Illustration. 1. Peas Chickpeas are rich in protein, you can use it as an ideal alternative to meat. 2. Green vegetables Green leafy vegetables often contain a lot of protein to help muscle growth as well as supplement energy for the body. 3. Cauliflower Broccoli (broccoli) contains a very high amount of protein, in addition, it also contains many nutrients that are very good for the body. Remember that broccoli is best when it’s dark green, and its benefits diminish as it turns yellow. 4.American corn (sweet corn) American corn contains a lot of protein. This dish can do many dishes: boiled, baked, made corn milk, cooked soup, fried … Corn is both delicious and can completely replace meat. 5. Mushrooms A bowl of mushrooms can bring you an extra 3.9g of protein. And with the same sweetness as the fish flesh of mushrooms, it would be remiss if mushrooms were not on this list. 6. Asparagus This easy-to-eat vegetable not only provides protein, but also helps protect the body against many diseases. With a plate of sautéed asparagus, you may not need another plate of meat for a meal. 7. Soybean beans Soybean (soybean) is the main source of protein for vegetarians in Asian countries. Soybeans can be eaten directly after boiling, steaming, grinding into milk, or processed into tofu.

Like a ghostly illusion, the afternoon dew covered every street of the land of thousands of flowers. Like a sweet and gentle girl, Da Lat in the love poems of purple colors love and miss. The month of March in him is the promise of purple phoenix with the whole river of memories turning into a waterfall of nostalgia rushing out. Purple phoenix Dalat. I don’t know if it’s because I have counted every drop of night during Autumn, waited patiently for the whole winter of the old year, eagerly looked forward to every hour of the new Spring, but purple phoenix seems to come early, the new spring is half a season, Da Lat has shimmering purple flowers dyeing the whole space in the crystal clear sunshine. The purple phoenix in me now is no longer every tree stump with every memory with you shyly from Da Lat in the distant past, but now it is the enchanting purple-blue flower dome, like falling in love on the slopes around. endlessly up and down the land of thousands of flowers. You are like the purple breeze from the top of Lang Biang, gently perched in the mountain town in the morning, with a soft silk shirt covered in romantic colors, a charming smile with a coin on your cheek, and a bright purple color in your eyes. The arch of the sky is deposited under the curved eyelids, the sweet voice of the nectar of the March highland, I hold your hand, not to go to look, but to blend in with the purple phoenix in the dream of poetry and music. From Tran Phu, Le Dai Hanh, Le Hong Phong, then around Xuan Huong lake, along both sides of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street to Da Lat Market, the way to Thuy Ta restaurant or in front of Nguyen Du school on Bui Thi Xuan street, Stone slope of Phu Dong Thien Vuong street or beyond is the road to the Valley of Love, winding along the banks of Tuyen Lam lake leading to Truc Lam Zen Monastery, then passing the Clay Tunnel… Like a floating wave of flowers, purple and purple are sad, but why do you feel excited with each beat of love to infatuation. Flowers clustered together in clusters look very attractive with a purple-blue color like dew like clouds in the mountain town of thousands of flowers, like the color of cliffs, waterfalls in four seasons releasing thousands of beautiful melodies of water. Falling flowers filled the path leading to each small house lying shyly under the quiet old pine canopy, adding to the beauty of the hundred-year-old mossy features on the dark brown tile roofs covered with dust from the time of Da Lat city. Plateau, for someone’s feet in clinging to every moment of sluggishness. Da Lat this season is full of flowers that blend like a symphony of many emotions. The bright pink cherry apricot lights up the chilly sunset. The beautiful emerald green hydrangea gardens in the warm noonday sun. The rows of beautiful Thuoc Duoc rows of fine velvet wings bloom in the morning dew sparkles. Then the yellow color of wild chrysanthemums left over from the old year’s season is sometimes nostalgic for the old people, and thousands of purple flowers of thousands of flowers from aristocratic regal to simple simplicity always pamper the audience. But it seems that only Purple Phoenix, with its delicate petals, is the Queen of the mountain town with its fluttering purple color, making anyone’s breathing error when touched. Like a mysterious seducing magic power of the season, to have and want to use endlessly, to have far away still lingers foolishly, to hold your hand and get lost in the purple streets in a wish for time to stop. linger… Yes, strangely, the purple phoenix color is like a lonely afternoon dew drop on the surface of Than Tho Lake, as cool as the sunset over Cam Ly waterfall, as sad as a love that has fallen into nostalgia at Thong Hai Hill. Grave, but why go with you Purple Phuong Da Lat, despite the sadness in the eyes of the plateau, I still feel the bright crystal smile in the morning sunshine of Xuan Huong Lake, still feel the tenderness and loyalty. in each eye mixed with immense purple color against the blue sky of the mountain town. Listening to the people of Da Lat say, Purple phoenix from a distant South American country with the difficult name “West” Jacaranda Acutifolia chose this place as a “station” nearly 60 years ago, and since there was only one flower tree. With so much hardship and suffering to adapt, to survive, now there are thousands of trees, choose this plateau of thousands of flowers as a peaceful place, waiting for the season to show off the mysterious blue purple color to love to remember. tourists from all over the world. The kiss goodbye to purple Phuong and goodbye to the city of Da Lat with thousands of flowers made him flutter like a profound regret all the way back to Saigon. He will then reflect on the purple color again, question the memories again, add to the river of memories, count the past seasons again, wait for the day to end, count each moment until the next purple phoenix. To be immersed in the royal dream and sad eyes of the plateau.

