Rice Cake of Cho Village

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The most delicious rice cake belongs to hamlets: Phu Man, Nghiem Xa, Trung Ban, Ngan Cau, Ngo Noi, Tien Xa, Phu Luu. Perhaps these are villages where can cultivate rice trees giving delicious rice, make quality rice cakes with the most unique flavor.

Although a rice cake is a popular food in several rural plain areas, but it’s not always for everywhere possible to produce the special delicious rice cakes like in Kinh Bac area. The “countryside” rice cakes are both supple, crispy and fragrant, making people who eat them once cannot forget that unique taste.

Cho rice cakes has existed for hundreds of years, generations of their fathers are still passing on their profession to the young. Before, the specious shape of rice cakes is different from its shape today, it is small like a cup, consists of the cover of cake and the filler including a long piece of meat, wood ear, onion, Cho of village have been made on the holidays, weddings… Nowadays, the cakes has been improved to a long shape but still retain the traditional flavor and made every day and become favorite cuisine dish for the local people and other localities. Experience the ups and downs of history, the production of rice cakes is being developed and changed to meet the taste of consumers.

The locality has nearly 20 families producing and trading rice cakes, creating jobs for hundreds of laborers. Before, it is a kind of snack, rice cakes of Cho village nowadays have really become “brand” of this land and expanded the market to the surrounding, even several other province in the country.