Each dish preserves Vietnamese culture

Along with the development of society, not only important occasions but even everyday, we are also very familiar with the full high plate, with many new and fancy dishes. However, every New Year to spring, the family members try to prepare a traditional Tet tray to remember their ancestors, wishing all peace and luck to their families. It is not only a habit from many generations but also a cultural beauty of the nation that will be preserved and maintained for the future.

Although there are no certain rules and regulations, the Tet tray of the North, especially the Hanoians, often has 4 bowls and 4 plates representing the four pillars, the four seasons and the four directions. The large tray has 6 bowls, 6 plates or 8 bowls, 8 plates symbolizing affluence, prosperity, and fortune on the first day of the new year. Sometimes large trays are arranged up to 2 or 3 floors high. Tet is often presented on a copper tray, accompanied by a bowl of love and a plate of apricot trees.

Tet is often presented on a copper tray, accompanied by a bowl of love and a plate of apricot trees.

Large platters usually have 8-10 plates. Photo: John Citadel

Four bowls include a bowl of drop balls, a bowl of stewed pork leg with bamboo shoots, a bowl of vermicelli and a bowl of sprouted mushrooms. In addition, many families also prepare a bowl of well-brewed kohlrabi, a bowl of stewed birds to leave the whole child, a bowl of chicken or many rich families in the past also display abalone and fish fins for the feast fuller, more luxurious.

The bowl of soup in the Tet tray is very sophisticated, the bamboo shoots must be delicious pork tongue bamboo shoots, when soaked in thick but soft bamboo shoots, when cooked, the bamboo shoots are fragrant, crispy, and full of teeth. It is also the bamboo shoot soup in the Tet rice tray, but some places have a little variation. For example, in Bat Trang area, pork tongue bamboo shoots will be soup with squid bamboo shoots.

Attractive bowl of pork tongue bamboo shoot soup. Photo: Sweetday

Connoisseurs of housewives often pick bamboo shoots from the Thanh Hoa region. After soaking and boiling carefully, bamboo shoots will be as thin as a thread. Dried squid is similar. So to cook a bowl of squid ink bamboo shoot soup is extremely feat. Squid bamboo shoot soup is served in a bowl, served hot and absolutely no scallions are added. A bowl of squid bamboo shoot soup that is considered to be delicious must have crispy bamboo shoots, soft golden squid and a sweet broth, without the fishy taste of squid.

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Four plates include a plate of chicken, a plate of pork, a plate of pork rolls, and a plate of cinnamon rolls. Even many families also display a plate of frozen meat – a typical dish for cold days in the North, a plate of sticky rice with gac, a plate of roasted meat, a plate of spring rolls, a plate of fried almonds, a plate of braised fish with galangal, a plate of kohlrabi salad or celery salad and fried spring rolls. Desserts include lotus jam, kumquat jam, ginger jam, braised tea… Although there are many dishes, each dish is presented in a small bowl or plate, so the Tet tray is diverse, harmonious and beautiful.

Frozen meat – a typical dish for cold days in the North.

Gac sticky rice – an indispensable dish in the first days of the new year with the vibrant red color.

And especially, for old Hanoi families, Tet trays are indispensable dishes that grow dark. The culinary art of Hanoians, whether in a restaurant or in a small kitchen, is sophisticated, luxurious, but discreet and unobtrusive.

According to folklore, sprouting is a dish of frozen meat that is transformed into a sophisticated and beautiful winter dish. Raw spring rolls are pelleted and colored from natural fruits and vegetables.

Sprouts are a delicate and sophisticated dish, so it has been lost.

The five round balls correspond to 5 different colors and also represent the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Red dyed from gac, blue dyed with thin leaf juice plus pounded, yellow with gardenia seed juice, white left as it is, black color is added with minced shiitake mushrooms and mixed well. The sprouts are steamed first, then placed in a bowl and then filled with water to simmer the bones and pork skin.

After freezing, when the bowls are turned upside down, they appear on a plate, 5 balls grow with outstanding colors in a layer of clear frozen water dotted with a few peas and trimmed carrots to enhance the dish. novelty, attractiveness.

In addition, a full Tet tray cannot be complete without Chung cake, Gac sticky rice and a plate of compressed onion melon.

“Fat meat, pickled onions, red couplets

Tree Miraculous, green banh chung”

In the traditional Tet tray of the North, each dish preserves Vietnamese culture.

Nowadays, due to busy life, most families do it simply, very few people cook enough dishes like in the past or add many modern dishes. But the traditional cultural meaning from the Tet tray from the past to the present has remained unchanged. A full and complete Tet tray for the first day of the year reunion always has a sacred meaning, union, and luck.

Đăng bởi: Quốc Thái Châu