Lang Vong’s green rice, full of Hanoi’s autumn scent

Hanoi in the fall is the image of rhythmic green rice burdens on the shoulders of women and mothers weaving into each alley, a rustic flavor that seems to calm down in the heart of the bustling city. The green grains are fragile but fragrant, depositing the essence of the earth, the sky, the scent of sun and wind, making each diner feel nostalgic and nostalgic when enjoying it. When talking about green rice, people often immediately remember green rice from Vong village, a simple country gift that is closely associated with the childhood and adulthood of many people of Trang An.

According to the elders here, Lang Vong’s green rice started thousands of years ago. At that time, the rice milk was starting to form and the rice plants were bending, when suddenly the sky and earth turned to heavy rain and storms, causing the dikes to break and river water to overflow, submerging the fields in deep water.

The villagers could not bear to see their efforts for so many days in vain, so they went to the fallen rice fields, picked up young rice flowers, and brought them back to dry roast them to eat to fight hunger. We all thought the young rice grain would be dry and odorless, but strangely, the young rice grain had a very attractive taste, sweet, supple and fragrant. And so, every year when the rice seeds begin to form, the people of Vong village cut the rice to eat again and again for fun.

Lang Vong’s green rice in Hanoi is famous among all because of its cool green color like the green of jade, the soft grains, the sweet taste when eaten in the mouth, and the milky scent of young sticky rice. In the past, every time the season came, the whole Vong village was filled with the rhythmic sounds of pestles pounding green rice like a country symphony.

Lang Vong’s green rice is processed extremely elaborately and meticulously

When you come to the place and see with your own eyes, you will see how meticulous and meticulous the person making the green rice must be to get the fragrant green rice grains because the process of making green rice must go through many stages, containing so much respect. and the hardships of the people who make them.

When the rice plants are golden, just ten days away from full harvest, the people of Vong village go to pick each long flower and the seeds for processing. If you want delicious green rice, you must cut the rice at the right time. If you let the rice grow old, the rice will not be green, will be hard and broken, and if the rice is young, the rice will stick to the husk, become soft and lose its taste.

Usually, the rice is harvested that day, the seeds are threshed, roasted and pounded that same day. The ladies skillfully process sticky rice in a tank of water to select the smooth, shiny seeds, then roast them in a cast iron pan with a thick base, ensuring even heat retention.

Roasting rice so that the grains are ripe, not crunchy but peel off the husks is the most difficult step in making green rice. The fire of roasting green rice also requires some care. When first roasting green rice, the fire must be high, but when the rice starts to turn white, reduce the heat. Roasted green rice needs to be stirred continuously to heat evenly, because if it’s too hot, the rice grains will break.

After roasting the green rice, when it’s still hot, pound it right on top with a separate mortar. Use a gentle, rhythmic, even and deliberate beat with the pestle to make the green rice smooth and flexible. After pounding the green rice, it’s time to winnow it and put it into small baskets already scattered with lotus leaves to sell on the streets.

Authentic Lang Vong’s green rice is wrapped in two layers of leaves. The green rice grains are wrapped directly with green leaves to keep the green rice from drying out and to last longer. The layer of lotus leaves is wrapped around the outside as if to accentuate the cool, subtle lotus scent, creating deliciousness for the user. Finally, use two soft strings made from plucked rice stalks and tie them perpendicular to each other to wrap the nuggets more firmly and look more eye-catching.

Enjoying Lang Vong’s green rice is also a delicacy

The packaging of nuggets has been carefully and meticulously, the enjoyment of the nuggets is equally sophisticated. Green rice is not a filling dish, so no one buys a lot of it. Just a small package, sipping and enjoying a cup of green tea, chatting with friends, or watching the streets, there’s probably nothing more interesting.

In addition, this is not a gift for people who “live fast” or who “eat in a bucket”. Eating fresh green rice properly is to gently use your 5 fingers to pick up a little bit and put it in your mouth, then slowly enjoy it to feel the softness and aroma when chewing and the sweetness gradually spreads in the mouth, as if we were walking in the shimmering golden sunlight, enjoying the autumn breeze. Just like that, little by little to enjoy the elegant flavors of Hanoi specialties.

Besides, Hanoian often eat fresh green rice with two fruits that could not be more compatible: Banana with Cuoc’s egg, which is a naturally ripe banana with black spots on the shell like the egg of a Cuoc and persimmon. soak. These two flavors blend with the chewy taste of green rice and the gentle scent of lotus leaves to create an elegant and surprisingly delicious gift.

