(Illustration) Unlike ordinary pork sausages, Cham sausages require ingenuity and sophistication from raw materials to processing. The outer shell is beef intestine, so that the dish has a tough, sweet and strange taste. The stuffing inside must also be pieces of shredded meat from the bones, so it has an attractive aroma. After that, people will deodorize with finely chopped ginger. (Illustration) And yet, a sausage with the right taste must have the fat and the fat. The best type of fat is sa fat, lard to make the dish more moist. The perfect ratio would be two parts meat one part fat. So mix all together with pepper, spices, star anise and secret recipes of the Cham people… to stuff the beef intestines. But the uniqueness of tossing and turning requires a unique ingredient – cold rice. Just adding a little fermented cold rice to the filling will stimulate the flavor in the strange sweet and sour taste. Each round, full, finger-sized sausage is tied into a string and dried. After 3 sun exposure, it is enough to drain, hunt meat and can be enjoyed. (Illustration) To fully feel the delicious, nutritious food of the dish, the best way is to grill beef sausages on embers, when cooked, “treat” right there. In the hot heat, just blow up and feel the melting sweetness of meat and beef fat. Mixed in is a little sourness of cold rice balanced and spicy to stimulate the taste of pepper and chili. The aroma emanating from the fire and the fat water flowing into the fire sounded like a “crack” sound. Dotted with sweet sauce, served with cinnamon is enough “standard” post. (Illustration) (Illustration) (Illustration) Tung lo ma is not only a specialty dish of the Cham people but also a precious gift that has been kept for generations. Once coming to this land, you should not miss the opportunity to experience the unique taste of beef sausages.

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?

Like the hierarchy in a certain definition, fish sauce is a dish reserved for the class that still has many difficulties to survive. But I dimly realized that the fish house society still has its own rules and voices. The snakehead fish sauce is cooked with pork fat, sugar + monosodium glutamate + ground pepper, dipped with boiled okra or cucumber, or eaten with purple potato soup cooked with shrimp or minced meat only for the wealthy. The pot of braised fish sauce is even more remote because it is expensive when it comes to bacon, snakehead fish and silver shrimp, … I choose friends with a cup of fish sauce very early. My mother told me to buy a tamarind from her sister’s 5 Pieces, go back and eat with cold rice. Selling sour tamarind to Saigon with lots of zinc, needing to be tall, sister 5 is young but likes to eat betel nut. She’s so cute, she never takes money and keeps telling me to eat as much as I can. Mam ruoc is no longer lonely when choking fish comes to share joy and sorrow. My mother and I often sit and tear fish sauce and eat it raw with herbs, banana chips + star fruit and cold rice. Asking the elders in the West, I received the answer: the West knows how to make fish sauce from Indonesia and snakehead fish sauce is suggested by Khmer people. 2. Lost in the youth in Can Tho for 5 years and 11 months, I know Tay Do is very famous for hot pot with fish sauce, but I have never tried it, because the dish with a lot of money is only for receiving precious guests. Time has passed, it has also been windy and rainy and we know each other a lot, in my eyes, the South is the path of fish sauce and islet pot (hot pot), like a familiar saying from friends: If you don’t eat fish sauce, you are not a local West!. In my young years, I still don’t have a satisfactory answer when Chau Doc – An Giang and Ca Mau are always affectionately called “the kingdom or land of fish sauce”, but Can Tho is resounding with fish sauce hotpot. Asking the elders in the West, I received the answer: the West knows how to make fish sauce from Indonesia and snakehead fish sauce is suggested by Khmer people. Borrowing the method of making beef sauce from snakehead fish in the Ho Sea, Can Tho is the economic center of the Southern Continent, where “white rice with clear water” has created a method of fermenting fish with Vietnamese identity: using Listen to fermented roasted rice, instead of