In addition to humiliation, roast duck, roast pork…Lang Son also has a rustic dish with the mountain flavor of the Tay people, which is wild shrimp. Photo: Time Gold TV Unlike common shrimp species that live in the water, wild shrimp are insects that live on tree trunks or caves and are only found in Lang Son. Photo: Vietnamese people. Lang Son shrimp has a similar shape to a shrimp but is small in size and has locust-like legs. Photo: Vietnamese people. Considered as a seasonal specialty, Lang Son forest shrimp costs up to 500,000 VND/kg at the beginning of the season. In the middle of the season, wild shrimp are cheaper, about 300-350,000 VND/kg. Photo: Vietnamese people. According to local people, wild shrimp are available around June and July. At night, this insect flies out in all directions to feed, during the day it stays in the nest. Photo: People of Vietnam To catch wild shrimp, people have to go quite far because the deeper in the forest, the more wild shrimp there are. Sometimes we have to cross hills and mountains to deep forests. Photo: Youtube However, wild shrimp are very smart, knowing that someone is approaching, they run away. The catcher must have experience to catch all the nests. Photo: Youtube Due to the high selling price, in the season, many people go to the forest to catch wild shrimp to sell to earn extra income. Wild shrimp are often processed as a drink by roasting with ginger leaves, lemon leaves or guise leaves, leaves of magnolia. Photo: Time Gold TV At pubs, each kilogram of wild shrimp can be processed into 4-5 plates, each plate is about 200,000 VND. Photo: Time Gold TV Video: Lobster is cheap only 150 thousand 1 and the truth is…. Source: VTV24

To buy a lot of mushrooms, traders are willing to eat and sleep every week in the villages. Indigenous people also earn millions of dong a day by picking mushrooms. Mushroom Cho is red, umbrella-shaped, growing under the canopy of Che or Chestnut trees. Just before 7 am, Mr. Vi Van Chung, residing in Bac Lang commune, Dinh Lap district (Lang Son) picked two baskets full of red mushrooms. On the surface, they are no different from poisonous mushrooms, but this is a fungus that is considered by the locals here as “red gold”. If lucky, each person can earn millions of dong a day by picking mushrooms. According to Mr. Chung, this is a type of mushroom that grows under the canopy of Che or Chestnut trees, which is red, umbrella-shaped, fragrant, delicious and has a medicinal taste, so it’s called Che mushroom. To pick the most and most delicious mushrooms, he had to carry a flashlight into the forest 5km from his house at 2-3 am to pick. Mushrooms that have not yet expanded are considered to be class 1 mushrooms, the most valuable. The red mushroom is very easy to mistake for a poisonous mushroom, so people only pick this mushroom under the canopy of the Cheo tree or the chestnut tree. “For houses with Che or Chestnut forest, each mushroom season, they have to set up a tent in the middle of the forest to look after mushrooms and avoid being stolen. When picking, you also have to hold the mushroom body, lift it slightly or rotate it slightly to avoid breaking, stamping and losing the chalk layer on the mushroom cap to sell at a high price, “said Chung. Holding each mushroom like an umbrella, Mr. Chung said that the mushrooms usually grow in the early morning, so the mushrooms are picked from 4 am to 8 am, umbrella-shaped, not yet enlarged, on the hat still intact. The chalk layer is purchased at the highest price, about 300-350,000 VND/kg. If you go late, you will only be able to pick the mushrooms that have expanded or broken, broken, not intact, sold for 150-200,000 VND/kg. A house with a forest of Che or a forest of chestnuts can harvest tens of kilograms of mushrooms every day. In order to collect the most mushrooms, people have to carry their lamps into the forest from dawn or set up tents to sleep in the forest to watch the mushrooms grow. As a trader who buys Cheo mushrooms from people around Van Quan district (Lang Son), Mr. Luu Van Truong, residing in Na Loc village, Tu Xuyen commune, said that the price of fresh mushrooms he purchased was about 200,000 VND on average /kg fresh mushrooms. “After I bought it, I dried it and sold it to a Chinese trader for about 1.5 million VND/kg. On average, every 5-6kg of fresh mushrooms, dried in 6-7 hours will get 1kg of dried mushrooms,” Truong shared. According to Mr. Truong, this fungus usually grows in the summer and only blooms within 1 week/month, their life cycle only lasts 1-2 days and then rots very quickly, so traders often take advantage of the blooming time. , go to buy and then dry, preserve and sell to Chinese traders. Dried Choi mushrooms are purchased by Chinese traders at the price of 1.5-2 million VND/kg. According to Truong, in the past, people around the area often took advantage of their time to go to the fields, go to the forest to pick mushrooms, eat, and make food for their daily meals. However, in the past few years, Choo mushrooms have been sought by traders at high prices to export to China. Therefore, every time in the mushroom season, people rush to pick mushrooms to sell to traders. “If a house has a forest of Cheo, a forest of chestnut trees, if they can keep mushrooms from being stolen, they can harvest about 3-4 times/crop. At the most, someone can pick 20kg of mushrooms/day, selling 4-5 million VND,” Truong revealed.

