Ms. Dam (Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district) is wrapping coconut leaf cake. Salted pork skin cake, also known as salty cake, is created into various types of flatbreads, vegetarian cakes. According to Ms. Loan, making savory pork skin cakes is not difficult, but you must have your own secret to make the cake crispy, chewy and have a characteristic fatty taste. To have a delicious pork skin cake, the main ingredient is rice flour; The filling is made from cassava root, red radish and dried shrimp. And an indispensable ingredient is coconut milk, which contributes to making the cake more flavorful, fatty and fragrant. Currently, when technology develops, many bakers switch to electric ovens, but Loan still maintains the method of manual steaming, pinching with rice husks to adjust the temperature accordingly. Every day, Ms. Loan steams about 150 salty pork skin cakes, priced at 3,000 VND/piece, with dried shrimp filling; 2,000 VND/piece for flatbread and cake filled with cassava, red radish. Ms. Loan said: “Every day, I sell salty pork skin cakes with other dishes, such as silkworm cakes, wet cakes, etc. Depending on the number of orders from customers, I increase or decrease the number of cakes.” For most folk cakes, although the ingredients are easy to find, it also requires a lot of care and ingenuity of the workers to produce eye-catching and delicious batches of cakes. Huynh Thi Ha’s family, commonly known as Ms. 3 Dam, 65 years old (living in Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district), making coconut leaf cakes has helped her family “eat well, made” over the past 14 years. Ms. Dam said that, when she was a girl in the countryside, everyone knew how to make cakes, because they were taught the craft by their grandparents and learned from neighbors. While quickly wrapping the cakes, Ms. Dam shared: “I can pack 17 cakes for 1 kg of sticky rice. To get a delicious, fragrant coconut cake, you have to go through many stages. First buy a plant (coconut leaves) used to wrap the barrel of the cake. Glutinous must choose to buy new sticky rice to stir-fry, squeeze coconut milk and mix it with coconut carcasses, add salt, sugar, and beans. To make the cake, must cook green beans, cut ripe bananas. After all the preliminaries were done, I started wrapping the cake.” Every day, on a small bicycle, Ms. Dam only sells coconut leaf cakes around the area of ​​Thoi An Dong market. Her cakes sold quite well, by 6 a.m. sold out. On average, she packs over 100 cakes every day, both retailing and removing termites for 5,000 VND/piece; minus expenses, she made a profit of over 120,000 dong. Particularly on holidays and Tet, neighbors come to her to order a package of Tet cakes. Although the money is not much, it also helps her to live with the profession, satisfying her desire to preserve the taste of country cakes. Currently, with the pace of urbanization, many types of cakes have been born, meeting the increasing tastes of customers, but folk cakes still have a certain place in the market, helping many small business households to earn income. stable input. Through the skillful hands of artisans, the folk cakes are more delicious, rounder, and converge the essence of home products.

From the beginning of 2021 up to now, the Standing Board (BTV) of Co Do District Youth Union has organized many traffic safety activities: directing affiliated units of the Union to maintain the model of “Traffic Safety School Gate” at 49 schools in the district; building 2 roads “Light up the countryside” in Thoi Dong and Thanh Phu communes with a total length of over 7,000m; coordinate in guiding safe driving and how to wear helmets in accordance with regulations for students at high schools in the area; donated 200 quality helmets to the students… The Board of Directors of the District Union also coordinated with units and benefactors to build 6 traffic bridges in Thanh Phu, Thoi Dong, Trung An, Trung Thanh and Dong Hiep communes. . The total cost of building the bridge is 1.8 billion VND. According to Mr. Le Quoc Tuan, Secretary of the Co Do District Union, the propaganda work on traffic laws is concerned by the Union at all levels. In particular, the Board of Directors of the District Union has coordinated with Hong Duc Co., Ltd (Hong Duc 9) to organize propaganda on the Road Traffic Law, and train students in safe driving skills at schools. The Board of Directors of the Co Do District Youth Union has directed the Youth Union at all levels to organize 10 propaganda campaigns on traffic safety order with 1,250 members and young people participating; distribute 2,000 leaflets about the harmful effects of alcohol and beer on road users… The Executive Boards of the school unions in the area maintain the school radio program, and the red flag team to promptly propagate and remind schools In case the student is underage, does not have a driver’s license to operate a vehicle when going to school. In addition, the Executive Committee of the Youth Union of communes and townships maintains the activities of 10 volunteer youth teams participating in traffic safety. Every week, the teams coordinate with functional agencies to patrol, control and handle traffic safety violations … In the coming time, the Board of Directors of the District Youth Union will strengthen the propaganda, dissemination and education of the law on traffic safety and order for union members, youth and people; continue to propagate traffic safety with the theme “Traffic safety for children”; improve the operational efficiency of the Youth Volunteer Teams participating in traffic safety; actively mobilize households and small businesses in markets not to encroach on sidewalks, traffic safety corridors, etc. At the same time, direct the Union establishments to participate in the construction of bridges and roads; Clearing bushes and branches to ensure traffic safety.

