Goat meat The Truong Yen mountain area (Hoa Lu district) has many limestone mountains that have been formed for a long time. Taking advantage of this, people have formed a habit of grazing goats in the mountains, feeding them natural plants. As a result, Ninh Binh goat meat when processed often has a special delicious taste with herbal smell, sweet taste and firm meat. Goat meat is processed into many attractive dishes by Ninh Binh people such as rare lemon, pan-fried, stir-fried with chili pepper, stewed with traditional herbs or spring rolls… In 2012, Ninh Binh mountain goat was recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization. is one of the “Top 50 Vietnamese specialties”. In 2021, Truong Yen mountain goat also entered the “Top 100 Vietnamese specialties” of this organization. Burnt rice Ninh Binh elderberry was recognized by the Asian Record Organization as one of 12 Vietnamese specialties according to the set of criteria “Asian culinary value” in August 2012. Although burnt rice is a simple dish, in order to cook deliciously and meet the standards, it must go through many complicated stages, completely handmade according to the secret of Ninh Binh people. The rice selected to make elderberry must be fragrant, sticky rice or yellow sticky rice. After the rice is washed and cooked, people take each piece of rice that sticks to the bottom of the pot (burnt), dry it in the sun, then deep-fry it in oil so that the rice grains are crispy. Ninh Binh burnt rice is dipped with a sauce made from goat meat, with a strong consistency, spicy and aromatic flavor creating an unforgettable blend. Gia Vien shrimp paste Gia Vien district is a low-lying area with many rivers. People here have a profession of “riu” (catching) shrimp and making fish sauce for generations. To make delicious shrimp paste jars, people only choose old shrimp, round body, blue color and must be fresh. After washing, draining, people mix the shrimps with hearing and salt and then put them in a crockery jar, close the lid, leave in a cool place for more than a month to be used. Gia Vien shrimp paste has been recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization as one of the “100 Vietnamese gift specialties 2020 – 2021”.