Waterpipe tobacco is dried full of sugar in Vinh Bao The season of “harvesting” waterpipe tobacco starts from the end of May and lasts until the end of June. It is no longer as bustling as it used to be, but these days, stepping into the barn of “mutual love” in Tien Lang (Hai Phong), Everywhere is filled with the pungent smell of pipe tobacco. Many households give up planting because they work too hard In the middle of the hot summer afternoon of June, Mr. Nguyen Tien Su, in Ly Hoc commune, Vinh Bao district, Hai Phong city is still working hard with his wife and children while trying to make new Thai medicines – morning exposure. The rectangular screens have an area of ​​​​about 2m2, filled with waterpipe tobacco. The pungent smell of pipe tobacco rose in every corner. Pointing to dozens of rolls of waterpipe tobacco lying inside the house, Mr. Su said that after days of planting and caring, it was time to break the medicine and cut it. If there are drugs, they must be incubated and stored carefully in the house. In those days, people had to go out in the yard, in the summer to sleep, to make room to brew pipe tobacco. Each batch of pipe tobacco will be incubated for about 4-6 days. “Waterpipe tobacco can’t be soaked in rain, drying with dew only has time and stages, so when brewing, you have to spend an area in the house for the medicine, people can sleep outside,” said Mr. Su. According to Mr. Su, pipe tobacco is a “specialty” that is grown in many places, but the most delicious is the water pipe grown in Tien Lang, Vinh Bao. This is considered to be the land that produces tobacco to advance to the king. “The land here does not grow rice, but grows waterpipe tobacco. There are many houses growing 1-2 samples of waterpipe tobacco. If cared for well, each pipe tobacco tree also gives 50-70kg, selling at current market prices from 100-200 thousand VND/kg, special types up to 700-800 thousand VND/kg, some types up to both million VND/kg. With a value many times higher than that of growing rice, many households have given up growing waterpipe tobacco because it is too hard, “said Mr. Su. Keeping the “fire” of the profession Ms. Vinh, from the same commune of Ly Hoc, said that compared to the old days, the production of waterpipe tobacco is easier now, thanks to the machine, there is no need to cut by hand. But the stages of pressing the tops, breaking buds, watering, picking leaves, drying dew, drying in the sun, incubating … still have to be as complete and thorough as before. “Growing waterpipe tobacco is 3-4 times more economical than growing rice, one tree of medicine can give 10 million dong. But every day I have to go to the field to press the tops, break the buds, water, pick the leaves, and then spend the whole house on the potion, I go out to the yard to sleep… It’s so hard, so many people quit their jobs,” said Vinh . Mr. Su added, after hard care for about 4-5 months, it is time to harvest waterpipe tobacco. Waterpipe tobacco, after being broken, will be pulled out and rolled up. The healthy leaves are used to make clothes, and the torn leaves are used to make intestines. The roll of pipe tobacco is 2-2.5m long, about 20cm in diameter. After rolling up, is to arrange the waterpipe tobacco close to each other and keep it indoors or on a cool shelf to incubate for 4-6 days, until the tobacco leaves from the inside to the outside are golden, then proceed to cut the medicine. “Each roll of medicine must be the same length and size before it can be put on the slicer. That’s why people who make waterpipe tobacco must be very careful in rolling up the tobacco, arranging the leaves so that they do not break. It takes 45-60 minutes for each roll to manually cut medicine, now it takes only 5-10 minutes to finish one roll,” said Mr. Su. After cutting, the pipe tobacco will be shaken evenly, then dried. Waterpipe tobacco is dried on the screen, on the floor must be evenly hand, to avoid lumps, it will not dry evenly, leading to bad smell or damage. If it rains, it