Sending love through cakes

Despite having just suffered heavy damage due to floods, people in Quang Ngai province still gathered to make banh chung and banh tet to support people in the flood-hit areas of the Central region.

Clip: Warming hearts with Chung cakes and Tet cakes to support flood victims in Central Vietnam. By: NGUYEN TRANG

On the morning of October 31, at Kim Phu Pagoda, Tho Phong Commune, Quang Ngai Province, Buddhist monks and nuns, along with members of the Women's Association of Tho Bac Village, Tho Phong Commune, gathered to wrap Chung Cake and Tet Cake to support people in the flood-hit areas of the Central region.

The elderly women also gathered at the pagoda to help cut banana leaves and cook banh chung and banh tet. Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

Banana leaves were also donated by women in the village. Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

Over 400 kg of sticky rice and 200 kg of green beans were mobilized and donated by the Women's Association of Tho Bac village and Kim Phu pagoda from kind-hearted people in the area. For many days, in the smoky kitchen, the sounds of stirring sticky rice and wrapping cakes have been bustling non-stop.

Each person is in charge of a job, quickly completing the banh chung and banh tet. Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

As soon as the cakes are cooked, nun Tue Hanh, the abbot of Kim Phu pagoda, hurries to send them on volunteer buses and hand them directly to the authorities so they can be delivered to the flood-affected areas.

The cakes are the size of a palm, easy to hold and eat during flood days. Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

The old lady has just finished wrapping banh chung to send to the flooded area. Photo: NGUYEN TRANG

NGUYEN TRANG

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/gui-tam-long-tu-nhung-chiec-banh-post821022.html