In a tiny village in northern Vietnam, Dang Thi Hoa ties up a bundle of freshly dried incense sticks ahead of Lunar New Year and watches a line of tourists waiting to pose for pictures.Three generations of Dang Thi Hoa's family have been dyeing incense sticks scarlet red, or magenta pink, ahead of the new year celebrations known as Tet in Vietnam.
Black glutinous rice cake: A unique dish of Tay ethic people in Lao Cai
Sunday, 2021-02-07 16:26:04
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NDO – Black ‘chung’ (glutinous rice) cake, made with the ashes of nuc nac trees, is an indispensable dish of Tay ethnic people in Bac Ha District, Lao Cai Province, during their Lunar New Year festival.
According to Vang Thi Hoa, a 60-year-old Tay ethnic woman in Na Kim Hamlet, Bac Ha District, the making of black
chung cake has been practiced and passed down for generations among the Tay ethnic community in Na Kim.
Every spring in the past, whenever the peach blossom tree in her garden were about to bloom, Hoa burned wood of