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From Hanoi, follow National Highway 5 about 25km to Ban Yen Nhan town (formerly a village of Van Phu commune), My Hao district, where there is a profession of making Ban soy sauce.

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Coming to the craft village of Hung Yen , you will see a whole street selling soy sauce. There are many stalls selling right at home, some rent large premises.

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The ingredients to make Ban sauce are not difficult to find, mainly sticky rice and soybeans. However, to make a batch of delicious sauce requires the technique and experience of each household.

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Cooking soy sauce consists of three main steps: molding sticky rice, soaking beans, and fermenting soy sauce. First, the cook will soak the sticky rice and then cook it into sticky rice.

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Rice after being cooked into sticky rice is then put into the mold incubation stage.

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To incubate mold, when the sticky rice is cooked, scoop it out onto a tray and leave it for about two days and two nights until the sticky rice turns yellow with mold.

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To make the mold grow evenly, the maker uses chopsticks to stir the sticky rice every day to make it mold evenly and at the same time rubs the sticky rice grains to make them more fluffy. The moldy sticky rice is ground and mixed with soybeans, water and spices, then left to ferment for two to three months to produce a batch of delicious soy sauce.

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The more sunshine, the faster the soy sauce will ripen. To make the soy sauce smooth and colorful, the soy sauce maker must stir the soy sauce frequently in the morning and at noon.

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Currently, in the yard of Mr. Minh Quat's family, the ancient house is still preserved. In the yard, there are about 800 jars for making soy sauce, each jar is about 100-110 liters.

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In addition to yellow soy sauce, Minh Quat's facility also makes black soy sauce.

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According to Minh Quat's daughter-in-law, black soy sauce is also brewed with soybeans. After brewing, a part of the soy sauce is filtered and then cooked into black soy sauce. Black soy sauce is used in cooking processes such as braising fish, and also gives an even yellow color.

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Regarding soy sauce making, there are many localities in the country that make delicious and famous soy sauce, but Tuong Ban has a delicious flavor, different from other places. Despite many ups and downs, the people of Ban village still try to keep the profession, keep the secret to making this special sauce.

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