(Baonghean.vn) - Banh muot of Lam Trung craft village, Hung Lam commune (Hung Nguyen) has long been famous for its delicious taste, and is one of the specialties known to many people. Especially, during the time of preparing for Lunar New Year, the craft village is bustling with people coming and going.
In the cold of the end of the year, we went to Lam Trung wet cake village. From the beginning of the village, the aroma of rice flour and freshly baked cakes mixed with the cold wind warmed the whole area. People came in and out to buy and enjoy cakes, making the village bustling.
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| From the beginning of Lam Trung cake village, the footsteps of women and mothers were bustling to buy cakes. Mrs. Vo Thi Tan (85 years old) in Lam Trung craft village, Hung Lam commune happily said: There are cake ovens in the village so every family can always enjoy hot cakes. |
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| Since ancient times, Lam Trung cake makers have paid great attention to the selection of rice for making cakes. The rice used to make wet cakes is usually Khang Dan rice, so the cakes are chewy and delicious. After soaking, the rice must be washed and squeezed well before being ground. |
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| Around 6pm is also the time when the cake village is bustling, every household starts making cakes to sell to restaurants that have booked in advance and local people. Like 50 households in the village specializing in making cakes, Mr. Vo Xuong's family in Hamlet 5 also prepares flour to make cakes. Mr. Xuong said: Previously, his family made cakes by hand, but this past year, his family bought a cake making machine worth 40 million VND, his family makes 20-30 kg of rice a day. |
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| Mr. Xuong checks the machine to ensure the quality of the cake. |
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| After the white cakes are hot and cooked, nimble hands arrange them in a basket lined with banana leaves to ensure hygiene. |
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| The cake is delicious, but fish sauce and dried onions are extremely important. Therefore, to contribute to the delicious flavor of the cake, the onions to sprinkle on the wet cake are homemade by the people instead of buying pre-dried onions from the market. |
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| Each layer of white, thin cake is sprinkled with a layer of crispy, golden onions. Lam Trung wet cake is enjoyed by locals with ham ordered from the craft village of Van Dien commune (Nam Dan). Eat it once and you will remember it forever. |
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| Lam Trung village's banh muot mainly supplies cakes to the Vinh market, Nam Dan and neighboring communes. It is known that on average, each year the village consumes over 35 tons of rice to make banh muot. The average daily income is around 100,000 VND/person, during Tet the income doubles. The poverty rate in Lam Trung village is only 5%, mainly the elderly and single people. |
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| Lam Trung wet rice cake has become a local gift that people in the village and commune come to enjoy right at the production facilities. At times like this, village stories, neighborhood stories, business stories, especially the development of the wet rice cake craft village are the most discussed by people with the wish to make their village's cakes more and more known. |
Thu Huong
