Quang Chau sesame crackers village in Hoa Vang district is working hard to make specialty crackers to serve the needs of the people. After many ups and downs, now there are only 7 households left in the sesame crackers village.
7 households making sesame crackers in Da Nang are bustling during Tet
Friday, January 17, 2025 14:28 PM (GMT+7)
Quang Chau sesame crackers village in Hoa Vang district is working hard to make specialty crackers to serve the needs of the people. After many ups and downs, now there are only 7 households left in the sesame crackers village.
In the days leading up to Lunar New Year, sesame crackers making facilities in Quang Chau village are busy with production.
Quang Chau sesame crackers have existed since the 19th century and are an indispensable product to worship ancestors on full moon and first day of the month, on festivals and especially on the traditional New Year of the nation.
According to the locals, to create delicious batches of cakes requires skill and many years of experience of the craftsman.
The ingredients to make the cake are very simple such as rice, sesame, sticky rice flour and molasses. The rice used to make the cake must be delicious, washed clean and ground into fine powder.
Then, the baker must sift the flour into a mold with squares, line the bottom of the mold with coarse cloth and shape the surface of the cake with a small bamboo stick.
Once the cake has been shaped, steam it over a boiling water bath for about five minutes.
Next, the baker will take the cake out and start baking it using the charcoal from the oven. During the baking process, the fire is flexibly adjusted from high heat to medium heat, then low heat to keep the cake crispy and spongy.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Nghi (63 years old, more than 40 years of experience in making sesame crackers) said that the special thing is that sesame crackers are made only from delicious rice produced by farmers in the village and are completely handmade. "Each cake contains the diligence and dedication of the craftsman," she said.
After baking, the cake will move to the second stage of the process, which is to caramelize sugar water on a hot charcoal stove, roast sesame seeds, coat the cake with sugar water, and then sprinkle sesame seeds around it to make the cake slices chewy, crispy, and delicious.
After many years of ups and downs, now the sesame rice cake making village has only 7 households left.
Mr. Tran Xu, the owner of the sesame crackers production facility in Quang Chau village, shared: “Making sesame crackers is quite hard and tiring, and the number of workers who will continue to take over the profession is gradually decreasing. However, we, the people of Quang Chau village, will continue to make sesame crackers, even if we don’t make much, to maintain this profession in the future.”
Currently, small sesame crackers cost 40,000 VND/box, large ones cost 70,000 VND/box. For tourists buying crackers as gifts, they will use the paper-wrapped type, which costs 60,000 VND/package.
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Source: https://danviet.vn/7-ho-lam-banh-kho-me-o-da-nang-nhon-nhip-vao-vu-tet-20250115112838653.htm
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