The moon just entered the door blush like autumn ripe fruit. *** Don’t raise your voice The birds have just folded their wings to fly Eyes closed the old straw nest. *** Don’t raise your voice The lullaby is still ringing On the breast. *** The crease of the shirt is fermented from the previous wind This afternoon smells of god People Just resting your feet. *** Don’t raise your voice. A collection of poems, Voices, by Ta Anh Thu. Photo: FBNV. Comments Poem Don’t raise your voice in each stanza – the passage has the appearance and spirit of a Haiku. The still movement of time in the ripe fruit, the restless closing of the bird’s wings leaving the nest; The lullaby still resounds on the breast, the drunken yeast of the journey suddenly bewildered when stopping… gives us the ancient melancholy. Poetic form is a framework that avant-garde poets always intend to overcome. Overcoming the form of the body (for example: Six bowls, Haiku…) to create the life of the genre (Poetry) is the path of regal innovation. Holding only poetry as the nourishment of the genre and challenging the rigidity of the body is a particular delight in artistic creation. Ta Anh Thu must have thought of that when evoking the Haiku atmosphere and beyond the Haiku form. Don’t raise your voice not silence, but to listen to the sound of silence. Picking up each moment, stringing together four poems, forming a closed structure, the poem keeps the reader in a space separate from the noisy, tired world out there. Reading poems, for me, can be a way of self-support!

Every day from 4 pm to 12 pm every day, at Xoi Man restaurant (409 Tran Phu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) is always crowded with customers to buy. Surely many people find it strange that around the sticky rice shop are many facilities, funeral services, even funeral homes, making the atmosphere here somewhat murky. Explaining the strange name of the dish, Mr. Luu Bao Minh, the current owner of the sticky rice shop, shared: “In the past, the restaurant was located on the corner of Nguyen Tri Phuong and Tran Phu streets, but since moving here, it is located near the funeral home. , stores that sell coffins, funeral services, and hospitals, so the shop is named like that.” The sticky rice shop is a car with a glass cabinet that looks like a bread cart that is often seen on many streets in Saigon. The pot of sticky rice is mounted on a gas stove placed in the car, the sticky rice is always smoky. Sticky rice is quite flexible, fragrant and fatty. Compared to other restaurants in the city, the address on Tran Phu street is not very prominent in taste, even less choice of side dishes than other places. However, it is not by chance that sticky rice “morgue” attracts gourmets in Saigon. According to the owner, every day people in the family will go to the market and cook by themselves from 10 am. Particularly, sausages are bought from Soc Trang, not from strange places. After buying pork sausage, it is fried and sliced ​​to taste. The shop only sells salty sticky rice, the main ingredients include: sticky rice, sausages and cotton balls. Besides, there is also onion fat and fried onions to create aroma and round taste. Where the onion fat sells, the shop will make it there because it’s ready-made, the fresh onion leaves will turn yellow and lose the characteristic pungent smell. Another plus point is that the shop also sprinkles crushed peanuts, creating a strange taste because salty sticky rice is rarely used by people. Soy sauce added to sticky rice is also mixed according to the traditional recipe. Another interesting thing is the unique way of eating sticky rice. Here, sticky rice will be wrapped in fresh banana leaves into long rolls like Tet cakes. Where customers eat, they tear banana leaves there. Never use a spoon. Explaining this way of eating, the owner said: “Because of the fear that the plastic of the spoon when meeting hot sticky rice will not be good for customers’ health”. Thanks to such a difference, in only 8 to 9 hours, all three pots of “mortar sticky rice” were quickly sold out. According to Mr. Quyen (Mr. Minh’s brother), the motorbike is the main source of income for the whole family. And with the number of customers coming to buy is too large, in order to serve customers in time, the whole family has to take turns selling continuously. With only 10,000 VND, we have in hand a delicious package of “morgue sticky rice”. With each soft, hot sticky rice. The top is covered with a layer of onion fat and heirloom soy sauce. Followed by a thick layer of scrubs, a spoonful of greasy roasted peanuts. Fried onions and pieces of red and pink sausage are placed on top, looking extremely stimulating to the taste buds. (According to GiadinhNet)