The pork belly dish when cut on the plate (Photo: Tran Thuy) Here is how to make grilled pork belly by Tran Thuy – a Viet Kieu in Germany. Resources: 1kg fresh bacon, basil, fish sauce, main noodles, pepper, baking powder (backpulve), lemon, salt, vinegar. Making The purchased meat is washed, patted dry, turned over and sliced ​​along 4 lines, 1.5 cm deep to marinate. – 1 teaspoon of five flavors, a little pepper, a little main noodles, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce pho. Mix the mixture and then use a brush to spread evenly over the surface of the meat and around. Leave the meat face up so that the spices infuse and dry for about 45 minutes. Marinate the spices to infuse and place the marinated meat face down on a cutting board lined with absorbent paper so that it is flat – Take a large pan, pour about 25ml of water, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of white vinegar, bring to a boil. Put the meat on the skin so that the water just covers the skin, boil for 7 minutes. – Lift out, place the marinated meat face down on a cutting board lined with absorbent paper so that it is flat, because it will not turn over. Shave the entire skin the first time to make it very thin – When the meat is still warm, use a sharp knife to scrape the entire surface of the skin for the first time to make it very thin. Remember to shave even around the edge, shave back and forth like a plow, the tip of the knife goes down quickly to form scratches on the skin surface. – Take a teaspoon of salt and sprinkle evenly on the surface of the skin. Cut a small piece of lemon close to the salt and skin, let it infuse for 45 minutes. Turn the oven on the lower heat to heat the oven to 100 degrees for 10 minutes, put the meat on top in the middle of the oven – Continue to shave a second time for thin skin. Take another teaspoon of salt mixed with 5g of baking powder and sprinkle evenly on the surface. Take a small piece of lemon and rub it evenly. Leave to infuse for at least 3 hours to dry. _ Turn the oven on the lower heat to heat the oven to 100 degrees for 10 minutes, place the meat on top in the middle of the oven. Bake for 20 minutes, then increase to 140 degrees, bake for 20 minutes so that the meat is cooked deep inside, not shriveled, when cooked, the meat is still pink. Then leave to 160 degrees for 20 minutes. Total about 1 hour (depending on the oven). Look at the underside of the cooked meat, or poke it horizontally with chopsticks and see no pink juice coming out. When it explodes, we turn off the oven, pull the meat out to cool and then chop it on a plate. – Continue to accelerate to a straight 250 degrees. At this point, my skin exploded like popcorn, for about 10 minutes. When it explodes, we turn off the oven, pull the meat out to cool and then chop it on a plate. In fact, the whole family can’t get bored eating right now. The skin is crispy, the meat is still pink and sweet, the taste is rich, eating with sour food is very expensive for the whole family.

Ms. Tran Thuy, an account specializing in selling cicada nymphs in Hanoi, said this year the price of cicada nymphs has decreased compared to last year. “In 2020, there is a time when the price of cicadas up to 450,000-500,000 VND / kg, still not enough to sell, but this year the price of this item tends to be cheaper,” she said. According to her, from the end of April to the beginning of May, the cicadas are in the infancy stage and have not yet grown wings. “At this time, the nymphs are fat, soft, and fragrant,” Thuy said. In recent years, cicadas pupae have become a special specialty for many people as well as restaurants and pubs. Photo: Ha Tran. This dealer said that cicada nymphs each time in the season are very attractive to buyers, especially drinkers. “Many people buy a kilo to try and then order another 2.3 kg,” she said, saying that at the beginning of the season, the price is quite high, in the middle and the end of the season, the price will cool down. At her shop, type 1 vacuum cicadas pupae cost 400,000 VND / kg, type 2 costs 300,000 VND / kg. Explaining the reason why cicadas nymphs are quite expensive, she said: “Because the process of hunting cicadas is very complicated and takes a lot of time during the night, sometimes it takes to go all night to hunt one kg of nymphs, so there is a price. high”. Similarly, Ms. Bui Vinh (Dong Phu, Binh Phuoc) said that cicada nymphs at the beginning of the season have just molted, the cicada’s body is still very young and newly emerging wings are difficult to catch, so they are rare and high priced. “In the past, people mainly collected nymphs to eat, but gradually the market demand was increasing so they started to pupate them for sale,” she said. Ms. Vinh said that the cicadas that came from the ground up and clung to the tree trunk after 5-7 minutes will molt, then I just need to light the lamp and catch. After getting soaked in salt water for 20-30 minutes, then remove the wings, cover with boiling water once and rinse. “Every season, my neighbors and I go together to catch nymphs and sell to earn extra income. Just a flashlight and a bucket of clean water diluted with salt can go hunting nymphs,” she said. Currently a kg of cicada nymphs she sells wholesale prices ranging from 190,000 to 250,000 VND / kg, depending on the type and time. “Customers, pubs often have to pre-order to have products. Many days, I cannot sell enough goods,” said the trader. Cicada nymphs do quite a lot of delicious dishes that are loved by many people. Photo: Chu Hanh. Roasted cicada pupa with lemon leaves is a favorite dish every summer for many people drinking. “During a drink, I was introduced to this dish by a friend, so I became addicted since then, every year to season, I find people to order”, Mr. Dung (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) shared. “One kg of young mite pupae is quite a lot, I buy 2.3 kg ready to divide into small bags for the refrigerator to eat gradually, each bag about 200-250 grams of processing up to be filled with a plate,” he said. Although it is a strange product sought by many drinkers, users should be careful when choosing, preliminarily processing and processing cicadas nymphs to avoid harm to their health. Before that, in May 2019 in Quang Ninh, a man was hospitalized with anaphylactic shock after drinking alcohol and eating cicadas. Doctors diagnose the patient with degree III anaphylaxis due to eating cicadas, emergency treatment according to anaphylactic shock regimen. Notably, a man in Binh Phuoc died from eating young cicadas in May 2014. According to some experts, cicada nymphs live in the soil environment, so there is a high risk of infection and parasitic fungus. In particular, some poisonous mushrooms are dangerous to users. Therefore, people should use caution.