River bottom – Spress

Remember the mussel season

editor — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 22:10:08 +0000

My hometown is located on the winding Mai Giang River, the water flows cool. When I was a child, I often followed my mother to the river to scratch mussels. The time when people often scratch mussels is at midday, at that time, the water is as calm as the sheets, the sun shines clearly to the bottom of the river. I was small then, so my mother just let me stand on the shore. Every once in a while, I would give the basin to my mother to pour the mussels in. Tiny mussels the size of a fingernail, an adult’s toenail lay neatly in the aluminum bowl, mixed with them were grains of grit, rotten wood… I patiently picked them up out of the bowl with joy and excitement. Lunch has a delicious mussel soup.
Mother mussels scratched the part to eat, the rest brought to the market to sell for money. A pound of mussels doesn’t cost much, but mom still works hard from noon to noon, soaking in the water, under the summer sun like pouring fire to scratch each small mussel. Mother always said that when you are young and healthy, you should work to squeeze, if the next day you are sick or old and weak. Later, when I think about it, I feel sorry for my mother. I love the farmers in my hometown, all my life, hard work, but life is not happy forever. Love the exhilaration when people rake the mussels full.

From a young age, my body has soaked in the taste of mussels, the smell of the brackish sweetness of Mai Giang river water penetrates the skin into the salty meat. The smell of a basket of freshly boiled mussels, smoke rises when I carefully separate each one into a small bowl. The smell of simple, frugal meals with mussel soup, fried mussels, mussel rice, or mussel porridge. A bowl of mussel soup cooked with vegetable soup is a favorite of both my sisters and me, never getting bored of eating. The food is also very simple to prepare. After being picked up in the river, mussels rub off all the sand. Next, put it in a pot, add a little salt and start boiling. Boiling mussels does not need to be boiled thoroughly, just boiling to be able to remove from the stove. The mussel boiling water is settled several times to clean the sand. Shell and mussel meat are poured into a clean pot, stirring repeatedly with chopsticks to let the mussels fall out. Mussel meat is washed with clean water until the sand is gone. Put the pot of mussel broth on the stove to boil, drop mussel meat and vegetables, wait for it to boil, season with spices to have a delicious pot of soup. My sisters and I grew up through hard mussel seasons and from such delicious bowls of mussel soup. Growing up, I had the opportunity to go here and there, enjoy many different delicious dishes, but I still remember the mussel dish from my hometown the most. Text: Tang Hoang Phi

Thanh Oai develops typical tourism products

Ngọc Ánh — Thu, 20 May 2021 03:55:07 +0000

With 51 craft villages, 266 historical and cultural relics, Thanh Oai has many advantages to develop typical tourism products. Taking cultural tourism as the foundation, Thanh Oai aims to become a key tourism destination in the capital in the near future.

Visitors choose to buy conical hats from Chuong village at Thanh Oai district’s traditional craft village and ornamental creatures tourism fair 2020. According to Thanh Oai District People’s Committee, the whole district has 51 craft villages with many famous traditional craft villages such as: Chuong village hat (Phuong Tu commune); Sausage, Chung cake, Uoc Le cake (Tan Uoc commune), Vo Lang sculpture (Dan Hoa commune)… Besides, Thanh Oai also owns 266 historical and cultural relics, including 151 relics. has been ranked at national and city level, such as: Noi Temple and Ngoai Binh Da communal house (Binh Minh commune), So pagoda (Tan Uoc commune), communal house – pagoda – Cu Da temple (Cu Khe commune), communal house – Chuong Pagoda (Phuong Trung Commune), Uncle Ho Memorial House (Xuan Duong Commune)… In addition, Thanh Oai also owns eco-tourism resources with beautiful landscapes such as: Thanh Cao and Cao Vien lagoons, 12-year-old zodiac resort eco-tourism area (Cao Duong commune), gardens fruit trees in 7 communes along the Day River… to meet the needs of ecotourism, weekend relaxation and entertainment of tourists. However, Thanh Oai’s tourism development has not been commensurate with its potential due to limitations in transport infrastructure, parking lots at tourist attractions, public toilets, and souvenir shops. .. Therefore, tourists coming to Thanh Oai mainly go during the day, spending is low, so the revenue from tourism services is not high.
Chairman of Thanh Oai District People’s Committee Bui Van Sang said that identifying tourism as one of the key economic sectors of the locality, over the past time, Thanh Oai has implemented many synchronous solutions such as: Market development, strengthen publicity and promotion; improving the quality of human resources for tourism… Currently, the district is focusing on developing specific tourism products to attract tourists, in which, taking cultural tourism as the foundation for developing tourism Other types of tourism such as ecotourism, craft village tourism, experience tourism.
In 2021, the district will promote the implementation of tourism development investment projects such as: Building an eco-tourism area in the lagoon of Thanh Cao and Cao Vien communes; sightseeing, entertainment and recreation services along the Day River; project to expand tourism space Binh Da Festival; project of preserving and promoting cultural values of Cu Da ancient village… Along with that, the district promotes cooperation with travel companies to bring tourists to attractions and link with neighboring districts to connect routes and tourist attractions such as: Thuong Tin – Thanh Oai, My Duc – Chuong My – Ha Dong – Thanh Oai… in order to create many unique and attractive products, making Thanh Oai one of the the capital’s key tourist destination.

Photographs: Garden of red ripe mulberry trees in Doai

editor — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:20:20 +0000

In April, Hiep Thuan commune, Phuc Tho district, Hanoi city, a quiet village on the banks of Day river, people here start a day to harvest ripe mulberries, a familiar, familiar fruit. appear only once a year. Stretching on the field, the bustling, bustling atmosphere, the cheerful laughter and talk of the people in the harvest.
From the city center along Highway 32 to Phung Bridge, turning left will take visitors to Hiep Thuan commune, Phuc Tho district, which is famous as one of the capital’s second largest “granary”, with both A sky of mulberries in full bloom is in the middle of the harvest season. The ripe strawberry harvest season starts around the end of March and lasts through April.

