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)

Bac Giang lychee: Referring to Bac Giang specialties, it is impossible not to mention lychee. Lychee is sweet, thick pulp, small seeds are delicious lychee. In addition to fresh lychee here, people also dry lychees to keep the flavor of litchi without losing the characteristic sweetness of this fruit. Yen The hill chicken: It is impossible not to mention Yen The hill chicken, one of the famous specialties in Bac Giang. Hill chicken meat is usually firm, sweet and fragrant, not mushy and chewy. The most delicious dish is boiled chicken with salt and lemon leaves, chicken broth can be used to cook noodles or chan with rice is also great. Banh Da Ke: The richness and attractiveness of Bac Giang cuisine is reflected in many famous Bac Giang delicious dishes and famous specialties in Bac Giang that should be enjoyed. Banh Da Ke is one of the typical dishes of the Northern countryside. Dong Quang molded cake: This is one of Bac Giang’s specialties that you should try, with a piece of white cake, soft and smooth, both flexible and fragrant, with a rich, rich flavor of the homeland. Nham Ca: A rather strange dish for diners who have never visited Bac Giang. Nham fish is made from ingredients such as black filling, bacon, carp, herbs, sour star fruit, roasted peanuts, basil, … all of which are preliminarily processed and mixed together, sprinkled a little on top. fragrant roasted peanuts have been crushed. This dish can be served with soy sauce. Tho Ha rice paper: This snack has long been famous from afar for its delicious taste, carefully selected and meticulously processed from the skillful hands of the baker here. Tho Ha rice paper has sesame rice cake and coconut rice paper, each type has a delicious and attractive taste. Noodles Luc Ngan: This is a type of dry noodle to bring home as a gift for relatives, very convenient, made from rice of the Bao Thai Hong rice variety, so the noodles are flexible, smooth, used as instant noodles and perhaps how to prepare them. The best dish is to eat Chu noodles in a hot pot meal or cook with a bowl of sour soup with minced meat or bone broth. Luc Ngan sucker cake: is a cake made from glutinous rice flour, molasses and spicy vegetables (green cabbage). Spicy vegetables washed, pounded and squeezed to get water, kneaded glutinous rice flour with spicy mustard leaf juice, then molded the cake (rounded like a floating cake), dropped the cake into a pan of cooking oil and fried until it was golden, took out the cake, quickly released it. into the pot of molasses (the pot of honey is simmered). The cake has a sweet taste of molasses mixed with glutinous rice. This is a unique dish of the San Rui ethnic group in the Luc Ngan region. The ingredients for making shoulder cakes are glutinous rice, sugar, green beans, banana leaves, wormwood… Hiep Hoa Sesame Salad is a typical rustic dish often made to invite distinguished guests when coming to Bac Giang to play. This dish has this unique flavor that makes anyone who eats it and remembers it forever. Eating sesame fish salad is indispensable for spices such as: clove leaves, fig leaves, sesame leaves… Photo: IT. Invite readers to watch the video “Smoked land – Strange dishes of Vinh Phuc people”. Source: VTV3.

Mr. Le Minh Hieu introduced the breeding model of black soldier fly. Mr. Le Minh Hieu said that 3 years ago he went on a business trip to An Giang province and knew about the black soldier fly breeding model. However, the models he visited were all models of dry farming with peat, waste and cow dung. With that way of raising, he saw many inappropriate points. Therefore, when he returned home, he researched and learned more about the characteristics and habitat of the black soldier fly larvae. After a period of research, Mr. Hieu has experimented with black soldier flies in a microbial culture mixture, with the principle of using microorganisms to treat odors, and overcome harmful bacteria to create beneficial bacteria. beneficial environment. Mr. Hieu used probiotics in combination with molasses and clean water and allowed newly hatched black soldier fly larvae to live in this environment. At first, Mr. Hieu had to buy black soldier fly eggs from hatcheries from An Giang province, but now he knows how to breed himself without having to buy outside. Currently, Mr. Hieu’s black soldier fly farm has an area of ​​about 200 m2, with each raising of about 1 gram of eggs, 300 kg of commercial larvae will be produced within 12 days. Mr. Hieu further shared, the life cycle of black soldier flies lasts more than 1 month, starting from eggs, larvae, pupae, and finally molting into black soldier flies. Adults live about 3-5 days, do not eat, live in the shade of trees. Black soldier fly larvae produce a substance that is detrimental to the laying and hatching of flies and other insects, making them an environmentally beneficial livestock and a very good food for humans. livestock and poultry. Nutritional composition in black soldier fly larvae before pupal stage is 43 – 51% protein, 15 – 18% fat, 2.8 – 6.2% calcium, 1 – 1.2% phosphorus, enough nutrients Nutrient for animal feed such as pigs, chickens, ducks…, and is the best live food for raising ducks, chickens, fish, shrimps, crabs… Fly larvae can be concentrated, dried and mixed with other substances. other nutrients as feed to completely replace fishmeal in the production of animal and aqua feeds. Mr. Le Minh Hieu uses commercial black soldier fly larvae as chicken feed to replace feed from industrial bran. Currently, with a culture of 300 kg of black soldier fly larvae / 12 days, with a mixture of hydrolysis of black soldier fly larvae, fish hydrolysis plus bean residue and micro-organisms, Mr. Hieu can completely replace the feed. industrial feed for 1,400 ducks, 400 chickens and hundreds of fish of all kinds being raised on the family farm. With this mix of feed, Mr. Hieu calculated less than 3,000 VND/kg of feed, over 50% cheaper than the current cost of 1 kg of industrial bran. Mr. Hieu compares, with about 1,000 ducks raised commercially, with the current price of industrial bran, farmers spend about 80 million dong of industrial bran for ducks from raising to slaughter. As for this method of raising from hydrolyzed black soldier fly larvae, it only costs about 35 million VND in food costs. “With this method of feeding from black soldier fly larvae, animals grow very quickly due to the high nutritional content of the feed, and the risk of disease is also significantly reduced. Therefore, it is very cost-effective in raising livestock and improving the quality of livestock”, Mr. Hieu added. According to the Agricultural Extension Center of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, the use of insects in livestock production is very popular in the world. Black soldier flies are recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as the preferred insect species for waste treatment and use of protein content as an alternative to food for some livestock. Mr. Hieu’s model of raising black soldier flies is a relatively new and very successful model in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

