Durian is native to Southeast Asia and is considered by the people of the region as the “King of Fruits”. Durian is characterized by its large size, thorny shell, yellow flesh with a characteristic odor The smell of durian divides the world into two halves, the likes and dislikes. If you are passionate about this fruit, many people will find durian has a sweet, pleasant aroma, the taste when enjoyed is greasy and attractive. In addition to the golden yellow durian flesh, few people know that the skin and seeds of the durian fruit can also be eaten You can refer to how to make a unique pork rib stew with durian shell soup Ingredients to make a bowl of soup for 3-4 people include: 1 durian peel, 2kg pork ribs, 300g lotus seeds, 1 piece of ginger, 300g black fungus, 100g jujube and other spices such as vinegar, sugar , salt…. First, you take a knife to separate the white pulp inside of the durian shell, then cut it into bite-sized pieces, wash and drain. Ginger is smashed Next, you bring 2kg of boiled pork ribs with boiling water. After adding an appropriate amount of water to the pot, then put 1 piece of crushed ginger, 100g of jujube and 1 teaspoon of vinegar into the stew for about 1 hour. Next, add the white pulp of durian and cook for about 30 minutes. Done, you add 300g of mushrooms and 300g of lotus seeds. Bring to a boil over low heat for another 30 minutes. Finally, season with sugar, salt and seasoning (depending on taste) This bone-in stewed durian shell soup looks very eye-catching. When enjoying, you will feel the white intestine with a very special flavor mixed with the sweet broth from pork ribs. In addition, the white pulp of durian can be deep fried The white pulp, after being cut into small pieces, will be briefly blanched with salted boiling water, then taken out and drained. You add flour, eggs, a little salt (or sugar) and filtered water and stir well (not too thin or too thick). Fill the pan with oil, when the oil is hot, dip the durian skin in the flour and fry it very crispy Remove the fried durian skin to a plate and enjoy. The dish is crispy, extremely greasy and has a characteristic durian smell. You can eat it with ketchup or chili sauce It is known that durian peel helps the kidneys remove toxins easily, helps relieve constipation, enhances blood circulation for the body… In addition, if you know how to process, the dried durian seeds can also become delicious and nutritious snacks. Durian seeds provide a lot of good nutrients for the body such as starch, fiber, zinc … Boiled durian seeds are a healthy snack that doesn’t take too long to prepare To get quality seeds, you need to choose durians that are not sprayed, have fresh stems, and have a strong aroma The method is extremely simple, you just need to wash the durian seeds and boil them in boiling water for about 15-20 minutes. Durian seeds when boiled have a characteristic aroma and are eaten with fat In addition to boiling, durian seeds can be baked. Just clean the seeds (you take a knife to make a small cut on the seeds so that the seeds are less likely to explode when baking) and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes. Toasted durian seeds have a fatty, attractive taste Durian seeds after shaving the brown outer shell can be cooked with pork to make a very delicious soup

Mr. Tran Van Hai from Lang Son said that for the past few years, his family has specialized in purchasing, preliminarily processing and refining all kinds of cake wrapping leaves. In the past, people only took bamboo to make their house, cook, make firewood, make cakes and leave the leaves behind. But in the past few years, fresh bamboo leaves have been picked up by many people, bought and sold to traders who export to Taiwan for 10,000 VND/kg fresh bamboo leaves and 40,000 VND/kg dried bamboo leaves. Eight degree bamboo leaves are purchased and exported to Taiwan Đài “Myself and my family never thought that bamboo leaves could be sold abroad. It was not until a contact to buy bamboo leaves for traditional cake packages in Taiwan made me know that bamboo leaves could be sold and exported to foreign countries. From there, my family went to get bamboo leaves to sell. When the collection is not enough, hire more workers and advertise online to buy bamboo leaves in other localities in any quantity, “said Mr. Hai. According to Mr. Hai, with fresh bamboo leaves, he buys them for 7,000-10,000 VND/kg. As for dried bamboo leaves, he buys them for 35,000-40,000 VND/kg. All must be octagonal bamboo leaves (also known as Buong). The weights of bamboo leaves are purchased to ensure the quality criteria, the leaves must be large, not torn, still green and absolutely not yellow. Each leaf is about 38-40cm long, 8cm wide or more. “Bamboo is very different from ordinary bamboo leaves. They are much larger in size. When bought, fresh bamboo leaves will be exposed to the sun for about 2 days. The leaves are then counted and clamped onto a bamboo stick. At this time, dry