The name of banh gio comes from the key ingredient that makes this cake: ash water. (Illustration) The people who make gio cakes will burn herbs and medicinal herbs to ashes, grind them finely, then filter them to get the yellow-brown juice, soak the rice and boil the cakes. Rice to make banh gio must be delicious glutinous rice to achieve a certain plasticity. After being boiled, the finished product is a clear, moist dough, whose shape depends on the hands of the packer (in different localities). The cake is very pale at first, has a bright amber color, transparent like a block of jade. When cooled, the cake is smooth like jelly, fragrant with sesame. Banh Gio dotted with molasses or granulated sugar, becomes a snack that both young and old love. (Illustration) Summer is the time when banh gio is consumed the most. In addition, this “pure Vietnamese” cake is still loved by people all year round, especially parents and grandparents, because the cake is both fragrant, easy to eat, and easy to buy. City is also cheap. Banh gio is a dish loved by mothers and grandmothers and eaten all year round. (Illustration) However, in the era of modern social development, many people, especially young people, have “forgotten” this childhood gift, or when they eat it, they only eat it when they have a chance. However, for those who have tasted banh gio, it must be difficult to forget the fragrant taste of glutinous rice flour, mixed with sweet molasses. Only the previous generation remembers this cake. (Illustration)

The dishes made from ant eggs are very diverse, in which, 3 dishes from ant eggs are the most popular and delicious, including: sticky rice with ant eggs, ant egg cake and ant egg mannequin. Sticky rice with ant eggs: is a dish made from glutinous rice, with added fat, onions, pepper, spices and ant eggs. The method is quite simple: Take the glutinous rice and wash it, soak it in warm water for about 4-5 hours, take it out to let the rice drain and then put it in the pantry. When you see the aroma of sticky rice, taste it soft, the rice grains are soft and succulent. Sauteed onions with fat (using chicken fat will create the most delicious flavor), then, add the cleaned ant eggs and stir-fry, seasoning to taste. Stir well when you see the fat aroma of ant eggs and the aroma of onions. When the sticky rice is cooked, stir it up, mix it with the ant eggs and then put it on a plate and eat it hot. The sticky rice with ant eggs has the fatty taste of fat, onions, the richness of ant eggs, and the fragrant plasticity of sticky rice. Ant egg cake. Ant egg cake: In the Tay language, it is called “pong nay”, a unique dish made from glutinous rice flour, ant eggs, and minced pork. In particular, there is an indispensable ingredient when making ant egg cake is fig leaves, which the Tay call “bà naa”. Choosing leaves to make cakes must choose the type of cake leaves, neither too young nor too old. When making cakes, you must choose small leaves that will be more fragrant and soft than the big ones. Glutinous flour can be made from dry flour or wet flour, mixed with a little flour so that the cake is not pasty or too flexible. After the dough is drained, mix it with a medium amount of soup powder. Place fig leaves in a thin bamboo mat to make cake, then thinly slice the previous layer of dough about half an inch thick. Next is the fried ant eggs with onions, minced pork spread evenly on the surface of the dough, then add a layer of glutinous rice flour, fig leaves on top. Gently press the cake to make it even and then steam it. When the cake is cooked, take it out to cool, use scissors to cut into squares just right to eat. The ant egg cake is flexible, fragrant with the smell of fig leaves, fatty and greasy with the smell of ant eggs. When eating, do not peel off the fig leaves, but the fig leaves are the factors that create the unique flavor of the ant egg cake. Ant egg salad. Ant egg salad: Made from ant eggs with banana flowers, it is very delicious and attractive. Prepare banana flowers with young sheaths washed, thinly sliced, soaked in water mixed with vinegar, then picked out and drained. Stir-fried ant eggs are mixed with banana flowers, mixed with herbs, lemongrass leaves and spices like sugar, salt, garlic… Eating this dish, you will find it spicy, acrid, sour, sweet and salty. The crispiness of banana flowers is mixed with the fragrant, fatty taste of ant eggs.

