children cook freely. The happy moment of two children of Hong Quynh’s family when they together knead purple potato flour for their mother to cook tea. Photo: NVCC She recounted: “The baby grew up after learning that farmers were having difficulties because they could not sell potatoes, told me to support buying a lot of potatoes to help them. Cooking is also her hobby. Many of my friends still have a hobby. making yoghurt, pork skin cake from potatoes, very creative”. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Tuyen (36 years old, Thu Duc City) also bought a lot of “relief” purple sweet potatoes. She learns how to cook online and changes to suit her and her husband’s taste. The dishes she made by steaming potatoes with vegetables, coconut milk and tea. Hong Tuyen’s purple sweet potato soup. Photo: NVCC Steamed purple sweet potato with coconut milk. Photo: NVCC Some unique dishes with purple sweet potato ingredients “rescued” from Henry Nguyen’s family (Phu Nhuan) and friends: Sweet potato vermicelli Pork skin cake from sweet potato Purple and yellow sweet potato Sweet potato cake

Ho Ngoc Ha is one of the Vietnamese stars who likes to share the food they enjoy every day through personal stories. Sometimes it was the simple but delicious meals of her biological mother, when it was a series of dishes sent or ordered by friends. The singer rarely shows off the dishes she cooks. Perhaps because she is busy, Kim Ly’s wife has little time to go to the kitchen. However, during this epidemic season, Ha Ho could not escape the “kitchen universe” like a series of other Vietnamese stars. Recently she enjoyed showing off her day at home: “A day of Ha’s sister. Play with her children, make cakes, cook… please finish them”. In particular, she excitedly shared the results in the kitchen, which were extremely delicious cakes and proudly held in her hands. Ho Ngoc Ha posted a scene while looking after her children and making cakes. She quickly kneaded the dough, next to it was a scale to weigh the ingredients. The singer shared: “Practice making cinnamon buns that Subeo loves. Delicious or not, but very good.” Hand-made, Ha Ho has absorbed the hard work to make the cakes. Ho Ngoc Ha bakes cakes in an oil-free fryer, the result looks quite beautiful, golden color. This type of cake has the Vietnamese name of cinnamon roll bread, a type of sweet roll cake commonly served in Northern Europe and North America. The mother of 3 is proud of her kitchen products when she pleases her son. The eldest son, Ho Ngoc Ha, seems to be very fond of Western dishes. On her personal page, Ho Ngoc Ha’s biological mother, Ngoc Huong, also showed off her daughter’s cakes and also praised her children’s other dishes. She confided: “During the anti-epidemic days at home, gardening, looking after the little angels. And she took advantage of cooking, making cakes. It’s great that the new chef of the manufacturer is full of excellent dishes, unexpected skills. .. Grilled ribs, grilled chicken, grilled fish with all kinds of sauces were brought out… didn’t have time to take pictures… just tried it. This type is finished translating the set of teeth (copy) back here, hic. Introducing a new type of cake that has not been seen with the sauce. Thank her! It’s delicious everyone… I have to have 4-5 of these at a time!” Ms. Ngoc Huong thanked her daughter. An acquaintance witty: “Only on holidays like this can we catch her moments like this, auntie. Everyone has to go to the kitchen, haha”. Earlier on the 3 children’s page, Ho Ngoc Ha captioned: “Our Saturday was very happy, mom cooked 2 meals of pumpkin and lotus seeds, mom made sponge cake for the second brother and grilled salmon for Kim’s father. And the mother eats beef cake and yogurt.” When the eldest son said he wanted steak, the “Entertainment Queen” immediately indulged, buying high-quality beef jerky to make. She is quite loyal to the air fryer, used to make many dishes for her children and family. The female singer also showed off the image of making grilled ribs for Subeo. The dish that Ho Ngoc Ha has for her husband Kim Ly: Grilled salmon with rosemary leaves with boiled sweet potatoes and tomatoes, the “healthy” quality. See how to make delicious and attractive cinnamon bread (Cinnamon buns) like Ho Ngoc Ha made for his son Subeo: Resources: 92g white granulated sugar 7 g salt (equivalent to 1 teaspoon) 78 g butter or cooking oil (at room temperature) 1 chicken egg, large size 454 g flour 2 teaspoons dry yeast 255 g whole milk, keep the temperature slightly warm (32 degrees Celsius) 113 g sugar and cinnamon powder mix (ratio: 6 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder) Doing: Whisk together the sugar, salt, and butter in a whisk. Add to the mixture above flour, yeast and milk. Mix well until the mixture forms a round ball. Knead until the dough is smooth, flexible but not sticky. More flour can be added if the mixture is too wet. The kneading time is about 6-8 minutes. Choose a bowl to hold the dough, spread a thin layer of cooking oil in the bowl, let the dough rest in the bowl for 1-2 hours or until the dough has doubled in size. Cover with food wrap. Roll the dough into a 35cm x 30cm rectangle. Do not roll too thin. Spread the cinnamon sugar evenly over the dough, then roll it up. Cut the dough into bite-sized portions. Let the cake rest for about 1 – 1.5 hours or until it has doubled in size Baking temperature 177 degrees Celsius, time about 20-30 minutes. Fix the baking tray in the center of the oven. Do not bake for a long time, the cake will dry. Good luck!

Therefore, she once thought about buying land to build a villa, to have a spacious kitchen, to satisfy her passion. She and her husband have meticulously planned the design ideas and construction time. However, as time passed, she felt that the apartment of more than 100 square meters in her current apartment was enough and better for her family. Especially, being close to relatives (her brother and sister live in the same building). This apartment, she herself designed the design ideas, bought each decoration by herself, so she felt very attached and enthusiastic. She divided into zones, meeting her hobbies of cooking, reading, playing music, collecting and golfing… The female owner invests a lot in the kitchen. “My wife and I have the same opinion that if you like to eat something somewhere, you will definitely be able to make it at home and invite your loved ones to experience it,” Huong confided. Some pictures of Ms. Huong’s small nest: The corner displays bags, water bottles, balls and golf clubs. “I love golf because it’s a sport that gathers a lot of skills and principles, requires a great deal of patience. I also want to let the two children learn a lot from this sport. Beautiful little shelves for children. Starbucks vases I’ve been collecting for 11 years,” Nguyen Huong said. The living room is also a place to play for two children. On the TV shelf, Ms. Huong displays comics, books and mugs. Minimalist gray sofa is suitable for families with children, because it is less dirty. Although the living room balcony is small, it is enough for the owner to grow a lot of flowers and herbs or sip a glass of wine on a cool evening. The 30-year-old woman loves music, so she has a corner for a piano next to the sofa. The “chill chill” corner on the balcony for romantic moments of the female owner. Tables and chairs for drinking wine on the balcony are made of iron with anti-rust paint, no worries about weather causing damage Kitchen corner inspires cooking to each family member. Huong’s kitchen uses light pink, gray and mint green colors, making the space more airy and spacious. The owner has a hobby of making cakes, so the oven is always fragrant. Cooking at home helps Ms. Huong take better care of her family’s nutrition. Although the kitchen is small, it still has a long dining table overlooking the living room. The kitchen wall is a shelf for baking trays. Here, Huong can cook, play with her children or work together at a long table overlooking the green grass. Bathroom in the master bedroom. Bathtub for swimming floats and toys, serving 2 children during the holidays. “I like to capture moments like these of my children, not arranged, not organized, but looking back, they are very lovely,” Nguyen Huong said. Home is the place to go. The window serves the mother’s working days at home and the living room serves the two brothers to play during the epidemic break. The master bedroom has nothing but a 2mx2m bed. The children have their own rooms but still sleep with their parents until they enter grade 1. Outside is a chill corner whenever Ms. Huong wants to practice guitar without bothering anyone. Huong’s floor goes directly to the playground and green space to walk on, so she always feels like staying here more than a villa.

Ka Tum cake shell is knitted from young palm leaves The first time I knew about Ka Tum cake, I suddenly thought of the fairy tales that my mother used to tell me in the past. They always attract listeners right from the title. And so is the Ka Tum cake. Looking at me pinching my lips, pronouncing the name of the cake according to the tone of the language of the Khmer ethnic group, artisan Neang Phuong laughed and explained: “In Khmer, Ka Tum means pomegranate cake”. This is a sacred cake, conveying the desire for a full, affluent and full life. So only on traditional New Year days such as: Chol Chnam Thmay, Bonh Dolta, Bonh Oc-om-bok… do the Khmer people make this cake to offer to heaven and earth. And only O Lam land in Tri Ton district still makes this kind of cake, so Ka Tum becomes a “rare, hard to find” specialty in the land of An Giang jaggery. Ka Tum cakes are meticulously perfected by artisan Neang Phuong Having been taught the craft of wrapping by her mother since she was a girl, up to now, artisan Neang Phuong has been attached to the Ka tum cake of his people for 40 years. Is it because of that, that in the whole O Lam commune, no one has ever surpassed her reputation of skillful hands and good bakers. In the process of making a cake, the hardest part is making the crust, which is introduced by artisan Neang Phuong as creating a unique characteristic for Ka Tum cakes. Ka Tum cake shell is made from young jaggery leaves, cannot be made of old leaves because old leaves will be hard and hard to bend, no fragrance and green color is too dark and unsightly. The leaves after being picked up will be washed, then peeled off piece by piece and begin the process of knitting into a pomegranate shape, with flowers blooming on top. The ratio of the cakes must be the same, not the big ones, the small ones, if carelessly tied, the cake will not have its shape. So it can be said that this is the most difficult and time consuming stage. Artisan Neang Phuong who won the gold medal in the Southern Folk Cake Festival 2016 “Make this cake, every step is difficult. Peeling is already difficult and elaborate, when it comes time to put the filling, it becomes even more difficult. Even though it’s difficult to make, I still like this cake very much, because it’s beautiful, small and cute, “smiling artisan Neang Phuong. Although she is proficient and familiar with her hands, because of the small shape of the cake, the mouth of the shell is narrow, so it takes a long time to put the filling inside, so she can only make about 100 cakes a day. In the past, the Khmer people often made Ka Tum cakes with Chol Ho sticky rice, which had a very fragrant growing time of six months and even soaked the rice overnight. Now, everything “payroll” in the cake has been simplified more or less, you can use regular sticky rice combined with white beans, sugar, salt and coconut milk. After wrapping the cake, people boil it for a period of 30-45 minutes depending on how big or small the cake is. When the cake is cooked, take it out, blanch it in cold water, and let it dry. Artisan Neang Phuong fervently passed on Ka Tum cake making to the young generation of O Lam When completed, Ka Tum has a light yellow color, the cake inside is not sticky, the sticky rice is soft, smooth and fragrant mixed with fatty panther coconut milk, making visitors from far away fall in love. It is because of that wonderful taste that in the Southern Folk Cake Festival held in 2016, Ka Tum cake won the Gold medal. Realizing that traditional cultural values ​​are being cared for and promoted again, in recent years, artisan Neang Phuong has devoted himself to teaching the recipe and how to make Ka Tum cakes to the young generation of O Lam, contributing part of preserving the identity and culture of the Khmer nation.

David Garcia bakes pizza on lava from the Pacaya volcano in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala on May 11, 2021. (Photo: AFP/VNA) Guatemala’s Picaya volcano began erupting again in February with a lava flow more than 1km long. Active volcanoes scare a lot of people, but for local resident David Garcia, this is where he came up with a unique idea – baking pizza using the heat from lava flows. That is the reason for the birth of a pizza called “Pizza .”. Picaya .” Follow Mr. Garcia, a 34-year-old auditor, to witness pizza baking at the foot of Picaya volcano and visit volcano This is a very enjoyable experience. Ingredients Pizza Picaya is like any other ordinary pizza, the main difference is that the special oven is created from lava and the mold can withstand temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. After spreading the dough into a special mold and adding the necessary ingredients such as meat, sausages, cheese, vegetables, tubers…. cake. With high heat in special “ovens”, Picaya pizza is ready to serve guests in less than 15 minutes. Visitors enjoying this cake all feel the strange taste of pizza baked on Picaya volcanic lava. Of course, in order to bake the cake, Mr. Garcia must wear protective gear. Mr. Garcia promoted this experiential tourism model in 2014 after he discovered several locations at the base of Picaya volcano that had the ideal temperature for baking pizza. Initially, there were not many customers, but gradually his Pizza shop attracted the curiosity of many people and now everyone who comes to Guatemla knows about Picaya pizza. Even as the Picaya volcano “wake up” and spewed lava over the past several weeks, Mr. Garcia baked cakes directly on the red lava. Pacaya, located 2,552 meters above sea level, is one of three active volcanoes out of a total of 32 volcanoes in Guatemala. In addition to this volcano, two other active volcanoes in the country are Fuego in the central region and Santiaguito in the west. Pacaya volcano has erupted since late February, affecting the lives of about 38,000 people in 20 surrounding areas.

A fresh batch of baguettes From the countryside to the city, the long bread made by hand is a familiar image in the daily life of the French people. The baguette has also been a creative inspiration for many artists and has gone into many works of art. From a foreign perspective, when it comes to France, in terms of cuisine, the baguette is probably one of the most intimate and simple symbols, next to countless types of wine, champagne or cheese. So when did baguettes in France come from? According to historian Steven Kaplan, up to now, in France, there are usually three anecdotes about the origin of baguette bread. It is said by many that the long bread was invented by the bakers of Emperor Napoleon in the early 19th century. Lighter and less bulky than the earlier round loaf, the long loaves were easily carried by soldiers. people. In another anecdote, baguettes originated in Austria and were brought to France by a Viennese baker named August Zang in 1839, and were originally sold in Paris as ovals. And finally, the baguette was invented on the Paris subway site in the 1900s, a time when workers from all over France flocked here, and there were often fights between Brittany and regional workers. Auvergne. To prevent workers from stabbing each other with knives, contractors are said to have asked bakers to make loaves of bread that are easy to break by hand rather than using a knife. However, those are just oral anecdotes. Historian Steven Kaplan asserts that the traditional baguette originated in the 20th century, stemming from a change in the dietary needs of urban people. The affluent class living in urban areas wanted to eat fresh bread many times a day, while the big, round breads weighing 1.2-2kg at that time were too big, they had to eat a few meals to finish. Moreover, people also prefer to eat the crust rather than the inside. For centuries before that, bread was made with sourdough, obtained by the natural fermentation of bacteria found in wheat. For the workers, the process of making cakes is very hard work. Steven Kaplan recounted, the baker at that time was likened to a “white miner”, working all night. Many consider it inhumane to let bakers work in such conditions, leading to a movement to find ways to reduce their hardship. By 1919, France had a law banning bakers from working at night. Therefore, the craftsmen have come up with a simpler way to make bread and shape the long, thin baguette to bake the cake faster. And so the baguette was born. According to the National Federation of French Bakery and Pastry Shops, 32,000 artisan bakeries with 180,000 employees earn about 11 billion EUR/year in revenue. However, the French Ministry of Culture said that the number of bakeries has dropped sharply in the past five decades due to competition from supermarkets with industrial, frozen bread. Many people hope that the French Ministry of Culture’s selection of baguettes to submit to UNESCO for nominations for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will contribute to preserving France’s artisanal bread production from the competition of the industrial production methods.