is not possible to dry the medicine, it must be dried, using dry straw to smoke at the bottom until the fiber dries. When the batches of waterpipe tobacco are completed, cover with blankets and nylon to keep the heat for the tobacco to dry evenly and the next day in the sun, continue to dry until it is dry and golden. “The burning will make the color of the pipe tobacco not as yellow as the sun, but it will increase the smell of smoke, making the pipe tobacco more delicious, richer and more sought after by buyers,” said Mr. Su. Ms. Vinh still remembers, more than a decade ago, every time during the tobacco season, the families exchanged labors to harvest the medicine. At the end of a working day, families will gather to have dinner with a “fun like a festival” atmosphere. Waterpipe smoke will spread in the afternoon that evening, men and even women can smoke, older women will pick up pipe tobacco, place it in betel leaves, and eat areca pieces to make them more spicy and warm. hot. “Today, wage jobs are paid, the exchange of jobs and shared meals are no longer available, so the scene of men sitting and smoking by the cup of tea at the end of the day, and women eating betel leaves and adding medicinal fibers. But every season when the water pipe comes back, I still feel happy because the cultivation of waterpipe tobacco in recent years has been stable, the medicine has a good price, and people’s lives are getting better and better,” said Mr. Su. The “capital” of medicinal plants in both area and quality belongs to Kien Thiet commune (Tien Lang district) and Ly Hoc commune (Vinh Bao district). These two communes are adjacent to each other, separated by the Han River. According to data from Hai Phong Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the two districts have nearly 2,500 hectares of waterpipe tobacco, with a total output of 3,264.6 tons in 2020. The productivity of waterpipe tobacco reaches 1.6 tons/ha, many households earn 500-600 million VND/year from waterpipe tobacco.

Water spinach soup, tomato pickle with soy sauce… Every year, after the season of plucking the peanuts and pressing the oil, Dad uses those oil cakes to make soy sauce. Banh Dau sauce is made from the carcass of peanuts after pressing all the essential oils. The bean carcasses are packed into round, thick cakes. When making soy sauce, three chop the oil cake into pieces and then pound it, sifting to get the fine powder. The flour is roasted, mixed with hot rice, granulated sugar and salt, finely ground and incubated for fermentation, forming soy sauce. The stages of making Banh Dau sauce are not difficult, but perhaps the secret, or it is often said, that the person who has the best hands in making the best soy sauce in the village is only three.
One of the secrets of my father, I know, when making soy sauce, he never used well water but only rain water from the cement block in front of the house. This is also the type of water used to make tea, offer rice on the occasion of the full moon, or the death anniversary. In summer, it usually rains for two or three days. Rainwater from the jackfruit tree makes a faucet catch the lake, carefully covered around it. Giap weekly change the water so that it does not get dirty, swarm or leaves fall in. The most oppressive tree on the summer side, when the wind blows, only a few leaves are considered as water damage. Banh Dau sauce has a brown color of cockroach wings, fatty, aromatic taste, at first glance similar to fish sauce, but the taste is lighter and the fragrance is very characteristic.
In those years, life was still very difficult, fish and shrimp paste was not like it is now. I remember sometimes carrying fish from the sea across the sea to follow in the footsteps of thousands of women, every house buys a little bit called… to eat for fish. In order to have a more sustainable meal, many families have to pack bags and tin boxes to cycle for dozens of kilometers down to Hoi An to buy fish incubated with fish sauce to eat all winter.