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

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

However, instead of the traditional white round cake plate, this year’s real Korean New Year can also “blow a new wind” for the traditional holiday by creating floating cakes with diverse colors with shapes. lovely and attractive, attracting your baby With 3 main parts are cake crust flour, cake filling and sugar water, floating cake is usually made from glutinous rice flour, non-glutinous rice flour and water. To create color for the cake, you should use natural ingredients to “dye” such as red from Gac’s intestine, yellow gardenia, matcha powder for green, brown cocoa powder or beetroot pink … With Emdep.vn skillfully show your hands with the “super” cute floating cakes below for your baby! Cat’s feet floating cake Ingredients for making cat-shaped floating cakes for 4 people to eat – 130g glutinous rice flour. – 40g black sesame. – 15g peanuts. – 45g sugar. – 25g of lard. – 100ml of boiling water. – 1 pink color food coloring. – Sugar water: white sugar, vanilla. How to make a cat-shaped floating cake for 4 people to eat Step 1: Preliminary processing of the cat-shaped floating cake dish. – Black sesame seeds you put in a pan to cook. – Then you divide that black sesame seed into two parts. One part you leave the whole grain, the rest you put in a blender and puree it into sesame powder. – The peanuts you also put in the pan to cook. – Then you peel off the peanuts and also put the peanuts in a blender to blend them into groundnut powder. Step 2: the steps to make the cat-shaped floating cake. – First, you put a pan on the stove on low heat. – Then you put black sesame seeds, sesame powder, a peanut and sugar in the island to mix them evenly. – When you see the pan heats up, add 25g of lard to the island at the same time, at this time we will be mixed sesame and peanuts together. – You put the pan down, let the mixture of black sesame and peanuts cool down then you should hold them into 16 equally small balls. – You put these bakeries in the refrigerator for about 10-15 minutes. – Next, we will proceed to knead the dough. – You put the flour in a bowl, add the hot water we have prepared slowly and stir vigorously. – Then use your hand to knead the dough to make the dough smoother and smoother. You take a little powder, add pink food color, with this powder we will use to decorate the cat’s paw. – For the rest of the white powder, mold it into a long strip, then divide the dough into 16 equal parts. – You take a portion of the flour, cut 1/4 of the flour to separate us to make cat’s toes. You divide into two small dough parts and two larger dough parts, and squeeze them into a round shape. So we have 4 toes for the cat. – 3/4 of the rest of the dough, press your thumb in the middle to create a deep indentation, you put an employee inside and curl it up so that the dough covers the filling. So we have cat paws. – You perform grafting toes on the cat’s feet, at each point of contact between your toes and feet, rub a little water so they will stick together more. – You do the same with the remaining 15 servings of flour. Next we will decorate each cat’s paw. Very simply, you divide the pink powder into small balls and press it flat. – Then please stick them on each foot as in the picture. – You put a pot of water on the stove, turn on the fire to quickly boil the water. – When the water is boiling, gently drop each cat’s paws into the boil. – When you see the pieces of cake floating on the water, leave the cake for 1-2 minutes, then take out a basin of cold water immediately so that the cake won’t be crushed. – In the last step, you put another pot of water on the stove, add white sand sugar, the sweetness depends on your preferences. – Remember to stir the water a few times to dissolve the sugar. When the sugar is boiling, turn off the heat and add a few drops of vanilla. You put the cake into small bowls, filled with sugar water and you can enjoy it! Floating cake shaped flowers, animals: Resources: – 500g of glutinous rice flour – 250ml of warm water – 200g of sugar as a filling – 10g green tea powder – 10g cocoa powder – 100g of Gac meat – 100g pumpkins – 100g purple sweet potato Making: – Pumpkin and purple sweet potato cut into thin pieces, boiled and mashed. – Dissolve green tea powder with 50ml of hot water. Slowly pour the green tea mixture into 100g of glutinous rice powder and knead until the dough is smooth, not too dry or too dough. We have green play dough. – Dissolve cocoa powder with 50ml of hot water. Slowly pour the cocoa mixture into 100g of glutinous rice powder and knead until the dough is smooth, not too dry or too dough. We have brown play dough. – Slowly pour 150ml of hot water into 300g of glutinous rice powder and knead until the dough is smooth, not too dry or too dough. We have white play dough. – Mix the puree pumpkins with one part of white play dough, add more water and flour if needed. We have orange play dough. – Mix mashed purple sweet potato well with a white play dough, add more water and flour if needed. We have purple play dough. – Mix Gac meat with one part of white play dough, add more water and flour if necessary. We have red play dough. – Use dough to play the colors to make the desired shape, filling with chopped sugar. Some suggestions below: – Small beautiful flower with 5 petals and 1 stamens are round powder. Use a toothpick to press 2 lines on each wing to create a ruffled flower. – Simple variation with eyes, nose and ears, the round cake has become a pretty pig. – Cat’s paws are too chubby, aren’t they? – With just a few basic notes with a toothpick, the monotonous shapes have become a pumpkin. – Squeeze the dough into a cylinder, press 1 end into 3 circles to make a fish tail with your hand, sticking to the eyes, a lovely fish is born. – They turn out to be a fairy peach with just a few simple steps. – The small nose, 2 long ears, this pretty rabbit will make her very excited. – From a monotonous floating cake, just gently squeeze both sides to make ears and add eyes and nose, the brown bear uncle has appeared. – Cute sandals for baby. – There is a bit of flour left, but you are tired of shaping it, then pelleting them into colorful balls is also very nice. In addition to the above images, you can also create many other shapes as you like. This is also a fun activity for you and your child to play together. Meow (Synthetic)

