Silkworms - a specialty that attracts customers in a craft village in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - Silkworm trays in the craft village of Nhu Xuan (Luu Son, Do Luong) are not only used to reel silk and weave silk but are also a popular food sold at the local market.
For a long time, right at the foot of Do Luong bridge, the beginning of the Nhu Xuan silk village, Luu Son commune has formed a quite bustling silkworm selling spot. People display silkworms on trays, trays, and winnowing baskets woven from bamboo.
At first sight of the white silkworms crawling around, many people felt goosebumps.
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| People in the Nhu Xuan sericulture village sell live silkworms to passersby. Photo: Van Truong |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Linh in Tho Son commune, Anh Son district - a passerby stopped to buy silkworms. She shared: When alive, silkworms look quite scary, but after being processed, this dish becomes extremely special because of its delicious fatty taste that is hard to resist. After eating a lot, now I am "addicted", every time we come here we have to buy a few kilos to enjoy.
According to Ms. Linh, silkworms can be processed into many delicious dishes such as stir-fried silkworms with betel leaves served with rice paper, stir-fried silkworms with lemon leaves...
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| Fresh silkworms are a popular product. Photo: Van Truong |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc in Nhu Xuan village said: "My family has grown mulberry and raised silkworms for 3-4 generations, but the output cannot compete with Chinese goods because the silk price is cheap, so we have to raise silkworms to sell. The good thing about this commercial silkworm farming profession is that the harvest time is quick, without having to stay up all night to watch or reel silk, or spin silk like traditional jobs."
Currently, Xuan Nhu craft village has about 30 households raising silkworms for silk reeling and selling silkworms to improve income. The selling price of silkworms is quite high, from 65,000 - 70,000 VND/kg of live silkworms, selling 20 - 30 kg of silkworms per day.
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| Many customers buy silkworms to prepare nutritious dishes. Photo: Van Truong |
"Each household in Nhu Xuan only needs to raise 50% commercial silkworms and 50% for the traditional silk reeling profession to both preserve their ancestors' profession and have income. Currently, the district is building the brand "Nhu Xuan silkworms" and expanding the market. In addition to live silkworms, there will be more types of dried silkworms, silkworms soaked in wine..." - Mr. Nguyen Trung Thanh, Vice Chairman of Do Luong District People's Committee shared.
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| In addition to fresh silkworms, people here also sell silkworm pupae. Photo: Van Truong |
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| Villagers of Nhu Xuan still maintain the silk weaving profession. Photo: Van Truong. |
According to traditional Vietnamese medicine, silkworms are a precious medicine that has the effect of eliminating wind, calming the nerves, clearing phlegm, detoxifying, and is used to treat stroke, epilepsy, headaches, sore throat, tuberculosis, mastitis, itching, dark skin, etc. in men, and to treat impotence. Silkworms used to spin silk have no medicinal properties, however, people still use them as food or soak them in wine to drink. Fresh silkworms are warm in nature, so people with internal heat or heat should not eat them. In particular, people with allergies should try a little before eating. |
Van Truong
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