Homemade food of "Miss Ba Dai Loc"

Homemade foods used in daily meals such as cereal powder, brown rice tea, spring rolls, salted pork... by Ms. Nguyen Hoang Linh (born in 1980, from Dai Loc) have been welcomed by many consumers under the brand name "Co Ba Dai Loc".

Ms. Nguyen Hoang Linh with her homemade products. Photo: HOANG LIEN

From family meals

Ms. Linh is a disabled woman and is admired by many people for her spirit of overcoming adversity, striving to develop the economy , and building a happy family. Previously, after learning the sewing profession, she boldly borrowed capital from relatives to buy industrial sewing equipment, and received orders to sew export clothing, sportswear, etc. She used to provide free vocational training and create jobs for people with disabilities like herself.

Not stopping there, to increase income and hope to have more funds to help the disabled, Ms. Linh focuses on making homemade dishes and food to supply to relatives, friends and customers near and far.

Ms. Linh took advantage of social networks to promote and successfully connect with customers and consumers, and orders also gradually increased.

Clean products, homemade products such as cereal powder, brown rice tea, traditional cakes of Quang region (sesame cake, banh to, Dai Loc rice paper, lotus seeds...), salted pork, kimchi, spring rolls... made by the skillful hands of her and some disabled women have been welcomed by many people.

With the desire to improve her life, Ms. Linh gradually built the brand "Co Ba Dai Loc" for her products. Every month, selling online on Facebook and Zalo has helped her earn a good revenue, bringing in profits of tens of millions of VND/month.

"Co Ba Dai Loc" salted pork product. Photo: HOANG LIEN

Sharing about the opportunity to sell homemade foods on social media platforms, Ms. Linh said that in 2018, her biological mother suffered a stroke and had to stay in one place, her body almost unable to receive any food source.

She began to learn about the uses of beans such as green beans, red beans, black beans, lotus seeds, etc. that could be used to make nutritious cereal powder and consulted a traditional medicine doctor. She bought clean beans from acquaintances, roasted and ground them into fine powder for her mother to use every day. "Thanks to cereal powder, my mother's health gradually improved and her weight also increased," Linh confided.

From the food she took care of her mother, Linh started making cereal powder to sell. Realizing that Dai Loc had a rich source of agricultural products such as green beans, red beans, black beans, broad beans, black sesame, brown rice, etc., she bought agricultural products made by the locals to make nutritious cereal powder and brown rice tea with black beans, broad beans and pandan leaves, etc.

In addition to local nuts, she imports high-quality nutritious nuts such as walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, oats... to create nutritious cereal products.

Open business direction

From a small retail outlet, Ms. Linh's homemade cereal powder is increasingly selling well, generating good revenue. In 2020, she decided to invest in packaging, labels and name her homemade products "Co Ba Dai Loc" so that consumers can easily recognize her. "Now everyone calls her "Co Ba Dai Loc" and gradually forgets her real name," Ms. Linh said.

"Co Ba Dai Loc" cereal powder product. Photo: HOANG LIEN

Every day, Ms. Linh starts at dawn, taking care of her children's education, taking care of her elderly mother, and arranging sewing work according to orders, then starts roasting and grinding grains to make cereals, and shipping them to customers. "Thanks to my father and husband helping with packaging and shipping, everything is more convenient. For long-distance, pre-packaged orders, shippers come to deliver them," Ms. Linh shared.

“Co Ba Dai Loc” has two main products: cereal nutritional powder and brown rice and black bean tea, pandan bean tea. All are handmade, meticulously from the stages of selecting ingredients, processing, roasting, packaging, and labeling. There are cereal powders for pregnant women, diabetics, and people on a diet.

Every month, Ms. Linh releases more than 100kg of cereal powder and brown rice tea to the market at a selling price of 150,000 VND/kg. The products are well received by relatives, friends, and customers in Quang Nam, Da Nang City, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi . Some customers even order to send as gifts to relatives abroad.

“Miss Ba Dai Loc” also has salted pork, kimchi, shrimp rolls, meat rolls… During Tet, there is also coconut jam, ginger jam, grapefruit jam or cakes like lotus seeds, banh in…

“With the concept that whatever my family eats will be sold; my family has small children and an elderly mother, so all food and drink must be clean and of good quality,” said Ms. Linh.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/thuc-pham-nha-lam-cua-co-ba-dai-loc-3154224.html