“Still asking myself, is it the scent of green rice/ I wonder whose hands made the lotus leaves?” (Is there anything strange about Paris, my dear?). It seems that those who... know about the green rice season in Hanoi, more or less remember Nguyen Sa?
Com lang Vong, Com Ha Noi. The name of this dish suggests the season. People who come back to Quang from autumn in Hanoi must cherish the scent of green sticky rice in their gift packages.
The green rice flakes are delicately wrapped in lotus leaves and tied with a pair of dry straws. Northerners say this is done to preserve the flavor and aroma of the green rice flakes and the pure scent of the lotus. These two elegant things blend together to bring nobility to the recipient.
Strangely, the food is as proud as the people of Hanoi. It seems that for Hanoians, each dish and drink is like a masterpiece of refined aroma and flavor.
With autumnal gifts like green rice, the sophistication is even more evident. That is why Mr. Vu Bang has a special love for green rice - a gift as gentle and elegant as the autumn weather in Hanoi.
He reserved the most quintessential words for green rice: “Every time we see autumn clouds covering the sky, people meeting each other at the market often say only one sentence: Now in Hanoi it is green rice season! Then we look at each other without saying anything, but everyone feels their hearts filled with sadness…”.
For Vu Bang, Com Vong is the most special gift because “every time I feel the cold yellow wind returning, I think of Com. Even more special, “all over the country, only Hanoi has Com”!
The image of young rice baskets along the alleys has been deeply ingrained in his subconscious, urging him to pick up a pen and write to express his feelings. The aroma of that specialty spread throughout Hanoi, penetrating the soul of a child far from home.
Hanoians say the fragrant scent of young rice brings autumn to the streets. The culinary spirit of the North that “loves scents” has created fragrant delicacies that have become specialties.
The same goes for Com. From fragrant young sticky rice, each woman in Vong village selects the most delicious Com. The Northern woman said that the sticky Com has a refreshing, fragrant taste of colostrum and needs to go through many meticulous processing steps to create a batch of standard Com.
After roasting, the sticky rice is pounded, winnowed to remove all the husks and then mixed with green rice (with green rice leaf water). Green rice is processed into many dishes, from green rice cakes, green rice sausage, green rice sticky rice, sticky green rice dessert, stir-fried green rice, banana with green rice, flat green rice mixed with soft coconut...
But the dish that many Hanoians love and often “show off” on Facebook is a handful of green rice in the middle of a spread lotus leaf. They say, only then can we know it is autumn in Hanoi. The photo exudes the scent of autumn, thus evoking nostalgia for those who dream of Hanoi with “the season of green rice that smells good on small hands/The fragrant green rice on the sidewalk that makes our footsteps pass by”...
Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/van-hoi-long-minh-la-huong-com-3140740.html
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