clean, bring bamboo leaves into the oven to dry and then sort and pack,” Hai said. The bamboo leaves that are completely cleaned by natural and chemical-free methods will be exported to Taiwan to be used as packaging materials for cakes, food packages, etc., and are loved by the people of this country due to its taste delicious and long lasting. “The type of cake that the Taiwanese side often wraps with bamboo leaves is like Vietnamese chung cake. However, because it is wrapped with bamboo leaves, the cake has a characteristic aroma. In addition, the type of cake wrapped from this leaf is very easy to peel, keeps for a long time and does not go stale as quickly as seaweed and banana leaves. From the end of April to October of the solar calendar every year is the autumn to buy eight degrees of bamboo leaves. Therefore, many personal facebook groups go to groups to sell and buy fresh and dried bamboo leaves in unlimited quantities. There, the atmosphere was jubilant because many bamboo growers in different places asked about the purchase price as well as the instructions for collecting and transporting fresh and dried bamboo leaves. For long-term business cooperation, all establishments that register to sell fresh and dried bamboo leaves Mr. Hai come to the place to collect and check. “I have to go down to the place to instruct the individual establishments that collect bamboo leaves to ensure that the leaves are not torn, beautiful green color and especially large. Come to the place to see the specific item once. Next time, they just do that, then I decide to buy, avoid wasting both parties’ time, “he said. Currently in Yen Bai, Bac Giang, Thanh Hoa, Soc Son – Hanoi… there are a lot of people growing bamboo and poplar trees. They only use the tree and leave the leaves empty. Therefore, he went to teach how to collect leaves and now they become agents, helping his establishment to buy fresh and dried bamboo leaves up to a few kilos/day in the locality.

Just type the phrase “jam cau kieng” on the internet, users can find a series of posts for sale with prices ranging from 150,000 – 160,000 VND / kg. However, this item is not available often, lucky customers ask when it is there, they can buy it right away, or else they will have to wait. The areca fruit is picked to prepare the jam. Ms. Ngoc – an online seller of areca jam, said that this item depends a lot on the weather. “This kind of jam must be dried in the middle of the sun to achieve the best consistency and dryness. If the weather is wet, the jam must be dried in the oven, it will make them very hard, the flexibility will also be lessened, ”she said. Each time, she can only make a few kilograms of jam, so she is always in a shortage. She said: “I research on the internet so I know how to make this jam and sell it because I find it to be quite good. But as a small retailer, I do not have the wholesale quantity even though sometimes there are customers who contact me to buy wholesale ”. This fruit will be crushed to get the seeds inside. Also making areca jam for sale, Ms. Hoa said when she was first sold, many curious people ordered to try it. Most of them found it very strange and always texted asking: “Areca fruit can also be eaten?”, “How will you eat?” … “Many people ask a lot and I only know how to answer it by everyone should buy it to enjoy. Yet when I made the first batch of about 2kg of jam, I sold it all within 1 note. Customers just put a half a pound “, she said. Through many stages, the new ornamental areca nut can become a jam. Talking about how to make this jam, she said areca fruit must be selected, not all fruits can be done. The too old fruit will be hard on seeds, and when eaten, they will not be able to chew, while the young ones that are too young will be soft, pasty and not delicious. The best way is that the fruits that when cut in half will find that areca nut fits well, you can use your fingernails to try it, if it’s too hard, then remove it. The next stage will pick up each fruit, use a hard object like a pestle or hit a hard log to get the seeds of the areca tree. Then, bring these seeds soaked in water mixed with lemon and salt, wash 3-4 times. Then boil 3 times with salt and lemon water so that areca seeds are no longer acrid and white seeds, each 5-10 minutes. Continue, the maker will marinate with sugar, can use yellow sugar to color up will look better. After that, they will remove and cook the pot and simmer until it is thick, take it out and dry in the sun. Jam from this fruit ranges from 150,000 to 160,000 VND / kg. According to research, areca fruit is one of the medicines that can cure diabetes. Herbalist Hua Hien Quang (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) said he used ornamental areca fruit in combination with toad fruit to treat a patient with diabetes. Accordingly, the patient was combined with a low-protein, sugar-based diet and exercised regularly. Yet, for a while the disease can be completely cured.