That habit is also very close to nature and animals. This is how pigeons, storks, herons, and many other birds raise their young. The mother bird looks for food and temporarily swallows it into the kite, when she returns to the nest, she sees the baby birds’ beaks wide open and chirping, and then feeds them one by one. The image is very beautiful and rich in motherly love. There have been many realistic, touching photos and videos recording those scenes. At this point, I remember a very impressive passage of writer Mo Yan in his greatest novel: “Treasures of life”. In that novel, there was a mother with many children living in a time of famine, when she worked in a food processing factory, she secretly swallowed the corn kernels to fill her stomach, then when she got home, she stuck her hand out and vomited. in and out of a basin of water. Wash the corn and then the mother cooks for the children to eat so they don’t starve to death! It’s normal for Vietnamese mothers to feed their children rice for a long time, and I am the child who has grown up from those fresh pieces of rice. Rice with Vietnamese people is of course the most important food, like bread with Europeans and Americans. People eat boring rice all their life and never get bored. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are simply called “eating rice” because the most important and most important ingredient in meals is rice. Vegetables, meat, and fish are side dishes or sometimes sticky rice is present on the occasion of the New Year’s anniversary, it is called eating for fun, changing meals. To be able to eat rice for Vietnamese people means being healthy and feeling normal. If you can’t eat rice, it means you are sick or your body has abnormal symptoms. In the past, when someone was sick, people used to ask: “Have you eaten yet?”. The answer is that if you can eat rice, everything is better, the patient gradually gets better. Cooking is one of the most important skills that signals a child’s growth. In the past, every house cooked rice with a wood stove or more expensively with a charcoal stove. Cooking skills include measuring the rice in the jar, how many bowls, cows (tubes) of rice are enough for the family to eat, that is not counting the filling of cassava, potatoes or other things. Measure out the rice and put it in a bamboo basket to wash it clean. The rice washing operation involves stirring the rice in a bowl of water to remove the grains, gravel, husks or fat weevils that live parasitically in the rice, leaving the rice a little whiter. Put the rice in the pot, you also need to measure the water level so that it is just enough. Because less water, the rice is dry, more water, the rice is mushy. Children often dip their index fingers into the rice cooker to calculate the water level according to their mother’s instructions. Put the rice cooker on the fire or charcoal stove and adjust the heat to the right degree. If the fire is too low, the rice will take a long time to boil, the rice grains will swell up into small mountains in the pot, the rice will be bland and bursting. If the fire is too big, especially when it’s boiling, the rice will burn. When the rice is completely boiled, use chopsticks to stir it once so that the water and rice are evenly mixed and cooked easily. When the rice cooker is boiling, open the lid to prevent the water from overflowing and watching the bubbles rise is very eye-catching. When the water dries up, these boils leave small suckers like squirrel holes in the mud. Rice is a rather special processed food, seventy percent of the rice is cooked when the water is boiling, the remaining thirty percent is cooked by the heat when brewing. When the rice cooker runs out of water, take out some firewood to cook the rice. Charcoal to rhyme must also be enough, too much, the rice will be burned, but too little will be raw. When the child can cook a pot of rice that is not dry and not crushed, it is considered to have met the requirements. The skill of cooking rice is not done once or twice, but must be practiced, observed and experienced. If careless, subjective, it is easy to lead to the situation: Above live, below, and all sides are squishy! People also often ask each other’s children with the question: What does your son know how to do? Yes, I already know how to cook. “Know how to cook rice” is a very proud phrase and the children of the old days, both boys and girls, had to learn to cook rice. Cooking rice with a cast iron pot, a wood stove, is more fragrant and delicious. When the rice is cooked, remove the trays and bowls, the whole family sits around. As soon as the rice cooker is opened, the heat rises up like smoke, use bamboo chopsticks to beat the rice evenly and then pour it into each bowl for everyone. The person sitting at the top of the pot is usually the parent, when the children grow up, the oldest sibling takes that position instead of the parents. The person sitting at the top of the pot is very important because it is important to regulate the amount of rice for the whole family and divide it appropriately (basically, the rice is too little and sometimes a lot of cassava is stuffed to eat to fullness). The sentence: “Eat the pot, sit and watch the direction” also arose from this fact. If there is a father in the house who likes to eat burnt rice, the person who cooks the rice needs to perform a few more steps. In order to have a golden and crispy array of burnt rice, it is necessary to cook rice in a cast iron pot because cast iron is a good heat-retaining thing and is often molded thickly, cooking rice is very convenient. In order to have a delicious fire, when the rice is cooked, it is necessary to keep the amount of charcoal a little more incubated and maintain it for a longer time. The process of creating a fire is an art because sometimes the pieces are too thin, too young or burnt black, as well as having to choose the right type of rice. It is a genuine traditional burnt rice, not like the type of burnt rice that is made by machine, puffed and fried like now. Of course, the pleasure of having a crispy layer of burnt rice for dessert is only available in wood stoves and charcoal stoves. Now, cooking rice is so easy, there is a rice cooker, just put rice and water in the pot, plug in the power, press the button and you’re done. The rice cooker has been calculated and programmed, no need to open the lid to see if the rice is boiling or cooked. When the cooking process is complete, the rice cooker will signal and eat like that. A grain of rice that is treasured by a sun and two dew to work does not leave anything behind. The rice that is not eaten is called cold rice and can be roasted the next morning for the whole family to make breakfast. Fried rice requires eggs, a little bit of fat, a little onion, and fish sauce and is also the most popular breakfast gift of hard times. Now, fried rice has entered the restaurant as a familiar delicacy because very few people roast rice at home. If not roasted, then the cold rice will be the seat for the next meal, when the rice cooker runs out of water to suck the hole, pour the cold rice on top and steam it. If you do not want to do this, the excess rice can be dried in the sun, put in a sealed jar to save as dry food, when used, add a little sugar and fat to turn into a crispy, sweet snack to eat when you are sad. . Even if the rice is completely stale, people do not throw it away, it is used to raise batches, a very typical sour and sour condiment in Vietnamese cuisine, the taste is softer and more characteristic than vinegar. In the old days, almost every house had a batch pot in the corner of the kitchen, now many people cook sour dishes without giving them a batch as if the dish has lost a significant part. Although ordinary rice is common, it goes well with almost all other dishes. The poor eat rice with sesame salt, peanut salt, salted eggplant, crab soup. Even with a bowl of white rice, just sprinkle a little fish sauce and mix well enough to warm the stomach of the poor. More than that, eat rice with braised fish, spring rolls, spring rolls, soup, braised meat. If you have a bowl of plain rice in your stomach, you will be sure, working all day without worrying, thinking about other things. That’s why there’s a saying: “If you’re hungry, you’ll want sticky rice / If you’re full of rice, then stop all the way”. Sticky rice is the main food, the most important foundation in Vietnamese meals. People eat rice every day, so familiar that it is not necessary to remember when it came from and how to cook rice. Like that for thousands of generations, rice has become a close and indispensable friend of Vietnamese people. And isn’t the grain of rice like our parents?

