Hanoi childhood. Childhood snacks do not know the reason Vietnam Minh City since seizing power, scorched earth war, my parents' house razed, thereby avoiding floating how to cook war, thanks refuge in foreign country thanks. In 1949, the parents brought us sisters hiding from the Vietnamese Minh of Hanoi. From here we go to school. Our brothers attended Elementary School, Nguyen Cong Tru, Hang Than street is one of the largest primary schools in Hanoi and famous. Brick wall surrounding how to cook high wall, surrounded all sides. Out on only two giant wooden gate. Recess, students in the school. No no snacks. Other schools, such as The Friends Do, Even Dinh Chi ... well, students in the school, discipline is very strict, studious, polite.
Tan, home school, home school us in, do all. Forward spare time out to gather with friends and play all sorts of games city in the world very happy vethich interesting. While playing on the main street, we know how the animals are eating seaweed presents. Well, not missing a thing that adults do not ruchung my relatives. There are at play, we hear crackling drag, right labiet his crackling dry beef coming. We immediately stopped the game.
"Grandpa! Give me a drive away! Give me a plate to go! "As swarms of bees, we watched him dried beef loading arms move papaya fibers, hand-cut dark brown dried beef, beef liver pieces are dry, thin as a sheaths, but a little more sweet and sour sauce, chili sauce little reddish, add the basil leaves and leaves little scent (known how to cook as cilantro in the South) to eat while inhaling as chili, so that delicious owls.
One other dishes how to cook equally attractive, pulling candy dish craft but guaranteed not lose any sweets in the candy effect nickname. Whether you are playing, we stopped to hear him humming every last candy "just pull the plastic candy delicious ... here." Look at him every candy pull, stop pins, large displays monolithic white candies on white cloth covered iron plate on the table with legs set, we started calling purchase: how to cook "Grandpa! Give me 5 trenches. Grandpa! Give me $ 1. "He rows to the good minister cantering briskly hand pulled candy for a long span of about, 'split' one, broke his left hand flicking candy pieces, exposing the inside of the roasted how to cook peanuts ( roasted peanuts) yellow nursery mingled with the smell of vanilla scented. The way he pulled candy, how to cook soft candy flipping, agile, skilled do we eat while watching happily.
On weekend mornings, we get together in cine theaters as Olympia theater in Hang Da, Kinh theaters, theaters Philamonique shores of Hoan Kiem Lake ... and especially the theater LuaHong as children's theater Cine Hanoi . But before how to cook that, what we also enjoy a bowl of porridge His blood vessels pushing old street with cars on the street.
Snow rolling chips, slices 'porridge abundant spin' presentation in the bowl of porridge; also act, smell, sprinkle a little pepper; bowl of hot porridge carry the scent evaporates, only smell alone would not be a good feeling. We just eat, just blow thatdung with the phrase "blowing hot taste." Also, yet another sold his old ship "sticky sausages". A plate of sticky white folds, above displays the sausage fat dohong decent thin, add a few maggots "Maggi" genuine Paris looks very attractive, very tasty food how, but the price is only $ 1.
At night, the streets of Hanoi summer there are other dishes. From dusk had dishes how to cook "Gas complaining break away" echoing how to cook Ad streets. "Gas Grievances break away" just food "roasted peanuts" (roasted peanuts), how to cook taken by a vessel other old wearing square metal box on the side of selling. ..
Calm autumn weather or winter cold autumn wind, we stopped to buy his calling. Selling how to cook old man deliberately remove the shoulder strap, place roasted how to cook peanuts barrel down the sidewalk, slowly took a half sheet of paper books students how to cook have used it, wrapped into a small funnel, ladle "roasted peanuts" leave no grabs Hopper started laidua how to cook packages to customers.
We just eat "roasted peanuts" hot crispy, fragrant, just heard the fairytale fun really nothing to fair. In addition, it has the old man selling snacks "that even in line". "At that matches", is the name of the dish "black sesame tea" (black sesame) that out. Sellers also is an elder Tau, gray clothes bouquet, buttonhole cloth, bamboo and broad-brimmed hats, black canvas shoes foot soldier-type figure; we watched the old man like a knight in novels for half of Tau
. Dishes "tea black sesame" to the small bowl tea bowl type. Black tea viscous, hot food, the smell of sesame, white sugar and vanilla blended together attractive how to cook fragrance. One feature we found is that most people go hawkers are old and hard ships he put in to sell goods all over the streets of Hanoi. The example of diligence, hard work and patience of the elderly to worry about selling the family livelihood makes us admire.
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