At that time, my house was at the top of the village, right at the foot of the mountain. After the liberation from the North, his father spent months in the forest cutting trees to build a spacious 4-room wooden house. On the porch, close to the wall facing the rising sun, put two jars of earthenware, a jar of soy sauce and a jar of salted eggplant. Ba Bao ketchup is like a plant, it needs sunlight to be delicious. With soy sauce, each meal can be scooped into a cup and then cooked in the rice cooker when it is exhausted. Changing the taste can de-oil making the sweet potato dipping sauce great, and the pickled eggplant is also delicious.
Every day, when there is pork divided into seasonal rice, my father shows off his ability to store meat with soy sauce, which is very interesting. Pork cut into small slices, marinated with a little seasoning, sugar, main noodles, onions, garlic for about fifteen minutes for the meat to absorb the spices. Lemongrass washed, cut the white part, chopped. Heat peanut oil and then add lemongrass and stir until the lemongrass turns yellow and fragrant, then add the meat and stir-fry. When the meat is cooked, add the soy sauce and stir. Then, add a little warm water, simmer on low heat for the meat to infuse. When the water in the pot is completely exhausted, the slices of meat become dry, a layer of brown soy sauce, emitting a fragrant aroma is okay. You can also add a little roasted sesame to braised meat, rub off the silk skin to make the dish more flavorful. In particular, this delicious dish can also be preserved in a glass jar and eaten gradually for a few days and still retains its delicious taste.
Soy sauce is also used to pickle pickled tomatoes. The fish is drained, soaked with seasoned soy sauce, and eaten very well. Biting a piece of coffee, it sounds like a crackling sound, no matter how tired people are, they want to wake up. The sweet and fatty sauce mixed with the tray taste of the eggplant settles down on the tip of the tongue, it is difficult to resist when picking up the first egg, the second and third are hard to resist. And always, the ketchup meal ends with a cup of water spinach soup, or a new bowl of boiled vegetable juice. Reading “Love and miss the twelve”, writer Vu Bang once sang “how disgusting that the beloved North Vietnamese country is not richer than anyone else, not as luxurious as anyone else, but how can it produce a delicious eggplant, melon, soy sauce, and fish sauce? “The devil cries so much”.
Please tell me, the Central region of my hometown is also inferior, especially the dish of ketchup, boiled sweet vegetables dipped with soy sauce on every summer occasion that my father makes. But that’s also true, delicious food doesn’t have to wait to be rich. And then the writer and author of “Hanoi delicacies”, “Stranger dishes of the South” confessed: “Oh, it’s the compassion of people, many things don’t produce anything “dead” that they can do for themselves. But remembering the turmeric eggplant or a piece of tomato and soy sauce to eat right in the summer, it’s not just about missing coffee, it’s about remembering the wife of Cao Khang…”.

The Thai people in the Northwest have occipital diagonal (or diagonal occipital) as an attractive dipping spice. The basic ingredients for making cross cuts are usually made of fenugreek seeds, salt seeds, chili peppers, garlic, main noodles, doi seeds, lemongrass, ginger, etc., pounded. People use occipital cross to dip grilled dishes, vegetables, bamboo shoots, sticky rice… Photo: Saytrip. Ban Yen Nhan ward of My Hao town, Hung Yen province has a traditional profession of making soy sauce, producing famous Ban soy sauce specialties. This is a dipping sauce that attracts many diners, made from main ingredients such as glutinous rice, soybeans, salt, and water with an elaborate process that requires its own secret. Photo: Phan Khanh. Hau Loc shrimp paste is a famous specialty of Thanh Hoa. Hau Loc is a coastal plain district of this province with a long history. According to the sources, the processing of shrimp paste in Hau Loc dates back to the 12th century, about 800 years ago, since the establishment of Diem Pho fishing village, now Ngu Loc commune of Hau Loc district. Photo: Saphavi. Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan), Phu Quoc (Kien Giang), Nam O (Da Nang)… are famous places with delicious traditional fish sauce. In these localities, the profession of making fish sauce has existed for hundreds of years. Photo: Sochaudchannel. One-day beef specialties in the provinces of Gia Lai, Lam Dong, Phu Yen … are often used with unique weaver ant salt specialties, with a characteristic slightly sour taste, said to be secreted from the ant’s abdominal fluid. To make weaver ant salt, people use both yellow ant bodies and ant eggs, combining some other ingredients such as salt, wild chili, lentil leaves… Photo: Chanchan171217. Go Cong shrimp paste is a famous specialty of Tien Giang. People use fresh ground shrimp, silver shrimp, cleaned, soaked in alcohol, pounded with garlic, chili, salt… The shrimp mixture after incubation is rubbed through a sieve to decanter the meat, then dried in the sun. When enjoying, diners will mix shrimp paste with a little lemon, sugar, garlic, chili … to make dipping sauce. Photo: Wiki-travel. Processed from the main ingredients are salt and shrimp, which are not typical products of a Southeast province like Tay Ninh, but shrimp salt is known as a famous specialty of this land. In addition to those two main ingredients, people also need garlic, chili, lemongrass … with a balanced ratio, done through many stages of grinding, roasting, drying… to produce a large-grained, colored shrimp salt. beautiful beauty, rich flavor, used to dip fruit, seafood, mix rice paper… Photo: Whiskey.95.

