Visit the famous traditional Tet jam villages in Vietnam

The days near the Lunar New Year, traditional jam, apricot and dry food villages are busy processing products to serve the market.

Craft village made of ginger jam in Hue : At the end of the year, in Kim Long ward, Hue city, which is considered 'ginger jam village' , red fire produces the delicious batches of ginger jam by the manual method. ( Photo: Thegioidisan).

The job of making ginger jam in Kim Long has existed for hundreds of years and every year in the lunar December, the firewood in the village red fire, making batches of jam sold on Tet holiday.(Photo: Thegioidisan).

Kim Long ginger jam is processed with the secret of the traditional village workers, from the ratio of sugar to cooking time.In particular, ginger is whitened with natural ingredients such as lemon and kumquat, without coloring products, no preservatives, so the finished product is thin pieces of ginger jam, natural yellow, spicy, sweet and very crispy.(Photo: Dan Tri).

To get the ginger slices delicious, spicy, yellow, naturally incubated must be careful in every stage of making jam.All stages from choosing ginger, slices, rim of sugar to choosing the oven stand are very important.(Photo: Thegioidisan).

Xuan Dinh jam village: In Hanoi, Xuan Dinh craft village is well known for the tradition of producing jam candy for the Lunar New Year for many generations.(Photo: Wordpress).

Xuan Dinh candy jam village in Bac Tu Liem district is one of the oldest traditional craft villages in Hanoi.Each year, there are more than 600 tons of candy and jam in the market.Especially here is only making candy jam around December and January of the solar calendar close to the Lunar New Year, on these days, just standing at the top of the village gate can smell the fresh aromatic jam.(Photo: ANTĐ).

No one knows exactly what job to make jam in Xuan Dinh ever since and the occupation team is, only know that jam making career appeared here since the 19th century and is increasingly popular in the 20th century. The main villages are traditional jams such as jam, peanut, pineapple, sweet potato, ginger, durian, tomato, pink, pear, kumquat . In the jam, the jam is still at the top, This is the "forte" of Xuan Dinh jam village.(Internet photo).

However, in recent years, the issue of food hygiene and safety has become a challenge, the biggest worry for Xuan Dinh jam.The image of jam in the corner of the street and in the empty yard, dog and chicken and the innocent flies around are common in Xuan Dinh village.Inadequate hygiene in the processing of jam in Xuan Dinh is not the first time and famously nothing less than the jam brand of this village.(Photo: Discover).

Apple Village Jam: About 7 kilometers from the center of Hung Yen City, Lang Vi (Phuong Chieu commune, Hung Yen City) is famous for its traditional craft of producing Tet jam, especially apple jam.(Photo: Traffic Newspaper).

Every year, at the beginning of November of lunar calendar, the village of Vi and Hung Yen is more bustling, everywhere in the village is bustling with sellers, who buy all kinds of apple jam, ginger jam serving traditional Tet.(Photo: Hung Yen Newspaper).

To produce apple jam, the input material should be carefully selected.Common apples are pear apples, ripe fruits, fresh and delicious.After chiseling the seeds and lighting the apple shells, the apple maker will put the apples in and wash them and boil them at 70 degrees Celsius. After taking them out, drain them, the apples will be soaked with sugar for about 24 hours before putting them in the cooking pot. with sugar water about 15 minutes and then take it out, let it cool.(Photo: Traffic Newspaper).

The cooking process is repeated 3 times, 24 hours each time.At the final stage, the apples are picked out and put on a truss, put into an oven to make finished jam.The finished apples in Vi village must ensure a golden color because they are produced by white sugar, there are many layers on the outside of the fruit, eating moderately and sweetly, thick apple meat and apples are not crushed, no black(Photo: Traffic Newspaper).

Dry bananas trade village in Ca Mau: Starting from the beginning of January, people in dried bananas in Ca Mau started work.In the days of Tet holidays, the working intensity of craft villages is higher.The dried banana trade village of Ca Mau is concentrated in Tran Hoi and Khanh Hung communes (H.Tran Van Thoi).(Photo: Dan Viet).

No one knows how long this profession has been, only know where this is the hereditary job, it has been several generations.To have dried, delicious, flexible, tough banana pieces, we have to choose a kind of old and ripe banana.The process of making dried bananas is easy, but not everyone wants to do it.(Photo: Dan Viet).

First, peel off the banana peels and bring bananas to the bananas to dry the bananas to ensure the toughness.Bananas are put into a thin mold, and then put on a blister made of bamboo or reed to dry.The bananas are ready to be dried and dried until the bananas turn into a dark yellow, and they are fine.(Photo: Dan Viet).

On average, in the Tet holiday, families here force tons of dried bananas to produce confectionery from An Giang, Vinh Long, Dong Thap provinces to process banana candies, dry bananas, Banana ginger, banana box, banana juice, banana wine . (Photo: Dan Viet).