Referring to the specialty of Trang An Ninh Binh, it is definitely indispensable for the famous goat meat dish that anyone who comes to Ninh Binh will have to enjoy. Ninh Binh goats are grazed naturally, eating goat meat feels firm, low-fat, sweet and fragrant. Ninh Binh Goat In addition, goat meat here is also processed into many dishes with many different processing methods such as grilled goat, rare lemon, stir-fried, pan-fried… Processing in restaurants, people often choose 2 types. mountain goats and grass-fed goats. If it is Ninh Binh mountain goat meat, it will feel firmer and more crispy when eaten, whereas grass-fed goat meat will be softer and sweeter. To have a delicious dish, it requires the chef to be very meticulous in processing and cleaning so that the goat meat does not have a bad smell, strong or unpleasant. Each restaurant will have different recipes, but most still retain the inherent characteristic flavor. Many people also say that goat meat can also cure many diseases, so if you have the opportunity to come to Ninh Binh, don’t miss the famous mountain goat meat here. Because it is a famous specialty, it will not be too difficult for you to find a good goat restaurant in Ninh Binh, but according to many people’s experience, delicious goat shops are usually concentrated in central areas. such as Ca Cave, Truong Yen, Hoa Lu. 2. Burnt rice Ninh Binh burnt rice is different from the rice of other regions because it is carefully selected from raw materials to processing methods. If in the past Ninh Binh burnt rice was traditionally made with carpentry to eat with goat sauce, now due to the needs of diners, elder rice is processed with a variety of delicious sauces with cotton wool or shrimp paste on top. attractive momentum. Ninh Binh burnt rice The special thing about the burnt rice dish in this ancient capital is that the chef must be very meticulous in each processing stage. For delicious burnt rice, you must use fragrant glutinous rice, clear and round seeds. Rice must be cooked in a cast iron pot on a charcoal stove. When cooking rice, the fire must be kept evenly to burn evenly, the grain is neither thick nor thin. After getting rice, people take it out to dry in the sun and then bring deep fried rice with lard or cooking oil. The price of each packet of burnt rice is also quite cheap, only about 30,000 VND. You can find yourself a pack of burnt rice at delicious restaurants in Ninh Binh or stalls selling souvenirs and specialties in tourist areas. 3. Nectar salad Nec salad is a dish not everyone knows when coming to Ninh Binh, but this is a very special cuisine in Kinh Do land. The frog is a fish in the same family as the eel, long like an eel. There are species that can live in salt water, there are also species that can live in brackish water, where this fish is famous and the best salad is the salad made in Kim Son district of Ninh Binh. . Frogfish is available almost all year round, summer is the most fish season, but this fish is smooth and very strong, so it is quite difficult to catch, so people often have to use nets to catch fish. Frozen salad The processing stage requires the chef to perform meticulously. Fish is washed with lime water, ash water and bamboo leaves. Then, people cut the fish from the back like an eel, remove the bones and slice thinly. Next, people use turmeric and ginger juice to remove the fishy smell of fish, then lemon juice is used to cook fish meat. The final stage is to mix fish meat with hearing. The special secret of this salad is the dipping sauce, called in the local dialect. This dipping sauce is very special and made quite sophisticated because it is cooked from crushed fish bones, along with batches, minced galangal, garlic, chopped chili along with sugar, main noodles, pepper … when eaten, you will feel You will receive the aroma of spices mixed together and the very characteristic smell of scallions. Enjoy fish salad with rice paper rolls with wild leafy vegetables such as fig leaves, apricot leaves, clove leaves… along with a handful of fish salad, rolled up and dipped into the dipper. You will see a whole culinary sky of Kim Son in the rustic but sophisticated dishes that make diners eat once and remember forever. 4. Yen Mac sour spring rolls Ne Legend has it that the Yen Mac spring rolls were created by the daughter of the senior official Pham Than Duat, Pham Thi Thu. She made this spring rolls based on the Hue royal spring rolls of the Nguyen Dynasty. Different from Thanh Hoa’s famous spring rolls or Phung spring rolls, Yen Mac Ninh Binh’s sour spring rolls are a much more sophisticated and careful dish, that’s why when you enjoy them, you will see the taste of the dish. This dish is very special. Yen Mac sour spring rolls Making spring rolls is not too complicated, but it is picky about people, it is the same ingredient, it is the same stage that not everyone makes the typical delicious spring rolls. After peeling off the leaves, you will see that the spring rolls still retain their characteristic pink color along with the tough and crispy skin fibers that blend with the aroma of guava leaves. When eating, it will be dipped with sweet and sour sauce and added a few slices of chili or rolled with fig leaves to increase the flavor of the dish. Yen Mac spring rolls are often chosen by tourists to bring back as gifts for their loved ones. However, not anywhere in Ninh Binh can make this dish, to be able to enjoy the true traditional flavor, you must definitely visit Yen Mac land, Yen Mo district. 5. Mountain snail Not only famous fried rice or goat meat, but also Ninh Binh mountain snail dish is not inferior. Mountain snails are often found in caves in the limestone mountains of Tam Diep town, Nho Quan, but not always. Ninh Binh mountain snail Snails are only available from April to August every year, and in the rest of the time, mountain snails often bury themselves in thick rock crevices. Therefore, if you visit Ninh Binh during this time, you will have the opportunity to enjoy Ninh Binh mountain snails. The difference of mountain snails compared to other types of snails is that they often eat the main leaves of medicinal plants, so when processing, they should not be washed too thoroughly or else the herbal substances will be lost. Mountain snail meat when eaten is often crunchy, no need to remove the intestines. You have to enjoy it slowly and chew it carefully to feel the aroma of traditional Chinese medicines. Mountain snails can be processed into many different delicious dishes such as water snails, stir-fried with garlic and chili, fried with tamarind or steamed with ginger and dipped in sour and spicy dipping sauce. Come to Ninh Binh to enjoy mountain snails when you have the opportunity because not every season has this special snail

