(Baonghean.vn) - Soy sauce is one of the traditional products of Nam Dan people. With the traditional experience of their ancestors, along with their passion and creativity, people in the Soy Sauce Making Village, in Phan Boi Chau block, Nam Dan town (Nghe An) have developed a product with increasingly high quality and brand. With an output of 350 to 400 thousand liters, the revenue is over 2 billion VND/year. From a rustic dipping sauce, soy sauce has become a specialty gift of Nghe An.
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| The main ingredient of Nam Dan soy sauce is made from soybeans, grown on the alluvial plains along the Lam River. After being purchased, the producer carefully selects them before grinding. |
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| In addition to soybeans, the indispensable ingredient is mold - a yeast made from glutinous rice or corn soaked in green tea water and then dried. |
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| After grinding, soybeans are put into the pot and cooked continuously for 20 - 24 hours. |
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| After mixing salt, mold and clean water, beat once and wait for fermentation. During the fermentation process, people have to beat the soy sauce every day. (In the photo: checking and beating soy sauce at Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong's facility in Mai Hac De block, Nam Dan town, each year the facility produces 5-7 thousand liters of soy sauce). |
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| When ripe, the sauce has a fragrant smell. (In the photo:A jar of soy sauce has been fermented for nearly 40 days and is about to be sold. |
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| During the fermentation process, people have to constantly check the fermentation process. When adding salt and mold, just beat it once to wait for the soy sauce to ripen. |
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| After ripening, the soy sauce is packaged into bottles of 0.5 liters, 1 liter, 2 liters or 5 liters. On average, the best soy sauce costs 30,000 VND/liter (in the photo: soy sauce at Mr. Pham Hai Duong's production facility in Phan Boi Chau block, Nam Dan town). |
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| Reputable, quality soy sauce products are labeled and clearly state the production time and expiration date (in the photo: Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong's soy sauce production facility, Mai Hac De block, Nam Dan town, is stamping the expiration date on the product label). |
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| Mr. Pham Hai Duong - Head of the Craft Village Management Board and Chairman of Tuong Nam Dan Cooperative inspected the use of trademarks at a production household. |
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| Genuine clean soy sauce products are labeled with the address of each production facility, the phone number of the facility owner, and especially the production date and expiration date. If you have any concerns about the product quality, customers can immediately call the phone number 0979.325.134 of the Head of the Craft Village Management Board and the Head of the Soy Sauce Cooperative for advice and answers. |
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| Soy sauce products are sold at a stall in Phan Boi Chau block (Nam Dan town). According to Mr. Pham Hai Duong - Head of Nam Dan Soy Sauce Village Management Board, there are many unregulated productions on the market, with poor quality, affecting the reputation of Nam Dan Soy Sauce in general and the Craft Village in particular. |
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| A representative of the Craft Village and the owner of a soy sauce stall of the Cooperative advise customers on how to distinguish clean and safe soy sauce produced in the Craft Village from soy sauce produced illegally on the market. |
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| Nam Dan Soy Sauce is an indispensable dipping sauce when enjoying dishes such as goat meat, tamarind meat... to other rustic dishes such as boiled sweet potato leaves, boiled morning glory in every family. |
Good, sweet soy sauce is sun-dried soy sauce, made from fragrant sticky rice mold and lots of beans. Looking into the jar of soy sauce, you can see the bean pieces floating in the thick soy sauce, the aroma is like a little wine, but very sweet. Its color is not brown like Ban soy sauce, but has a shiny, honey-like scum color. Nam Dan soy sauce is used as a dipping sauce for boiled meat, braised fish, vegetables, beans, and eaten with rice every day. Or used as a dipping sauce. In the summer, use soy sauce to dip boiled sweet potato shoots, boiled water spinach, boiled eggplant and eaten with rice. It is both cool and full of the flavor of the countryside. Boiled beef and veal dipped in sweet soy sauce with a little ginger and garlic creates a special and unforgettable flavor when enjoyed. Nam Dan people often crush roasted peanuts or black sesame seeds and mix them with thick soy sauce to dip green bananas or thinly sliced sour star fruit to eat with rice. Sticky rice dipped in sweet soy sauce is also quite attractive. |
Nguyen Hai - Luong Mai
