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.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are offered to the ancestors worshiping committee on the real Korean New Year. Photo: Minh An Floating cake made small balls, outside white, in the red sugar filling, boiled in a pot of boiling water, when the cake floats on the surface, take out the water. And the vegetarian cake is rounded, flat, without filling, put on a small plate, poured sugar water on top. Place on a plate, let it cool, burn incense. Folk conception is that the number of plates, bowls of drifting cakes, and vegetarian cakes to offer is always 5 or 3. People often burn incense as 1-3 or 5 compress incense, not even light. Besides, in the ceremony, no matter how big or small, the Vietnamese people’s worship tray has fresh flowers and betel and areca, and 3 cups of water. On the ancestor altar, depending on the season, depending on the conditions of each house, families also buy 5 more fruits with five different colors representing the five elements. An ancestor tray during the Korean New Year does not need to prepare a “full tray”, but only needs to show filial piety, sincerity and wish for good things. Today, many people also enjoy making the five-color vegetarian floating cakes to offer them to their ancestors. However, according to cultural experts, this is inconsistent with the original and meaning of the Korean holiday. Because the floating cake, the original vegetarian cake is white, the circle is full of expressing the aspiration for the good, full and pure things in life. According to folk beliefs, floating cake often has a square cut of sugar, round the outside of the shell. The yin-yang is the same as the saying ‘mother is round and square.’ The yellow green bean paste represents yin, the crust is round and white to show positive and that is the property of yin and yang harmony. It is desirable to wish for favorable, harmonious weather, as well as the summer not too hot.

The real Korean New Year is also one of the major Tet holidays of Vietnam, especially for the people in the North. Traditionally, on this day, people would eat cold dishes (“real welding” means “cold food”). And floating cake, vegetarian cake is an indispensable dish.

Among the floating cakes and vegetarian cakes, perhaps the Sau Sau shop on Ngo Thi Nham street is one of the places that attracts the most buyers. Part because it is in the center, partly because the quality of the cake here has been verified over many years.

This morning (March 3 of lunar calendar), not out of prediction, was only from 7:00 am to 8:00 am, but customers lined up to buy it. To be able to have enough cakes to sell, this tea shop also arranged “team” to make cakes right “at the match”. The person kneading the cake always, the person boiled the cake and picked it up continuously, the customers also went in and out.

The real Korean New Year, the streets of Hanoi also seem more bustling than usual. Everyone has to try to buy with a plate of floating cakes, a bowl of vegetarian cake to eat in this day, otherwise there will be something missing. And the images of baking, then queuing to buy cakes have become one of the typical cultural features of Hanoi in this day, every year there is no shortage of them immediately.

As noted, the shopping atmosphere at the local markets is much more bustling than this day. The owners said that the customers went to buy vegetarian cakes from early. Therefore, most of the shops have to prepare, even stay up at night to make a large quantity in advance to sell to customers.

Many consumers line up to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes for the real Korean New Year.

The batches of floating cakes – vegetarian cakes are neatly cut into plates and sold to customers.

At the vegetarian cake shop, the housewives hurriedly buy the goods, making the atmosphere very exciting. Every row of floating cakes must have 2-3 people to serve. Prices floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are still the same price compared to normal days.

A plate of floating cakes costs 7,000-10,000 VND. A vegetarian cake is about 10 to 15 thousand dong more expensive, depending on the size of the plate. In addition to buying floating cakes and boiled vegetarian cakes, many housewives also buy ready-made cake dough to go home to cook for themselves.

At popular markets, the number of customers coming to buy is not too crowded, but the stalls selling floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are continuously molded to provide goods because online orders are still coming back.

In addition to selling floating cakes, ready-made vegetarian cakes, consumers can also buy floating cake dough and ready-made ingredients.

In addition to the traditional white flour, there are also five-color vegetarian cake dough.

Floating cakes are sold in combo, two trays have a preferential price of 15,000 VND and buy a single tray with the price of 10,000 VND.

Thanh Ha, 30 years old in Nguyen Trai, shared: “We have to take advantage of our free time and run right away to go to the market to buy things for the offering tray. This morning I still had to work at the company, so I got up early to buy 5 plates of floating cakes, go vegetarian, buy a chicken, some fresh fruit and gold money for my mother-in-law at home to make a tray of rice to worship our ancestors today. Today, even though it is the real Korean New Year, the food prices have not increased so it’s easy to buy.

Women who do not have time to make dough can also quickly buy a box of fresh glutinous rice flour to make cakes and vegetarian cakes. These flour packages include all ingredients such as flour, sugar, green bean paste, sesame, grated coconut, canned five-color cake … Offering family offerings.

The ingredients are fully sold for home-home buyers.

The batches of cakes are continuously made evenly by the small trader to provide for customers.

Not only at local markets, but also shops must quickly and quickly close applications and sell them to customers continuously.

This year, many housewives prefer to order online at home instead of going to the store to buy.

According to Ms. Hoang Lan, owner of a floating cake shop, vegetarian cakes shared: “In addition to selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, my family also sells five-color cakes, and su Su cakes to serve the needs of customers.

I only sell for 3 days, starting from the 1st to the 3rd of the 3rd lunar month. The total amount of flour for baking and selling in 3 days is up to 5 quintals. In which, 3 weights for me to mold the cake to sell, and about 2 weights of flour to sell to customers to make by themselves. Because the amount of cake sold is too much, it is impossible to count how many plates, we only know that this season, we make 0.5 tons of cake dough.

Vegetarian cake floating cake costs 10,000 VND / box, Choux pastry is 20,000 VND / box. On the days close to the Korean New Year, due to the sudden increase in the number of visitors, I have to mobilize my husband, children and brothers to help grind the flour, divide the flour, pack, mold, boil the cake to deliver it to customers in time “.

In addition to floating cakes, the shops also sell five-color chayote cakes at the price of 20,000 VND / tray.

Five colors sticky rice has the same price as 10,000 VND / tray.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are more diverse in colors. Not only is the traditional white color but also purple, green from pineapple leaves, red from Gac, yellow from gardenia.

Green bean cake beautifully shaped, selling price 10,000 VND / tray.

Vegetarian Banh Bao is available for 80,000 VND / big bag, or for retail for 2,000 VND / piece.

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./.