(Baonghean.vn) - It's unclear when it started, but almost everyone who visits Que Phong stops at Kim Son market to buy some local mountain specialties as gifts before heading back 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 has quickly become a bustling market with many specialties of the high mountainous region. |
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| Each season, the market offers different specialties. Currently, if you go to Que Phong, you definitely can't miss the yellow waxy potato, a type of potato related to taro with a yellow flesh, fragrant and very flavorful when cooked. |
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| Or the cantaloupes that are sold alongside pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, etc. |
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| The specialties of Kim Son market not only appear in the daily meals of the people of Que Phong but are also transported by trucks to various places inside and outside the province as gifts. |
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| In particular, during this season, Kim Son market also sells Cordyceps sinensis, a type of herb that only grows for about a month and can only be found deep in the forest. |
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| Bottles of wild honey from the last harvest of the season are also sold around this time. |
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| Walking around the market, it's not difficult to spot Thai and Hmong women and mothers bringing home produce from their gardens or foraging in the forest to sell and earn extra money to support their lives. |
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| Even though it's the end of the season, various types of wild bamboo shoots, from bitter bamboo shoots to reed bamboo shoots, are still widely available at the market. |
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| Ms. Lo Thi Lan, a bamboo shoot vendor at Kim Son market, said that finding bamboo shoots is more difficult because it's the end of the season. From early morning, people in her village wake up together to go into the forest to search for bamboo shoots, and sometimes they don't get home until 1 or 2 in the afternoon. The bamboo shoots they find are processed before being brought to the market to sell. |
Chu Thanh
