What is on the Doan Ngo Festival offering tray in the 3 regions of North - Central - South?

Doan Ngo Festival (May 5th) or also known as Insect Extermination Festival is one of the holidays that many Vietnamese people are interested in. On this day, depending on the region of the North - Central - South, there will be different preparations of offerings from fruits to dishes and cakes.

In the ancestral altar on the occasion of the Duanwu Festival in all three regions, there will be incense, flowers, votive paper, water, sticky rice, sweet soup, sticky rice wine and fruit. People believe that the spicy taste of sticky rice wine will eliminate parasites in the body. The firm and sticky rice grains are mixed with a little spicy taste of the yeast but still have a little sweetness in the aftertaste. As for fruit, each region will prepare suitable fruits according to the season. They will mainly choose summer fruits, which are hot, sweet and sour and delicious.

The offerings for the Duanwu Festival are carefully prepared. Photo: ST

Offering tray for Doan Ngo Festival in the North Northerners often prepare two types of plums and lychees. These are the two most popular fruits during Doan Ngo Festival every year. In addition, the offering tray of Northerners cannot lack banh gio (also known as banh tro). The cake is made from sticky rice soaked in burnt ash water, when eaten, it will be dipped in sweet and attractive molasses. The cake is suitable for eating in the summer because of its coolness, light sweetness and is very easy to eat. In addition, in some localities, there are also prepared banh khuc of the Nung people in Muong Khuong, Lao Cai . Banh khuc is delicious, the richness of the bean filling, the softness and aroma of the sticky rice crust makes you crave it more and more. Offering tray for Doan Ngo Festival in the Central region Duck meat on Doan Ngo Festival in the Central region has an extremely important meaning. They believe that from the 5th of May onwards, ducks have begun to enter the season. At that time, the ducks become fatter and have more delicious, firmer meat, no longer smelling bad. In addition, at this time, the hot weather of duck has a cooling effect that will help balance the heat. Duck can be processed into many dishes such as boiled duck, duck porridge, duck salad, duck stewed with Chinese herbs, etc. Another dish prepared by people in the Central region on the occasion of the Doan Ngo Festival is millet sweet soup. Millet sweet soup has a sweet taste that brings a pleasant cool feeling. People in the Central region often eat millet sweet soup with sesame rice paper. The Doan Ngo Festival offering tray in the South In the Doan Ngo Festival offering tray in the South, tro cake, sweet rice balls, etc. are indispensable. Before the second biggest Tet holiday of the year, tro cake is sold a lot in large and small markets. Tro cake is pyramid-shaped, behind the bamboo leaves or banana leaves is a layer of beautiful brown sticky rice, the inside is crushed green beans. The cake has the sticky texture of sticky rice, the bean filling is fatty, cool and easy to eat. Sweet rice balls have a shell made of sticky rice flour, shaped into a round shape, and inside is a bean filling. In addition, many people in the South also prepare banh ba trang, xoi gac, and xoi vo on the Doan Ngo Festival offering tray.

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