MC Bach Lan Phuong was once revealed by her fiancé Huynh Anh as a woman who knows how to take care and cook well: “She brings great energy, is a woman who knows how to nurture and care, so I feel very secure. Not to mention that she cooks very well. I always feel like I have a girlfriend. predestination”. Because of the good things that the actor felt in Bach Lan Phuong, he proposed to a single mother over 6 years old. Rarely shows off her culinary achievements, but recently, her girlfriend Huynh Anh has made people admire with her homemade cream cake in the middle of the night. She shared that she couldn’t sleep at night, so she slept a little. MC Bach Lan Phuong was praised by her fiancé – Huynh Anh for her good cooking. At 2:30 in the morning, the female MC suddenly showed off the image of the cake she was making and the result when it was completed. The cake with a lovely heart shape is covered with a layer of jelly and the slices of fresh strawberries are also shaped like a heart. The female MC also decorated with whole strawberries around the edge of the plate. Bach Lan Phuong’s cake while in the process of making, is shaped like a heart, with a layer of fruit jelly on top. Then she added sliced ​​strawberries and adorned the surrounding to look pretty and eye-catching. Many acquaintances and friends had to praise and express surprise: “You’re so clever, sister”, “If you’re pretty, but you’re smart, who can rival Phuong”, “Do you do it yourself?”, “I’m so admired”… In response, Bach Lan Phuong humbly said: “Oh my gosh, this is so easy.” When her friends joked with this bravery and ingenuity, she deserved “to have a 9th lover”, the female MC replied: “Honestly, I’m tired, because loving 1 person is equal to loving 10 people, so I don’t have the strength anymore.” In sharing with MC Hoang Linh, Bach Lan Phuong also received : “I’m clumsy, I don’t have any flowers”. Female MC We are soldiers expressed: “I have 3 and I have never made a cake, let alone as beautiful as Miss Phuong’s cake” . Bach Lan Phuong once again affirmed that this cake is very easy to make : “I swear to you, it’s super easy, you just need to shake hands to understand what it is”. Bach Lan Phuong confessed that she was clumsy and didn’t have any flowers, but still managed to make this cake because it was “super easy”. Some people think that this cake is so beautiful, “who wants to eat it, just put it in the box”, the female MC confessed that she worked late at night and left it there, but didn’t eat it right away, she thought that she still had to deal with it all because of her family. No one likes sweets. That makes many people regret, asking to “ship” because the results Bach Lan Phuong made look quite attractive. However, in the end, the female MC said that she was finally able to “mobilize” the whole family to eat together. Recently, Bach Lan Phuong was also praised by friends when making Khuc Bach tea. A friend praised: “The best, most delicious Khuc Bach ever eaten”. That makes the female MC happy, as long as you eat well, she is ready to continue. Refer to the fruit cake recipe: Ingredients for the fruit cake: – Cake core: Wheat flour 60 gr Fresh milk 55 ml Cooking oil 50 ml White sugar 80 gr Chicken eggs 5 eggs Vanilla 1/2 teaspoon Cream part: Whipping cream 200 ml – Fruit part: Strawberry 300 gr Salt 1/4 teaspoon How to make fruit cake Step 1: The cake core: – Pre-heat the oven 20 minutes at a temperature of 165-175 degrees Celsius. The bottom of the cake pan is coated with oil to prevent sticking when baking. – Separate egg yolks and egg whites. Beat egg whites until foamy, stop and add cream of tarta and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Continue to beat when you see small foam like soap bubbles, then add 40g of sugar to beat. Beat until the mixture forms a fluffy, smooth, elastic peak, then stop. Add 40g of sugar to the egg yolk. Use a mixer until the sugar and yolks are smooth and light in color. Continue to add 55ml of fresh milk into the yolk mixture. Add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, beat well. – Sift 60g of flour into the bowl containing the yolk. Divide 1/3 of the white mixture into the yolk mixture. Mix well by hand and slowly. Finally, put the flour mixture into the cake mold coated with non-stick oil, bake. Bake the cake at 160C for about 40-45 minutes. Step 2: Cream part: Whipping cream in a clean bowl and beat with a whisk from the smallest number to increasing. Whip the cream until it has reached a foamy firmness. Spread the cream evenly over the cake. Step 3: Decorate the cake: – Strawberries, stemmed, cut into slices. – Cut the cake horizontally into 2 equal parts. Then spread a layer of cream in the middle, then arrange strawberries on top, finally arrange the remaining cake core. – Spread the cream around the cake so that it covers the whole cake. Then gently arrange strawberries on the cake to decorate. You can arrange strawberries or slice them. In addition, other fruits such as grapes, oranges, and apples can be added to the cake.

David Garcia makes pizza to bake on lava from the Pacaya volcano in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala on May 11, 2021. Photo: AFP/VNA Guatemala’s Picaya volcano began erupting again in February with a lava flow more than 1km long. Active volcanoes scare a lot of people, but for local resident David Garcia, this is where he came up with a unique idea – baking pizza using the heat from lava flows. That is the reason for the birth of a pizza called “Pizza Picaya”. Following in the footsteps of Mr. Garcia, a 34-year-old auditor, to witness the pizza baking at the foot of Picaya volcano and visit this volcano is an extremely interesting experience. The ingredients for making Picaya pizza are the same as other ordinary pizzas, the main difference is that the special oven is created from lava and the mold can withstand temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. After spreading the dough into a special mold and adding the necessary ingredients such as meat, sausages, cheeses, vegetables, etc., Mr. Garcia placed the molds in the stone cavities with the right temperature for baking. . With high heat in special “ovens”, Picaya pizza is ready to serve guests in less than 15 minutes. Visitors enjoying this cake all feel the strange taste of pizza baked on Picaya volcanic lava. Of course, in order to bake the cake, Mr. Garcia must wear protective gear. David Garcia bakes pizza on lava from the Pacaya volcano in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala on May 11, 2021. Photo: AFP/VNA Mr. Garcia promoted this experiential tourism model in 2014 after he discovered several locations at the base of Picaya volcano that had the ideal temperature for baking pizza. Initially, there were not many customers, but gradually his Pizza shop attracted the curiosity of many people and now everyone who comes to Guatemla knows about Picaya pizza. Even as the Picaya volcano “wake up” and spewed lava over the past several weeks, Mr. Garcia baked cakes directly on the red lava. David Garcia bakes pizza on lava from the Pacaya volcano in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala on May 11, 2021. Photo: AFP/VNA Pacaya, located 2,552 meters above sea level, is one of three active volcanoes out of a total of 32 volcanoes in Guatemala. In addition to this volcano, two other active volcanoes in the country are Fuego in the central region and Santiaguito in the west. Pacaya volcano has erupted since late February, affecting the lives of about 38,000 people in 20 surrounding areas.

Customers buy bread at a shop on Phan Dinh Phung Street, Bien Hoa City. Photo: Huy Anh According to the document, French baguette bread appeared in Hanoi since the early 20th century. Hanoians call it “Western cake” because the cake is made by the French. People from other regions in the country call it “bread” because the baking ingredient is flour. The French baguette has many anecdotes about its origins. It is said that it was made by Napoleon’s baker in the 19th century instead of the previous round loaf for soldiers to carry conveniently. Another anecdote suggests that the baguette originated in Austria, and was introduced to France in 1839 in the form of an oval. There are also people who believe that in the 1890s, French workers in those two regions often fought and used bread knives (old type) as weapons, so the contractor made long bread. need a knife. The French historian Steven Kaplan explained that because the old bread was round, weighing over 1.2kg, it took a few days to finish, so people made baguettes more compact to break and eat during the day, and had a crust to help. delicious. On the other hand, making old-fashioned bread is very laborious and time-consuming, so the new type of cake helps less labor, and the baking time is also shorter. *** In those days, the baguette was long, so no one ate “one loaf” at one time. In addition to the shops, this type of long bread is peddled on the street by charies on motorbikes or bicycles carrying boxes of wheels and all sorts of “spare parts” behind the car. The wheelie box is usually closed in aluminum in an inverted U shape, with a lid, placed on the “boggage” of the vehicle. When stopping to sell, the car is erected with a solid footrest on the rear wheel. On the inverted U-shaped aluminum box, in addition to the loaves of bread, which are still intact or half-cut, are pork skin, chopped and thin roast pork, shumai, pork sausage, spring rolls, coriander, green onions, tomatoes , sliced ​​chili, soy sauce (soy sauce), pickles, sauces, salt and pepper… In 2021, the French Ministry of Culture submitted a dossier to UNESCO to nominate French baguettes as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Buyers can ask to cut the middle or top of the loaf for themselves. Depending on the purchase price, the loaf is cut into one-third or one-quarter length. The cut is usually a 30-45 degree diagonal to the cake body. Many people like to eat simple bread (but is considered to be luxurious) sandwiched with sausage or spring rolls, or fried eggs, pork rub… sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, add coriander stalks. Also a “luxury” with half or whole shumai sandwich with chili slices, chan shumai, can be sprayed with a little soy sauce for flavor. Another “luxury” class is bread with canned fish, usually sardines. If you are poor, you can eat bread with sauce, add a little soy sauce or maybe baguette. Normal and medium is bread filled with meat, tamarind. Street vendors are usually men, but rarely see women. They cut the cake, add the filling according to the customer’s request, before adding the sauce, they often ask “Can you remove the chili?”. Finally, they took a pre-cut piece of newspaper (or old school paper from the student) wrapped around the piece of cake, adding an elastic band to the outside. Receiving money, they always smile for the love of “God”, especially with the children on the way to school. Sweetened condensed milk sandwiches like “Ong Tho Milk” are children’s favorites. Many children also like to make a cup of hot milk and then break the bread to eat it. This way of eating comes from the program of the Ministry of Education that day, providing a light breakfast for elementary school students with bread and milk “Foremost” mixed in a glass. This is also a dish of patients during recovery because it is easy to digest and has nutrients. My childhood was associated with baguettes with tails, skins, chopped roast pork, pickles, sauces and no chili. On days when I had to be treated for illness, I tore bread into small pieces and put it in a glass of milk and then scooped it up with a spoon. The aftertaste of the last part of the cake is rarely mixed with the filling and sauce of ordinary bread, and the sweet aroma of the milk of the sick days at that time, as if still somewhere in me. *** Bread is processed by Vietnamese people in bakeries with the main ingredient being flour (some places add a small percentage of rice flour). After kneading the dough, adding baking powder, the cake is molded into small loaves, the top is covered with a layer of sugar water to create a light yellow color for the crust. Each loaf is also slit from 1-3 lines to allow the dough to expand and the cake after baking has 1-3 “eyes”. French bread served to delegates attending a ceremony to celebrate the Independence Day of the French Republic (July 14) at the Consulate General of France in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Luong Xuan Tuyen Bread now still has a French baguette-style long cake or a smaller baguette, which is limited in some supermarkets (such as Cora before, BigC…). Most bread today makes one serving, about an arm’s length in length. Depending on the bakery and the taste of the eater, there are types of bread with crispy crust, soft and hollow intestines for easy filling; bread “scented with butter”… There are also palm-sized cakes, thin slices… The filling now has butter, cheese spread on the inside of the cake before adding the filling, then the pate, sausage, western style; There are banh lou, Chinese style char siu… In addition, there are also vegetarian sandwiches to meet the needs of vegetarians. Bicycles carrying the rear bread box for sale are almost gone, instead there are bread carts with a metal frame wrapped in aluminum below, three sides of glass on the top for buyers to see. cakes, attractive “stuffing” plates are placed inside. Some bread carts also allow their brand to be painted on the front glass, or a slogan. These bread carts are often located at fixed locations with many visitors such as roadside or market gate, theater… There are also shops where customers eat and sit with decent tables and chairs, specializing in a bread dish, usually is with shumai, sausages and most commonly an “omelette” with one or two eggs, or bread served with beef steak… Many bakeries sell cakes with fillings and water. their own special sauce, put in a paper bag printed with the shop’s brand, with toothpicks or small plastic cups of coke… for customers to “take away”. There is a bakery selling online, delivering goods in the amount of a few dozen loaves, free of “chips” for customers. In tourist areas, they often sell ice cream sandwiches, in the style of ice cream sandwiches in some countries. The cake is a small loaf the size of a palm or bread slices, ice cream is of all kinds depending on the customer’s choice. Recently, bread has also appeared in special forms such as: dragon fruit bread, charcoal bread … but it seems to be just a “movement” item with no signs of lasting long… Besides the popular bread as mentioned, there are also Hamburger bread, sweet worm-shaped bread, bit-cot bread (the old bread is baked again) while chewing while listening to the sound of crispy crispy bread, bread coated with white granulated sugar or cotton wool… Bread appears in parties or in family meals, served with curry, ra-gu… (chicken, duck, goat, beef, ostrich…). At noodle shops, noodle soup has pho or beef noodle soup served with bread. Banh mi is also available in noodle shops, noodle shops, and noodle shops to satisfy some people’s taste, the rest is considered as an “anti-hunger” side dish! *** In 2011, the term “banh mi” written in Vietnamese appeared in the Oxford dictionary with the caption: “A type of bread consisting of a cake with many different ingredients, usually meat, vegetables and chili”. Bread originated from Europe and imported to our country, but today, it has returned to its original origin with a new name, “Vietnamese bread” or “Saigon bread”, in the form of a loaf with filling. just one serving. Vietnamese bread in the US is considered a sandwich of this country. Many “Vietnamese bread” and “Saigon bread” shops have been opened in the capitals of France, England, Germany, etc., showing the attraction of dishes prepared by Vietnamese hands, second only to “Vietnamese noodle soup”. oversea.