I thought no one would dare touch this ugly-looking beetle. But unexpectedly, Ca Nieng appeared in the list of specialties not to be missed when coming to the low-lying area. Photo: Internet If ca cuong is impressed by its pungent taste, ca cuong brings a unique nutty and rich flavor. The shape of the stick is similar to the “brother” with black wings and a small round body the size of a finger. Ninh Binh people also often call Ca Nieng “deep water”. Photo: Internet If you are a newcomer to the ancient capital, surely no one would have expected this to be a famous specialty of the ancient capital. This type of insect is not uncommon. In leisurely afternoons, people often go to the field to “sock” a few times to get a basket full of cassava to be processed. Cut off the legs, remove the wings, remove the belly and wash. Roast the eggplant like shrimp and shrimp with fish sauce and salt to taste, so you have a meal to bring rice. Photo: Internet The dish is somewhat modest and popular like that, but for the villagers, there is nothing like it. Stir in a bowl of hot rice and then pick up a piece of roasted coffee, so rustic yet delicious. Each of them creates a very unique flavor but is strangely combined. The fragrant sticky rice mixes with the greasy, crunchy texture of the spice tower. Sometimes you have to “clean” a few bowls. Photo: Internet The pleasure of enjoying roasted coffee is at the end of the meal, take a piece of burnt rice for a few fish and then curl it, bite it lightly and slowly chew it, the country flavor spreads gently in the throat. Although there are countless dishes from the garden, but Ca nieng has a unique and unmistakable taste. Having the opportunity to visit the beautiful land of Ninh Binh, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy these rustic but rich local culinary culture.

