International visitors enjoy watching Hanoians wrap traditional Chung cakes on the occasion of Lunar New Year.

International visitors enjoy watching Hanoians wrap traditional Chung cakes on the occasion of Lunar New Year.

Sunday, February 4, 2024 08:38 AM (GMT+7)

As part of the series of cultural activities Celebrating the Party - Celebrating Spring with the theme "Vietnamese Tet - Street Tet 2024", at the Heritage House (87 Ma May Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi), the activity of wrapping and boiling banh chung to celebrate the traditional Tet in the way of ancient Hanoians is taking place.

Video : Experience wrapping Chung cake like the old Hanoians at the Heritage House 87 Ma May.

At the Heritage House 87 Ma May Street, the activity of wrapping Chung cake to celebrate Tet is taking place in the traditional way of Hanoians in the past.

This is an activity of the Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi Old Quarter Management Board with the desire to convey to the people and tourists some characteristics of the traditional Tet holiday in the Old Quarter.

At the heritage house at 87 Ma May Street, visitors will see images of ancient Hanoians celebrating Tet through the arrangement of the house space and the activity of wrapping Chung cake.

Members in traditional ao dai wrap Tet banh chung.

Making banh chung is always a traditional cultural feature that families maintain regularly every year.

The ingredients for making banh chung include dong leaves, sticky rice, green beans, and pork belly. The green beans used to make the filling are carefully selected, and are small, round, and plump.

Hanoi people wrap Chung cake in a square style with high sides.

In addition to square banh chung, long banh chung is also wrapped by Hanoians and during Tet, it helps to enrich the tray of offerings. Long banh chung usually has less beans (mung beans), little or no meat, can be kept for a long time after Tet, and is convenient when cut into round slices to fry until golden brown.

Banh chung is wrapped by hand by members of the Vietnamese village club, without using a mold. To wrap the cake, the rice must first be soaked. The rice must be selected from golden sticky rice to make the cake delicious, soft and fragrant. The rice is soaked for 6 - 8 hours. The secret is "The meat is covered in beans, the beans are covered in rice".

Foreign tourists enjoy witnessing the cake wrapping process firsthand.

This is an activity within the series of cultural activities "Celebrating the Party - Celebrating Spring" with the theme "Vietnamese Tet - Street Tet 2024", the Management Board of Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi Old Quarter organized a reenactment of the space of wrapping and boiling banh chung at the heritage house - 87 Ma May.

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Source: https://danviet.vn/khach-quoc-te-thich-thu-khi-xem-nguoi-ha-noi-goi-banh-chung-truyen-thong-dip-tet-nguyen-dan-20240203144514215.htm