Every nearly 4:30 pm, Mr. Phuoc pushes his bread cart to the markets and garment companies near his home to prepare to welcome the first guests. Bread of all kinds of shapes of Mr. Phuoc attracts the curiosity of the people around. Thanks to a predestined business relationship, he was bought by many young people for support, and from 7pm he was out of bread. The 37-year-old boss said that he has been in the business for about 20 years, but has only been engaged with animal bread for 6 years. Improving, accumulating many years as a hired man, Mr. Phuoc has opened a small bakery for about 2 years. Mr. Phuoc has worked as a bread maker for about 20 years. The difficulty of making animal bread Taking advantage of the space in front of the ground floor, Mr. Phuoc opened a small bakery. There are no eye-catching advertising signs, inside only an oven and a few baking tools. As a small business, everything from preparation to sales is done by him. After mixing, the owner rolls the dough into even pieces to shape. From the fine round dough, Mr. Phuoc skillfully molded it into many different shapes. “The shaping stage is the longest. At this time, the worker needs to be patient, careful, with many details, it is difficult to invest time in practice. Usually, I squeeze a baby about 7-8 minutes, ”the 37-year-old owner chatted with reporters while meticulously adjusting the cake. Beautiful bread rolls are baked after many different stages. Mr. Phuoc can shape more than 10 animal models such as dragons, spiders, turtles, crabs … However, he only chooses his favorite models for sale. Each one has its own unique features, but the best-selling models are still crocodiles and horses. These are also the two most difficult pictures to do because they have to cut and graft the dough, it takes more effort. When forming, the dough is incubated for one more hour. It takes almost 2 hours from the first step to the finished product and then 15 minutes of baking on high heat. “With baking, baking time is the most thrilling. Because I thought it was beautiful when I did it, but it didn’t look like I wanted it, it took time to correct it, ”added Mr. Phuoc. With animal-shaped bread, the cake will have a soft intestine when it is finished, but other parts such as the legs and beard are always more crispy or easy to be hard if baked over heat. Strange animal-shaped bread Mr. Phuoc’s baking job started from late evening to early morning in order to make it in time to sell. In the morning, Mr. Phuoc made about 1,500 small loaves of bread. Around 2-3 pm, he continued to bake big cakes, priced from 25,000-70,000 VND depending on the model. “My regular customers are mostly workers and students, so I only sell them at affordable prices for everyone to buy. They also love my bread, they buy it every afternoon. Someone bought them as gifts for their children and grandchildren ”, confided the baker’s owner. Mr. Phuoc often sells in areas near his home. Animal-shaped sandwiches received a lot of attention when he joined the show Challenging comedians season 3 (2016). In his skit, Mr. Phuoc impressed two judges Truong Giang and Tran Thanh with the charming and friendly style of selling bread. “That was the first time I brought animal bread on stage. After the show, my bread was known by many people. One day there were people selling them to the market, they asked for a photo together. Although there are no awards at all, it is also the most memorable memory since entering the profession “, Mr. Phuoc shared. His bread is loved by both children and adults. Minh Thu (23 years old, Binh Tan district) often stops to buy bread from Mr. Phuoc on his way home from work. Two of Thu’s most favorite patterns are the crocodile and the turtle image. Thu said that the intestine of the cake was already soft and fragrant, so just dipping it with a little condensed milk was delicious. “Every afternoon I see the owner selling here. Sometimes when we come out late, we run out of cake. People buy a lot, especially around 5am, ”said Thu. Although not a bread fan, every time I visit, Huynh Trang (25 years old, Binh Tan district) still buys at least 5 loaves because he likes the strange and unique shape. “I bought it for a long time. Every time I came over, I saw Mr. Phuoc making more new ones such as spiders, snakes, crickets… I often bought them for my younger siblings at home to eat together. It was strange, so the kids enjoyed it, ”Trang said.

The profession of making haphazard gear in Xuan Lap commune (Tho Xuan). Referring to the “craft land” Tho Xuan, the traditional profession of making haphazard gears in Trung Lap village, Xuan Lap commune cannot help but mention it. According to local people, in the past, this kind of cake was only made on the full moon day, the death anniversary, the Lunar New Year; However, up to now, harrowing gear is made all year round to serve the needs of consumers and has become a traditional profession that brings stable income for local people. Visiting Do Viet Chung’s family’s haphazard leaf gear making facility, we witnessed the enthusiastic working atmosphere of bakers. The hands of cleverly mixing flour and leaf folding seem simple, but it requires meticulousness in each stage and the secret to create delicious cakes. Mr. Chung said: The rice used to make the cake is a grainy, shiny, fragrant 13/2 rice cultivated by the people of Xuan Lap commune, then soaked in cold water for 2-3 hours and then ground into powdered water. so that the dough is soft and smooth. Next, draining the dough is very important because it requires workers to know how to mix the amount of water in the flour and the amount of salt just right. After mixing the water, go to the kitchen to let the fire burn down, the workers must always stir, so that the dough does not clump, so on until the dough is flexible enough. The leaves for wrapping the haphazard gear are usually fresh banana leaves, neither too young nor too old; Cut banana leaves, wash them, poke all the spine, heat to increase the flexibility of the leaves, cut each leaf to wrap a cake, then wipe clean. The filling consists of minced lean pork shoulder mixed with dried onions, carpentry and seasoning with spices such as pepper, moderate white salt, then sautéed to make the kernel rich and delicious. After completing the preparation stages, the cake will be wrapped. Add a sufficient amount of flour to the banana leaf and place the cake in the middle. Spreading along banana leaves and rolled up, turning the cake gently to make the cake evenly round … Currently, Mr. Chung’s family business sells more than 20,000 cakes per month, earning more than 40 million VND / month . It is known that Xuan Lap commune currently has 240 households producing and trading in harrowing gear; each year supply to the market about 12 million cakes, turnover more than 20 billion / year; create jobs for more than 300 workers, with an average income from 3 to 3.5 million / person / month. Recently, Xuan Lap coarse gear product has been certified by the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee at provincial level 3. In addition to the profession of making harrows, the commune maintains and develops the traditional carpentry profession with products with diverse models; People have boldly invested in scientific and technical applications, purchased modern machines for production and the whole commune has about 50 households participating in production, with turnover from 30 to 50 billion VND / year. A representative of the commune People’s Committee said: In order to sustainably develop traditional occupations, in the coming time, the commune will actively support people to expand and develop in scale and application of scientific and technical advances. into production in order to increase the value of the product to meet the increasingly high demand of the market. To attach importance to activities of supporting vocational training, vocational transmission, skill improvement and job development, which are linked between vocational training institutions and enterprises; vocational training and vocational training establishments; invite specialists in vocational training, vocational training, skills improvement and new job development. Besides, encourage the establishment of cooperatives and cooperative groups in craft villages; mobilize capital sources to promote the application of technical advances and mechanization of a number of production stages; continue preserving and developing occupations that are active and capable of developing; research to introduce a number of new professions and products with advantages in raw materials and consumption markets.

The machine performs everything from kneading, to baking, and filling completely automatically. Customers can observe the baking process through a small glass window. It takes about 3 minutes to make a delicious pizza for guests. Raffaele Esposito, a 19th century Neapolitan who invented Italy’s most famous pizza. This is the most loved cake in Italy and the world, so the first pizza vending machines in the world receive a lot of attention. Customers give their feedback after their experience with this pizza vending machine. Some argue that pizza products are perfectly acceptable in case you are in a hurry. However, there are opinions that this is a ‘horror’ experience. Claudio Zampiga, a retiree, said: “The pizza looks pretty good but it’s much smaller than in a restaurant and has few cores.” Fabrizia Pugliese, a Neapolitan college student, now living in Rome tried the machine-made pizza. Fabrizia Pugliese shared that he didn’t like the pizza from this vending machine because it tasted like “piadina”, a super thin, soft unleavened bread that is very popular in northern Italy. “I don’t think it’s a pizza,” said Fabrizia Pugliese in his judgment. Gina, a customer who is a retiree, said: “It’s horrible. Pizza really has to be eaten hot right away. This machine I don’t see works for myself.” Unique crunchy pizza vending machine in Italy In fact, for many Italians, the classic pizza experience will involve watching and looking at the baking process, from kneading and cooking in a wood-burning brick kiln to the final product release. and. With its current position, “Mr. Go Pizza” machine will face fierce competition to win a part of the market. The reason is that nearby, Napolitano restaurant using brick oven to make cake is very crowded. Giovanni Campana, a local customer, said after taking a bite: “I don’t think I’m going to have a pizza made with a machine” It is said that Esposito created the classic “Pizza Margherita” on June 11, 1889 to welcome Queen Margherita of Savoy, wife of King Umberto I, to visit Naples, Italy. The famous chef used tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil leaves, representing the three colors of the unified Italian flag, red, white and green. Esposito, who made a pizza for the queen 132 years ago will probably agree with the new creation.

From April 15, she switched to online sales, receiving ships within the district due to a blockade order. When preparing items for customers, she came up with the idea of ​​making cakes and tea to donate to the anti-epidemic forces in the area. “I saw that in other areas, many people were given water. There was no similar activity in the place where I lived, I thought I loved them so much, so I decided to make a cake and milk tea for them to eat during lunch break. On the morning of April 22, I had the opportunity to make 30 slots. Because we are busy selling goods, the bakery at home is small, so I can’t do much, ”said Ms. Nhung Zing. 30 sets of cakes and milk tea were given to the police on anti-epidemic duty in Phnom Penh by Nhung and his wife on April 22. Nhung’s husband, a Cambodian and Vietnamese, is on leave so he has time to help and drive his wife to give food by motorbike. “The police in our area besides young people, there are also elderly uncles on duty. Each post has about 5 people on duty. When they received the food, they were surprised, thank you very much and happily took a commemorative photo. I hope people in other regions will follow suit to cheer up the morale of the anti-epidemic forces, ”she said. Just eating a bowl of noodles in time to make 50 sets of cakes and lemon black tea before 12 noon 23/4, Ms. Nhung said: “It takes about 3 hours to finish. The ingredients are available because I also make a salted egg sponge for sale. I do it myself, I don’t like calling or supporting. I can take advantage of a day or that day, but I will try to do as much as I can. Tonight, Nhung and her husband will go to distribute supplies to the homeless. This is their familiar charity activity. Nhung often gives people in need with milk, cakes and canned fish that can be eaten. Meet someone who is poor, she also gives more money. Nhung made cakes by herself and gave them to the anti-epidemic force. From more than a week ago, Ms. Nhung decided to discount 5% of her supermarket items to support people in difficult times. A friend who opened a company that produced N95 masks also asked her to donate 17,500 units to the Ministry of National Defense of Cambodia. According to Nhung, a new outbreak in Cambodia broke out due to people quarantined to go to the bar. Each day this country recorded about 500 new cases, up to 1,590 a day. “I hope you all stay calm and comply with the Cambodian government’s regulations on quarantine. Each executor will make a small contribution to helping this country overcome the difficult period ”, she reminded. Nhung got married and moved to Cambodia to live for more than 3 years. Loving Vietnamese cuisine and wanting to preserve the taste of her homeland, she has opened a restaurant selling vermicelli, shrimp paste, bun cha and many other Vietnamese dishes for nearly 2 years. The raw materials are mainly sent by her biological mother in Thanh Hoa. In addition, the shop is also decorated with bold Vietnamese space with baskets, pines, lotus pots, ceramic bowls, peacock blanket. For an expatriate child, being able to preserve her hometown flavor is a happy thing for Ms. Nhung. Nhung married and settled in Cambodia for 3 years.

Natural deodorant: If you cannot use deodorants, mix banking soda in water and spray it on the skin under the arm. You can get rid of the smell easily. Remedies for itching: Use a mixture of baking soda and water for skin to relieve itchiness caused by insect bites and skin-itchy hairy plants. Heartburn Relief: To get rid of heartburn, you can drink water and baking soda. You can use this recipe: 100 ml water, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon citric acid (or a little lemon juice), 1/2 tablespoon sugar. Skin care: Recipe for lighter skin: 1 tablespoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 4-5 drops tea tree oil. Mix well and apply on face; Recipe to remove blackheads: 1 teaspoon of baking soda, honey 0.5 teaspoon. You can add some vegetable oil. Mix, apply on areas prone to blackheads for 5 minutes, then massage and rinse; Recipe to minimize lines and wrinkles: Mix 2 tablespoons of baking soda with 1 teaspoon of coconut oil. Massage your face thoroughly for 5-7 minutes, then rinse with warm water. Repeat 1-2 times a week. Hair Care: For rapid hair growth, mix 9 tablespoons of water with 3 tablespoons of baking soda. Spray this mixture from the roots to the ends using a spray and massage your scalp. Prepare a mixture of water and apple cider vinegar, then massage the scalp again and rinse. Your hair will become shiny and healthy. Methods to overcome stretch marks: Regular massage with this mixture will make the body’s tissues and cells regenerate faster. Mix 3 tablespoons of baking soda with lemon juice. Massage stretch marks. Breath cleaning and dental plaque removal: Mix 2 tablespoons of baking soda with lemon juice and add half a cup of water. Wash your mouth with this solution if you smell bad. How to fix calluses and remove hand odors: Soaking your hands with banking soda twice a week will help you avoid rough skin on your hands and feet. And if you wash your hands with this water it can get rid of the unpleasant smell of garlic or fish. Remove stains and mildew: Mix 1 part water with 1 part vinegar in a cup. Then mix 3 parts baking soda with 1 part hydrogen peroxide to form a mixture. First, spray the liquid mixture into the tile base and rub vigorously, the stains will be blown away. Refrigerator deodorizer: Just leave a glass of baking soda in the refrigerator for a few days, and the smell of the food in the refrigerator will disappear. Jewelry polish: Mix 3 tablespoons of baking soda with 1 teaspoon of water and beat the jewelry with a toothbrush then rinse with cold water. Abscess treatment: Soak the sore area twice a day for 15-20 minutes with a solution of baking soda, salt, and warm water. Use 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 teaspoon of salt for 1 glass of water. Soothe sunburn: Mix one cup of baking soda in a tub of cool water and take a dip. It will help soothe sunburned skin. Saline solutions and warm water can provide local pain relief.

