Unique bee sauce U Minh

Speaking of U Minh Melaleuca forest, many people think of the famous specialty honey. When the hive is exploited, people get many things such as: honey, beeswax and bee pupae (young bees) …
Speaking of U Minh Melaleuca forest, many people think of the famous specialty honey. When the hive is exploited, people get many things such as: honey, beeswax and bee pupae (young bees) … Honey is something to save as gifts, medicine, beeswax used in medicine and processing. cosmetic variable; Young bees are a delicacy for guests. U Minh people have processed many dishes from young bees such as bees mixed with banana and corn salad, steamed with melon leaves, guise leaves, fried flour …; especially making bee sauce, a famous delicacy in U Minh Ha region.

Talking about her predestined relationship to the profession of making bee sauce, Ms. Tran Thi Van (owner of Hai Ngo bee paste establishment, U Minh town) said: “The profession of making bee sauce is a traditional profession passed down by my mother-in-law. My family specializes in making copper sauce to serve daily meals. Country sauce has been ingrained in my mind ever since. ” Mr. Phan Van Ri is the creator of the famous brand U Minh Bee Sauce today. Also according to Ms. Van, after different honey falls, she found that the bee stalks were too much, so it would be wasteful to try the bee paste to eat and give it to the neighbors. Seeing that the bee sauce is so delicious, Ms. Van just came up with her intention to do business in this profession and shaped the famous U Minh brand of bee sauce throughout the region. Making bee sauce also goes through many stages. Young bee nymphs have just been harvested and brought back to be done within the day, if left overnight to preserve well, young bees will be damaged. To take the young bees out of the museum, put them in a pan of boiling water, about 5 minutes, the beeswax melts, the young bees will float to the surface of the water, use a basket to remove the young bees to drain before mixing taste. Spices to make bee sauce include salt from roasted seeds until the explosion stops, original wine, a little salt and some other spices to put into bee pupae, mix well. To have a delicious bee fish sauce dish, an indispensable ingredient is hearing. Rice to make hearing must be washed thoroughly, then put in a pan with a moderate heat, until golden fragrant. Use a rice mill to roast the rice smoothly into the hearing, then mix it well with the sauce and add it to the glue. To prevent the bee paste from becoming water-proof, use a circular cut according to the diameter of the glue, coconut sheaves cut each stick to seal it, 3 days later you can use it. Ms. Tran Thi Van is concocting bees to take pupae to process bee sauce. To bring the brand of bee sauce to “escape” from the U Minh countryside is also a lot of hardship and hardship. Mr. Phan Van Ri (Ms. Van’s husband) is the creator of the Hai Ngo bee sauce brand, certified and licensed by the Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Mr. Ri shared: “Being able to exploit the raw material of young bee pupae to make fish sauce, I am very happy. Initially, the local functional departments reminded that the production of bee sauce was not allowed, afraid it would deplete the wild bee population. This leads to a reduction in the amount of honey.But according to the rule of exploiting honey, honey must be cut, a little bit so that the bees can continue to frieze and develop into a new nest, but eat bees without cutting. get honey “. A delicious U Minh bee paste (800g) is priced at 120,000 VND. In the past, when honey was exploited, bees were left hidden in the forest, now bees make fish sauce, so everyone takes advantage of it to increase income. Currently, 1 kg of bee honey is priced from 50,000 to 60,000 VND. Bee sauce served with forest vegetables is very flavorful. Bee sauce has a fatty taste, fragrant smell of honey and hearing, served with bacon and forest vegetables, guise leaves, fig leaves, herbs … If you have the opportunity to go to U Minh, visitors do not miss the opportunity. enjoy the rich bee sauce with the taste of the forest land. (According to Ca Mau Newspaper)