(Baonghean.vn) - No one knows since when, but whenever visiting Que Phong, almost everyone stops at Kim Son market to buy some mountain specialties as gifts before returning to the lowlands...
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| Kim Son Market used to be just a small market, but now with the strong development of Que Phong, Kim Son quickly becomes a bustling market with many specialties of the mountainous region. |
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| Each season, the market has different specialties. Currently, if you go to Que Phong, you definitely cannot miss the yellow wax potato, a type of potato related to taro with yellow flesh, fragrant and very rich when processed. |
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| Or cantaloupes are sold with squash, pumpkins, cucumbers... |
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| Kim Son market's specialties not only appear in the daily meals of Que Phong people but are also carried as gifts by buses throughout the province. |
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| In particular, during this season, Kim Son market also sells Ngoc Cau mushroom, a type of herb that only grows for 1 month and must be found deep in the forest. |
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| Bottles of late season wild honey are also available at this time. |
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| Walking around the market, it is not difficult to see Thai and Mong women bringing some gifts grown in their gardens or found in the forest to sell to earn extra money to support their lives. |
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| Although it is the end of the season, all kinds of wild bamboo shoots from bitter bamboo shoots, reed bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots... are still sold quite a lot at the market. |
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| Ms. Lo Thi Lan, a bamboo shoot seller at Kim Son market, said that because it is the end of the season, finding bamboo shoots is more difficult. From early morning, people in her village wake up together to go into the forest to find bamboo shoots and sometimes do not return home until 1 or 2 pm. The bamboo shoots found will be processed before being sold at the market. |
Chu Thanh