Just bought 5kg of wild raspberries to soak in syrup for this summer, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Binh in Thai Thinh (Dong Da, Hanoi) said: “Taking advantage of raspberries is in season, what year do I also buy syrup and freeze cake for the whole family to eat because it is not always available. Moreover, this is a clean forest fruit so it is quite safe to not worry about spraying with chemicals or soaking in chemicals ”. This occasion forest raspberries are in full bloom She shared that when she was a child in the countryside, she and her friends went to hunt buffalo and pick ripe red raspberries growing along the road to eat. Even the hand picking is not exhausted because they grow in bushes, almost everywhere around the village. “Now, if you want to re-enjoy the taste of your childhood, you must pay money to buy. Now I buy 5kg of wild raspberries for 750,000 VND, ”she said. Ms. Ngoc Diep – a wholesale dealer specializing in wild raspberries in Lang Son – said that almost every year since March, she also sells this fruit. However, each year there is only one raspberry season, the collection time is relatively short, within about 1.5 months is all. Therefore, everyone takes advantage of buying for the money to accumulate food gradually. In order to have a large quantity delivered to her customers, Mrs. Diep has to buy from the villagers. They go picking in the forests. Every day, she collects 2-3 weights, all of which are ordered first by the customer. The amount returned is not enough to deliver to the customer. Depending on each day, on a rainy day when people cannot pick, she has to appoint a guest to the next trip. This red forest fruit is pouring into Hanoi Shops often sell wild raspberries for between 130,000-200,000 VND / kg “At the beginning of the season, the price of wild raspberries was 70,000 VND / kg, now in the big harvest I pour wholesale to traders for 55,000 VND / kg. Customers buy less each time about 10kg, more they buy 30-40 kg to make syrup, freeze to make jam, make cakes to eat or sell all year round, she said. Ms. Tran Thi Hong – a clue selling various kinds of specialties in Nguyen Xien (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) – added that in recent weeks, wild raspberries are in season, the fruit is ripe, red, and juicy, eating well. sweet so the goods are expensive like hot cakes. Today about 40kg, now only 1-2kg left. This is the second year Ms Hong sells this fruit. According to her, wild raspberries are found in many places, often growing wild in the hills, along the road and in the forests. In particular, concentrated in the Northwest provinces such as Hoa Binh, Son La, Lang Son, Lao Cai, … Therefore, she had to go to collect. However, this fruit is not available all year round, but only one season, from March to the end of April. Because it is picked from a tree growing in the wild, the fruit will be mixed, small and uneven, like planted rows. Many people take advantage of buying raspberries to soak in syrup to make drinks in the summer “Currently I retail for 150,000 VND / kg, get more from 5kg priced 135,000 VND / kg. I have to collect enough quantity and sell it to get red because this fruit is easy to crush and quickly spoil. One trip every 1-2 days, ”she said. Ms. Hai Yen – a dealer selling wild raspberries in Trieu Khuc (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) – shared, compared to Dalat raspberries, the price ranges from 350,000 to 600,000 VND / kg, the price of wild raspberries is only 1/3 . But this is also considered a high price compared to many other fruits. In particular, this forest fruit is always in a state of fire, and cannot be sold. In recent years, raspberries have many good health benefits such as anti-aging, weight loss, prevention of cardiovascular diseases and many vitamins, … so this fruit is more and more popular. favorite, looking to buy when the season comes. Raspberries have a slightly sour, cool taste that can be eaten directly, made in smoothies, syrups or processed in other dishes, creating color for foods. However, transportation is relatively difficult because the fruit is easily crushed, so she sells it to regular customers in the city, said Yen.

Ms. Duyen (Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi) said she started to sell five-color floating batter on the internet market a week ago, with a very affordable price, 50,000 VND / set. Although the product is cheap, but because many customers prefer to order, she still has great profit. Five-color floating cakes are sold on the internet market. (Screenshots) According to Duyen, her five-color floating cake flour is milled from standard yellow flower sticky rice. In particular, the color of the powder is mixed with natural colors from food, safe for users. For example, green powder mixed from sticky leaves, mixed red from the color of Gac fruit. Purple powder color is mixed from the color of the leaves. The yellow powder color is mixed with the color of turmeric, while the white color is the original sticky rice. Sticky rice flour set with sugar, sesame, coconut. (Photo: Facebook) Each clay cake dough clay will include 1kg of 5-color flour, sugar, coconut and sesame. Buyers can store in the freezer. When making a cake, just thaw it. Ms. Ngoc (Ha Dong, Hanoi) shares: “ This year, many people sell a set of five-color floating cake dough with all colors and ingredients to make the cake float quite convenient. Instead of buying white driftwood dough, I ordered two sets of five colored driftwood dough. One set to do business today, the other set to store the freezer in order to arrive on the correct Korean New Year to make dishes to burn ancestors’ incense. “. Five-color floating cake flour costs 50,000 – 55,000 VND / set. (Photo: Facebook) The five-color floating cake dough is not only convenient, eye-catching, but the price is also reasonable, so it is very attractive. Ms. Linh (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) revealed that in recent days, there were many orders of five-color floating cake dough. Many customers order to make cakes from now on, some customers also pre-order until the 3rd March of the Lunar New Year to deliver. The eye-catching five-color floating plate. (Photo: Facebook) Due to the sudden increase in guests, Ms. Linh plans to hire more women from next week to meet the needs of customers in the days close to the real Korean New Year.

It was Cooc Mò, a strange sounding name. The cakes are lovely, fancy but hidden deep inside are the quintessence of traditional culinary culture of a part of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region – the Tay, Nung … Sticking with the childhood of many children here, and then enduring until today. The small and pretty cakes are very popular with the kids Coming to Chiem Hoa, Tuyen Quang, the people here are no stranger to this cake. According to the people here, Cooc Mo in Tay language means cow horn (Cooc is horn, Mo is cow) is simply a cake with a spike like a cow’s horn. Simple as that, but once you try it, you will definitely remember forever by the rich and fragrant flavor of sticky rice and green beans or red peanuts. To get the fragrant and fragrant cakes is a whole process of wrapping people. From the process of selecting rice, choosing the seeds and leaves to wrap the cake to the way of arranging the leaves and tying the cake. Cooc Co cake is wrapped in dong or banana leaf. The people here choose green leaves that are not torn or damaged. Leaves are taken and washed, drained. Next is the process that requires the baker’s meticulousness that is splitting and making wrapping wire. The cake package is split from a Giang or Mo tree. These plants are soft, chewy and unbroken. The satisfactory grade is to be evenly small and soft so that the leaves do not tear when the package is cut. But today many people replace the split cloth with ropes for more convenience. Rice to make cakes must be fragrant glutinous glutinous rice, the seeds are milky and round. When ripe, there is a certain plasticity that is neither too sticky nor dry. After careful selection, the sticky rice is rinsed with water several times until the water is clear. Continue soaking the rice for many hours until the rice is soft. Rice meets standards, when lightly squeezed, the rice kernels will break apart. At that time, the baker will pick up the rice to drain it, then mix it with crushed green beans (or red peanuts) and add a little salt to taste. Wanting to make lovely and delicious cakes, in addition to choosing ingredients, also requires the ingenuity and meticulousness of the mothers in wrapping the cake. The process of wrapping the cake not only determines the aesthetics of the cake, but the way of wrapping it also affects the “deliciousness” of this cake. The green leaves are rolled up like a funnel, then pour the mixed rice and beans inside, gently pat the outside to let the rice down evenly or use a small chopstick to compress the rice, then fold the edge of the leaves and use plain Interlink. The hands deftly fold the leaves like artisans perfecting their artworks. Only when witnessing with their own eyes, people can see admiration for human creativity and even more delight in their hand movements. The leaves are folded into a funnel shape, and the baker will slowly pour the rice and pat it until the rice is tight enough The quality of the wrapped cake is when there are neat corners, the leaves are wrapped tightly and tied tightly enough. Ms. Ma Thi Dung, a Tay ethnic minority in Ban Rua, Chiem Hoa, Tuyen Quang shared: “The way of wrapping this cake is quite special, and not everyone can pack it well, must be skillful people. For those who are new to wrapping, they may have to fumble about a dozen cakes before they can wrap them up. According to her, the experience of making Cooc Mo cake is that when tying the cake, it should not be tied too tightly, it will make the leaves tear, the rice grain cannot bloom, it is easy to be embarrassed and not flexible. If forced loosely, the cake is absorbed much water, it is easy to be sticky and not delicious. After wrapping, the cake is soaked in cold water until the water surface does not appear, then the cake has absorbed enough water, so it will cook quickly and evenly. After finishing wrapping, the cake will be threaded into pairs or small bunches, put in a pot to boil for about two hours and the cake is cooked. Cooc Mo cake, when ripe, has the light green color of the banana leaves, the soft taste, the pure aroma of the high mountain fields. Finished wrapping, filled with water and boiled for about 2 hours Although the cake does not have a filling, the more you chew it, the more you can feel the aroma, fat, and flexibility hidden in each sticky grain. Depending on the taste of each person, the cake can be dipped with sesame salt or the sweet lover can eat the Cooc Mo cake with honey or the diameter is also very delicious. The cake comes with different kinds of dipping food depending on the preferences of each person The current Cooc Mo in Tuyen Quang has become an indispensable cake in the people’s life not only for children but also for adults. “In the past, on the occasion of the full moon festival in March, July, people used to pack this cake, nowadays, the family often packs Cooc Mo cake on a regular basis. Everyone likes to eat, so almost every house knows the package now. ” – Ms. Dung happily shared. Cooc Mo today is not only a folk food but has become a beautiful memory growing up with many childhoods. In the children’s memories here, cake is an invaluable gift that mothers often bring when shopping. This is a food used to celebrate the new rice, rewarding children in the area when obeying. During the day of the cradle, the Tay and Nung also use this specialty with the meaning of wishing the baby to grow up and be healthy. Not only famous in Tuyen Quang but in other localities such as Bac Kan, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, … this cake is very “loved” by all diners. Although each region will have changes in taste, but Cooc Mo cake represents the culinary quintessence of Tay and Nung people all over the country. Enjoy the piece of cake, all of the local wind blends together to create a rustic, close flavor with a very distinctive mark of the mountainous people. Each childhood memory rushed back into the hearts of every child, especially with the expatriate children. Come to think of it, I feel “crave” to enjoy this wonderful cake.

Ms. Thuy in Hoang Mai, Hanoi – a small trader selling ant eggs on her personal facebook-said: “Every day in addition to all kinds of worm cake, cassava cakes in the highlands, I also sell about 300 more interesting egg tarts. called as muffin cake. These are the cakes made by their parents and children in Cao Bang. Therefore, the cake is very delicious and typical of the Cao Bang people ”. This trader said that the ants egg cake is not available for sale all year round, although it is very expensive. Ant eggs are usually available in the 2-3 months of lunar month every year This special cake is considered the specialty of the Tay people in Cao Bang, Bac Kan. The main ingredient of the cake is the ant eggs. Because of this dependence on this special ingredient, it is only possible to make cakes from the beginning of April to the end of May of the solar calendar year, equivalent to from the end of February to the end of the third lunar month. This is the period of strongest growth of the forest black ants. Ms. Thuy revealed, as the name of the cake, the main ingredient to make the ant’s egg cake is the young egg of the ant. The cake is made of glutinous rice flour, filled with ant eggs, wrapped with young leaves of the fig tree. In addition to simple ingredients, the process of making ant eggs is not too fussy. Young ant eggs are the size of rice grains, milky white from the forest and will be washed, non-fragrant with dried onions. “Many families add some minced pork, crushed roasted peanuts and a few small palanquin leaves mixed with ant eggs and onions. But our family only filled ant eggs with palanquin leaves, did not mix with pork or other ingredients, ensuring delicious cake, traditional Cao Bang ant egg cake “, Ms. Thuy said. So the ant egg cake is only available for 1-2 months The cake crust is wrapped from glutinous rice flour that has been kneaded and thinned. Then, put that piece of glutinous rice powder into a fig leaf, sprinkle the filling on the cake dough, finally put the next piece of fig leaf on the surface of the cake. The cake is steamed for about 45 to 50 minutes in a water bath. When eating ant eggs, people peel the fig leaves (honey-leaf leaves) wrapped outside if the cake has 2 layers of leaves. If the cake has a layer of leaves, you can always eat this leaf. Buying cakes just need to preserve the refrigerator, when eating and steaming, there are instant cakes. “This type of cake can be eaten hot or cold depending on the taste because you can feel its own delicious taste every way. In addition to the soft taste of sticky rice, the soft taste of fig leaves, diners also feel the fatty taste of the cake made from ant eggs “, Thuy shared. The typical ethnic cake in Bac Kan and Cao Bang is being sold by Ms. Thuy for 60,000 VND / 5 cakes, 120,000 VND / 10 cakes. Packed with young fig leaves, when eaten can eat the whole leaf wrapped cake “Customers who order egg ants are mainly from the city because of their exotic and delicious cakes. If they eat less, they deposit 10 to try them. Eat more, they buy a few stakes to eat gradually. Sales but I still recommend, women who are allergic to pupae, bees should consider before eating this kind of cake ”, Ms. Thuy noted. As a person who has been to Bac Kan many times in May of solar calendar, Mrs. Thu Hoa in La Khe, Ha Dong, Hanoi many times has enjoyed this interesting ant egg cake. This year, because she could not go to Bac Kan, Hoa saw a small trader selling this kind of cake online immediately ordered 3 piles of cakes (10 each) to the whole restaurant. “I eat this kind of cake a lot so I know well, not all ant eggs are selected for baking. Bac Kan people only find big black ants to nest on branches and high cliffs because eggs are usually delicious and clean. Our whole family is addicted to eating this kind of cake, “said Hoa.