During the anti-American war to save the country, many soldiers had to eat rotten vegetables to fight hunger. Dimpled vegetables grow a lot in coastal areas, along rivers and canals. Previously, people freely picked dented vegetables in the sea and sold them. However, for about a decade now, when dented vegetables have been favored by the market, the owners’ beaches have been protected, people are not free to come and pick this wild vegetable anymore. In order to actively source dented vegetables to sell to the market, and before the natural amount of dented vegetables is increasingly depleted, many farmers have organized to plant dented vegetables. Taking advantage of canals and ditches in the garden, farmers pluck wild rotten vegetables from the sea to plant. Currently, in Ho Chi Minh City, vegetables are grown mainly in Bon Phu hamlet, Trung An commune, Cu Chi district. Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh (Bon Phu hamlet), leader of the commune’s vegetable cooperative, shared in Nhan Dan newspaper: “Over the past six years, I have expanded the ditch to bring water from the Saigon River into the family’s fruit garden, then pick rotten vegetables that grow wild and transplant them in the same way as rice transplant.This guy (meaning vegetables) must be planted under another tree to create shade, tolerate fresh water from the river, and adapt to Trung An’s soil, so more seedlings will grow quickly So, my family’s average income from dented vegetables is 250 million VND/year. Seeing that I’m doing well, relatives follow suit, so I’m the “boss”!”. And no longer self-harvesting as in the past due to the growing area, Mr. Thanh asked more farmers in the hamlet to collect daily. Since then, that creates more regular jobs for eight workers per year. To grow dented vegetables, people dig wide ditches to direct water from the canals. Planting method is like sowing seeds, just plug the seedlings down and let them grow on their own, without much care. After one year of planting, it can be harvested. When harvesting, only young shoots are taken. Each stalk is 30-40cm long. Because the dented leaves grow quickly, they have to be picked every day to avoid getting old. The old leaves of the vegetable have many sharp thorns in the middle of the stem, so the picker must always wear long-sleeved clothes, gloves to avoid scratching the skin. When picking vegetables, go along each row so as not to miss young shoots. This job does not require a lot of skills, but it takes endurance and quick hands to wade through the water continuously for a few hours to pick vegetables. For each pound of vegetables, the gardener is paid 6,000 VND. Currently, in Trung An commune, there are still a few dozen people picking wild vegetables. Currently, the price of fresh rotten vegetables is always around 25,000 VND/kg, silage reaches 40,000 VND/kg. Farmers with a water surface of about one thousand m², growing dented vegetables can harvest 150 kg / week, so if they sell fresh vegetables, they also earn 15 million VND / month and this “sales” is even. all year round. As for a person who owns 2.5 hectares of dented vegetables like Mr. Vo Van Horn, every day he picks more than 50 kg of dented vegetables every day, with the current selling price, except for picking he earns nearly 2 million . The young shoots of dented vegetables can be used to process many dishes such as eating raw, squeezing salad, boiling, stir-frying, cooking sour soup, dipping hot pot… (According to GiadinhNet)