cold rice. The Khmer people are sincere and honest, but the cuisine is still entangled in the wild. Living in harmony between the two rainy and sunny seasons along the Mekong River, both the Khmer and the Southern people gradually perfect the rustic dishes from fish sauce. Khmer people in the West know how to apply more spices to make beef sauce wrapped in green banana leaves more fragrant. Snakehead fish in the pot of braised fish of the West is replaced with basa or howling fish for fatter. At that time, when I heard about the original way of fermenting beef sauce, I did not dare to eat it, not to mention the stories of weaving and adding charms from folk about the Khmer. Then I try to practice and feel very delicious! 3. The time I had a meal in Phnom Penh, it was so delicious with Prahok Kob. Mixed beef sauce with bacon + beef and dangerous chili, wrapped in green banana leaves and grilled on charcoal. Just raw cucumber, eggplant and vermicelli, mixed with fish sauce, I’m full, I don’t care about other dishes… That night, I also learned the national spirit of the Khmer people through the mouth-watering saying “No prahok, no salt”, deeply understood: without beef sauce, the meal cannot be delicious! Southeast Asian countries all have their own “country spirit”, which I have also tasted such as Ngapi – Burma, Kapi – Thailand, Trasi and Petis udang – Indonesia, Bagoong – Philippine, Belacan – Malaysia, Padaek – Laos, … In my eyes, Vietnam deserves to be the “Lord of fish”. The variety and abundance is so rich that I cannot count all the separate categories by region… 4. The rain is pouring heavily, eating fish sauce to realize the bold, honest, and innocent features of the old countryside. Processing is as easy as the identity and life of the fish, when the fish is choked with a little water, boil it to get the juice. If you want the fish sauce to be strong or light, depending on the amount of fresh coconut water you add to dilute the fish sauce. Bring to a boil again, I season to taste. Among the spices I’ve tried, for me, garlic and lemongrass are the best, so I minced them and put them in the hot pot to add extra fat. Looking at the plate of meat, everyone will be amazed, but those who like to eat fish have the same opinion: the best is to eat vegetables with fish sauce! When I cook hotpot, I think of my mother, because she foresaw my fortune: old age, no job to earn money, so I have to eat fish sauce to change day by day…

Where are the leaves and flowers – a wild plant that grows a lot in An Giang. Photo: Tourism Newspaper Prohoc sauce (prohok – boo hoc), according to my mother-in-law, the climate in the South has two seasons: rainy and sunny. In addition to the rice season, the fish season is also the main season of the Khmer farmers in the South. They catch fish in many forms such as slapping or fishing, spreading nets, fishing nets, etc. Where they can be caught, they can be dried there with large fish, while small fish are made into beef sauce. Every house makes two or three jars to eat all year round. Bo hoc sauce is almost considered as the main dish in the culinary life of the Khmer people as well as the Vietnamese people’s snakehead, choke, and roe sauces. Although their way of making prohoc fish sauce is similar to that in Cambodia, but through the stages to become bohoc sauce, it is necessary that there is no longer a musty smell, especially without maggots. Usually they use snakehead fish more than other types of fish, of course, snakehead fish to make fish sauce will be more delicious. Select suffocated snakehead fish, scrape the scales, scrape the blood on the spine, wash and soak in cold water for a day and a night (24g), then take it out and leave it in a basket to drain. Use a knife to gradually fish the fish, add a small pinch of salt and a little cold rice, mix well. Incubate in a sealed container, the next day take out the fish and place it in a thick basket, cover the basket with a piece of mocha, use a rock or heavy object to ballast the water with a fishy smell. Then, put the fish in a jar or glass glue, use your hands to receive the fish easily, cut the mo areca to fit the mouth of the jar or glue it on, use a bamboo brace to fasten it. Then proceed to cook salt water poured over the fish and then dried in the sun. About