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My Tet on Cooking sticky Rice Cake with my husband's family:-)www.vietorchidtravel.comSTICKY RICE CAKE- BANH CHƯNGis a t...
15/02/2018

My Tet on Cooking sticky Rice Cake with my husband's family:-)

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STICKY RICE CAKE- BANH CHƯNG

is a traditional Vietnamese rice cake which is made from glutinous rice, mung beans, pork and other ingredients
Considered an essential element of the family altar on the occasion of tết, the making and eating of bánh chưng during this time is a well-preserved tradition of Vietnamese people.

The required ingredients of bánh chưng are glutinous rice, mung bean, fatty pork and black pepper, salt, sometimes green onion, and nước mắm for spices. In the wrapping stage, one needs lá d**g, strings split from giang- one type of bamboo which has long node, and sometimes a square mold in wood so that "bánh chưng" can be wrapped in a better shape, lá d**g, which is popular only in the Southern Asia, can be substituted by banana leaves or even lá bàng.

Lá d**g and giang strings have to be washed carefully in order to preserve the taste of the cake, giang strings may be soaked in salt water or steamed so that they can become flexible enough for wrapping. People often choose high quality rice and bean for making bánh chưng, they are soaked in water for 2 hours in case of mung bean and 12 to 14 hours in case of glutinous rice. The fat and lean pork is preferred for bánh chưng because its fatty flavour well associates with the glutinous rice and mung bean. After being sliced in big parts, pork is mixed with pepper, onion and salt or nước mắm

The cake is wrapped in the following order. Firstly the giang strings and two lá d**g leaves are placed as the square base for the bánh chưng. After that, glutinous rice is stuffed in lá d**g, followed by mung bean, pork and finally another layer of rice so that bean and pork can be respectively in the center of the cake. All placed ingredients are carefully wrapped in lá d**g and bound by giang strings in the square form. In order to get a near perfect square-shaped cake, the maker can use a mold of square form as the base for the wrapping. To keep the cake from mold or being spoiled, bánh chưng should be carefully wrapped as tight as possible.

The prepared cakes are tightly arranged in large pot, the pot is filled with fresh water and boiled for hours until they are done from the inside stuffing to outside.

After cooling and unwrapping, the rice skin of bánh chưng turns green because rice has absorbed the colour of lá d**g. One bánh chưng is often divided in 8 parts, usually by using the very giang string which bound the wrap of the cake.

As a cake formed from several ingredients, the taste of bánh chưng varies from part to part with different flavours of glutinous rice, pork, bean and even the wrapping lá d**g. Bánh chưng is often served with pickled onions or vegetables, chả lụa and nước mắm. After unwrapping, bánh chưng can stay good for several days while a wrapped one can be kept for two weeks.

I am lucky this year coming husband family home early then i can help parent to take care the cook of this cake and feel the warm from the fire and the fresh cake.
When we have this done- we will prepare a tray of food together with sticky rice cake to offer to our ancestor Alter in the meaning of inviting them come to join with us for Tet

VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR HOLIDAY ( TET)www.vietorchidtravel.comTet Nguyen Dan( Vietnamese New Year Holiday) or Te...
07/02/2018

VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR HOLIDAY ( TET)

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Tet Nguyen Dan( Vietnamese New Year Holiday) or Tet is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. this occassion marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar, a lunisolar calendar. The name Tet Nguyen Dan is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the very First Morning.

Tet takes place from the first day of the first month of the Lunar calendar (around late January or early February) until at least the third day.Vietnamese people all over the country and even vietnamese oversea cooking special traditional foods and cleaning- painting their house to make it freshly. There are a lot of other customs practiced during Tet such as going to the cemetary to vist the dead people,visiting a person’s house to say happy new year,offering food and flowers to ancestral worship, wishing New Year’s greetings, giving lucky money to children and elderly people etc.

Tet is also an occasion for pilgrims and family reunions. Most of the young people who leave their hometown for a long year look for good opportunity in work in a bigger city will b e back their home this time.
During Tet, Vietnamese visits their relatives and temples, promise to each other to forgetting the troubles of the past year, shaking hands and keep smiling and together hoping for a better upcoming year.

Like other Asian countries, Vietnamese believe that the color of red and yellow will bring good fortune, which may explain why these colors can be seen everywhere in Lunar New Year. Depend on the weather condition or the seasonal flower or tree you may see different type of typical flower representing Tet in different city such as Blossoms in pink colour for the North and yello Apricot for the central and the South. But recently, due to the convenience of logistics flowers can be exported to all over of the country

People consider what they do on the dawn of Tet will determine their fate for the whole year, hence people always smile and behave as nice as they can in the hope for a better year.

We wish you all a warm and great New Year ahead.

THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF HUEwww.vietorchidtravel.comEnter the ancient Hue Citadel and the Forbidden City.The poetic an...
05/02/2018

THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF HUE
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Enter the ancient Hue Citadel and the Forbidden City.

The poetic and beautiful Hue of Vietnam was chosen to be the capital of the Southern Kingdom under Nguyen Lords’ Dynasty, and officially became the nation's capital under Tay Son Dynasty, King Quang Trung. The citadel palace complex is located on the North bank of Huong River (Perfume River), inside Hue city.

It is a huge complex covering an area of 520ha and comprising three circles of ramparts, Kinh Thanh Hue (Hue Capital Citadel), Hoang Thanh (Royal Citadel) and Tu Cam Thanh (Forbidden Citadel). The rule of the last Vietnamese Emperor lasted until the mid-1900s. At the time, the Purple Forbidden City had many buildings and hundreds of rooms. It suffered from termite and cyclone damage, but was still very impressive. Many bullet holes left over from the war can also be observed on the stone walls...More on www.vietorchidtravel.com

The stunnimg night time view at Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi. One of our favourite place and always in our Hanoi tours.www.viet...
15/04/2017

The stunnimg night time view at Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi. One of our favourite place and always in our Hanoi tours.
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