To have a delicious thorn cake, people choose yellow flower sticky rice, soak it overnight and then grind it into flour. Thorn leaves after drying will be stripped of tendons, boiled, pureed and mixed with flour and molasses to make cake crust. Part of the cake includes green beans, pumpkin seeds, fresh coconut, lotus seeds and lard are cleverly wrapped in the crust, the outer layer is dried banana leaves. When enjoying, the flavor of the thorn leaves blends with the aroma of the cake to create a unique flavor that makes visitors remember forever. Ant eggs cake. Ant eggs cake To Tuyen Quang, visitors must definitely try the ant egg cake – a specialty of the Tay ethnic group. The cake is made from young ant eggs, minced meat, onions, cumin, and crushed peanuts. The crust is made of ground rice powder made from upland sticky rice and is covered with young fig leaves. After steaming in the water from 45 to 50 minutes, the cake is ripe for visitors to enjoy. Ham Yen Sanhed Orange Ham Yen Sanhed Orange is grown mainly in the foothills – where there is natural water source and high mineral content in the soil, giving great nutritional value and vitamins. Ham Yen Sanhed Orange has a cool sweet taste and eye-catching form, so many tourists choose to buy it as a gift for their relatives. Tea Tuyen Quang has a large tea plantation area and production due to its favorable climatic and soil conditions. Each land here gives a different flavor of tea, creating its own brand name such as Phu Lam green tea (Phu Lam commune, Yen Son district), shan tea (Hong Thai commune, Na Hang district. Pa Then tea (Linh Phu commune, Chiem Hoa district) … Na Hang corn wine Na Hang corn wine is processed by a unique formula from the main ingredients of corn and yeast from more than 20 rare herbs and distilled according to the traditional recipe. In addition, Na Hang wine is also used for healing wounds and bone and joint diseases … Fish field fish Fish field fish is made from carp farmed. To process this dish, people have a rather unique way of brewing: After the glutinous rice is turned into sticky rice, let it cool, people mix it with yeast and keep it sealed. Aromatic fermented sticky sticky rice will be mixed with fish, galangal, betel leaves, red rice leaves, salt … then put in a jar, add water and cover for several months. Fish sauce is not only used for boiled meat, boiled vegetables, raw vegetables … but also has the effect of detoxifying and effectively detoxifying.

Bee tea is considered as a dish close to the Hanoians. The soft, sweet, honey-colored tea with the warm and fragrant spicy flavor of old ginger always makes people enjoy a feeling of passion to surprise. If you like to eat bee tea, you can refer to how to cook bee tea of ​​Tran Ly (Hanoi) below: Resources To make 2 dishes of tea, about 300g of glutinous rice should be used, so it is recommended to use sticky rice with high plasticity (sticky rice with yellow flowers). 50-60g molasses brown sugar. Some white sesame seeds. 7g fresh ginger. Making The rice is blooming, soft and juicy, but not crushed, it is sweet, sometimes ginger flavor, especially without the rice. Soak and wash rice the way we normally soak sticky rice. Rice after being washed clean, stirred with a little salt and then cooked sticky rice. Eat twice to make the sticky rice seeds bloom and plump for a long time. That will yield about 500g of sticky rice after serving. Divide the amount of sticky rice in half because 1 dish of bee tea will use 250g of sticky rice (should make each dish). Simmer 50-60g molasses sugar with 50g water to dissolve completely. When the sugar is melted, add 7g of freshly shaved peeled ginger and continue to boil. Use sugar from molasses is best because it is fragrant and beautiful in color. Put sticky rice in the ginger sugar mixture, quickly use chopsticks to spread the sticky rice and soak it evenly. Increase the heat a little and stir continuously until the sugar water is drained into the sticky rice seeds and the sticky rice seeds are slightly tightened. Quickly empty the plate. Do the same with the rest of the sticky rice. That’s it for the divine bee tea. Don’t forget to sprinkle the fragrant roasted white sesame seeds! Wish you all success with bee tea!