Young nuggets welcome autumn
Moving to another city has been a long time coming, but every July and August, I remember the smell of freshly transplanted Bac Huong rice with a gentle and pleasant aroma every time I open the lid of the rice my mother cooks. The smell of rice that is only sweet when freshly harvested and donated by acquaintances every year is also a gentle reminder that a new crop is coming; The nugget season is about to start again.
Each year there is only one season that is 01-02 months long, without thinking much, a Hanoi person can also tell the wall about delicious and fragrant dishes that have been deeply pinned to all senses. With only a few pieces of nuggets, each house can enjoy banana nuggets, tea nuggets, and cakes. snacks, or egg nuggets, nugget rolls, sticky rice nuggets. eat each meal. There are many ways of processing and eating styles, but for the long-time children of Hanoi, the first handful of young nuggets to be eaten directly with the rustic sweetness and aroma are probably the most emotional.
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Made from batches of rice at the beginning of the season, with the gentle aroma of ripe rice, the first batches of nuggets are most often awaited because of their sweet, soft and flavorful taste. In the cool and sunny autumn season creeping through the leaves, there is nothing more pleasant than the feeling of seeing a young nugget truck passing by or a load of rice with lotus leaf wrappers that are bought and sold by customers one by one. Opening the package of freshly picked lotus leaves, the young nuggets are naturally colored, without lakes, soft and smooth indescribable. Do not wait long because the nuggets dry very quickly, people often eat directly without holding small nuggets with their hands. After chewing carefully, the taste of rice milk in the nuggets and the aroma of young rice and lotus leaves faintly blend to create a pleasant cool feeling of a relaxed and relaxing morning.
Roi - have you ever tried it?
When it comes to autumn, Hanoi cannot fail to mention orangutans. As a sensitive sea insect that lives only in coastal brackish water fields, orangutans can only be caught before the sun rises and are transported back to the city within hours before the morning market starts. At first glance, it is hard to imagine that these small animals born from mud can be a valuable ingredient for the specialties of Hanoi people.
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These small worms, which are only about the size of two knuckles long, look quite like earthworms, are always hunted by grandmothers and mothers at the market very early to be able to keep their freshness. To make a rice dish, it also needs to be quite meticulous. The orangutans need to be gently stirred and washed with hot water of 75-80 degrees three to four times without crushing the orangutans. To be delicious, you not only need eggs, minced meat, onions, cumin, minced peppers, but also a little dried tangerine peel to make it less pungent but still retain the aroma from the essential oil. All ingredients according to each housewife's own recipe are whipped to the right and fried over low heat or steamed according to the preferences of each house.
Familiar right in the family kitchen, the aroma of freshly fried pork rolls flies to every corner, so that in a windy afternoon, each family gathers around the rice tray, picking up hot pieces of pork rolls, the right fat taste and the pure aroma of the heart.
This dish has been served all year round in a few familiar addresses such as Hang Beo Pork Rolls (Lo Duc), Hung Thinh Pork Rolls (Hang Chieu)
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Autumn fruits gather on the August Full Moon Tray
In the middle of the season, the August Full Moon marks a season of sweet fruits with many dots of flavor grafted on the tray to look at the moon. Standing out on the background of tropical fruits that are always available all year round, bamboo skin persimmons, Xuan Dinh Siamese persimmons and ripe crocodiles have an unforgettable "autumn" aftertaste, and mark as precious hometown gifts of Hanoi people for friends from all over the world.
Every time you walk along thirty-six streets in autumn, along Hang Khay or turn through the ceremony, you can't ignore the ripe crocodile trays of street vendors. Having reduced some of the sourness of the green crocodile and replaced it with a gentle sweetness, ripe crocodile is often spirally notched and salted with chili as a favorite snack for both adults and children.
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There is only a very short crop of about 01-02 weeks to coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival, although bamboo skin persimmons are not as common as pickled persimmons or red persimmons, but they are also precious fruits every autumn.
Lying solemnly on the fruit peaches offered to the ancestors or cherished on the reception table - a Mid-Autumn Festival gift box for acquaintances, the bamboo skin pink always wins the hearts of the people of Trang An ancient town thanks to the eye-catching yellow and orange intestines like peach eggs and each piece of fragrant and flexible meat. crushed like red roses.
Along with mooncakes and colorful lanterns, autumn has come quickly with delicious gifts, making those who go far away always remember unforgettable. Autumn comes, bringing the sweet aftertaste of the sun and the wind. For the most beautiful season of the year in Hanoi.
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