In particular, green rice cake has been included in the wedding ceremony tray that the groom’s family brings to the bride’s family for many years. The square cake symbolizes the strength and thoughtfulness of the husband. Because cakes are used for weddings and symbolize fullness and lasting marital happiness, they are all meticulously and meticulously made. The cake looks rustic, but it is very sophisticated in preparation, from filling, stirring the green rice until it is soft and even marinating it with grapefruit flavor so that it is just right enough to make the cake fragrant without losing the green rice flavor.

In addition, Hanoi Vong village’s green rice can also be processed into many other dishes that bring different flavors such as stir-fried green rice, rice sweet soup, sticky rice, but for gourmets, fresh green rice is still the best.

Now, Hanoi has entered a period of innovation, the profession of making green rice in Vong village has gradually disappeared, there is no longer the familiar bustling sound of pestles and mortars pounding green rice. In recent years, green rice has not been as popular as before.

People who buy green rice are mainly from fried rice shops and sweet soup shops, and some people buy it to remember their childhood in the fall of Hanoi. The price of green rice fluctuates around $1 – $1.5/100 grams, but the process of making green rice grains is manual and very arduous.

Therefore, to eat delicious green rice and retain the unique cultural features, gourmets only buy green rice at reputable addresses in Vong village and some places in Me Tri, and especially must eat in the right season to be able to enjoy the taste. Get the standard flavor of green rice grains.

But no matter what, Lang Vong’s green rice is always a gift from nature to the farmers and that gift still retains the scent of old Hanoi autumn that makes any person from Hanoi go there. then remember, when you come back, love.

Great dish made of green rice

Besides enjoying fresh green rice, people also create countless attractive dishes with many flavors that appeal to many Hanoi food lovers.

Green rice cake

Green rice cake is a Hanoi specialty with a gentle sweetness and rustic features. Although this dish is not only available in Hanoi, it must be Hanoi green rice cake to be delicious and true to the taste of Hanoi green rice.

The square green rice cake symbolizes the land, the green color represents the taste of the countryside, and the sweet coconut and green bean filling is like the love that Hanoi people send to tourists. So this is always a gift that everyone who comes here must buy to give to their relatives and friends.

Normally, if people want to buy banh com in Hanoi, they will go to Hang Than street. This is a famous street with many shops selling rice cake, each of which has a different flavor and recipe, so you can freely choose.

Sticky rice with green rice

The young rice grains of heaven and earth in the fall also bring a dish that makes many diners excited: sticky rice with green rice. Sticky rice with green rice is made from very simple ingredients from green rice, green beans, sometimes even lotus seeds along with milky white coconut fibers that have been stirred through sugar and fat. All combined together harmoniously not only attracts the taste buds but also stimulates the visual sense of the enjoyer.

If you want to enjoy the delicious taste of sticky rice, you can visit the shops at Hom market or the traditional sticky rice shop on Gia Ngu street.

Green rice sweet soup

One more dish made from nuggets that you shouldn’t miss is com. Wandering on the streets of Hanoi, enjoying green rice pudding right at roadside shops will be one of the interesting experiences for tourists when they have the opportunity to visit this ancient land.

To be able to feel the autumn atmosphere filled with Ha Thanh-style green rice, you can visit Thanh Cong market, Dinh Liet street tea shops or restaurants on Ngo Thi Nham street.

Stir-fried green rice

Stir-fried green rice is also an attractive dish from green rice of Hanoi people. To make this dish, green rice will be stir-fried with coconut milk until it becomes sticky and then sprinkled with grated coconut on top.

In Hanoi, there are many places selling fried rice, each of which has its own characteristics and flavors, but the most delicious and popular are the shops on Dinh Liet, Tran Hung Dao, and Ngo Thi Nham streets.. .

Green rice nuggets

If green rice cake, sticky rice,… all have a sweet taste, Green rice nuggets is salty and greasy. The nuggets is often combined with many other dishes such as sticky rice, vermicelli, rice cake, fried rice, etc. to increase the attractiveness of those dishes.

To enjoy the best taste of spring rolls, you can go to the spring rolls shop at Khuong Thuong market. The grilled green rice here is prepared quite carefully and thoroughly with pork selected from delicious butt meat, and the green rice must be green rice from Vong village made from yellow flower sticky rice, thanks to that, the fried rice here is much tastier than other places. other.

For many generations, those sticky rice grains of Vong Thom village have been cherished, respected and sent to life like that. Therefore, Vong village green rice has become a typical gift that Hanoians are very proud and fond of. If you have the opportunity to travel to Hanoi this season, you definitely should not miss that exquisite hometown gift.

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