Although there are 5 days to go to Han Thuc New Year (March 3 of lunar calendar), but these days, Chau Yen’s family in Ham Nghi, My Dinh, Hanoi has always accepted and made floating cakes, vegetarian cakes returned. menu for guests. Continuing the family’s traditional profession for more than 20 years, Chau Yen’s family is launching a variety of cakes to serve the needs of Hanoi housewives. If her family makes snacks on a regular basis such as egg cake, mushroom chicken cake, cheese cake, char siu cake, salted egg cake, dumplings … then on the full moon day, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the grandmother This skillful assistant turned to making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, and peach nectar dumplings to sell to customers to buy home to worship at home. On the days of approaching Han Thuc New Year, Chau Yen’s family was busy preparing a large amount of cake dough to serve customers. Photo: NVCC To serve the great needs of customers, every year, about 4-5 days before the Han Thuc New Year, this woman advertises on her personal facebook and online market groups to receive orders. And every time she sells floating cake dough, vegetarian cake, her family receives the trust of many customers. “ My family has been making cakes for more than 20 years, so it has a very stable number of patrons. New customers also believe in a lot. Therefore, in addition to retail customers who are families, online customers, our home also has many kindergartens, many companies in Hanoi order biscuits or cooked cakes to enjoy “ , Chau Yen said. Because of the stable number of patrons, even though nowadays, many office sisters have switched to selling online, but Chau Yen’s house is still full of customers. Serving for about 4-5 days selling flour, vegetarian, her family sells about 6 quintals of flour these days. The set of floating cake dough, vegetarian cake is made entirely from natural ingredients. Photo: NVCC “ Usually 4-5 days before the Han Thuc Tet holiday, I start to sell biscuits as well as sell cooked cakes. This year, Han Eclipse New Year’s Day falls on a weekday, so raw dough is ordered by many companies, kindergartens, and families to make weekends. Therefore, in the days before the Han Eet Festival, I sold about 1 quintal of floating rice flour, vegetarian food / day. On the second day of the third day of the lunar calendar, every year I can sell 2-3 quintals of flour / day. On the 3rd of the 3rd lunar month, about 3 quintals of flour will be sold. In general, for a few days of serving Han Food Festival, our family has to sell at least 6 quintals of raw and cooked cake flour “, Ms. Chau Yen shared. According to the merchant selling floating cakes and vegetarian cakes in this long-standing Han Thuc Tet holiday, this year, the set of floating cakes and cooked vegetarian cakes will sell more customers than raw cake dough on the 3rd of the third lunar month: “ This year, due to the fact that the Korean Lunar New Year falls on a weekday, many families, companies and schools will order floating cakes and cooked vegetarian cakes to eat because there is no time to make them. So our house that day will mobilize about 10 people to work to serve this great demand of customers “ . This year, floating cakes, cooked vegetarian cakes are expected to have more customers to buy because the Han Thuc New Year falls on the 4th day of the week. Photo: NVCC According to Ms. Chau Yen, in the days before the Han Thuc New Year, her family of 6 adults always worked hand-in-hand to serve customers. However, from the 3rd of 3rd of the third lunar month, every year, her family has to hire 3-4 more bakers to pay the customer application: “In general, 10 people always have to do their best. new capacity to make and sell. Because these days, the number of customers ordering cakes is too crowded “. Currently, a set of white drifting cakes is being sold by Ms. Chau Yen for 35,000 VND / kg. White drifting powder set including sugar, sesame, coconut is sold for 50 thousand VND / kg. White vegetarian cake flour set includes white flour, sugar float, sesame, green bean fried with coconut, powdered sugar for cooking vegetarian cake, fresh coconut is sold for 65 thousand dong / kg. Particularly, the set of five-color floating cake flour is sold at a slightly higher price from 5-15 thousand VND / kg. In addition to the floating cake dough set, Chau Yen’s family also sells all kinds of vegetarian floating cakes for 50,000 VND / pair. Drift boat vegetarian cake is sold for 30 thousand VND / bowl. Banh float, vegetarian on Han Thuc New Year are ordered by many kindergartens. Photo: NVCC “ All prices for bakery powders or pastries are clearly and publicly quoted. Customers who order can freely refer to before ordering. In particular, all the ingredients for making floating cakes, our vegetarian cakes are made from 100% natural ingredients from yellow flower sticky rice, brown sugar, grated coconut, and sesame seeds. As for the five-color floating cakes, they are made with natural food colors from leaves and tubers, so they are both eye-catching and delicious “ This person insists.

The 3rd March of the lunar calendar every year is the real Korean New Year. According to the traditional custom, on this day, a tray of rice to worship ancestors is indispensable. The symbolic meanings are cold – welded foods. Resources: 1 kg of wet powder. Then divide 5 parts of flour to create different colors, 200g each color on average. Pumpkin pieces 300 g, squeeze the juice to form a yellow powder 1 teaspoon of Gac intestines to form red 300 grams of glutinous leaves, squeezed to get water to create a green color 100 ml of purple camellia forms purple. 100 ml of pea pea tea (about 10 petals) to form a pea green color In addition, people can make the beetroot pink powder, the dark kakao color, and the brown cocoa color. Street. How to make the powder color: With purple camellia leaves, dried avocado flowers, people boil cold water mixed with glutinous flour and hang it in cloth bags to dry to mold the cake. With Gac, cocoa powder, people mix with glutinous flour. As for pumpkin, glutinous leaves, and beetroot, people squeeze the juice and mix it with glutinous flour. Note: When making dough colors, everyone should darken the color from light to dark. To do that, when the dough is dough, people have to let dry towels soak in to absorb the water and then knead for the second time, the third time until the boiling test turns to the color, stop. How to make the five-color floating cake: Step 1: After you have the desired color powder, people divide the sugar into equal pellets. Step 2: Take each part of the dough, press flat, put the sugar ball in the middle and then roll the dough to round, wrap around. Step 3: Boil a pot of water on the stove, drop the powdered pellets to boil again, when you see the dough floating, leave for 2 minutes to cook. Take out the cakes and drop them in a bowl of cool water to prevent them from sticking. About 5 minutes later, take out the cake to drain and place it on a plate. Step 4: Put the five-color cake on a plate, add sesame seeds on top of the cake, sprinkle with grated coconut on top and offer. Variation of fried floating cakes, floating cakes with fresh coconut fillings for real Korean New Year If you are tired of the familiar boiled float cake, you can try making a strange fried floating cake or a floating cake filled with a little sweet coconut to change its taste on the occasion of Korean New Year. Although the traditional floating cake has its own delicious taste, if you want, you can still customize the unique recipes from this cake. Here is how to make fried floating cakes and fresh coconut floating cakes for your reference: How to make fried floating cakes: Resources: Boiled float cake Crispy fried dough Processing: If the cake floats in the refrigerator, put it in the boil again. Be sure to use your chopsticks to gently separate the floating balls so they don’t stick together. After boiling, let the cake float into cold water. Roll each cake evenly through the fried dough. Heat oil in a saucepan (not old heat, only up to 6 parts). Let the cake float and fry over low or medium heat. Fry until golden brown. Because the cake is cooked, it does not need to be fried for too long, it will infuse the oil and crush it. Pick up the cake on oil blotting paper to remove excess oil and enjoy. The outside is crispy, soft inside, has a strange taste and delicious, making sure many people like it. How to make the cake floating with the fresh coconut less sweet Resources: 500 g of ready-made dough drifting cake 200 g of fresh copra 30g cooked sesame seeds Curettage coconut White sugar, vanilla Processing: Fresh copra peel the outer shell, cut into small square balls (the same size as sugar cube). Blanch fresh coconuts through boiling water, rinse to remove the coconut oil. Let the fresh coconut marinate with a little sugar and vanilla for 1 hour to make the coconut taste sweet and fragrant. If you like darker sweet than you can snail coconut with medium heat to let the coconut taste. Take a small piece of flour, add the freshly prepared coconut, round the cake. Do it in turn until all the flour and filling are gone. (If you like, you can add color powder to the powder to look beautiful) Bring the water to a boil, gently drop each floating ball into the cake. Wait for the cake to cook, float it out then take it out, soak it in a bowl of cold water. (It is recommended to add a few ice cubes and a little oil in the bowl of soaking water to make the cake shiny and not melt or crush.) Use the patch to pick up the cake and arrange it on a plate, sprinkle with sesame (grated coconut as you like) and enjoy.

The real Korean New Year (March 3 of the lunar calendar) is coming, these days, the market for floating cakes, vegetarian cakes and baking ingredients is quite exciting. On this occasion, Vietnamese people always keep the custom of making floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to worship their ancestors. This is an opportunity for children and grandchildren to look to the roots of the tradition of “when drinking water, remember its source”. According to a survey of PV, at markets in Hanoi such as Nhon market, Xanh market, Nghia Tan market, … small businesses have sold a lot of raw materials to serve people. In addition, in the toad markets, the sidewalk stalls also have many points selling flour and drift cake. Fresh glutinous rice flour makes cakes float, vegetarian cakes are being sold quite aggressively. These flour packages include all ingredients such as flour, sugar, green bean filling, sesame seeds, grated coconut, canned five-color cake … Customers just have to mold, shape to their liking and boil it. Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are more diverse in colors. Not only is the traditional white color but also purple, green from pineapple, red from Gac, yellow from gardenia. The atmosphere of the real Korean New Year is more exciting when there are households selling floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to set up a “field kitchen” to cook cakes on the sidewalk. Their tools are quite simple, just a mini gas stove or a honeycomb charcoal stove can produce fragrant, hot cakes. Ms. Nguyen Thanh Huong, a longtime vegetarian cake maker at Nghia Tan market shared: “In addition to selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, my family also sells five-color cakes and cheesecakes to serve the needs of customers. On the days of close to the Korean New Year, due to the sudden increase in the number of visitors, I had to mobilize my husband, children and brothers to help grind the flour, divide the flour, pack, mold, and boil the cake to deliver it to customers in time “. In general, the market serving the real Korean New Year this year is very diverse. In addition to vegetarian cakes, floating cakes, the market also appears modern drifting cakes such as salted egg cakes, chocolate cakes, funny shaped cakes … is preferred by consumers. New in the market of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes this year are convenient cake sets, cakes are available, frozen, users just need to boil them to use them immediately. As a careful buyer, Ms. Bay (Nghia Tan) shared: “Now the floating cake has many eye-catching colors, it looks very beautiful, but there is a mixture of five-color flour. Personally, I am only afraid of the color powder, so I only like the traditional white color, if I do not know the origin, I do not buy “. Therefore, when buying products, customers should choose reputable suppliers to ensure food safety and hygiene. The real Korean New Year is coming very close, instead of displaying a full platter, each family only needs to respectfully offer floating cakes, vegetarian meals to the family family, pray together for good and peaceful things in life./ .

Life is busy, many people choose to buy these cakes at markets, supermarkets, shops … but also many families buy materials for processing by themselves. Making cakes by hand not only shows sincerity and increases solidarity, but also helps children in the family understand more about the culture and customs of the Vietnamese people. Floating cake for real Korean New Year. Photo: VietNamNet Readers Let’s refer to how to make floating cakes, standard vegetarian cakes through the guidance of culinary artist Pham Anh Tuyet below: According to the elite culinary arts, the main characteristic of the real Korean New Year is making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, in the past, the elders added cakes (shaped like a ball). Ms. Anh Tuyet said that making vegetarian cakes and floating cakes are very simple. But to do well requires a sophisticated and elaborate way of processing. First of all, the ingredients for floating cakes and vegetarian cakes must be sticky yellow flowers, fragrant. We soak, drain and then bring to grind into flour. Every nine parts sticky rice for a part or two parts immature. After fine grinding, we cover the plastic bag, hang it up for 1 day, the water will run down all, at that time the powder remains. The cake is floating by sugar. The best sugar to make floating cake is Duong Lieu, Cat Que street, square pieces of sugar, sharp, crimson, solid and crunchy, with a cool aroma. The cake is finished, placed in a pot of boiling water. The cake sinks and floats. We take it out and soak it in boiled water to cool it down for hunting again, then take it out to serve on a plate. Floating cake plate is sprinkled with some fragrant roasted white sesame seeds. Vegetarian cakes are also made of glutinous rice flour and kneaded with water and filled with filling, but filled with green beans with the skin, especially green green beans. Thus, the new kernel is delicious and fragrant, with less broken seeds. Beans used to make the cake are like pepper beans, small seeds, fragrant; is steamed until cooked, finely pounded, mixed with white diameter. We soak green beans, peel them, drain them, and put them into things. When the items are on high heat, the beans are soft and soft. After that, the worker started pounding and stir-frying with sugar. Coconut, choose old coconut, shredded, stir-fried with green beans, mixed with vanilla. When making vegetarian cakes, we note the recipe for 2 parts, 1 part filling. Finally we bring to boil. Take out, we put in boiling water to cool, finally take out the vegetarian cake and put it in the bowl. Whenever you put the vegetarian cake in the bowl, you have to take your thumb, press the bowl once, creating a dent. The last step is to add a little bit of tea and sugar mixed with melon powder or tapioca flour marinated with grapefruit flowers. Especially, with the cuisine of the old Hanoi people, every March is the season of pomelo flowers, so when making vegetarian cakes for the real Korean New Year, there must be grapefruit flowers with tapioca flour. The finished product must have a sweet taste, a cool aroma of grapefruit flower when eaten. The elite culinary artist Anh Tuyet added: “Like the people of Hanoi in the past, the Han Thuc Tet Festival must have floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. the 5th day of the 5th of lunar year (Tet to kill insects). Because only in March, there will be pomelo flowers, so floating cakes, vegetarian cakes of the Korean New Year are actually marinated with grapefruit flowers, but on May 5, there will not be. Present floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to the ancestors worship committee, expressing their sincerity, praying for peace and also commemorating the deceased. Le Phuong (synthetic)

As noted by PV, right from the early morning, many vegetarian cake drifting shops opened. On the sidewalk of Ngo Thi Nham street (Hanoi, people in the capital line up in a long queue to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes at the shop that is praised for having the “best in Hanoi”. It takes about 30-40 minutes for each customer to wait in line before they can buy it. “Every year I line up to buy cakes here from the early morning. I also want to buy delicious cakes, I also go home early to light incense so that I can go to work in time,” shared Ms. Huyen (Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi). It is known that cake prices this year also do not increase compared to other years, on average, vegetarian cakes cost 20,000 VND / bowl, floating cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate. Mr. Thanh, the owner of this famous vegetarian cake shop, said, “I have to mobilize the whole family to teach from an early age to serve everyone. On this day, customers are crowded from early morning to almost dawn, so the whole family is ready to serve everyone. Always have no time to rest “. Video: People in the capital line up to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes from the morning Right from the early morning of the real Korean New Year (March 3 of the lunar calendar), vegetarian rice cakes were sold on the streets as well as in Hanoi markets. From the big street to the small street, from the big market to the small market, people are always busy with buyers and sellers. At Ngo Thi Nham Street, many people lined up from 5-6 am to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. It takes about 30-40 minutes for each customer to wait in line before they can buy it. It is known that the price of cake this year has not increased compared to every year … … on average vegetarian cakes cost 20,000 VND / bowl, floating cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate Many people flock to this store to own delicious cakes. Mr. Thanh, the owner of the restaurant, said that he had to mobilize his family, and even stayed up all night in time to make enough cakes to sell to everyone on this day. Ready-to-cook dough for making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes right on the sidewalk. Traditionally, to have the best dough, the baker often soaked sticky rice to bloom, stirred it with a little salt and then brought it to smooth grinding, ensuring flexibility, not cracking. The cake floats into small balls, the inside is red sugar. The vegetarian cake is round and flat, in which there are beans. After kneading, they will be put in a pot of water to boil the cake. On this Korean New Year, there are shops that sell thousands of plates, even a few thousand dishes of vegetarian cakes.