Dan Tri newspaper reported, realizing that many people have a large amount of old and undressed clothes and need to be discarded, Ms. Hoang Hue (in Hanoi) poses the question of how to optimize the life cycle of a product. . “It was because of that thought that inspired me to create, revitalize old clothes into fashion products. I started experimenting with bags, wallets, backpacks, necklaces, and accessories from old materials. “- Ms. Hue said. Up to now, Ms. Hue has made more than 100 fashion products such as accessories, bags, wallets, … from old clothes. More than half of the items she brought to sale were sold at prices ranging from VND 250,000-750,000 / product. These beautiful bags are salvaged, made from old objects. (Photo: Dan Tri) There is a young man in Ho Chi Minh City who takes advantage of old and broken guitars to make unique products that are ordered by many customers. According to Dan Viet Newspaper, when seeing broken, unusable instruments thrown into the trash by many people, Do Hoang Thong felt sorry and thought of buying them to make bookshelves. greenery display shelves and music disc display racks, … Depending on the product’s decoration, he will sell at a price of 1.2-2 million dong. Patent watches, toys worth hundred million from old motorcycle carcasses Mr. Nguyen Tuan Anh (SN 1986, currently owns a mechanical workshop in Ho Chi Minh City) said that on Zing, from 2018 until now, he has created decorative products such as watches, drinking tables, geckos. … with old car parts. His products range in sizes and designs, priced from 1 million VND to several hundred million VND. According to Mr. Tuan Anh, in Vietnam, very rare mechanical decor workshops like him. One month, he sells about 100 products of all kinds. Stone lotus garden with 200 unique species of 8X Dalat Dan Tri newspaper said, working in the real estate sector, but Le Ngoc Tam (32 years old, Da Lat) has a special passion for stone lotus. “The stone lotus brings a pure, elegant beauty like a lotus. In addition, the tree also means feng-shui is luck, prosperity for the owner.”, Mr. Tam said. The stone lotus garden of Mr. Tam. (Photo: Dan Tri) Mr. Tam has come up with the idea to plant and design a stone lotus garden with an area of ​​100m2 with many unique varieties. In Mr. Tam’s garden, there are 200 different types of stone lotus, such as: rubi lotus, lola lotus, king lotus, gray rose lotus, brown stone lotus, silver stone, white crane lotus, white chrysanthemum lotus, purple … have similarities from Vietnam, Korea and China. The stone lotus in the garden has many eye-catching and unique styles and colors. Unique giant crocodile bread in Ho Chi Minh City Bread loaf with a unique and funny shape of Mr. Phan Thanh Phuoc (37 years old) always attracts many young people in the area of ​​Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Phuoc mentioned above Zing, he has been working for about 20 years but has only been in love with animal bread for 6 years. Accumulating many years as a hired laborer, Mr. Phuoc has opened a small bakery for about 2 years by himself. Mr. Phuoc can shape more than 10 animal models such as dragons, spiders, turtles, crabs, … 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. With animal-shaped bread, when finished, the cake will have a soft intestine, but other parts such as the legs and beard are always more crispy or easy to be hard if baked over the heat. The noodle dish has a unique name in Phu Quoc One of the dishes that visitors to Phu Quoc must try is the “stirring” vermicelli. This dish not only attracts customers because of its strange name but also its very own taste. Vermicelli “stirring” is a famous dish of Phu Quoc. (Photo: Dan Tri) Noodles “stirring” comes from Binh Dinh shrimp vermicelli. After many years, the dish was modified with the available ingredients on Ngoc Island and changed a little flavor to suit the regional culture. A bowl of vermicelli costs from 35,000-75,000 VND depending on size and composition. The bowl of vermicelli includes a boiled squid, fish ball, shrimp cake, chopped onions and fresh noodles. There are many different explanations of the strange name “stirring” bun. Many people say that this dish is named “stirring” because it must be eaten with dipping sauce including flour, monosodium glutamate, sugar, kumquat (kumquat), chili. The ingredients after being put into the bowl were stirred vigorously to compare. But according to the owner of the oldest and most crowded noodle shop in Phu Quoc, the restaurant is called “stirring” because when cooking, the chef is constantly stirring. Tree