The real Korean New Year is not only floating cake, vegetarian cake
The real Korean New Year is called by many people as Tet cake drift – vegetarian cake. However, on this occasion, there are many traditional cakes sold on the market for consumers to choose from.
On the actual day of the Han New Year (March 3 of the lunar calendar every year), families often make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes to offer to grandparents and ancestors and pray for a year of favorable rain, wind, and bountiful crops.
Round cakes made from glutinous rice are given many meanings by folk. In particular, the floating cake represents the 50 children who followed their mother Au Co to the sea, the vegetarian cake represents the 50 children who followed their father Lac Long Quan to the forest. Therefore, making floating cakes and vegetarian cakes by hand on the day of the Korean New Year is also a way for generations of descendants to remember their roots.
Hand-made floating cakes, vegetarian cakes in the real Korean New Year is also a way to remember the roots.
Over time, the floating cakes and vegetarian cakes in the Korean New Year are also renewed and created with many new and attractive forms, more suitable for modern life.
In addition to the white cakes made from rice flour in the traditional way, today’s housewives also add colors from flowers, leaves, and natural fruits to make floating cakes, five-color vegetarian cakes. The cakes are “coated” with the green color of pandan leaves/green tea, the yellow color of gardenia, the red color of gac, the purple color of camellia leaves… becoming more beautiful and eye-catching.
Five-color cakes are popular during Korean New Year
Following the trend of making floating cakes, colorful vegetarian cakes, skillful women also create many more beautiful shapes for cakes such as: molding cakes into flower shapes or funny, lovely animals.
In this year’s real Korean New Year, one more modern cake product was created, inspired by the traditional vegetarian cake, launched to the market and created the art cake trend. Those are cakes made in the style of Japanese art-shaped cakes, with beautiful images of lotus buds, lotus flowers, and lotus petals.
Art-shaped cakes were launched by the bakers during the real Korean New Year this year.
The real Korean New Year is not only floating cake, vegetarian cake
Not only floating cake, vegetarian cake, but this is also an opportunity for consumers, especially the younger generation, to enjoy more ethnic cakes. In the days before and during the real Korean New Year, manufacturers and suppliers introduce many traditional cakes with flavors of different regions and regions.
It is banh gio (banh troi) made from two main ingredients: sticky rice and ash water. Sophisticated, meticulous, ash water is made from coal ash of herbs and medicinal herbs to make the cake more delicious and nutritious. After being boiled for many hours, the rice grains are soft and blended together into a block with a clear amber color, smooth, and cool, dotted with sweet molasses. The price of banh gio is from 5,000 to 10,000 VND/piece, depending on the type.
Banh gio is made sophisticatedly and meticulously.
Contributing to the “collection” of real Korean Tet cakes are small ethnic cakes, made from rice flour, tapioca flour, green beans and many natural ingredients to create the flavor of Gac cakes. , thin cake, wormwood cake, leaf cake, butterfly pea flower cake…
In the real Korean New Year in 2022, floating cakes, vegetarian cakes and ethnic cakes are combined into the ceremony trays, which are the choices of many families. An ethnic cake costs 5,000 VND, a real set of Korean Tet cakes costs from 90,000 VND or more.
The tray is a combination of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes and ethnic cakes.
From the main ingredients are glutinous rice, green beans, sticky rice cake is also the type of cake chosen to offer in the real Korean New Year. A layer of fragrant glutinous rice flour, covered with a layer of pureed mung bean paste. Nowadays, sticky rice cakes are made more sophisticated, with a layer of rich green bean paste or rich flavor of sticky rice with shrimp and meat. Sticky rice cakes cost from 15,000 to 18,000 VND/piece.
With the same ingredients as glutinous rice cakes, those who prefer savory cakes have an additional option of goose cakes (goose egg cakes). The cake is so named because of its elongated shape, which is molded with the size and weight of a goose egg. Each cake costs 5,000 VND.
In addition, there are also regional cakes such as wormwood leaf cake, cassava cake … are also sold in many places, especially on the online market for consumers to offer and enjoy during the real Korean New Year.
According to phuuvietnam.vn
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