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.

Ms. Huong, a small trader selling floating cake flour, longtime vegetarian cakes in Ha Dong market, shared that she often sells spring rolls and chicken cereal every day. But on occasions such as the full moon of January, the Han Thuc New Year, her family took advantage of selling floating dough and fresh vegetarian cakes. “My house has been sold here for many years, so it has a certain number of patrons. Moreover, Ha Dong market is a central market, with a lot of people around here, so every afternoon comes a crowded market. Not to mention, on the 3rd March of the lunar calendar, most families still keep the custom of making floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to make offerings to their ancestors. Because of that, my house is always full of customers these days, ”Ms. Huong said. In the evening before the real Korean New Year, people still take advantage of buying flour to make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. (Photo: Thao Nguyen) Many people remain loyal to the traditional white sticky rice powder. (Photo: Thao Nguyen) Thanks to that, many small businesses can sell even weights on this Tet holiday. (Photo: Thao Nguyen) This small trader said that the vegetarian cake dough is made entirely from fresh glutinous rice flour. In addition, Ms. Huong also sells other ingredients such as sugar filling, green bean paste, sesame seeds, grated coconut … Customers who buy just shape as they like, then bring the boiled dough to have a plate of cake. drifting, delicious vegetarian cake. Ms. Huong confided that a day earlier, and on the Han Thuc New Year, every day, her family sold about 2 quintals of flour to make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes. “On the 1st, my family sold 1 quintal of flour, on the second day, we sold 2 quintals. On the 3rd, my family plans to sell 2 more quintals of flour. This year, the 3rd March of the lunar calendar falls on a weekday, everyone still has to go to work. But because baking is very fast, the ingredients are simple and complete, so most families still buy flour to make incense in the early morning or evening, ”she said. In addition to selling floating cake flour and perennial vegetarian cakes at Ha Dong market, Ms. Huong’s family also sells ready-made sticky rice and chicken offerings to serve the needs of customers. So on this occasion, to serve customers quickly, she had to mobilize the whole family to sell goods so that customers did not have to wait long. Although there are no stalls to sell like Ms. Huong, but Ms. Le Thi Nghi, another small merchant, always sells floating cakes and vegetarian cakes at a corner of Ha Dong market. In addition to glutinous rice flour, housewives often buy more sugar, coconut, sesame seeds, … (Photo: Thao Nguyen) These are indispensable ingredients when making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. (Photo: Thao Nguyen) Ms. Nghi shared that, although she does not sell regular goods at the market, every year she also sells floating cake flour and vegetarian cakes. Although nowadays, there are many eye-catching types of floating five-color floating cakes, floating cakes with funny shapes, but the floating dough and traditional white vegetarian cakes are still popular with many people. She explained, many customers are still afraid that the five-color powder available at online stores contains color products, which do not ensure food safety and hygiene and are difficult to control the origin. Therefore, customers in local markets still like to buy the traditional white vegetarian pastry pastry flour. A kilogram of white floating cake flour in Ha Dong market is currently priced at 35,000 VND. If customers want to buy more sugar cane, sesame, fresh coconut, green bean paste, vegetarian cake cooking water, depending on their needs, they will have to pay about 15,000-30,000 VND more to have enough ingredients to make floating cakes. Ms. Hoang Thi Van from Le Hong Phong (Ha Dong, Hanoi) this afternoon, coming home from work, went to Ha Dong market to buy 2kg of flour for making floating cakes, and vegetarian cakes to worship the Han Thuc Tet holiday. “I bought 2 kg of fresh white sticky rice powder for 70,000 VND and another 30,000 VND to buy some sugar cane, sesame, fresh coconut, green bean paste. I put the glutinous dough in the fridge and soon tomorrow, all I have to do is get up and squeeze it and boil it. Due to the early morning of the 3rd March of the lunar calendar, the market was very crowded, so she took the opportunity to buy it right from the evening before. This year, although the vegetarian cake flour market has many designs and colors, Ms. Van is still loyal to the traditional white dough of a longtime cake stall to ensure food safety.

As noted by PV, on streets and markets in Hanoi, small merchants sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients very early to serve the people.

This year, the real Korean New Year falls on Wednesday, so the housewives also get up early to buy floating cakes, and offer them to the family altar.

From the big street to the small street, from the big market to the toad market, people are always busy with buyers and sellers.

There are also a number of people who are not in the profession, but take advantage of the large facade and available cooking space to make vegetarian cakes for profit.

Ms. Hoa, who sells floating cakes at Nghia Tan market, shared: “The Korean New Year is really a special holiday of the year. Knowing I make cakes for sale, the sisters in the two paternal and maternal families also joined in to help. I love this traditional cultural beauty, so I just like the white cake to serve visitors and the people around “.

To prepare for the main holiday, Ms. Hang (Hanoi) and everyone in her family decided to make cakes overnight. “My sisters and I stayed up all night making cakes. Because this year Korean New Year really does not fall on a weekend, we have to take advantage of making it so that customers order cakes early, then they even take advantage of work to make it in time. “, Ms. Hang shared.

As noted, the shopping atmosphere at the local markets is much more bustling than this day.

Every row of floating cakes must have up to 2-3 people to serve.

Everyone hurriedly took advantage of buying ceremonies early in the morning so that they could work on time.

Carrying armpit bags carrying large and small bags of floating cakes, vegetarian food.

The set of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes have been cooked, customers just need to buy and arrange them to the altar.

According to research, the price of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are still the same price compared to normal days. A plate of floating cake costs 10,000-15,000 VND depending on the size of the plate. Vegetarian cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate.

With five colors drift cake will cost 20,000 VND / plate.

In addition to buying floating cakes and boiled vegetarian cakes, many housewives also buy ready-made cake dough to go home to cook for themselves.

The batches of cakes are continuously made evenly by the small trader to provide for customers.

Every Korean New Year is the same, despite the hard work, everyone, everyone in the family is always trying to make this holiday special, gather with family, join in the direction of the roots and express their sincerity. respect to the deceased./.

From the early morning of April 14 (the 3rd of the third lunar month), on the streets and markets in Hanoi, small merchants sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients to serve. citizen.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are all made from fragrant sticky 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.

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.

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.

At a shop on Ngo Thi Nham street (Hai Ba Trung), people waited in a long queue to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship.

With the mindset of wanting to buy delicious cakes to burn incense, many customers have to wait about 30-40 minutes for their turn.

Mr. Pham Xuan Thanh, the owner of the restaurant, shared that he and his family members got up at 3 a.m. to make cakes, in time to serve the people. On this day, customers are crowded from early morning to dusk, so the whole family is always in time to rest.

At the Hang Be market (Hoan Kiem), the business is also busy. Floating cakes are made on the spot, when the buyer needs, the shop will squeeze the dough to do more.

On average, vegetarian cakes cost 20,000 VND / bowl, floating cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate.

Floating cake stall, vegetarian cake at Phung Khoang market.

This year, the market for floating cakes and vegetarian cakes has also been created with many eye-catching colors by the sellers. A bakery trader at Ha Dong market said: This year, she mixed the flour with the colors of vegetables, roots, fruits such as Gac, sticky leaves, and mint leaves, for making cakes float, vegetarian cakes more lively. color, usually 5 colors corresponding to 5 colors of the five elements of feng shui. The prices of colored bakery products are also more expensive than those of white cakes.
The price for each plate, cup of white cake is from 7,000 – 10,000 VND / plate, cup, depending on the market and the plate is big or small. If the cake is colored, it will be more expensive from 3,000 – 5,000 VND / plate and cup.
In addition to selling cakes, small businesses also sell flour and the accompanying ingredients such as broken sugar, green beans, grated coconut, and roasted sesame seeds. Each kg of flour with accompanying ingredients is priced from 65,000 – 70,000 VND.

In this day, people in addition to buy or make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes also cook bee tea, or the grandmother’s tea to offer to their ancestors. To meet this demand of customers, some products also sell sweetened tea …

Some pictures of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes on the real Korean New Year:

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes at Ha Dong market. Traders put goods in glass cases to ensure food safety.

Making colorful cakes to serve the consumer needs of customers.

The natural color cake is more expensive than the white one.

A businessman selling vegetarian cakes and vegetarian cakes in Thanh Cong.

White cake flour, colored cakes are enough to meet the buying needs of customers.

Each cup / plate of cake costs from 7,000 – 10,000 VND, depending on the market, and according to the cup / plate big or small.

In addition to making cakes for sale, many small businesses also make sweet soup to meet the consumption needs of customers.

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The actual Korean New Year takes place on the 3rd of the 3rd lunar month. Thus, in 2021, the real Korean New Year will fall on April 14 of the solar calendar. The Korean New Year actually appears in some provinces of China, northern Vietnam and some Chinese communities around the world.

In the Chinese sense, “Han” means cold, “real” is to eat, the real Korean New Year is to eat cold food. Although originating from China, the real Korean New Year of the Vietnamese still has its own nuances. In addition, this custom also has changes in accordance with the culture and customs of the Vietnamese people.

Every year on this day, many families grind flour, green beans, make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, cook sticky rice to Buddha and worship their ancestors, perhaps it is also a way of commemorating relatives in the last days. spring

The Vietnamese Lunar New Year has a deep national significance and has fundamental differences with this holiday in China.

The custom of making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes in the Han Thuc New Year

Floating cakes and vegetarian cakes on Han Thuc New Year are often said to originate from China, but there are also many stories that float and vegetarian cakes date from the Hung Vuong dynasty. The custom of making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to recall the legend of Mrs. Au Co “wrapped a hundred eggs”.

The floating cake is made of glutinous rice flour, kneaded with water, and filled with sugar. Rice makes rice cakes, vegetarian cakes must be picky when they are sticky yellow flowers. Every nine parts sticky rice for a part or two parts immature. The best sugar to make floating cake is Duong Lieu, Cat Que street, square pieces of sugar, sharp, crimson, solid and crunchy, with a cool aroma.

Who should not eat floating cakes, vegetarian cakes?

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes contain a lot of starch and sugar, so those with stomach, heart, kidney, obesity, diabetes, indigestion, pregnant women … should pay attention. when eating these two types of cakes.

The cake is finished, placed in a pot of boiling water. The cake sinks and floats, “three sinks seven, nine floating” then picked out and soaked in boiled water to cool for hunting again, then picked out again to display on a plate. Floating cake plate is sprinkled with some fragrant roasted white sesame seeds.

The vegetarian cake is also made of glutinous rice flour, kneaded with water and filled with, but filled with cooked green beans. The beans for the filling must also be the same as the pepper beans, small, fragrant, steamed until finely pounded, mixed with white diameter. Vegetarian cake is placed in a bowl, filled with a little sugar tea mixed with melon flour or tapioca flour marinated with grapefruit flowers.

The two cakes are made of glutinous rice flour together, but each has its own special flavor.

Illustration. Source: Internet.

What is the Chinese New Year taboo against?

Abstain from fire

In the olden days, during the Korean New Year, people did not light a fire to cook hot food, but prepared cold food. However, today, Vietnamese people still cook normally and use floating cakes, vegetarian cakes with a symbolic meaning that is cold food (Korean food).

Abstain from salty food

In the first days of the third month of the lunar calendar, families often abstain from a salty and vegetarian diet in order not to kill, the souls of their deceased relatives will easily escape.

Abstain from offering floating cakes, five-color vegetarian cakes

Vietnamese drift cake is also different from Chinese drift cake. Traditional drift cake is made from pure, round, white glutinous rice flour, covered with sugar inside.

Since ancient times, this white cake has also entered the poems of poet Ho Xuan Huong, associated with the status and good qualities of Vietnamese women such as algae, purity, sacrifice. Therefore, in addition to the sense of the origin, the real Korean New Year in Vietnam is also considered a Tet celebrating the beauty of women.

Today, many families often “prefer” vegetarian floating cakes, with many colors to burn incense and offer them to their ancestors, but this is not true to the original and the meaning of the Korean eclipse.

It is not necessary to worship the full platter

On this holiday, families do not need to prepare a “high tray, a full deck”, draw costly procedures, but only need to be sincere, offer floating cakes, vegetarian meals to the ancestors, grandparents, and prayers. good, peaceful in life.

Abstain from moving

Vietnamese people think that “earth is so negative”, when relatives die, their spirits still exist closely with their loved ones on earth, and moving house will have an effect on “spirits. “The deceased. Therefore, during the real Korean New Year (related to Thanh Minh period), Vietnamese people abstain from moving house.

Every year, on March 3 of lunar calendar, according to his father, he guides the Lunar New Year, including: Huong, flower, betel and 5 (or 3) floating cake bowls, 3 (or 5 bowls) of vegetarian cakes, neatly put up. Ancestor altar.

When we worship our ancestors on the Lunar New Year (March 3 of lunar calendar), we must pray to the god of the ancestors first, the god of the ancestors.

Below is the real Korean New Year vows in Vietnamese traditional vows – Culture and Information Publishing House:

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

I bow to the nine directions of God, the ten directions of the Buddhas, the Buddhas of the ten directions.

I respectfully bow to the Queen of Hau Tho and Gods I respectfully bow to you, Mr. Ban Canh Thanh Hoang, Mr. Aboriginal Land, Mr. Gia Gia Troi and the gods.

I respectfully bow to Cao Cao To To Gao, Cao Cao To To Co, promote, brothers, sisters, sisters in the paternal family.

Our trustee is … I lie in …

Today is March 3, meeting Han Thuc period.

We invite you to the scene of the royal family, the great kings, the local god of the local god, the royal family, the five directions, the dragon, the god of wealth, before the testimony of witnessing your sincerity to enjoy the gifts.

We invite the Patriarchs, the Patriarchs, and the ancestors of the ancestors of their ancestors … (the family name) to bow with mercy for their children and grandchildren descending on the witness of spirituality to enjoy the gifts.

