Gifts of Autumn in Hanoi

VOV.VN - In early autumn, when the weather is still hot and humid, making people hesitant to leave the house early in the morning, on the streets, there are still attractive "gifts" that make people forget the scorching sun above their heads...

Of course, when talking about Autumn, especially Autumn in Hanoi , we cannot help but mention a typical snack - Com - and it must be the famous Com from Vong village...

Green rice grains made from the best and most fragrant sticky rice, through the hands of green rice village artisans, wrapped in lotus leaves, are a gift that everyone wants to enjoy when Autumn comes...

Although it is the beginning of autumn, the weather is still hot and sunny with the remnants of summer. Walking on the street, you can occasionally stop to buy a drink on the sidewalk or in a store, sip it while watching the street change season... Perhaps, there is no place more beautiful than Hanoi.

Fruit salad stalls are popular with special fruits, each season has its own fruit.

In recent years, fruit juice shops have emerged as a new style of sidewalk cuisine . Tropical fruits are not only attractive to locals, but also to foreign tourists.

Vietnamese cuisine in general and Hanoi cuisine in particular is very diverse and unique, each season has its own dishes, the dishes will be calculated to make them suitable for the weather, so that the diners do not feel hot or bored when eating. Honey cake, perhaps is such a dish...

The most popular are probably the bananas with starling eggs that are sold by street vendors throughout the streets.

Following the grandmothers and mothers going to the market, there will always be a bag of fragrant, attractive guava...

Or some kind of fruit, lots of it, in season.

If the heat makes people not want to eat at home, they can run to the alley entrance, call the porridge seller, "make" a bowl of salted egg porridge, or a bowl of green bean porridge with pickled eggplant... It's light on the stomach, and you don't have to sweat from cooking and eating.

Perhaps, during this season, everything becomes more brilliant, with colors converging from nature, people, to flowers, fruits, and foods flooding the streets...

The fragrant custard apples and star apples... are associated with a whole childhood sky...

In this weather, just go to the market, buy a bunch of water spinach, boil it with some late-season star fruit, or any other kind of vegetable, boil it, dip it in fish sauce, eat it with rice, and it will satisfy all your senses.

Early in the morning, you can stop by any small alley, order a bowl of vermicelli soup with crab soup, light and filling... with the atmosphere of the city, autumn...

The season of brilliant colors all over the streets...

In the afternoon, run to the market, buy a pound of hand-pounded crab...

Add a bunch of Malabar spinach and squash, and you have a bowl of crab soup, enough to serve with a few bowls of rice, cool and refreshing...

After dinner, sip a pot of lotus tea bought in midsummer, when the lotus is in season... And forget all worries, sadness and the lingering heat of late summer...

A gift from nature, just seeing it makes my mouth water and I want to run out to the restaurant to order a bowl of boiled snails to enjoy with friends and relatives.

Rustic dishes...

Then suddenly there will be showers to cool down the heat...

A gift from nature, helps to calm the atmosphere

Signaling the change of seasons. Autumn, the most beautiful season of the year...

Allowing city kids to leave the house without fear of the heat, to play with their friends, before the summer holidays end, to enter a new school year...

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