1. Pork tenderloin 500g 2. Fish sauce 2 tablespoons 3. Water 3 tablespoons 4. Seasoning seeds 1 teaspoon Steps 1. Preliminary processing of pork 2. Cook meat 3. Tear meat and whip meat 4. Place meat in an oil-free fryer Prepare materials 1. Pork tenderloin 500g 2. Fish sauce 2 tablespoons 3. Water 3 tablespoons 4. Seasoning seeds 1 teaspoon Moroccan (floss) is a dish that everyone likes because the shrimp is not only eaten with rice but can also be combined with bread, sticky rice or burnt rice, which are delicious. It’s actually not that difficult to make and it is even more convenient when you have an oil-free fryer. The sisters immediately learn how to make a fryer with an oil-free fryer! How to make a fryer using an oil-free fryer 1 Preliminary processing of pork Pork is washed and then cut into large pieces, along the grain. How to make a fryer with an oil-free fryer 2 Cook the meat Put the meat in the pot of boiling water for 3-5 minutes, then take out, bring the warehouse with 3 tablespoons of filtered water, 2 teaspoons of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds. You can reduce the salinity to suit your taste! How to make a fryer with an oil-free fryer 3 Tear and beat meat Allow the meat to cool and tear it into fibers. Then put the meat in the blender to beat the meat. How to make a fryer with an oil-free fryer 4 Place the meat in an oil-free fryer Place the meat in an oil-free fryer. 1 time set 180 degrees C for 5 minutes and then stir the meat. Second time set 160 degrees C for 5 minutes and then stir the meat. Third time set 140 temperature in about 3 minutes is finished. Photo: Tuyet Nguyen So instead of having to stand and stir in the pan like the usual way, the way to do with the oil-free fryer helps you more leisurely. The finished product is a uniform gold torch and does not burn. Photo: Tuyet Nguyen If you have the crayon, the sisters make extra fat and scorched rice to eat with the shrimp, which is a standard that doesn’t need to be adjusted. In addition, you can completely apply this method to chicken or fish bowls. Let’s see how you made a paste with an oil-free fryer! The pot made with an oil-free fryer is equally delicious. Photo: Nguyen Huynh Ngoc Thuy Everyone recognizes that thanks to the oil-free fryer, the job is much more leisurely. Photo: Lan Nguyen This dish is eaten with rice, sticky rice or bread are very delicious. Photo: Nguyen Khanh Ly Photo: Kim Dung Tran Wish all of you success with how to make an oil-free fryer! According to the Vietnamese lifestyle