Believers, I would like to invite you to the spirits of the Precursors, the Late owners, who live in this house, this land has money, mixed synergy, bless our whole family to be always healthy, all peace. All things are good, family is in harmony, above and below listen.

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

Male model Amitabha Buddha!

The real Korean New Year is also one of the major Tet holidays of Vietnam, especially for the people in the North. Traditionally, on this day, people would eat cold dishes (“real welding” means “cold food”). And floating cake, vegetarian cake is an indispensable dish.

Among the floating cakes and vegetarian cakes, perhaps the Sau Sau shop on Ngo Thi Nham street is one of the places that attracts the most buyers. Part because it is in the center, partly because the quality of the cake here has been verified over many years.

This morning (March 3 of lunar calendar), not out of prediction, was only from 7:00 am to 8:00 am, but customers lined up to buy it. To be able to have enough cakes to sell, this tea shop also arranged “team” to make cakes right “at the match”. The person kneading the cake always, the person boiled the cake and picked it up continuously, the customers also went in and out.

The real Korean New Year, the streets of Hanoi also seem more bustling than usual. Everyone has to try to buy with a plate of floating cakes, a bowl of vegetarian cake to eat in this day, otherwise there will be something missing. And the images of baking, then queuing to buy cakes have become one of the typical cultural features of Hanoi in this day, every year there is no shortage of them immediately.

As noted, the shopping atmosphere at the local markets is much more bustling than this day. The owners said that the customers went to buy vegetarian cakes from early. Therefore, most of the shops have to prepare, even stay up at night to make a large quantity in advance to sell to customers.

Many consumers line up to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes for the real Korean New Year.

The batches of floating cakes – vegetarian cakes are neatly cut into plates and sold to customers.

At the vegetarian cake shop, the housewives hurriedly buy the goods, making the atmosphere very exciting. Every row of floating cakes must have 2-3 people to serve. Prices floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are still the same price compared to normal days.

A plate of floating cakes costs 7,000-10,000 VND. A vegetarian cake is about 10 to 15 thousand dong more expensive, depending on the size of the plate. In addition to buying floating cakes and boiled vegetarian cakes, many housewives also buy ready-made cake dough to go home to cook for themselves.

At popular markets, the number of customers coming to buy is not too crowded, but the stalls selling floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are continuously molded to provide goods because online orders are still coming back.

In addition to selling floating cakes, ready-made vegetarian cakes, consumers can also buy floating cake dough and ready-made ingredients.

In addition to the traditional white flour, there are also five-color vegetarian cake dough.

Floating cakes are sold in combo, two trays have a preferential price of 15,000 VND and buy a single tray with the price of 10,000 VND.

Thanh Ha, 30 years old in Nguyen Trai, shared: “We have to take advantage of our free time and run right away to go to the market to buy things for the offering tray. This morning I still had to work at the company, so I got up early to buy 5 plates of floating cakes, go vegetarian, buy a chicken, some fresh fruit and gold money for my mother-in-law at home to make a tray of rice to worship our ancestors today. Today, even though it is the real Korean New Year, the food prices have not increased so it’s easy to buy.

Women who do not have time to make dough can also quickly buy a box of fresh glutinous rice flour to make cakes and vegetarian cakes. These flour packages include all ingredients such as flour, sugar, green bean paste, sesame, grated coconut, canned five-color cake … Offering family offerings.

The ingredients are fully sold for home-home buyers.

The batches of cakes are continuously made evenly by the small trader to provide for customers.

Not only at local markets, but also shops must quickly and quickly close applications and sell them to customers continuously.

This year, many housewives prefer to order online at home instead of going to the store to buy.

According to Ms. Hoang Lan, owner of a floating cake shop, vegetarian cakes shared: “In addition to selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, my family also sells five-color cakes, and su Su cakes to serve the needs of customers.

I only sell for 3 days, starting from the 1st to the 3rd of the 3rd lunar month. The total amount of flour for baking and selling in 3 days is up to 5 quintals. In which, 3 weights for me to mold the cake to sell, and about 2 weights of flour to sell to customers to make by themselves. Because the amount of cake sold is too much, it is impossible to count how many plates, we only know that this season, we make 0.5 tons of cake dough.

Vegetarian cake floating cake costs 10,000 VND / box, Choux pastry is 20,000 VND / box. On the days close to the Korean New Year, due to the sudden increase in the number of visitors, I have to mobilize my husband, children and brothers to help grind the flour, divide the flour, pack, mold, boil the cake to deliver it to customers in time “.

In addition to floating cakes, the shops also sell five-color chayote cakes at the price of 20,000 VND / tray.

Five colors sticky rice has the same price as 10,000 VND / tray.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are more diverse in colors. Not only is the traditional white color but also purple, green from pineapple leaves, red from Gac, yellow from gardenia.

Green bean cake beautifully shaped, selling price 10,000 VND / tray.

Vegetarian Banh Bao is available for 80,000 VND / big bag, or for retail for 2,000 VND / piece.

The 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month is Han Thuc Tet. According to Vietnamese tradition, every year on this day, family members come together to make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to present to their ancestors and ancestors.

Drift cake, vegetarian cake is an easy dish to make with simple ingredients such as flour, brown sugar and sesame (sesame). But not everyone can be successful with this dish and there have been many times that netizens have to laugh at the faulty versions of floating cakes due to the clumsy girls returning to their talents.

The round cake, seemingly very simple, makes many women “half-hearted, half-laughed” because the finished product is “not like a dream”.

Because of letting the fire go too far, the sister association’s floating cake can no longer retain its round shape, but now it is crumpled and squishy.

Too much hand making the cake crust and inside the inside are sticky is something that many of you have encountered when making cakes to float the Korean Lunar New Year.

Sometimes, the broken plate is not made by the person, but by the clumsiness of the person eating it.

Many products of “brave girls” make people laugh and cry, unable to understand what this is really.

Following the correct formula online, what kind of abstraction is this …

The large, distorted vegetarian cakes in the bowl are the clearest proof that you should not go to the kitchen again.

After being posted, the post received thousands of likes and comments.

Nowhere is the image of “my body is both white and round” of floating cakes that once appeared in poet Ho Xuan Huong’s poetry. Photo: General

Invite readers to watch the video: Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes – the cultural beauty of the Korean New Year – Source: VTV24

My name is Chu Thi Mai (23 years old), living in Hanoi. I work as a freelancer and do housework in the family. Today is March 3, I stay at home and prepare to make floating cakes to worship my family. This is the first time I try to mold the five-color floating cake.

To save time, I ordered batter online. There are many places selling flour, I just need to walk around social networks for a while to find a shop 800 meters from home.

I put the ingredients on the dishes. Five-color powder is made from natural ingredients: mint leaves, gac intestines, cocoa, matcha … do not contain color products, so I am quite reassured. Baking ingredients are not too expensive, I only spend 150,000 VND for a full part like this.

My son is going to school. Husband goes to work. Today I am at home baking alone. I invited my neighbor’s sister to cook the cake. We happily told each other memories of our eager childhoods to cook cakes with our parents on real Korean New Year.

I lived away from my family since I was young, so on holidays, Tet like this, I miss my parents very much.

Every year I do not make cakes because I see few people and do not want to provoke. But this year my son is 2 years old, he loves floating cakes, especially the colorful five-color cake. In the afternoon of my son, I want to make cakes for him to eat on this day to give the family more atmosphere.

After finishing the cake, I prepare to cook the water to boil.

Wait for the water to boil, I drop each cake in and use the chopsticks to gently stir the water to make the cake evenly cooked.

I continue to boil it so that the cake is cooked evenly, just fine to avoid the cake being crushed and the sugar inside has not melted yet.

When the cake floats, I wait for another 30 seconds, and when it’s just cooked, I take it out.

Here are my results. I have prepared plates of cute cats, avocados … for boys to enjoy more.

Wait for the cake to cool down, I sprinkle more sesame on the surface for decoration.

I put the cake on the altar to worship the family. Add a week of incense, I sincerely pray. I hope that my son will eat well, grow up quickly, and my wife and I work smoothly, and the family is healthy and safe.

I also do not forget to take pictures with colorful cake plates to send to my parents in my hometown and keep as souvenirs. This afternoon, when he picked up his son from school, he would be very happy because he had five-color cakes to eat. Thinking of the eager faces of my son and husband, I felt extremely happy.

According to folk beliefs, the 3rd day 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 the roots of the tradition of “when drinking water, remember its source”.

As noted by the reporter of the To Quoc e-newspaper earlier this morning, many people flocked to a famous store on Ngo Thi Nham street to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes for the ceremony.

In the Chinese sense, “Han” means cold, “real” is to eat, the real Korean New Year is to eat cold food. Although originating from China, the real Korean New Year of the Vietnamese still has its own nuances. In addition, this custom also has changes in accordance with the culture and customs of the Vietnamese people.

The use of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship also has many good meanings. This custom represents the long rice culture of the Vietnamese people. Both cakes are made from fragrant glutinous rice flour, the fruits of hard work can be offered to grandparents and ancestors. The cake floats into small balls, the inside is red sugar.

And the vegetarian cake is round and flat, with bean filling. Want to fill the green beans in the cake is more fragrant, the worker will choose the type of pepper, small seeds. In recent years, to serve the tastes of customers many people have used natural ingredients with colors to mix to make dough.

The owner of a shop on Ngo Thi Nham street shared: “According to experience from previous years, from the beginning of the third month of the lunar calendar, until March 3, the number of customers coming to buy goods is very large, so we had to command the whole family got up early in the morning to make the cakes. The most crowded peak period starts from 7am, lasts until afternoon and leaves customers gradually into the evening. Each customer usually has to queue from 30 minutes to 1 hour to buy cake ”.

According to observations, in the market for floating cakes, vegetarian cakes this year are convenient and ready-made cakes, users just need to boil them to use them immediately. Although there are more models, the price for each floating cake plate ranges from 15,000 to 20,000 VND.

“Every year, my family has gotten used to it here, so even if I have to wait a long time, I accept it. The cake here still retains the traditional taste of Hanoi, so the food is delicious” – Ms. Huong (Hai Ba Trung , Hanoi) share.

Recognized on many food streets, the air markets for people to go to the season of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are bustling from the early morning.

“Our family has mobilized all the human resources in the house from last night to deliver goods to customers. This year, people mainly order cakes through home delivery technology applications, so they also reduce the number of customers. to the shop “- said a shop owner on Gia Ngu street.

Not only selling cakes, but small traders here also sell fresh flour for baking. These flour packages include all ingredients, customers just have to mold, shape to their liking and boil.

Every year on the lunar new year (March 3 of lunar calendar), Vietnamese people often make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to worship their ancestors. On this occasion, the sisters raced to show off delicious and beautiful cakes, showing off their main female talent. Photo: Vu Thanh Hoan

Just walking around on Facebook to see the sisters showing off their “booty” are extremely attractive vegetarian cakes. Photo: Vu Thanh Hoan

Ms. Vu Thanh Hoan, one of the guaranteed mothers of the Kitchen Love Association, said that to have an unbeaten delicious vegetarian cake is to mix sticky rice with non-glutinous rice in a 5: 1 ratio so that the crust is not too sticky, difficult to create picture and for the best taste. Photo: Vu Thanh Hoan

All colors of the cake are made from natural women such as Gac, pineapple leaves, beetroot, garden seeds, … so they are both beautiful and safe. Photo: Vu Thi Thu Trang

See the eye-catching floating cakes with all colors but still retain the basics of shape, composition and flexibility, who can hold it. Photo: Vu Thi Thu Trang

It’s an easy-to-make dish with simple ingredients like flour, rock sugar and sesame seeds. However, it also takes the skillful hands of the maker to make regular, round cakes. Photo: Vu Thi Thu Trang

This year, many brave mothers are still creative, change shape, and put on new clothes that everyone must enjoy. Photo: Kim Ngoc Dang

A sure mother personally added many funny details on the round cake to serve the children. Photo: Kim Ngoc Dang

Making this kind of cake is a bit time consuming, but everyone is enjoying it. Photo: Kim Ngoc Dang

On this day, housewives are busy showing off the floating cakes and vegetarian cakes that I personally prepare for the family. Photo: Le Thu Huong

Although the cakes are eye-catching in color, they are all made from natural ingredients, which are very safe. Photo: Le Thu Huong

Many mothers shared that although the family ate very little, they still bought flour to make cakes, mainly for their children to understand about a traditional national holiday. Photo: Le Thu Huong

Invite readers to watch the video: Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes – the cultural beauty of the Korean New Year – Source: VTV24

According to PV VTC News, from 6 a.m. on April 14 (March 3 of lunar calendar), many people were present at some places of making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to buy cakes for the ceremony.

At Ngo Thi Nham street, a long line of people squeezed their feet to buy floating cakes and vegetarian cakes.

Many people cry to heaven because they have been waiting for an hour but still have not been able to buy the cake.

Sharing with PV, the owner of a floating cake shop on Ngo Thi Nham street said: “The number of visitors this year is higher than last year. We have to constantly add flour and mold to serve the customers buying ”.

“To serve the needs of customers, the store has prepared about 90kg of cake flour. Right from last night, the store has soaked cake dough. At 3 am, the store staff gets up early to do the dough, ready to serve every stage to serve customers ”, said the store owner.

Chen feet in the sea of ​​people waiting to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes on the real Korean New Year, Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung (in Ngo Thi Nham street, Hanoi) said: “I wait in line here for about 30-40 minutes. This year, I bought 2 kinds of whole vegetarian cakes. In my opinion, buying floating cakes, vegetarian cakes is a beautiful custom of my country. On this day, my family often eat the two types of cakes above instead of cooking as usual ”.

Glad to be able to buy floating cakes to worship the family, Ms. Thoa (in Cau Giay district, Hanoi) shared: “Every year, I come here to buy floating cakes and vegetarian cakes for my family every year. This year does not wait as long as every year “.

Floating cakes at stores cost about 15,000 VND / plate, vegetarian cakes 20,000 VND / bowl. Most of the stores sell both cooked cakes and pastries to customers who buy them to make them themselves.

Beautiful five-color floating cake attracts the attention of many customers.

However, the white floating cake is still the type most customers choose to buy.

On this day, many families also buy sugar, green beans, glutinous rice flour, sesame … to make their own floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to offer to their ancestors.

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.

According to cultural experts, when March comes, the weather starts to heat up, preparing to turn into summer. 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.