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

Floating cake, vegetarian cake According to Trinh Sinh culture researcher, the number of standard vegetarian cakes, floating cakes in the offering tray is 5 or 3 bowls of floating cakes, 3 or 5 bowls of vegetarian cakes. Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, but symbolizing cold foods. That is the product from the bumper rice season to the ancestors as well as a prayer for good weather. Photo: VietNamNet Readers. The floating cake is made of glutinous rice dough and kneaded with water, filled with sugar. The cake is finished, placed in a pot of boiling water. The cake sinks and floats, picked out and soaked in boiled water, let it cool for hunting again, then picked it out on a plate. Floating cake plate is sprinkled with some fragrant roasted white sesame seeds. The vegetarian cake is also made of glutinous rice flour, kneaded with water and filled with, but filled with cooked green beans. The peas to make the cake must also be the same as the pepper beans, small, fragrant, steamed until finely pounded, mixed with white diameter. Vegetarian cake is placed in a bowl, filled with a little sugar tea mixed with melon flour or tapioca flour marinated with grapefruit flowers. Besides, on this day, many family members gather together to knead the dough and make cakes to show the spirit of solidarity and mutual support. Perfume, flowers, betel and areca In the worshiping ceremony, no matter how big or small, Vietnamese people are indispensable to compress incense, fresh flowers and betel and areca on the altar. Therefore, on the real Korean New Year, the worshiping tray will also be indispensable for these things. Note, the flowers used to worship must be fresh flowers. Glass of clean water In every Buddha or ancestor worshiping ceremony, a glass of clean water is indispensable on the altar. Water is a manifestation of the homeowner’s mind. Look at the glass of water to know: “Is my mind as pure as water?” Fruit tray In addition to the above foods, families can buy a plate of fresh fruit with about 5 kinds of fruit. Depending on the season, the homeowner chooses 5 fruits of different colors such as blue, red, yellow, purple … to represent the five elements, offering to the ancestors to show filial piety and wish good things. In addition, on this holiday, families do not need to prepare “high tray, full deck”, draw costly procedures but only need to be sincere, offer floating cakes, vegetarian meals to the altar of ancestors and grandparents, pray for the good and peaceful things in life. It could also be simpler, the family just set up a sincere plate of fresh fruit in the real Korean New Year ceremony.

How to make a vegetarian cake Resources 200 gr of glutinous rice powder
200 gr of unshelled green beans

100 gr of tapioca flour or tapioca

200 gr of sugar
Grapefruit or banana oil

Roasted white sesame seeds Steps to be taken Making the cake crust: Put the glutinous rice powder in a large bowl, then add a little warm water and mix well. When you see the dough just enough moisture, stop and stuff until the dough has become a smooth, smooth mass.
Making vegetarian cake filling: Green beans are washed, soaked in water for 2 – 4 hours for the beans to soften, then poured and washed again. Put the beans in the bamboo basket and steam until soft, then turn off the heat. Pour beans into the pan and add sugar, turn on the stove to stir the beans to dissolve evenly with sugar, smooth and dry, you can wash the pellets and turn off the heat. Add a little grapefruit flower oil and stir well and let the bean paste cool. Divide the bean paste into even pieces, then roll the pellets to round, cover to prevent the kernel from drying out.
Shaping the vegetarian cake: Break a piece of flour just right and then round. Then press flat the dough, put the filling in the center and re-wrap, then roll the cake evenly. Next, you press the cake flat and create a hollow in the middle so that it looks like a vegetarian cake.