Materials to prepare: – 700g young ribs sườn – 1 tablespoon cooking oil – 1 onion – 2 teaspoons ginger, cut into thin and long slices lát – 1 tablespoon soy sauce – 1 tablespoon finely chopped scallions – 3 tablespoons homemade black bean sauce How to make black bean sauce – 70g fermented black beans – 110ml cooking oil dầu – 1 stalk of scallions, finely chopped – 3 slices of ginger – teaspoon pepper – 3 tablespoons fresh chili, finely chopped – 2 tablespoons garlic, minced – 1 tablespoon soy sauce – 1 tablespoon rice wine – teaspoon sesame oil dầu – a pinch of sugar – a pinch of salt Doing: Make black bean sauce – Wash the black beans. Dry the black beans with kitchen paper. Cut the black beans into small pieces. – Turn on the stove. Put green onion, ginger and pepper in the pan. Pour in the oil and then keep the heat on medium. When the scallions and ginger turn brown, take them out, remove all the pepper and discard. – Put the fermented black beans and all the other ingredients for the sauce into the oil pan. Saute for about 2-3 minutes. Braised pork ribs – Put the ribs in a pot of cold water. Boil pot. Use a spatula to skim off the foam on the surface of the pot. Then pour the water in the pot. Pour the ribs into a clean bowl and set aside. – Pour oil into a clean pot. Put on medium heat. Fry onion and ginger until onion and ginger are soft. – Stir-fry the ribs. Add black bean sauce and soy sauce. Pour hot water into the pot (just enough to cover the ribs). Close the pot lid. Leave on low heat for 40 minutes. – Set the heat to high, then cook until the water in the pot is reduced by half and thickened. Stir-fry the scallions and then transfer the ribs to a plate. – Enjoy. Eat with hot rice. NOTE If you have leftover black bean sauce, you can store it in an airtight container and use it within 2 weeks. – If you want, you can use store-bought black bean sauce. You may need to adjust the amount of sauce to taste.

Easily see familiar images of lovely cats at Gac Mien. Have a pen cup, ruler or watercolor tray set on the table to promote creative ideas for your artwork. Around the table are also meticulous and harmonious décor. There are pictures and unique paintings on the wall of the restaurant. An image of a curled up cat sleeping at the table lamp. Gac Mien did not forget to leave the guests with chess, chess … to be able to train their brain. Besides, the peaceful space of the restaurant is also a place to find the souls of book lovers. Huge bookshelves with old books that not everywhere. A corner with a lovely table lamp, just right for you to sit and read. Gac Mien resided in an old dormitory that seemed discreet and secretive. But the sunlight will follow you from the moment you set foot at the door until you go deep inside. A window frame filled with sunlight. An image of a cat basking in the midday sunlight brings a sense of peace. You can also find a green space where you can sit down and sip a cup of tea, immerse yourself in the cool, quiet atmosphere and enjoy the sun. The outdoor space of Gac Mien. Located in room 306, house A8 of Khuong Thuong Collective Area, 1A Ton That Tung Lane, finding Gac Mien is not easy for strange visitors to visit for the first time. If you have trouble finding this place, please pick up the phone to get help from the super friendly owner! Just gently tug on the other hanging rope, the door will open to welcome you. There is one thing to note, that is Gac Mien always wants to preserve a quiet space for everyone. Therefore, the restaurant usually does not accept the number of guests exceeding 4 people. If you want to have pictures to keep memories, please consult the owner first!