The use of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship also brings many good meanings, showing the wet rice culture. Both cakes are made from fragrant glutinous rice flour, the fruits of hard work can be offered to grandparents and ancestors.

Ingredients for making floating cakes usually include glutinous rice flour, non-glutinous rice flour, grated coconut, sesame seeds (sesame seeds), rock sugar, a little salt, green beans …

Responding to the real Korean New Year, today the whole social network is treated with many images of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, most of which are made at home by people.

It is worth mentioning that many works are taken care of very carefully, just looking at the photos can clearly see the mind the baker puts on.

Every year, when going to the real Korean New Year, To Hung Giang (Hanoi) goes to the kitchen to prepare floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship her ancestors. This year, she also created a very beautiful cake shape, from a flower shape to a vivid and beautiful mandarin oranges shape. (Photo: To Hung Giang)

Floating cake, vegetarian five-color cake by Ms. Vu Thanh Hoan In the morning, she only took 1 hour to finish this colorful cake tray. (Photo: Vu Thanh Hoan)

Attractive 6-color vegetarian floating cake by Ms. Dang Viet Huong (Vinh, Nghe An). To create color for the cake, she uses all natural ingredients: pea flower, amaranth, glutinous leaves, gac … (Photo: Dang Viet Huong)

Floating cakes of all kinds of beautiful colors, including cakes mixed with 2-3 very attractive colors of Ms. Thu Hang (Hanoi). Looks like I want to eat right away. (Photo: Thu Hang)

Beautiful five-color floating cake, creating a flower shape of Ms. Hoang Minh Thuy (Hanoi). (Photo: Minh Thuy)

One of the most beautiful and sophisticated floating cakes is shared by a Facebook account. (Photo: Ngoc Vu)

Netizens show off their achievements in shaping extremely beautiful vegetarian cakes (Photo: Hanh Nguyen, Thao Le)

Viet Huong (Th)

On the 3rd March of the Lunar New Year, families often make dishes of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes or water-laden tea offering to their ancestors. For people in the North of the North, the traditional cake on Korean New Year is actually water-drifting cake.

Not only adults but also many small children are also very excited to be molded by their families, so the beautiful little floating cakes. Recently, Bao Thanh’s son and his father Duc Thanh went to the kitchen to make floating cakes while his mother was pregnant about to give birth. The boy boldly introduced, making cake drifting no less than a professional “vlogger”.

WATCH VIDEO: Bao Thanh’s son instructs to make floating cakes.

Bin said: “In our real Korean New Year, we always have floating cakes. I have a special name for my cake is ‘Floating cake’, a very funny name”. The Bao Thanh family is innocent.

The boy also pointed out each of the ingredients: Rice flour with many colors orange, white, yellow, purple … Sesame seeds, desiccated coconut. And the ingredient that Bin likes very much is the “mini” street. But the boy mistakenly said … rock sugar! At times, Bin also said that he turned the vegetarian cake into “floating cake”, making everyone laugh.

The first son of Bao Thanh also introduced the person who will make floating cakes with him that the boy calls “MasterChef Duc Thang”, “his host” – Father Thang.

Bin is also very clear about the meaning of making floating cakes that is offering to the altar “to worship the elderly” on the occasion of the real Korean New Year.

The boy decided to “compete” with his father. Dad and son drunken cake.

Bin is also quite professional when squeezing the dough, quickly put the sugar balls in and swirled to

The next step, father and son, put the cake to boil. The color floating cakes gradually emerged “3 sinks 7 floating 9 floating”.

After picking up the plate, cu Bin carefully sprinkle sesame seeds for each cake and add shredded coconut.

The boy is proud when the results of the father and son are completed and does not hesitate to confess that while working, he “ate a lot”.

In addition to the colorful floating cakes of the father and son, there is also a bowl of vegetarian cake made by Bao Thanh. Baby Bin concluded “want to roll into the kitchen” and wish everyone a warm Korean New Year with the family!

Refer to details on how to make a beautiful, natural five-color floating cake:

Resources

• 450g glutinous rice flour

• 50g flour

• 1 pinch of salt

• Sugar pellets

• 1 some white sesame seeds

Dried glutinous flour and sugar pellets are the main ingredients for water-drifting cakes

Cake coloring section:

• Green: 30g pineapple leaves

• Purple: 30g purple cabbage

• Orange: 30g carrots

• Red: 30g ripe Gac

Pineapple green, purple cabbage purple, carrot orange and red Gac

How to make the five-color floating cake

Step 1: Prepare natural color

• The green part: The pandan leaves are washed, cut into small pieces and put in the blender with a little water, puree. Take out the filter to get the juice. Dissolve more water to make 85g of pandan leaf juice.

• Purple part: Purple cabbage washed, chopped, pureed and then squeezed to get purple juice. Mix with filtered water to get 85g purple water.

• Orange part: Carrots peeled, washed, chopped and then add pureed water, extract the juice. Add filtered water to get 85g of orange juice.

• The red part: Ripe Gac mixed with a little water, filtered off the residue to obtain the red water. Add filtered water to get 85g of red water.

Step 2: Prepare the dough to make the cake float

• Sift 450g dry glutinous rice flour with 50g of flour. Then add a pinch of salt (about 1/4 teaspoon) and mix well.

• Divide the dough into 5 equal parts into 5 different bowls, each 100g.

Step 3: Knead the five colors floating cake dough

Prepare 5 different bowls of flour:

• 100g of flour mixed with 85g of hot old water, poured slowly and knead the dough into a smooth, smooth block. This dough forms a white floating cake.

• The rest of the powder is mixed with 85g of red, orange, purple and blue water prepared previously. It is okay to knead the dough into a smooth, sticky, non-sticky mass.

• After kneading the dough, cover it with food wrap, let the set rest for 10 minutes.

Step 4: Squeeze the five-color floating cake

• Take the dough into parts, round it up and press it flat, put 1 sugar ball in the middle and then round it up so that the sugar doesn’t leak out. Carrying out large or small capsules according to preference. Squeeze until dough is gone. Separate each cake color.

Step 5: Boil the five-color floating cake

• Prepare 1 pot of water, boil the pot of water and let it over medium heat. Drop each floating ball in, stir gently so that the floating cake does not stick to each other. Boil the loaf until you see each piece of cake floats and is ripe. (Boil separately each cake of different colors).

• Pick up the floating cakes and drop them right into the bowl of ice cold water. Then picked out and stacked in turn on the plate, without stacking the cake will stick together.

Complete and enjoy

• Boiled five-color floating cake, sprinkle with roasted white sesame seeds on top to decorate.

• How to make a five-color floating cake with simple orange, blue, red, purple and white colors, soft, soft, chewy, mildly sweet cake. The cake is not broken or broken.

Although originating from China, the real Korean New Year of the Vietnamese still has its own nuances. This is an opportunity for Vietnamese people to turn to their roots, to commemorate their ancestors’ grace and virtue. On this day, Vietnamese people do not abstain from fire, and still cook normally. Especially, Vietnamese people also create floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, which are cold foods symbolizing the real Korean New Year. In addition to floating cakes and vegetarian cakes, families can also buy more fruit and other fruit cakes. After presenting the ceremony to the altar, families often burn incense and pray to the first family according to the Han Thuc Tet Ceremony which has been handed down from ancient times to present.

Floating cake, vegetarian cake shaped cartoon characters.

Come to the appointment again, before and during the Korean New Year, the housewives again show their talents of cooking floating cakes and vegetarian cakes. In recent years, this cake has also had many variations. In addition to the traditional cakes made from glutinous rice flour, rice flour filled with sugar, many housewives also show their talents to color the cakes from natural ingredients such as red made from Gac, purple made from pea flowers, color. Light green from pandan leaves, red from beetroot … The filling is not only a traditional circle, but also has all sorts of interesting shapes such as dogs, cats, bears, flowers, watermelon … This is also an opportunity to the whole family gathered, gathered, the children were happy to enjoy the delicious cake their mother made.

Ms. Ngoc, a housewife in Hanoi revealed how to make delicious and delicious vegetarian cakes: “When I was a child, every time I wanted to eat floating cakes, my mother had to grind the flour and put it in a cloth bag to pour water. Now it’s quick, I buy Tai Ky’s dry sticky rice powder, fresh tofu (so it smells very fragrant when it cooks), add sugar and green beans as you like ”. Last year, she made a picture of a fruit and a flower for her children, this year more creative, she created a cake shape into a cartoon character Tsum Tsum, so her children love the cake their mother made.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes at Mr. Hoang Tuan’s agency.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are not only “hot” in each kitchen. Many agencies and offices also put floating cakes and vegetarian cakes on the dinner menu to create a friendly atmosphere for the staff. Mr. Hoang Tuan, 35 years old in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, said that although he was abstaining from sugar and starch, he could not hold back before the small “party” filled with delicious vegetarian cakes and delicious vegetarian cakes prepared by the chef. processing agency.

These days, on the streets and markets in Hanoi have sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients from early morning to serve the people. Many small businesses said that they had to stay up all night making cakes to serve the customers who ordered them early.

People take advantage of buying cakes for the real Korean New Year.

Despite many changes and variations, real Korean New Year has become a meaningful cultural feature in every Vietnamese family. This is also an opportunity for each person who travels away to try to return to their family together to enjoy a plate of cake, sit beside a family reunion tray./.

In Hanoi, floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are available from the early morning

There are many vegetarian cakes floating in the streets of Hanoi

There are also some people who are not people who specialize in selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes every day, but take advantage of the large frontage and available cooking space to take advantage of making vegetarian cakes to sell for profit.

At the kindergartens, the children are also organized by the school to make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes

The children enjoyed floating cakes, vegetarian cakes very enthusiastically

Drifting cakes, vegetarian cakes in the traditional form

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are enriched in color

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes on the Vietnamese New Year’s Eve

On this day, Vietnamese families often make vegetarian rice cakes to worship their ancestors, show their respect and wish for good and peaceful things in life.

Floating cake, vegetarian cake with eye-catching shapes and colors

Vietnamese vegetarian rice cakes are made from delicious glutinous rice flour with brown sugar. Glutinous rice flour is added to a mill with water to make it smooth, filtered out the flour and then molded into round, smooth white balls. The filling is chopped sugar balls. If there is no mill, the flour can be ground by machine, but the flour is still ground for the most delicious, softest flavor.

After being made, the floating cake will be dropped into a pot of boiling water on the stove. When the cake is cooked, quickly pick it up and put it in the cold water so that the cake is cool and does not stick to each other. The cake is arranged on a plate and placed on the altar to worship.

Vegetarian cakes are also made from glutinous rice flour but without filling. The cake is molded flat, then boiled like a floating cake. People will cook more sugar, add a little flour or tapioca to compare the water. That water was poured into bowls that had already been prepared with boiled vegetarian pancakes. You can also sprinkle a little more roasted peanuts for fragrant.

Brown rice cake.

Along with the traditional cakes, this year appeared a number of bakery products that draw attention to their appearance, and baking ingredients also “rocked” the traditional market and the online market.

Floating cake, frozen vegetarian cake

The market for floating cakes and vegetarian cakes this year does not have much change in prices.

On the occasion of the real Korean New Year (March 3 of lunar calendar) every year, the markets of people living in Hanoi are bustling with stalls selling ingredients for making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. In particular, the traditional products of floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are still favored by consumers.

New in the market of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes this year are convenient cake sets, cakes are available, frozen, users just need to boil them to use them immediately.

The market for floating cakes and vegetarian cakes this year does not have much change in prices. Sticky flour prices range from 20,000 to 25,000 VND / kg, sugar is about 25,000 – 30,000 VND / kg, green beans from 40,000 to 50,000 VND / kg.

For some families who do not have time to make cakes, drifting cakes, ready-made vegetarian cakes are a convenient choice to present to their ancestors altar during the Korean New Year. Each plate of ready-made vegetarian and floating cakes ranges from 10,000 to 15,000 VND / kg.

These days, a Facebook account named Co Loi boat (at N6E Trung Hoa – Nhan Chinh, Thanh Xuan district) is congested because many customers choose to order.

The facebook owner shared: Because the cakes here are made continuously, there are no old goods or inventory. Just order the cake via Facebook and the time to receive the store will ship to the place. Peak time is 9-11 noon on 3/3 often have to mobilize family members to ship because the number of people who schedule this time frame is quite crowded.

The owner of the store said that since a few days, the number of orders has increased sharply, so it is necessary to mobilize family members to do it continuously to serve and deliver goods to customers. If customers order late cakes, the store does not dare to accept more for fear of not returning the goods in time.

The shop owner added that last year, due to the Covid-19 translation, people rushed to order online, but this year the Korean New Year is on weekdays so the purchase of processed goods has decreased slightly.

Brown rice cake

In addition to the five-color drift cake, the market this year also appeared floating cakes made from brown rice.

Advertised as “eating without fear of fat, not gaining weight”, the brown rice cake has attracted attention, especially to the sisters.

Ms. LH (Cau Giay) said that because she was busy with work, she ordered the cake until last night. She had to ask three places to order the cake because they all had a lot of applications and did not dare to accept more.

The price for a box of brown rice floating cakes is sold on social networks for 70,000 VND. Meanwhile, if there is a need to buy homemade flour, the price will fall between 80,000 and 90,000 for a 500 gram bag.

Ingredients for making five-color “burnt” market

Many housewives rushed to order home-made five-color cake flour, making this item a “fever”.

The influence of the Covid-19 epidemic caused people to limit their travel to the street, so many shops selling raw materials for floating cakes and vegetarian cakes on the online market were very popular.

Accordingly, for about a week now, the five-color floating cake has become a popular consumer product. Instead of going to buy ready-made cakes, many housewives rushed to order home-made five-color flour, making this market suddenly “fever”.

Ms. Linh (a small trader selling baking ingredients at Buoi market) shared on vtv.vn: “These days, my house sells a few quintals of flour because there are a certain number of patrons and this market area is also populated. so the purchasing power is very high “. Her family had to prepare a plentiful supply of goods many days ago to serve the needs of people to buy directly or order online.

The price of five-color floating cake powder for sale online ranges from 50,000-100,000 VND / set depending on type. Most of the set is cheap, usually the ingredients are only 5-color cake flour, sugar, sesame; Also with the clay cakes priced from 75,000-100,000 VND / set, in addition to the above ingredients, the flour set also has coconut, green beans pureed to make more vegetarian cakes.

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.