Cook cake: Pour water into a pot to boil, then drop the cake to boil. When the cake is cooked, boil it for 1-2 minutes, then turn off the heat, take out the cake and drop it in a bowl of cold water for 3 minutes to cool.
Cooking tea: Take advantage of the pot of water to boil the vegetarian cake to cook tea, add sugar to make it sweet enough, and bring to a boil. Put tapioca flour or tapioca flour in a bowl and add water to dissolve, then slowly cook into the pot, stirring while cooking so that the tea does not clump. When you see a pot of tea with a thick consistency, turn off the heat, add a little grapefruit oil or banana oil to make it fragrant.
Finished product: Take out the vegetarian cake and put it in a bowl, then you scoop the cooked tea into it, sprinkle with roasted white sesame on top to complete. How to make the cake float Resources 500g of glutinous rice flour 50 gr of non-glutinous rice flour 100 gr of pre-cut red sugar pellets 1 bowl of roasted sesame seeds Curettage coconut 1 teaspoon of grapefruit perfume. Steps to be taken Use a spatula to mix the glutinous rice powder and non-glutinous flour, slowly pour water into the dough, mix well to mix the flour and water completely. Let the mixture rest for about 3 hours for the dough to settle, separate the flour and water into 2 parts. Pour out the water and put the powder in a bucket towel, tie it up and hang up to drain the water. After about 1 hour, you open the towel to check, if the dough is smooth, not sticky, you can start to squeeze the cake. Divide the dough into long fibers, 1.5-2cm in diameter, cut them about a knuckle length with a knife. Round and press the dough flat, then place a piece of red sugar in the center. Cover the dough so that the dough covers the sugar pellet and then round it up. Bring to a boil, turn to medium heat, then gently drop the squeezed loafs. The cooked cake will float to the surface of the water. At this point, take out the cake and put it in a pot of cool boiled water to reduce the stickiness. Then, put the cake on a plate and decant off the water.
Use wet fingers to dot the bowl of roasted sesame seeds and dab on the surface of the cake to make your plate float more beautiful.

This Tet holiday not only appears in Vietnam but also in China as well as the Chinese community around the world. For Vietnamese people, the real Korean New Year is still bold. These days, Vietnamese people will eat cold cooked dishes to commemorate the deceased. The fried cake variation is quite delicious and strange. Illustration Regarding the ritual of worshiping this day, books like 100 things to know about Vietnamese custom or Van vow nôm at home – The family ancestor worship practice, instructions: “The real Korean New Year worship ceremony includes incense, flowers, Betel areca and 5 or 3 bowls of floating cake with 5 or 3 bowls of vegetarian cake ”. In addition to the 2 typical floating cakes and vegetarian cakes of this Korean festival, today, in some places, people can also cook sticky rice and tea. In some suburbs of Hanoi and in Hat Mon (Phuc Tho, Hanoi), people here also make cakes to worship Buddha and worship their ancestors. Banh Nhot is also made from glutinous rice flour, but banh xeo has no fillings. Depending on each place, after boiling, the cake will be stir-fried with honey or stick a few peanuts on the outside. In addition to the traditional floating cakes – vegetarian cakes, people also create many variations of floating cakes with extremely funny shapes. In addition, people also mix cake flour with Gac, pineapple leaves to have a beautiful color. Vegetarian cakes instead of green beans can be pumpkin vegetarian cakes, red bean vegetarian cakes … In addition, some people also change fried floating cakes, fresh coconut floating cakes are also quite delicious and strange.

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

Recently, on a famous culinary group, Ms. Dang Kim Ngoc (born 1981, Hanoi) shared how to make a water-float cake to create an extremely cute animal that made housewives like groggy and share.

Besides shaping drifting cakes, vegetarian cakes in the traditional way, to present them to the family altar, Ms. Ngoc created extremely lovely pets for her daughter.

The water-drifting cake that Ms. Ngoc shared on the Love Kitchen Association was extremely excited by the housewives.

Being a “horizontal hand” people, but Ms. Ngoc – Director of Ngoc Bao Chau Company, always takes the time to explore, learn and create funny and cute cakes.

Floating cake dishes, creative pet shaped vegetarian cakes

Ms. Ngoc said that last year she made a fruit-shaped vegetarian cake, so this year she changed her animal form to help reduce boredom, she was unexpectedly encouraged and praised by housewives. This is the motivation for her to strive for the next works.

Ms. Dang Kim Ngoc (born 1981, Hanoi). Her current job is Director of Ngoc Bao Chau Company but “is addicted to kitchen”.

If you want to know how that cake is done, what are the secrets to making the cake fragrant and beautiful after boiling, please refer to the sharing of this safe mother.

How to make vegetarian cakes, super fast and fragrant floating cakes

Buy Tai Ky dry sticky rice powder, fresh tofu (so it smells very fragrant when cooked)

Recipe:

Glutinous flour 100gr

Fresh tofu 100gr

Water 5gr.

Multiply sugar or coconut green beans as you like

Tapioca for water leaching (if you like)

How to mix the cake crust: Mix the glutinous rice with tofu to soften, then add a little water just enough to make it pliable and batter until smooth. Remember to add only a little water to have enough adhesion because there is already water in tofu.