Mulberry tree has long been deeply attached to the people of Vietnam. In addition to silk raising and silk weaving, mulberry tree’s leaves, fruits, stems and roots can all be medicinal. Hiep Thuan commune has about 15 ha of mulberry trees. Mulberry trees were planted in this land by people about 6 years ago, the economic efficiency is higher than that of rice cultivation. Mrs. Thao, the owner of a mulberry garden, shared: “Currently, the family harvests with 3 people every day, they get 1.2 weights to 1.3 quintals, the average price is 15,000 VND – 20,000 VND”. More information with the reporter, she said, the family mulberry garden has 40 roots per sao, harvested an average of 400 kg of fruit / crop, turnover is over 30 million VND / sao. That is the result after many years of changing crops to replace old crops. Mulberry trees are easy to grow, the cost is much lower than other crops, except for fertilizer investment, each pole is invested from 1-2 million VND, the farmer still has a high income. When the mulberry tree has finished harvesting the fruits, people will cut it down, leaving only the rootstock for technical care to the next crop. Mulberry tree is a easy-to-live tree, the leaves are often used for silkworms, but thanks to the higher benefits of mulberry fruit than leaves, the villagers in Hiep Thuan have converted to fruit. Strawberry trees planted for more than a year have yielded fruits. Strawberries taste sweet when ripe, making a refreshing drink in the summer. The mulberry tree, besides raising silkworms, weaving silk, can make medicine from the leaves, fruits, stems and roots of the mulberry tree. Japan North (perform)

Using the trick of ‘space borrowing’, the Hanoi house surprised foreign newspapers

Hoàng Minh (theo Archdaily) — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:40:10 +0000

The house uses the trick of ‘borrowing space’ to watch the sunset on the front side of the dike, recreating the familiar northern delta cultural features in modern design language.

Located at the foot of the Day River dike, the house (Yen Nghia, Ha Dong, Hanoi) opens a 40-degree view to the main road on the dike with three elevations of the road downgrading to the building foundation, the location of the land is quite good. especially the west-facing facade looking up to the dyke. Designed for two young households, three generations and eight people living. The family has a family style that follows the culture of the Northern Delta, loves open spaces, trees, and wind. The house is built on an area of 234m2, divided functional space into 4 main blocks and 4 floors. The building interwoven with solid blocks to create voids surrounded by ventilated materials to create a connection, bringing sunlight and wind into the building. Architects pushed the entire main functional space to the 2nd and 3rd floors, freeing the entire first floor as common spaces, garages, gardens. To ensure privacy as well as avoid dust, the house is designed with a high fence like a building’s base block, using raw red brick materials and building techniques to ventilate and light. On the second floor is a common space such as living room, kitchen, and toilet with a private, quiet space for the closed bedroom of your grandparents. Linking the 2nd and 3rd floors is a modern, dynamic wooden-faced steel staircase with corridors running through each function room of the 3rd floor. The whole 3rd floor is a completely separate and private functional space of the eldest brother’s family with 2 small children. The 4th floor is arranged with other function rooms such as worship room, laundry and drying technology. The terrace is an ideal space for the whole family to gather together, drink tea, talk. Source: Hoang Le Video: House 25m2- the opportunity to have a house for many people? Source: VTV24

April, mulberry season is ripe

ĐĂNG ANH — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:14:13 +0000

Every year, around the end of March and early April is the time when the mulberry is ripe. This is also when farmers step into the ripe strawberry harvest. In the North, mulberries are grown in abundance in the alluvial grounds along the Red River, Day River, Thai Binh River …
Every year, around the end of March and early April is the time when the mulberry is ripe. This is also when farmers step into the ripe strawberry harvest. In the North, mulberries are grown in abundance in the alluvial grounds along the Red River, Day River, Thai Binh River …

Located in the land along the Day River, in recent years, Hiep Thuan commune (Phuc Tho, Hanoi) has been known as one of the major mulberry barns in the capital. Taking advantage of the nutrient rich alluvium, the mulberry gardens located here have been and are the crops that bring economic efficiency to the people of Hiep Thuan commune. This time is just the beginning of the crop, but people here are in a hurry in the season. Because at present, the selling price for traders and the retail price is at a high price. Currently, Hiep Thuan commune has planted more than 15 hectares of mulberry orchard from 5 years or more. One pole planted about 40 mulberry roots, each strawberry root harvested about 100kg fruit / crop. Mulberries appear only about 3 from 4 weeks to end the season. The ripe strawberry is red or black when ripe; It tastes soft, sour, sweet and juicy. The young leaves of the plant can be used as boiled vegetables, sautéed and cooked like other vegetables. Under the wrong strawberry branches with fruit to bow low are the farmers picking strawberries quickly and restlessly from 7:00 am to the evening, or when the traders no longer import the goods. The strawberry is small and easy to crush, so the grower has to use hand picking gently by hand. At the beginning of the season, strawberry prices are still high, retail prices are about 20,000 to 25,000 VND / kg, and wholesale prices range from 15,000 to 18,000 VND / kg. A strawberry garden owner said that the family mulberry garden has 40 roots per acre, each harvest about 400 kg of fruit on average, turnover of more than 30 million VND / sao. Currently, every day in Hiep Thuan commune people provide about 8 tons of fruit to other localities, on the occasion of the ripening of the strawberries, it can be up to 14 tons.