Recently, sea mushrooms are actively sold in the market or on the “internet market”, many women are curious to buy and enjoy. Selling sea mushrooms for more than two years, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang in Le Trong Tan (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) shared, she specializes in wholesaling for restaurants, pubs in Hanoi and some neighboring provinces, each days they take from 10-20kg. She only kept about ten pounds for retail sale. Calculated, she sells a few weights a day. Ms. Hang said that she collects sea mushrooms from fishermen in the fishing area of ​​Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa or some provinces in the South, … This type of seafood has a taste of the sea. Crunchy, sweet and fragrant like eating squid tail, very suitable for drinking dishes such as salad, grilled or for dipping hot pot. Sea mushrooms are specialties that forget to fishermen, but are quite new to the people of Hanoi Sea mushrooms have stripe skin on the outside is dark brown, the flesh inside is white, when imported, have been prepared clean. Before processing, just squeeze a little salt and wash it, then slice and stir fry like stir-fry beef. Stir-fried basil with sea mushrooms is considered a specialty and is popular with many people. The retail price of variable mushrooms is 220,000 VND / kg, while the wholesale price is from 5-10 kg at 165,000 VND / kg. Guests must book 1-2 days in advance to get them, because the goods depend on the number of people caught. Sometimes, Ms. Hang had to collect a few days to have enough goods for delivery. Ms. Le Thuy Duong – a wholesaler of seafood at Nga Tu So intersection (Dong Da, Hanoi) – also said that she is preparing for the summer so she sells a lot of sea mushrooms to restaurants, pubs and sidewalk bars. Some days about a few dozen pounds, wholesalers have cleaned up, no excess weight left. Last summer, she was selling sea buckthorn every day but still had to make appointments for her customers to wait for her next trip because of overload. “I sell for 120,000 VND / kg. Normally, customers buy less than 2-3kg, buy more 4-5kg to freeze to eat gradually ”, she said. Women who buy them often process dishes such as: fried sea mushrooms with basil, grilled sea mushrooms, sea mushrooms, or used to make salads as a drink for their husbands or for guests. However, sea mushrooms should only be refrigerated for 3-4 days to ensure freshness and retain nutrients. Ideally, no matter how much you eat, you can buy it, Ms. Duong said. Many people enjoy this sea mushroom dish One day, a small trader can sell weights of sea mushrooms Mr. Tran Van Binh – a clue selling sea mushrooms in Khanh Hoa – explained, the name of sea mushrooms has existed since ancient times, only one type of seafood is very familiar in the sea, not a mushroom as many people mistakenly think. Mushrooms are harvested naturally, available all year round, so the source is quite plentiful. However, when the sea is rough, stormy and stormy, the exploitation is difficult, so the goods will not be able to return. After being caught, the sea mushrooms are preliminarily processed and then frozen and transported to other provinces, thus ensuring their freshness. Anh Binh is selling this type of seafood for 185,000 VND / kg. When she first heard about sea mushrooms, Mrs. Le Thi Lan Anh from Duy Tan (Cau Giay, Hanoi) was quite curious. At first, she thought it was a common edible mushroom growing in the sea, but when she knew it was seafood, even a specialty of the sea, she immediately bought 2kg to cook. She made stir-fried sea mushrooms with basil, chili, and garlic, according to the seller, and was crunchy, fragrant and strange. Her whole family ate all but still craved. “I researched and found that sea mushrooms contain many healthy nutrients,” she said. On culinary groups, women also compete to show off grilled, fried or salad dishes, … from sea mushrooms. People also share the way to cook and cook this mushroom for the best, and warn those with seafood allergies to be careful before eating mushrooms.

