People living abroad, when listening to the name of Thap Muoi, probably do not forget the folk verse: "Thap Muoi water flooded the sour field Half of the burning season, half the season of rising water".
Right at that time of the season, nature suddenly became more peaceful and favored for the people of this land extremely rich specialties: Snakes, mustache, hamsters, water lilies, dandelion, vegetables chives ... But the characteristic of Dong Thap Muoi area, it is the "running" vegetables, a kind of young twisted twisted twirling like rolls, delicious food.
According to the ancestors, at the beginning of the reclamation of the people, people have discovered that the "running" vegetable that has existed in front of them for many generations on this land is Chua. Vegetables are present almost everywhere in Dong Thap Muoi. It belongs to the family of vines, where the cow stalks up to it, can live in lowland areas because the root has strong water attraction, especially very suitable for alum-contaminated land. There are many types of vegetables. Based on its characteristics and living environment, people call it by different names: Stonecrop, garden stub, wild stalk, pickle, veneer ... All kinds of vegetables are edible, however, Each has its own unique flavor.
The stalked vegetables have green streak of bananas, grow into bushes, and the old and tall leaves look like a beautiful fern leaf; Eat bitter, bitter. Previously, in the process of reclamation, people living in Dong Thap Muoi area were less able to trade with the outside, the days of running out of food and food, they had to pick young shoots of vegetables instead of stone. So. Because it is very bitter and bitter, it must be boiled briefly in boiling water, picked up and drained before being processed into another dish. With the characteristic acrid taste of ice, people often use it to cook sour soup with anabas, rice, this is a unique dish only in this region.
Wild mango is a wild vegetable sometimes sold in the market, the most common of all vegetables in the same family. Wild mangrove vegetables and leaves are light green mixed with some pink, young leaves are dark pink, all parts of the forest trees are used except the old leaves. People in Dong Thap Muoi often go to the forest to choose old cords, cut them into arbitrary sections, and bring them to dry in a bundle to save. Those who specialize in fishing, fishing ropes are their companions when needed to look after, roof, post, that ... of former colonists.
Vegetables in the garden have high and big trunk, often growing along bamboo bushes, coconut trees, in mixed garden, along the river edge, adapting in fresh water areas, lightly alum-contaminated. Bunches of vegetables are stout in the garden, sweet, crispy and fragrant, very rare, so they are not sold in the market like wild vegetables.
Talking about dishes made from wild vegetables, people immediately think of boiled vegetables. Vegetables are bought from markets, sellers sometimes leave them overnight, so they become black and age. In this case, before processing, the small part must be picked up; want to sprout fresh, crunchy it is best to take the time to pick and use immediately. Boiled spice buds seasoning sauce, or soy sauce are delicious. Therefore, in Dong Thap Muoi region from ancient times, there were folk songs that:
Invite each other to seven villages
Picking up vegetables, pulling back eagles
If the tick is off, the soy sauce is over
Immediately the cops who love me lie.
It is enough for the villagers. Those who want to be sophisticated, besides the seasoning sauce cup, soy sauce with a few fried perch or grilled snakehead fish, is great! Usually, boiled water is rarely used by anyone, but it adds a little salt, some MSG to slurp after a meal, its sweetness is not inferior to any kind of soup.
Want to get the right to go into the forest, where people have not reclaimed, or along the banks of new canals scoop up the land. Scaring requires familiarity with the way, if ignorant one day bees to be swollen turmeric to swell the face. One kg of buds now ranges from 4,000 to 6,000 VND, this price is quite attractive for a part of poor laborers to make a living in the flood season.
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