Mix food colors and create shapes to your liking.

After the dough has been molded enough plasticity, divide the dough into many different blocks and mix with the color you intend to make.

How to create the shape from the main details to the sub. You can be creative as you like, just pay attention to cover the dough to prevent the dough from drying, difficult to shape, the dough is not smooth, the dry powder drops the details when boiling, you can spray a thin layer of water. on the surface of the cake if it is dry.

How to boil

When the water is boiling, lower the temperature just to roll and gently drop each one in, avoid stirring much, simmer until the cake is floating.

Take out and put in a bowl of cold water and use separately or add with tapioca if you like.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Vietnamese custom of offering floating cakes and vegetarian cakes reminds the story of “wrapping a hundred eggs of Au Co’s mother”. Floating cake represents 50 eggs hatched into 50 children to the forest following their mother. Vegetarian cake represents 50 eggs that hatch into 50 children following their father into the sea.

Therefore, the real Korean New Year of the Vietnamese people mainly means towards the origin, commemorating the merits of the dead.

According to cultural experts, when March comes, the weather starts to heat up, preparing to turn into summer. Vietnamese people in the past have created floating cakes, vegetarian cakes which are cool and cool dishes. This dish is sweet, very suitable for hot days.

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

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

Floating cake, vegetarian cake shaped cartoon characters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ms. Thu Van said that the floating cake soup filled with shrimp and meat is synthesized with different dishes: Glutinous rice cake with stewed broth (like Ozoni thick cake soup, Japan); Floating cakes that are filled with salty (Chinese); Glutinous glutinous rice cake filled with boiled shrimp and meat (A little cake filled with shrimp and meat, Vietnam).

Invite you to refer to how to cook the unique floating cake soup with shrimp and meat!

Resources

Glutinous flour: 135g; Non-glutinous flour (rice flour): 15g (Can buy commercially mixed flour: 200gr glutinous flour; 80-100g of rice flour).

Warm water (50 ~ 70 ℃): 120 ~ 140ml.

Ground pork: 50g.

Crayfish: 4.

Dried shiitake mushrooms: 5 pcs.

Pruning carrots: 4 ~ 5 slices (optional).

Cilantro, scallions.

Seasoning seeds, salt, and pepper.

Broth (stew from ribs).

How to knead the dough

Put the flour in the bowl, add 120ml of warm water and mix well. Then stuffing for a while to make the dough thick. Add the water slowly until the dough is moist enough. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.

Mix glutinous rice flour and rice flour (non-glutinous flour) according to the ratio of 9: 1, the cake will still be supple and tough. If you like completely soft cakes, skip the rice flour.

Glutinous dough should be kneaded with warm water. Water temperature from 50-70 degrees is most suitable. If the water is too hot, the dough will stick to the hands when it is stuffed. It can make the dough cooked, making it difficult to shape the cake.

When you knead the glutinous rice dough with cold water, the dough will clump up and the dough will not dissolve. To avoid burns, use a spoon / chopstick to mix powder when adding warm water. Then proceed to knead the dough by hand.

Prepare other ingredients

Shiitake mushrooms soaked in water to soften. Wash and chopped.

Minced or ground pork.

Shrimp peeled, threaded, chopped.

Mix shrimp, meat and mushrooms well with a little salt and pepper.

How to squeeze the floating cake filled with shrimp and meat

Rub a little bit of the coat powder to help keep your hands from sticking, and break each powder about the size of a quail egg. Thinly spread the dough, put the shrimp and meat in the middle, and wrap it tightly.

Lightly round the cake (cook the cake and still bloom again, so do not spread the crust too thin and let more people, the cake is easy to crack ?.

How to cook cake soup with shrimp and meat

Boil broth, drop a few slices of carrots, blanch until well, take out. Add a little seasoning, salt (should be slightly pale).

Drop the finished molded cake into the pot.

Bring the soup to a boil over medium heat. When you see the floating cake, you “go up and down” and float to the surface of the broth, then taste it again.

Add scallions, cilantro. Turn off the heat.

Ladle the cake soup into small bowls, arrange a few slices of carrot flowers to make them beautiful.

Note that the floating cake soup must be eaten when it is hot to taste. The crust is soft, the broth and the filling of the prawns are juicy and rich.

Wishing the Chefs success!

Brown rice cake.

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

Floating cake, frozen vegetarian cake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brown rice cake

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

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

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

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

Ingredients for making five-color “burnt” market

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

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

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

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

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