three months, the fish sauce can be eaten, but only used for making stewed, fried, seasoned soups, cooked vermicelli or cooked with potted rice noodles with shaved corn with straw mushrooms and snakehead fish or shrimp. If you want to eat it raw, you must leave it for a year or more, the longer you leave it, the more delicious it will be. Beef broth of Khmer people. Usually fish sauce is eaten raw with thinly sliced ​​​​fruit or paired with herbs of all kinds. In particular, when cooking vermicelli, fish meat is shredded, boned, put in a mortar with wormwood vermicelli, boiled, combed for water, then added fresh snakehead fish, pork, minced lemongrass into the pot of water. leo. Those who have never eaten prahoc sauce, when they heard the name mentioned, they were afraid. But if you happen to stand in the wind, someone is cooking fish sauce, the sense of smell can enjoy a faint aroma mixed between the pungent smell of brewed fish and the sweet aroma of fish sauce. That taste makes us drowsy, listening to the hungry stomach. Having a sip of spinach soup or a bowl of vermicelli, there was nothing happier than that. Happier if you can eat a piece of raw fish sauce sandwiched with the fruit, the sour and sour taste of the fish sauce mixed with the sweet and fragrant taste of the fish sauce, the warm and spicy taste of minced lemongrass, dissolved in a sip of wine cooked with rice, is nothing better. It’s like listening to the wine pushing the fish sauce and slowly drifting into the throat, slowly ripening… gradually…, falling into the stomach. Please bear with me, I don’t know what language to use to describe all that “delicious” pleasure! Where is the dried gourd salad with choke fish . Photo: Tourism Newspaper At home, my wife gently washes each bunch of young leaves, each tiny bunch of tiny aluminum flakes, drains before mixing the salad with cucumber, thinly sliced ​​tomatoes, and purple onions. Similar to the way to mix durian salad of the Vietnamese people in Sam mountain (Chau Doc, An Giang), it is mixed with dried snakehead fish, shredded grilled snakehead fish or with shrimp, tiger, boiled bacon cut into pieces and eaten together. coriander leaves. But, with the Khmer it is a little different. After washing vegetables, tomatoes are grated into thin circles; thinly sliced ​​purple onion; cilantro, chopped coriander only; chili, minced garlic. After that, my wife started to process the mixed water and put the cooked tamarind in a bowl to make boiling water, stirring to dissolve the tamarind rice. Then she began to process the mixed water, using cooked tamarind in a bowl or cup, boiling water in, stirring with chopsticks until the sour substance was diluted in the water. Prahoc sauce is also put in a bowl, add boiling water, and crumble until the meat is broken. Then, comb the water to decant the fish baits and bones. Crush garlic, chili, add a little granulated sugar and then add two kinds of tamarind juice, fish sauce, stir well, sweet and sour seasoning. When the shrimp or tiger is cooked, take it out, take out the cooked meat and cut it into thin pieces. Put both in a bowl of vegetables, add the mixed water, mix well with the leaves and flowers, then start enjoying. Unlike at home, where I sit to eat on a chair around the table, Khmer people eat on a plank, all the dishes are arranged in the heart of the board. Everyone in the family, along with my father’s two brothers and my (mother’s) brother, my wife sat cross-legged around the tray of rice. My father is the oldest person in the family, holding a cup and chopsticks to invite: “Each oot kho nia hop bai” (the whole family eats rice). I took each chopsticks of salad into my mouth, chewed slowly, the sweet and sour taste of cucumber, tomato, the spicy taste of garlic, chili, laksa leaves, coriander mixed with the sweetness of shrimp meat, the fat of pork belly. shine in the district with the sweet and bitter taste of sorrow. All of these are imbued with the sweet aroma of beef sauce, creating a delicious taste. Sorrow salad is no longer a favorite dish for men to sip with kh Kha wine, there is nothing better than telling stories in gatherings. My father-in-law holds a bottle of wine that is fermented with home-cooked glutinous rice that my uncle and I bring in according to the Khmer custom in