The typical gifts that make you miss Hanoi Autumn

When mentioning the symbols of Autumn in Hanoi, people often immediately think of green rice because although Hanoi green rice is simple and rustic, it is a gift that tourists cannot miss when having the opportunity to visit the capital.

Autumn in Hanoi not only has the romantic atmosphere of gentle yellow sunlight in the cool weather and the passionate scent of milk flowers, but also has typical memorable gifts.

Green rice

When mentioning the symbols of Autumn in Hanoi, people often think of green rice. Although Hanoi green rice is simple and rustic, it is a gift that is hard to miss when coming to Hanoi. When the weather turns to Autumn, the air becomes cool, you will easily come across green rice vendors on the streets of Hanoi. Green rice is the sweetest and most special gift of all the autumn gifts in Hanoi. Made from green sticky rice, green rice has a characteristic green color and a gentle flavor. The craftsman has created green rice through a delicate hand-made process.

Com is usually placed in banana leaves or lotus leaves and presented on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival. The sweetness of Com cake along with the fragrance of banana leaves will make you feel the unique flavor of Hanoi Autumn. The most famous is Com Lang Vong. People of Vong village are always proud of their village's specialty. Com Lang Vong is green, smooth, and thin, and the rice grains are still dotted with bran. The fragrant aroma of sticky rice still soaked in milk. The fragrant, soft Com grains are enjoyed with red persimmons or bananas with egg cuoc. One is sweet, the other is sharp, the two sweet flavors blend together, as if supporting each other to make the relationship more delicate. Hanoi Com is processed into many different dishes such as Com cake, Com sausage, Com sticky rice, sticky Com sweet soup, stir-fried Com, Banana with Com dipped in Com, flattened Com mixed with soft coconut... Each dish brings its own unique flavors that fascinate diners.

Ripe star fruit

Autumn in Hanoi is when the cool breeze blows through the streets, rustling yellow leaves fall on the tiled roofs of the mossy old streets. This is also the time when the remaining clusters of star fruit from the summer begin to ripen. This is a special snack for Hanoians every autumn. Each golden, crispy star fruit with a harmonious sweet, salty, and sour taste makes it difficult for anyone to refuse this simple yet attractive gift. Ripe star fruit has a green-yellow skin, inside containing small, flavorful seeds. Just scrape off the outer star fruit skin, cut into spirals, then mix or dip in a little salt and pepper to enhance the sour and crunchy taste typical of this Hanoi autumn gift. Put a small piece of star fruit in your mouth and bite, and you will feel the sour-spicy-salty-sweet flavors melt on your tongue. Enjoying star fruit is a wonderful experience for the taste buds and also a great way to enjoy the unique flavors of autumn.

Peach

Late autumn is also the time of persimmons. Crispy persimmons are a specialty fruit of Hanoi's autumn. The outer skin looks green, but when cut open, the inside is orange-yellow, has a slightly sweet taste and is very crunchy. When the fruit is ripe, the outer skin of the crispy persimmon has a characteristic orange color and makes the fruit look very attractive. Enjoying a crispy persimmon on the chilly days of autumn will bring a feeling of freshness and comfort. Along with fresh fruit, pickled persimmons are also one of the autumn gifts of Hanoi that visitors can choose to buy as souvenirs. Pickled persimmons only bloom for about a month, after the full moon of August, they gradually thin out and quickly end. Pickled persimmons are small fruits with a green-yellow skin. When picked, they cannot be eaten immediately but must be soaked in water for a few days to remove the astringency and let the persimmons form powder. At this time, the persimmons become crispier and sweeter. Unlike red persimmons with a strong autumn flavor of Hanoi, pickled persimmons have a very unique delicious taste and are a specialty of late autumn and early winter. Unlike red persimmons which are soft, sweet and get boring quickly, pickled persimmons have a slightly sweet taste, are crunchy and chewy, are fun to eat and can be eaten in large quantities at once.

Star apple

Thi is not only a fruit that brings the simple beauty of the old Northern countryside, but it is also a special sign to recognize each autumn. Thi season in Hanoi usually starts from September to November. These days, people can easily see street vendors selling thi on all the streets of Hanoi. Thi has two forms: spherical fruit with a round bottom, often called late thi and a smaller, slightly flat fruit with a flat bottom, called wax thi or green wax thi. Ripe yellow thi can be kept for 4-5 days, while green ones can be displayed for half a month. Thi has a rustic aroma, and is a fruit to "play" with, to smell, not to eat. Thi is often bought to display on the 15th and 1st of the lunar month in the autumn months.

Fried shrimp

Rươi is a type of sea worm that only lives in some areas bordering brackish and fresh water near the sea. This specialty only becomes truly special in the fall. The rươi season is usually very short, around the end of September and the beginning of October of the lunar calendar. Rươi cake with the rich sweetness of rươi meat mixed with chicken eggs combined with the light taste of tangerine peel, the aroma of ginger leaves and betel leaves makes anyone who eats it crave it. Rươi can be processed into many delicious dishes such as rươi cake, rươi sauce, steamed rươi, rươi stir-fried with gac leaves... Each dish is delicious in a different way and has its own way of enjoying it, but perhaps the most popular is still the delicious rươi cake./.