Cuisines of Bac Ninh - Kinh Bac (part 1)

14/04/2017 15:36

(BNP) - Bac Ninh is the cradle off Kinh Bac’s culture with ancient villages, traditional festivals and sweet Quan Ho folk songs that attract many people. Cuisine in this lan is, therefore, as charming and seductive as the charm of Quan Ho’s people.

 

Kinh Bac – Bac Ninh is not only known for its thousand-years-old civilization with countless talanted intellects but also loved by masny for its special and impressive cuisines with more than 1,000 specialties, dozens of banquets (for weeding, celebration, Lunar Tet, festival, commune’s activities… and even competition), 39 types of cake, 25 types of sweetened porridge and steamed sticky rice, 11 types of drinks.

To cook dishes and prepare for different kinds of feasts, Kinh Bac people mainly use their self-supplied ingredients, making use of delicious and special breeds of rice and other native food products. Howere, the core of the cuisine lies in the cooking art and techniques which belong to Bac Ninh women. They are famous for both talents in trading, social activities and housework. Among those, womenof Noi Due stand out as the best, like the folk sayings go:
 
“For long, girls of local village
Are both proficient in housework and most talented
Good at weaving, skilled at cooking
They also travel North-South to do the trading”