the days of Sene Dolta (anniversary ceremony). He poured out a small glass, clear drops of wine slowly sparkling, showing a very high alcohol concentration. Picking up the glass, he said: “Onh Chon ate every ounce of happiness” (inviting everyone to drink wine). He brought a glass of wine to his lips, gulped it down, then wheezed, said: “Sê Chchanh” (good wine) and then poured a pass for each person. When I came to my circle, I refused because the wine was too strong, but my uncle said: “Num salinh top brother chon” (Ba Thuong Ba just invited). Hearing that, I couldn’t refuse and reached out to accept the wine glass. Before drinking, I picked up a chopsticks of salad, put it in my mouth, chewed it slowly, enjoying the sweet aroma, then swallowed, then gulped down the glass with my breath, the spicy alcohol on the surface of my tongue and then “swallowed” the salad pieces for them. drifting slowly, slowly, heating up as if they were ripening, softening and disintegrating. Enjoying this delicious dish, I realized that, no matter how sad, but when chewing a piece of melancholy salad, the sorrow is also broken and blended into the delicious taste that gradually drifts down to the stomach, leaving only a sweet, bitter aftertaste on the tip of the tongue that we always feel like eating more! Chau Doc (An Giang), where is known as the “kingdom” of fish sauce. Photo: Huynh LamTGTT On that day, when the cool winds swayed the surface of the Hau River, the first rain of the April season watered the fields and awakened the young shrimps that were still sleeping in spring in the shells clinging to the field or in frogs and crab burrows. , eels, snakes… At that time, the uncles started a self-reliant life. This is also the time when Khmer farmers are busy for the rice sowing season. The lush green carpets grow with the water. The shrimps are also growing up. By the middle of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the rice begins to ripen and the fields are golden, and people are anxious for the harvest. The fields are drained and the water flows down the canals and canals. This is the season of catching shrimp. Children, adults, women, young people, anyone can participate. People use bamboo slats, walk in the deep corners of the fields or use fine nets to drag along the canals. But the most common is to use scrubbing to place the free place to drain the water flowing down the canals to catch shrimp. Shrimp is an inexpensive source of wild food, but rich in protein, calcium, and easy to prepare. Can be boiled with rice paper, raw vegetables; fried dough; warehouse; roasted… but the best is to make fish sauce. The Khmer shrimp paste, called bo-ot, is different from the type of shrimp paste we usually use. The method is also simple, but must be carefully selected, remove moss, snail shells, dead leaves, grass, garbage, etc. Most importantly, remove the ones on the head with luminous substance by putting the shrimp in the ball. dark for easy viewing. If chosen incorrectly, when making fish sauce, it is easy to be poisoned. After choosing, wash, and use 1kg of shrimp with a high concentration of base wine, 50gr of granulated salt, marinate, cover for about 30 minutes, drain water, mix in a cup of cold rice, 100g of white granulated sugar, Get the cloves into the glue. About three days later, add chopped ginger, garlic, and crushed chili, mix well into the glue. Try eating a piece of ginger, if it tastes sour, the fish sauce has been eaten. Bo-ot fish sauce is very delicious, sour, sweet, aromatic, spicy… stimulating the digestive system, it is difficult for any kind of shrimp paste to be compared with its unique flavor. Shrimp sauce is served with raw vegetables of all kinds along with fresh vermicelli, rice paper and pineapple, acrid banana, sour fruit, thin slices when the family has an anniversary, party… But it is also used as food in daily meals. family day. When eating sandwich with grilled catfish, beef sauce gives me its wonderful taste, so I can’t help but “work hard” to bring my wife back to visit her family whenever I have the opportunity. And every time, besides visiting the health of my wife’s parents, and then gathering around the family tray of rice, I often enjoy the unique taste of beef sauce and beef sauce in a meal full of love. feel dear!

