Experience the highland market in Tuong Duong with unique vegetables
(Baonghean.vn) - For a long time, people everywhere have known about Tam Thai market (Tuong Duong) as a market specializing in selling many kinds of vegetables, tubers, and fruits grown by people or harvested from fields or streams. These are not only "clean" agricultural products but also very good medicine for health, so they are very popular with people.
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| Tam Thai market is about 10km from the center of Tuong Duong district. The market is held every Sunday. Every week, people inside and outside the commune bring agricultural products to the market to sell. |
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The vegetables and fruits sold at this market are picked by local people from their fields. |
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| Coming to Tam Thai market, it is easy to find forest agricultural products such as papaya shoots, cassava shoots, wild eggplant, bitter bamboo shoots, and wild bamboo shoots... Among them, there are many types of agricultural products that are considered medicinal by the highland people. |
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| According to folk experience, male papaya flowers are a popular medicine used to treat coughs, especially for children. In Eastern medicine, they are used to treat worms, kidney stones, etc. At the market, people sell each bundle of male papaya shoots and flowers for 5,000 VND. In this highland area, male papaya shoots are often boiled and dipped in shrimp paste or papaya. |
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| One of the most popular vegetables is the bamboo shoots. This vegetable can be cooked, but is usually only cooked with bone soup. In addition, according to the locals, many dishes made from bamboo shoots will help postpartum mothers produce more milk. Therefore, recently, many people in the lowlands have also sought to buy bamboo shoots to process. |
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| In hot weather, cooking a bowl of bone soup with apple shoots (local name) and wild banana core can help cool down because eating this soup gives a cool feeling in the mouth. |
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| Wild eggplant is also a specialty that sells very well at the market. |
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| Among the popular green vegetables sold in the market, cassava shoots are a hot item. |
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| Tam Thai market is open all day, but every week, all the vegetables and fruits are sold out in the morning. Coming here, visitors can not only buy "clean" and healthy agricultural products, but also experience a market with a strong mountain identity, without soliciting customers, only the friendliness of the locals. |
