"Why do we eat banh chung on Tet?"; Why can only New Year be able to see the kieu? "Have you ever prepared these questions for your baby? Let's explain to your baby about Mother's New Year dishes!"
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“Fatty meat, pickles, red couplets.
Tree Miraculous, green banh chung"
According to Vietnamese customs, when Tet comes, every family prepares a hearty tray with traditional dishes to worship ancestors and brothers gather for a New Year meal or invite guests. Not only is a Tet tray, but each dish also means the beginning of a peaceful and prosperous new year. However, many dishes on Tet holidays are different from normal days that make your baby extremely curious. Let me understand more about food, an indispensable corner of the Lunar New Year, don't forget to explain to me about Tet dishes!
Banh chung and banh Tet are the most typical Tet dishes
Onions are usually served with banh chung (north), while onions and pickles are often served with banh tet (south). Banh chung, banh Tet is wrapped from glutinous rice, fatty meat and green beans, so it has a fatty taste with a spicy, sour, sour and spicy melon that enhances the flavor of food and helps to digest. This side dish also has its own meaning of family harmony.
Boiled chicken is a familiar Tet dish of Vietnamese families. It is believed that the boiled chicken dish will provide a good start, filled with happiness. Therefore, on a Tet tray, boiled chicken is usually placed solemnly in the middle. Moreover, the rooster also represents the 5 virtues of a man: literature, martial arts, courage, humanity, and faith since ancient times, the Vietnamese have preferred to prepare rooster rituals.
This is a typical dish commonly found at New Year's meals in the North due to the cold weather in the Tet season. Some South people also like this dish, so they have to use the refrigerator to freeze meat. This is a dish to pray for a good love affair. The jelly-like flesh represents a peaceful, clear year. The combination and connection between the ingredients of the dish is like a blessing for those who are and will love.
If the North has frozen meat, the South, in a Tet tray, has meat stocked with eggs and duck eggs in coconut water. The characteristic of this dish is that it can be reheated many times, the more it cooks, the meat is tender, delicious, and eye-catching, so each family cooks a large pot to eat during Tet. Also for that reason, Chinese braised meat creates a feeling of prosperity and cozyness.
This is a convenient dish present in every family during Tet. Guests come to the house unexpectedly, the owner just needs to take the spring roll to slice to taste, arrange the plate with pickles, chili fish sauce to have delicious and simple dishes. It is believed that the round and plump shape of the girdle is wrapped in layers of green banana leaves with its own delicious flavor that will mean the warm, the peaceful, the happiness in the house.
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