If visitors come to the land of Tra Vinh, they will not only see Ba Dong beach with white sand, clear water, but also enjoy a variety of delicious and attractive specialties such as dried shrimp, beef sauce, flat rice … . Besides, it is also impossible not to mention Tra Vi specialty rice paper, one of the most typical specialties of Tra Vinh land.
6.1 Ingredients and how to make Tra Vi rice paper
The main ingredients for making rice paper are very simple, only white rice is soaked, then milled into flour.
However, in order to choose rice grains to make cakes, there are many stages to go through: First is to grind the flour, when the flour is finished, it must be combed through and sieved very thickly to remove the broken bran. then bring the flour to water for a night and then put it in the diem.
Diem is a crockery or porcelain container. After the dough is just finished, mix it with clear water so that it is medium, neither liquid nor thick, finally pour in salt water and stir well.
The salt water must be just right, but the cake has no toughness, it will be green and broken if it is too light. Cakes are made by steaming very quickly, only taking about half a minute each. After the cake is cooked, people will use a chopstick to slowly lift the cake up and then arrange it on the drying rack. Each drying rack is about 2.5m long and must contain 5 wet cakes.
6.2 Tra Vi rice paper in Tra Vinh’s culture
Although rice paper is not the main dish, it is indispensable in daily meals as well as on holidays. There are many dishes prepared with rice paper.
Typically, rice paper rolls with bacon or pork ears with sour fish sauce. Or rice paper rolls with meat to make fried spring rolls, once eaten, you will remember forever because it has a very unique flavor. Visitors can easily find dishes with Tra Vi rice paper in all restaurants and eateries in Tra Vinh.
Source: Collected internet.
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