born “extremely poisonous”, decided not to sell Dan Tri newspaper said, at the exhibition, exhibiting ornamental creatures in the Central region – Central Highlands in 2021 took place in the city. Buon Ma Thuot (Dak Lak), a tree born with the name “Pride of Vietnam” has attracted attention to the world of bonsai players and many people because of its unique, strange and attractive beauty. Many artisans commented that the shape and posture of the tree were very beautiful and rare. The tree has a root circumference of 10m, 3.7m high and 6m long; with the distribution system of tree populations, creating a large triangular three-dimensional whole. The owner of the birth tree shares, this birth tree has many unique features such as: rock-hugging pedestal, beautiful tumor-humped trunk, harmonious, balanced and reasonable canopy. There were many people offering to own a tree, but he refused because he trot views the tree as his “soulmate”. Western men spend hundreds of millions raising ‘wild’ fish in the river Over the past 1 year, the wild pangasius flocking to Ong Chuong canal lived, Dinh Vu Tam (51 years old, in Long Kien commune, Cho Moi district, An Giang) nurtured and protected. The strange thing is that these thousands of fish live completely in the wild on Ong Chuong canal. Whenever he heard him, Tam took a tree to knock on the side of the ship, the fish swam back and emerged to eat like a “pet”. Thousands of fishes are very brave and live in the river behind Mr. Tam’s house. (Photo: Hoai Thanh) Mr. Tam said that he sees the fish as a pet, so during the past time he has never harmed them or caught fish for sale or meat. He also did not make a net to stop the fish, but let them swim freely in the river. In order for the fish to have a shelter and avoid other people coming to fish, Mr. Tam spends a boat permanently anchored in the river. He estimates the current fish population is about 15 tons. Small children about 1kg, the largest about 5kg. Because of the large quantity of fish, Mr. Tam spends about 800,000 VND per day to buy food for the fish to eat. Hanh Nguyen (Synthetic)

According to Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Newspaper, in the hope of increasing the value of pineapple trees, reducing the environmental pollution load after each harvest, Mr. Nguyen Van Hanh (31 years old, in Tan Thang commune, Quynh Luu district, Nghe province An) decided to quit his job as a ship captain with a salary of 30 million VND / month to go back to his hometown to grow pineapple (pineapple, pineapple). Anh Hanh and pineapple fibers are separated from pandan leaves (Photo: Women in HCMC) “The machine includes a system of knives inside, which helps to break the meat, keeping the leaf silk. This machine can squeeze 2-3 tons of pineapple leaves / day. After that, silk is soaked in pineapple vinegar, dried, spliced, spun … Many manufacturers of bags and fashion products have ordered this yarn, “said Hanh. Unique painting costing silver million from utopian material Dan Viet newspaper said, who is an art enthusiast, but living with painting teacher Nguyen Hoang Nam (Chau Phu district, An Giang province) is “non-believer”. But with his natural ability, Mr. Nam has turned the rugged granite slabs into unique and vivid stone paintings. Currently, Mr. Nam has over 150 stone paintings of all types: portraits, landscapes, word paintings … These stone paintings bear bold beauty of the Southern countryside. Each stone painting costs from several million to several tens of million dong. The Hanoi farmer raises a tiny fish in a scrap bottle Mr. Tran Ngoc Thang, (55 years old, residing in Ngoc Ha ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi), has more than 20 years working with fighting fish farming. In particular, Mr. Thang took advantage of thousands of discarded bottles and jars to raise fish. Fighting fish in a bottle (Photo: Dan Viet) “When starting to raise this fish, many people think that I am crazy because more than 100m2 of land in the middle of Ba Dinh district, just renting can make enough money to feed the whole family, I need to work hard.” Mr. Thang confided in Dan Viet Mr. Thang has a passion for aquarium fish since he was a child. Growing up, he bought a variety of fish to raise. Seeing that the breeder fish were mainly imported from the South or Thailand at an expensive price, he discussed with his wife to build an aquarium farm. A series of guppies and fighters were propagated by Mr. Thang and supplied to the market. Mr. Thang has an income of hundreds of millions VND per year from raising ornamental fish. The largest