Dragon Boat Festival, eating ash dumplings

Each step of wrapping the cake must be done carefully.

Every Duanwu Festival, ash sticky rice cakes are often present on the offering tray in the kitchen of every Vietnamese family.

The leaves are soaked thoroughly before wrapping the cake.

The cake has a standing triangle shape, which can be explained according to the yin and yang five elements. The triangle shape represents the yang fire on the outside surrounding the yin earth of the cake inside.

Glutinous rice is also soaked in ash water so that when cooked the cake has a golden yellow color.

The color of the cake also symbolizes the color of the earth. Returning to the earth, the yin and yang interact to grow and develop. That is the logic of creation.

The cake must be wrapped tightly so it does not burst when cooked.

People throughout Quang Nam have the tradition of wrapping ash cakes to celebrate the Doan Ngo Festival. The leaves are plucked from the mountains and transported to the plains. The sticky rice is soaked thoroughly with carefully filtered sesame ash. The cakes must be wrapped evenly and firmly, ensuring that the leaves do not break after boiling, and have a beautiful triangular shape. The time for the sticky rice to be soft enough to blend with the ash and the color of the leaves is about 6 hours.

The fire must be steady for the cake to cook evenly.

On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, holding a skewer of banh u tro (rice cakes), smelling the fragrant aroma of fermented sticky rice in each layer of leaves...

After 6 hours, the cake is taken out.

Rustic ash cakes.

Golden color cake.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/tet-doan-ngo-an-banh-u-tro-3136104.html