Ms. Luu Thi Lien at home, May 2020. While living and working at the Central Office of the Vietnam Women’s Union in the Viet Bac War Zone (1947-1954), Luu Thi Lien was assigned the task of communicating and transferring documents and documents to central agencies. Therefore, she was honored to meet Uncle Ho many times. Every time I met Uncle Ho, it was a touching story, still intact in her heart. Ms. Luu Thi Lien said, once on the way to work, Uncle took advantage of visiting sisters in the office. The person kindly inquired about the living, living and working conditions of the sisters. Seeing that the sisters’ meals were still miserable, Uncle suggested: “You should ask for local land to increase production and improve your life, not let you eat a lot of flying vegetables and bamboo shoots, which is not good for your health. strong”. Another time, Uncle said: “You shouldn’t eat cold rice, you will lose nutrition. Please ask the people in the village to guide you on how to knit a pot with a lid, how to have enough rice to keep it hot.” After Uncle Ho’s teachings and thanks to the seeds he sent to increase, in a short time, the sisters’ meals were significantly improved. The knitting of rice budgies is also implemented. From then on, whether it’s winter or summer, no one has to eat cold rice anymore.” There is one memory that Mrs. Lien will always remember. Around 3:00 p.m. on May 19, 1950, when officials in the agency went to a meeting, there were only 3 sisters at home, wearing a sedge bag containing official documents and had just reached the top of Hoang Ngan palm hill slope, in Diem Mac commune (Dinh Hoa province). , Thai Nguyen), Luu Thi Lien suddenly saw Uncle Ho and his security comrades coming. Because of the secret principle of “3 no’s” (don’t know, don’t say, don’t ask), she rushed to bow to Uncle Uncle and then led him back to the office, then ran to inform everyone: “Sisters! Uncle came! Uncle came!”. The sisters ran out to meet Uncle. Seeing a few empty houses, he immediately asked: “Where have you all gone?”. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong (later Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam Women’s Newspaper) said: “Yes! Leaders and sisters of your agency, please go to the Central Guest House to attend the meeting!”. Uncle looked kindly at the 3 sisters, thoughtfully: “I went to a conference recently, it’s convenient to visit them!”. At this time, it was almost dark, and it was raining again, Huong boldly suggested: “Dear Uncle, we have cooked rice, we invite you and the security comrade to stay and eat.” After thinking for a moment and discussing with his companions, Uncle Ho accepted. Needless to say, the sisters were all happy and moved. At this point, Ms. Luu Thi Lien pondered. She said that at that time, she was assigned to cook rice by her sisters, but the warehouse manager went to a meeting. She had to “secretly” climb over the bamboo poles, go to the warehouse to get rice, and a box of asparagus, which was the spoils of a military unit sent as a gift. Moments later, a tray of rice was served, with a bowl of asparagus soup, a plate of roasted salt, a little fat, chili, and a few hard-boiled eggs. Because she thought she was a liaison officer, an agency employee, Luu Thi Lien did not dare to sit and eat with Uncle and sisters. Seeing this, Uncle told Ms. Huong: “Call the child support girl to have dinner with Uncle for fun”. During a happy meal, looking at a bowl of bamboo shoots, Uncle asked: “Asparagus, how do you cook?”. Luu Thi Lien said to Uncle: “Yes, Uncle, I took out the asparagus and boiled water, poured the bamboo shoots in, I was close to adding fat and salt”. Hearing that, Uncle laughed and said: “This is canned asparagus of the French, when cooking, you have to cut it into pieces, wash it, and cook it with lean meat. You are women, you have to study hard to learn literature. chemistry, politics, women’s housework, especially to know how to cook well.” More than 70 years have passed, but the memory of meeting Uncle Ho and having dinner with him is a very sacred and emotional memory for Ms. Luu Thi Lien. Remembering Uncle Ho’s teachings, peace was restored, although life was still difficult, she was determined to study and work to keep up with friends and colleagues. In her work, regardless of her position, from a district woman officer to Vice President of the Hanoi Farmers’ Union, Ms. Luu Thi Lien always successfully completed the assigned tasks, always studied and worked hard. follow the instructions of the Father.