collection of money in Vietnam by a giant Saigon From a young age, seeing his father every day preserving ancient coins such as Thai Binh Hung Bao, Dai Dinh, Hong Duc, … Mr. Huynh Minh Hiep (Ho Chi Minh City) has a special passion for collecting antiquity range. After nearly 30 years of collection, Mr. Hiep owns nearly 20 types of monolithic coins dating from the 1st to the 19th century. This is a coin collection with many historical values ​​and cultural imprints of Vietnam. through the period. Anh Hiep also has more than 10,000 ancient coins. According to Mr. Hiep, the ancient money is often buried in jars and jars for a long time, so they often stick together to form large, hard rock and often have strange shapes. In addition to coins and coins, Hiep also collects paper coins. Up to now, Mr. Hiep has a collection of coins from 218 countries and a collection of banknotes from 222 countries around the world. In 2005, Mr. Hiep set a record as having the most money collection from countries in the world in Vietnam. According to Dan Viet newspaper, Hiep also owns many valuable items on display in a coffee shop of more than 1,000 square meters. This is also the place to receive the record “The place where exhibits recreated old Saigon (period before 1975) with the most number of exhibits are displayed”. Collection of rare and precious coins of 9X Ha Thanh Phung Van Hung (Hung Ba, SN 1990, living in Hanoi) is a quite famous name on Tiktok because of the work of valuing ancient coins. The clips of these 9X’s unique notes attracted millions of views. Hung’s collection of ancient coins “King of money” shared on Enterprise and Marketing, he started collecting coins while sitting on the university lecture hall. After 11 years, he has a collection of up to about 1 million sheets, prints the picture of King Bao Dai, the mascot of the year or a unique set of feng shui coins. Currently, he is also changing business, valuing beautiful currencies, with a beautiful serial number that attracts attention. According to Hung, the valuation of ancient coins does not have any specific regulations, but can be based on their preciousness, rarity, origin or status. Many people want to buy back some of the rare money he owns, but he refuses. The coin with the “huge” serial number and the most expensive price I ever sold was the $ 100 note, the eighth quarter series. He exchanged this note for a Honda SH car. The smart home from the garbage can be removed and assembled like a lego game Dan Viet newspaper said, after 22 years of research, Mr. Phan Trong Hoan (Ben Luc district, Long An) has successfully designed a house made entirely from rice husks and plastic waste, 64m2 wide. After more than 7 years of going into use this house is still intact paint color, not waterproof, degraded. Currently, Mr. Hoan has 10 houses made of plastic waste, present in many provinces and cities across the country. In particular, there is a house located right in the earthquake but still standing, not affected. Notably, houses made from rice husks and plastic waste can be removed, moved to a different location for assembly, or recyclable. “No need for reinforcement, no mortar, no foundation, the house is assembled according to pre-designed edges and can be removed to go anywhere,” said Mr. Hoan. After the first house made of rice husks and plastic waste was completed in 2013, the NOIP granted a utility solution patent for this unique process by Mr. Hoan. Strange lotus species can “piggyback” adults in Dong Thap Possessing a simple architecture, not superficial, but Phuoc Kien Pagoda still attracts a large number of visitors to visit thanks to a strange lotus garden with “huge” foliage, “carrying” the whole person weighing 100kg. Giant lotus leaves are “carried” by adults (Photo: Nguyen Tung Viet / Dan Tri). This giant lotus species is a rare plant native to the Amazon region, South America. They appear in the pond at Phuoc Kien pagoda since 1992. Due to the soil here, this lotus variety is growing very well. Large, thick lotus leaves. In particular, this lotus variety can change its leaf size astonishingly depending on the water season. In the dry season, the lotus leaves are only about 1-1.5m. In the flooding season, the leaves are flooded, so they grow more, reaching 2.5m in diameter. There are individual trees, leaves up to 3m wide. The edge of the lotus leaf is 3-5cm higher than the water surface, and its shape resembles a sports hat. Thanks to its large size, this lotus species can “carry” an adult weighing about 70-80kg but only lightly scratch the water surface. Hanh Nguyen (Synthetic)