Phu Thuong sticky rice craft village is located in the west of Hanoi. This place has long been famous for making traditional sticky rice. Many types of sticky rice carry the Phu Thuong village brand such as sticky rice with sweet soup, sticky rice with sticky rice, sticky rice with gac, five-color sticky rice... becoming culinary specialties of the Capital loved by consumers everywhere.
Arriving at Phu Thuong village in the evening, visitors will see the aroma of sticky rice spreading to every small alley. At this time, households begin to prepare sticky rice, preparing for sale the next day. Currently, Phu Thuong has about 600 households cooking sticky rice. Villagers create a brand and bring sticky rice to sell at many traditional markets and stores in Hanoi as well as serve ceremonies and parties across the provinces. .
Phu Thuong sticky rice is delicious and famous as a specialty of the Capital. In particular, sweet sticky rice, five-color sticky rice, and skewed sticky rice are products that meet the city's OCOP 4-star standards. Hanoi. Each type of sticky rice, in the hands of the people in the village, has its own techniques for soaking rice, mixing ingredients, adjusting the fire when cooking... thereby creating delicious, fragrant sticky rice that anyone who eats it once will remember forever. .
Ingredients such as black beans, green beans, and peanuts are carefully selected. Photo: Tran Thanh Giang
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Fresh dong leaves are prepared to wrap sticky rice. Photo: Tran Thanh Giang
Fried onions are one of the ingredients to create the flavor of traditional sticky rice.
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The process of cooling sticky rice to prepare for the next batch to make the sticky rice more flexible at a household. Photo: Tran Thanh Giang
Tourists visit and enjoy sticky rice dishes of Phu Thuong village. Photo: Tran Thanh Giang
Foreign tourists interviewed after enjoying sticky rice from Phu Thuong village. Photo: Tran Thanh Giang
Uncle Ho Thi Dau's family, with 4 generations of family members working in the profession of making sticky rice, said: "The family's profession of cooking sticky rice takes over the secrets left by our ancestors, and the family is always learning more and more creatively." new types of sticky rice according to market needs.” Currently, he and his son follow the profession and sell about 20kg of sticky rice every day at Tan Mai market, Hanoi. Mr. Cong Xuan Phu, Mr. Dau's son, shared that the profession of cooking sticky rice has been closely linked to his entire childhood and until now, even though he has traveled all over Vietnam, Phu Thuong sticky rice is still the best for him, it is the quintessential gift of the people. Hanoi.
Cooking sticky rice is a hard job, requiring diligence, meticulousness, and staying up late and waking up early. The ingredients are prepared the afternoon before, steps such as washing rice, soaking beans, washing banana leaves and wrapping sticky rice are all pristine. Usually, the sticky rice is boiled the first time and then put into large baskets. At 3 a.m. the next morning, the sticky rice is boiled a second time to make it really sticky, then sold in the early morning. Delicious sticky rice, first of all, depends on choosing fragrant sticky rice with round grains, then ingredients such as green beans, peanuts, and gac must also be grade 1, carefully selected.
Phu Thuong village sticky rice is diverse in color and quality has been confirmed over many years. Photo: Documents
Until today, Phu Thuong village has changed day by day, the village is prosperous, people's lives are increasingly prosperous, the profession of cooking sticky rice has also brought a stable income to every family and it is also a natural profession. Proud to preserve the culinary specialties of the Capital to spread the cultural beauty of Hanoi to everywhere.
Ms. Hoa Linh, Tre Place restaurant, said: She and her colleagues all grew up in Phu Thuong village, so they love the traditional craft of their homeland. She is creating a Village culinary space at the restaurant. , which showcases many delicious sticky rice dishes of Phu Thuong village so that tourists from all over the country can come to enjoy and experience.
Every year, Phu Thuong people organize the Xoi Festival, as a tradition for people to gather in the village, perform traditional sticky rice dishes and review the tradition of cooking sticky rice together./.
Article: Bich Van, Photo: Thanh Giang, TL