According to the experience of ethnic minorities in Tuyen Quang, not all species of ants can take fresh eggs for processing. The kind of ants that take fresh eggs must be nursery ants or brown ants for the eggs to be fragrant and ripe. Particularly, the black ant nests have a bad smell and do not eat. Fresh ant eggs were once marketed as a health remedy. After taking ant eggs from the forest, the eggs will be brought to the sieve and cleaned, removing impurities, leaves and ants mixed in it. After this stage, the new plump egg seeds are packed, sold or processed into many unique and delicious dishes. Ms. Tran Thu Hang, 37 years old in Thuy Khue, Tay Ho (Hanoi), said that she is currently in the ant eggs season, so she actively collects fresh ant eggs from Na Hang (Tuyen Quang) people to Hanoi to sell to customers. gourmet. “These fresh batches of ants were shipped directly to Hanoi. Every day we only get a limited amount, about 15-20 kg of ant eggs. Because the quantity is too small, we have to immediately pay the bill to the customer who arrives there. Customers ordered a lot but did not have enough fresh ant eggs to pay ”. According to Ms. Hang, fresh ant eggs can be processed into many delicious and nutritious dishes such as ant egg rolls, fried ant eggs, ant egg cakes and especially ant egg sticky rice. “Customers who buy fresh ant eggs can be used to make sticky rice, make cakes, wrap leaves to eat like salad, cook porridge, eat with rice cakes, mix eggs or minced meat to fry, … In general, in many Ant eggs sticky rice dish and ant egg cake are the most popular. Or someone soaked in wine with ant eggs ”, Ms. Hang asserted. There are many dishes made from ant eggs Some localities like Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, and Cao Bang people make ants egg cakes Or fried egg rolls with ants Ant eggs are packed into bags Fresh forest ant eggs are quite expensive, many people buy frozen food gradually. She added, buying fresh ant eggs, customers can freeze and use gradually over a few months. Currently, the price of a kilogram of fresh ant eggs is 220,000 VND. Meanwhile, 2-3 years ago, this price was twice as expensive, about 450.00 VND / kg. This is because this year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the demand for fresh ant eggs has decreased significantly, and ant eggs are in good condition ”. Herbalist Vu Quoc Trung (Member of the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Association) said that fresh ant eggs are collected from ant nests in the forest, so they are rich in protein, nutritious and help improve health. However, because they are rich in protein, they can easily cause allergies to people who eat. Not to mention, ants often live in humid places in the forest, so they can contain many parasites and bacteria that pose a high risk of poisoning when eaten. This physician recommended, people should not eat out of curiosity and curiosity. Especially those with a history of allergies to insects. In particular, ants should not be eaten when they are not cleaned carefully.

As noted by PV, on streets and markets in Hanoi, small merchants sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients very early to serve the people.

This year, the real Korean New Year falls on Wednesday, so the housewives also get up early to buy floating cakes, and offer them to the family altar.

From the big street to the small street, from the big market to the toad market, people are always busy with buyers and sellers.

There are also a number of people who are not in the profession, but take advantage of the large facade and available cooking space to make vegetarian cakes for profit.

Ms. Hoa, who sells floating cakes at Nghia Tan market, shared: “The Korean New Year is really a special holiday of the year. Knowing I make cakes for sale, the sisters in the two paternal and maternal families also joined in to help. I love this traditional cultural beauty, so I just like the white cake to serve visitors and the people around “.

To prepare for the main holiday, Ms. Hang (Hanoi) and everyone in her family decided to make cakes overnight. “My sisters and I stayed up all night making cakes. Because this year Korean New Year really does not fall on a weekend, we have to take advantage of making it so that customers order cakes early, then they even take advantage of work to make it in time. “, Ms. Hang shared.

As noted, the shopping atmosphere at the local markets is much more bustling than this day.

Every row of floating cakes must have up to 2-3 people to serve.

Everyone hurriedly took advantage of buying ceremonies early in the morning so that they could work on time.

Carrying armpit bags carrying large and small bags of floating cakes, vegetarian food.

The set of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes have been cooked, customers just need to buy and arrange them to the altar.

According to research, the price of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are still the same price compared to normal days. A plate of floating cake costs 10,000-15,000 VND depending on the size of the plate. Vegetarian cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate.

With five colors drift cake will cost 20,000 VND / 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.

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

Every Korean New Year is the same, despite the hard work, everyone, everyone in the family is always trying to make this holiday special, gather with family, join in the direction of the roots and express their sincerity. respect to the deceased./.