Childhood, everyone has experienced beautiful and unforgettable days. The most memorable are family meals with rice with cassava, potato, and corn. Despite hardship and deprivation, it is a memorable childhood memory that only the 7x and 8x generations have. The childhood rice dish is a little rice, most of it is potatoes, cassava or corn so that all family members are full. In this day and age, it is rare for the 9x and 10x generations to eat a meal filled with cassava and sweet potato. Not only is it strange, but it also feels like being discovered something new. However, for the previous generation, this childhood dish is a part of a lifelong memory. In the childhood of the 7x and 8x generations, they did not have much food, nor were they as affluent as they are now, so there were other meals such as cold rice and shrimp noodles. This is considered an “immortal” childhood dish of many people. Mixed rice with sugar is also a childhood dish associated with many generations. The light sweetness of rice mixed with the rich sweetness of sugar makes many people who grow up in poverty still feel full every day. Rice mixed with fish sauce and lard is the “legendary” dish of the children in the past. Just a little bit of fish sauce, add a little pepper mixed with greasy lard, stir well and mix with white rice but still make many people fall in love. Banh da mi is a snack that has been attached to many generations of Vietnamese people and is still sold to this day. Tofu is also a rather expensive dish for children in the past. Popsicles (also known as stick burns) are country gifts reminiscent of the childhood of many generations of 8x, 9x. Made from malt sugar, a little peanuts and peanuts can be added to enhance the taste, candies are a childhood dish that cannot be ignored for many people. Thin slices of waffles, yellow in color, fragrant with cinnamon, have become a childhood dish for generations. Photo: Synthesis Invite readers to watch the video: The “intense” childhood of the old people – Source: VTV24

The air fryer has become a miracle appliance in the kitchen, loved by many housewives. This tool can make many dishes from baking, frying, even baking. Fried rice is also one of the dishes that an oil-free fryer can handle quickly, without having to fry with a regular pan on the stove, especially on hot summer days. You only need to prepare all the ingredients and you will have a delicious dish in just a few minutes. First, you should use cold rice instead of hot rice. This is the secret of delicious rice roasting that applies to the usual way of frying rice. It is best to put it in the refrigerator so that the rice grains will shrink, when processing fried rice will be more delicious. Basic ingredients include rice, eggs and optional toppings such as green beans, sausages, carrots, smoked meat, onions… They are all prepared as usual: washed and cut into bite-sized pieces. In addition, you need to add cooking oil, soy sauce and chili sauce. You crack the eggs, beat well and mix into the rice, then add a tablespoon of cooking oil and mix again. Compared to conventional roasting, this amount of oil is much less, good for health. Next, you need to preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes to stabilize the temperature. If you put all the ingredients in before turning on the oven, it may cause the dish to cook unevenly. You need to fry 2 times, once fried rice separately and once for extra topping. You line the tray with foil to heat the rice quickly and keep the temperature, then, put the rice in, turn on 180 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes, then take it out, stir well. Next, add sausages, beans, carrots, smoked meat to the mix and continue to turn on 180 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes to complete. Before eating, you should add a little soy sauce or fish sauce, sprinkle more pepper and serve with chili sauce. A plate of fried rice with an oil-free fryer is quick, simple, low-fat, and doesn’t smell. The taste is delicious, attractive, no less than fried in the usual way. According to the Star

Ice saves the soup with a lot of oil and fat and helps the cold rice become more flexible. Reduce bruises When you have just been bumped and bruised, do not apply heat or oil. At this time, ice should be placed on the wound to reduce bruising and swelling. When applying, you should cover the ice with a soft cloth, avoid placing it directly on the skin. Make green boiled vegetables more crispy In order for boiled vegetables to keep their beautiful green color, when cooked, remove the vegetables and immediately drop them into a bowl of ice cold water. Low temperatures will cool vegetables quickly and retain their beautiful green color. Such vegetables will also be more crispy. This method can be applied to tubers, beans, asparagus… With meat dishes such as chicken, boiled duck, soaked in ice cold water after cooked to help the meat become firmer and not darken. Make cold rice more flexible When reheating cooled rice, add an ice cube on top. Cover the pot and press the cook button as usual, and wait until the pot switches to keep warm mode. During the process of heating the rice, the ice cold water will melt and make the rice grains soft, not dry. Steam also prevents the rice from burning at the bottom of the pot. Help bitter melon more crispy You just need to put a few ice cubes under the plate and arrange thinly sliced ​​bitter melon on top, it will make the bitter taste of the melon reduce, the piece of melon is also more crispy. When eating raw bitter melon with shrimp, it will be more fleshy and sweeter. Rescue for a soup with a lot of oil and fat When your soup is too oily or greasy, you can simply place ice inside a large ladle or . Then, gently glide the bottom of the ladle over the surface of the soup pot. The scum layer that encounters low temperatures will stick to the ladle. As a result, your soup pot is clear, without any fat. Kill death celk In addition to exfoliating cosmetics, there is also a natural beauty method at home that is using cucumber or fresh milk. These ingredients you grind with a little water and put in an ice tray in the refrigerator, wait a few hours. Then take out the ice and massage it on your face gently, the rough surface of the stone will help remove dead cells, and provide nutrients to the skin contained in the stone. Because the stone also has a great use to help rejuvenate the skin, remove wrinkles and make your face more radiant. Therefore, in the morning, instead of washing your face with normal cold water, use ice cubes to clean, try and feel the difference on your face. Reduce toilet clogs According to the experience of many women, putting ice cubes in the toilet will help limit the blockage of pipes, minimizing the amount of bacteria that can penetrate. This method is used quite commonly in public toilets because of the large number of people using it.