In the past 2 years, across forums and groups of online markets, many small traders are selling butterfly pea flowers at prices ranging from 450 to nearly 700 thousand VND/kg. It is worth mentioning that despite being sold at a price as high as that of precious medicinal herbs, many people are still willing to pay for it. On the internet market, butterfly pea flower tea is sold a lot. Screenshots. In the early days of May of the solar calendar, Ms. Tran Thu Minh, 29 years old in Kim Ma, Hanoi started selling butterfly pea flower tea. According to Ms. Minh, this is the second year she sells this flower tea and is interested by many people. This type of climbing flower has purple-blue, dark blue-white flowers, but the most common is purple-blue. Illustration. This 29-year-old woman said: “ Butterfly pea flower is no stranger to many people. Because this type of climbing plant is grown as a fence in many countryside. Or many families plant them as a flower bed in front of the porch or in the corner of the garden to keep cool. This type of climbing flower has purple-blue, dark blue-white flowers, but the most common is purple-blue. When I was a child, my house in Nam Dinh also had a fence of butterfly pea flowers and their flowers fell all over the path, but no one picked them up because they didn’t know its use was so great. That day, only occasionally at home with her mother’s five-color sticky rice, she sent her children out to get butterfly pea flowers to create a beautiful purple-blue sticky rice. Or sometimes mom cooks jelly on summer days with butterfly pea flowers to feed “. It was not until 2 years ago, when many people discovered the wonderful health benefits of butterfly pea flowers, that Ms. Minh’s family began to collect wild purple-blue flowers that were not mixed with branches and stalks and were recruited. These are carefully selected to dry in the sun and then dry. Many people use fresh flowers to dry in the sun and then dry them to make butterfly pea flower tea. Illustration. Because of selling natural, safe and reasonable flowers, this woman gradually gained the trust of women: “ Usually my house has a lot of regular guests. They also know that this flower does not keep fresh for long, so they often have to dry it and then dry it. In fact, every 7-8kg of fresh flowers is 1kg of dried flowers. Due to being so sophisticated, the price of this flower tea is quite expensive “. It is known that 100g of butterfly pea flower tea is being sold by Ms. Minh for 106,000 VND. Customers who buy 200gr cost 177 thousand VND. Buying 500gr costs 360 thousand VND. And customers who buy 1 kg will get a discount of 680 thousand VND: “ Last year, there was a time when I also sold dried butterfly pea flower tea for 800-900 thousand VND/kg. But this year the epidemic is like this, so the price of butterfly pea flowers is also very affordable so that any customer who needs it can buy it. “, said Ms. Minh. Customers buying butterfly pea flower tea are mainly office women. Illustration. This small trader also shared, the buyers are mainly office ladies. They usually buy 1-3 ounces to dye sticky rice, jelly, cakes, jams or brew tea to drink. A few customers often order a kilogram to brew tea to drink daily to nourish and support health. As an office woman with 2 children, Ms. Nga, 40 years old (Thuong Dinh, Hanoi) loves to make cakes and drinks. Therefore, every year she buys half a kilo of dried butterfly pea flowers to color the cakes and drinks. “ I buy half a kilo and it’s enough for a whole year to make cakes and drinks because there are quite a few. The rest, I also bought 1 kg separately for my grandmother to drink every day. 1kg is a lot, use it for a whole year. Because mixing water, just 1 flower is enough for 1 cup of water to drink. As for making cakes or sticky rice, I just bring 3-5 flowers to create color.” , Ms. Nga shared. This person also shared, the market currently sells 2 types of fresh flowers and dried butterfly pea flowers. But buyers should buy dried flowers because they are easy to store and use. The price per kilogram of dried butterfly pea flowers is quite expensive. Illustration. In addition, these topics for sale of flowers that used to be fences attract a lot of attention from online users and online markets. Many people think that, with 1 kg of dried flowers that cost from half a million to nearly a million, it is also reasonable because to earn 1 kg of dry is not easy, must go to many places to collect and be dried according to the standards. However, many people do not believe their eyes when the flower that grows in full fence is sold at such a high price.