The wood stove in the corner of the 5th floor of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. In the photo, Ms. Vuong’s mother is wrapping banh chung for Tet. At first, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of Ms. Vuong was opposed by her husband for fear of fire and explosion, causing heat to pour downstairs … But after hearing her persuasion, Ms. Vuong’s husband – an architect, Find out reasonable solutions for the wood stove on the 5th floor of the house. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by the family, built away from the wall, creating an open slot to reduce the heat of the oven. Kitchen smoke is led up to the roof through a chimney 1m away from the roof. The stove is in a fixed area, the firewood is kept in a separate area to avoid the ashes scattered on flammable items. At the same time, the whole house is equipped with a smoke alarm system, each floor is equipped with a fire extinguisher. The 5th floor area of ​​Ms. Vuong’s family is also a space with an open side, instead of being enclosed in 4 walls. Here, in addition to the wood stove, she also sets a dining table, grows flowers for family and friends to eat, drink tea, and chat with. On the Facebook group, the AHN account said: “My family is okay, but it’s too dangerous for the surrounding houses if anything happens. My house cooks from itself, the electric system switches itself off and cooks at night. After that, you have to unplug all the wires from the socket “. “The front of the house is empty space, there is no house behind the house with 5 floors”, Ms. Vuong explained before the ideas that the kitchen could endanger the surrounding community. The wood stove is located on the 5th floor with open space. After building a kitchen, she returned to her hometown to buy galangal, rice husks, peanut shells, and collect longan firewood from her garden for fuel. The old cast iron pots in the past were also “spared” to Hanoi to cook rice. “I really like the kitchen up here, so every time I have time I go to the 5th floor to cook for family and friends to come and play. I make all the dishes every day from the kitchen, from cooking rice to fish storage, boiling meat, baking dishes … There are rustic dishes that only wood cookers can do, also my friends come to play at home. For example, burnt rice from a cast iron pot, ”shared Ms. Vuong. Thanks to the wood stove, last Tet, her family was able to cook 4 pots of banh chung. From fried beef … … until fried beans are cooked on a wood stove. The kitchen is built of flame retardant material. The wood stove of Ms. Vuong after sharing on Facebook received many compliments and expressed her excitement. There are also many opinions that the wood stove only satisfies the taste of the country for a moment, but it entails many other inconveniences in cleaning the pots, smoke in the eyes, hot when cooking in the summer, especially. especially the risk of fire and explosion. However, for someone who likes country feeling like Vuong, those shortcomings can be completely overcome. “To me, cooking with wood stove is very relaxing and enjoyable” – Ms. Vuong said.

Ms. Mai Vuong said that at first, she only decided to build a stainless steel grill and then decided to build a wood stove. Talking with us, Ms. Mai Vuong (living in Hanoi) said that making firewood in the house is an idea derived from her hobby of baking and cooking dishes with home flavors. On the occasion of fixing the house, she and her husband decided to make the kitchen that they both cherished for a long time. “My childhood is associated with a simple wood stove. But I never thought of building a kitchen in the city like this”, Ms. Mai Vuong said. According to Ms. Mai Vuong, who was born in the countryside, the memories of dishes from the wood stove are always in mind … Wherever you go, you can remember the smell of kitchen smoke in your hands, hair, and food. how to eat so dear In Ms. Mai’s feeling, the food cooked with the wood stove is more delicious than the other kitchen. Building a wood stove in the middle of the city is not easy because the house area is not as large as in the countryside. Initially, Mai Vuong and her husband only intended to make stainless steel portable BBQ stoves. However, after the couple discussed, it was decided to build a stove to cook firewood. “The bricks that we use to build the kitchen are all refractory, the price is 70,000 VND / piece, the mortar is also refractory. The material that makes this stove is different from ordinary building materials” Ms. Mai Vuong expressed. The kitchen is placed at the corner of the wall, built about 3cm from the wall of the house, the oven has a brick outer shell, the inner layer in direct contact with cooking is used with fireproof bricks, above there is a chimney about 1m high with the roof . Before embarking on construction, Ms. Mai Vuong and her husband consulted many samples of fireplaces abroad. Fortunately, my husband is an architect, so it does not take too long to design. After building the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong bought galangal, rice husks, peanut shells and picked up firewood from the countryside garden and brought it up. She even brought a set of cast-iron and aluminum cookware from the countryside so that the kitchen in the middle of the street had a picture of the old wood stove. Since the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong often cooks dishes for both family and friends. Everyone who enjoys this dish cooked from the wood stove also compliments the delicious kumquat, especially the scorched rice dish cooked in a cast iron pot is loved by friends of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. Although she has a new kitchen, Mai Vuong’s family still uses two parallel kitchens, the rooftop stove is used when practicing friends on weekends because it is suitable for baking dishes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roasted peanuts

Fry the meat

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

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

Braised fish with soil

Fried tofu

Boiled potatoes

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

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