When the spring season is about to end to summer, on the 3rd of March (lunar calendar) every year, families prepare a tray of floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to offer to their ancestors. This tradition is deeply ingrained in the minds of Vietnamese people.
When the spring season is about to end to summer, on the 3rd of March (lunar calendar) every year, families prepare a tray of floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to offer to their ancestors. This tradition is deeply ingrained in the minds of Vietnamese people.
From the early morning of April 14 (the 3rd of the third lunar month), on the streets and markets in Hanoi, small merchants sold a lot of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes as well as baking ingredients to serve. citizen.
Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are all made from fragrant sticky rice flour. Floating cakes made small balls of longan fruit, in addition to white, in red sugar filling, while vegetarian cakes are round and flat, filled with cooked green beans and pureed with sugar.
In order for the cake to be soft and easy to squeeze, the baker must soak the sticky rice, stir well with a little salt and then grind it.
After the kneading is finished, the cake is placed in a pot of boiling water. The freshly boiled cake will sink on the bottom of the pot. When cooked, it will float and be picked up and put into a plate.
At a shop on Ngo Thi Nham street (Hai Ba Trung), people waited in a long queue to buy floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship.
With the mindset of wanting to buy delicious cakes to burn incense, many customers have to wait about 30-40 minutes for their turn.
Mr. Pham Xuan Thanh, the owner of the restaurant, shared that he and his family members got up at 3 a.m. to make cakes, in time to serve the people. On this day, customers are crowded from early morning to dusk, so the whole family is always in time to rest.
At the Hang Be market (Hoan Kiem), the business is also busy. Floating cakes are made on the spot, when the buyer needs, the shop will squeeze the dough to do more.
On average, vegetarian cakes cost 20,000 VND / bowl, floating cakes cost 15,000 VND / plate.
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