Bread Milk dot bread is a childhood reminder, familiar to most Vietnamese because of its simplicity, delicious taste and addictive taste. You do not need to prepare elaborate, only with crispy hot bread and condensed milk can enjoy. If you want to break the rules, try adding iced cocoa to dot the bread. Simple ingredients include pure cocoa powder, condensed milk and some ice cubes. The slices of bread are pre-cut, when eaten in a thick glass of cocoa, there is a bit of bitterness and sweetness, bringing a refreshing feeling. Each style of enjoying bread brings its own delicious taste. Photo: Congcaphe, Chanlovefoods, Hukha.foodaholic, Hoanglam.foodie. Egg cream bread is also a suggestion not to be missed. You whip the egg yolks. After beating for about 5 minutes, add sugar and continue beating until the mixture is smooth, light yellow, you can use bread to taste the aroma and fat. Pan bread with easy-to-prepare ingredients is also great for preparing in the morning. Fried eggs, sausages, rolls, pate, canned fish or cheese can all be used to create quality, nutritious food pans. In addition, some cilantro, carrots, sweet and sour radish, cucumber will help you get sick. When you eat, you tear the bread dipped in rich sauce and sip each ingredient in the pan to feel the full taste. Pasta Mixed noodles are a familiar, easy-to-make dish that saves you a lot of processing time. From instant noodles, you blanch with boiling water. However, do not blanch for too long because it will make the noodles soft and reduce the taste. Noodles are removed, then mixed well with seasoning and sauce packages. For more quality dishes, you can enjoy mixed noodles with eggs and green vegetables. Ingredients such as shrimp, beef, sausages, fish balls … or vegetables can be used in this dish. A plate of stir-fried noodles with varied toppings makes for a delicious breakfast. Dry noodles mixed with sauce combined with eggs, meat or seafood … are all delicious. Photo: Hoanglam.foodie. Pilau With the cold rice available, you can immediately make the egg fried rice that is fast, but still delicious and nutritious. After frying the shallots with the oil, place the rice in a pan and stir over low heat. Next, you add eggs and stir well with rice until the eggs are dry, sticking to the rice. Soy sauce, pepper, monosodium glutamate are indispensable spices to make the meal more rich. Fried rice has eye-catching colors, stimulating the taste buds of people. Photo: Quynhu.joyn, V_vkumo. In addition, green beans, carrots, sausages, pomegranate rolls, if combined, will make the fried rice more eye-catching and strange. The rice is poured into a plate when eaten, the above is scallions, cilantro is more flavorful. If you like, you can decorate with tomato or cucumber. Porridge To ensure your health during the complicated Covid-19 epidemic days, do not forget to prepare delicious and nutritious porridge. By storing rice in the refrigerator first, following the steps of rinsing the rice, draining it, putting it in a nylon bag and placing it in the freezer overnight, the moisture in the rice will freeze, the rice grain cracks and the cooking time will be faster. Delicious, hot porridge bowl is quite ideal for you to recharge at the beginning of the day. Photo: Chef_thuy_pham, Aspiringtable. When you cook, put the rice in a pot of water, place it on the stove and cook on low heat. During this process, do not forget to stir the pot for about 10 minutes at a time so that the porridge does not clump or clump. A little salt will be seasoned to help the porridge taste fat and mouth-watering. Types of green onions, perilla, and Chinese aroma help make the dish flavorful. In addition to the simple porridge with eggs and onions, the processor can combine shrimp, mushrooms, meat … depending on the taste to make the meal more delicious, rich in quality. 3 delicious, simple dishes made from eggs Housewives can refer to the following 3 simple ways to prepare breakfast for the family. The dish only takes about 5-7 minutes to process.