Visit Dai Loc banh trang village

07:35' 23/06/2009 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Dinh province is famous for banh trang (girdle cake) with coconut, Tay Ninh province for banh trang aired in the dew and Quang Nam province for banh trang from Dai Loc.   Dai Loc has hundreds of families making banh trang for sale. Coming to Dai Loc this season, visitors will see banh trang drying everywhere in yards and gardens.   Vo Thi Bon, a woman who has produced banh trang for nearly 30 years, said that to have good banh trang, the rice must be good. Banh trang producers have to wash the rice, soak it in water for several hours and grind it into powder to make banh trang. In the photo: Bon is pouring wet powder into a basin.   Spreading wet powder to make banh trang.   A banh trang comes out within five seconds.   Kids help their parents lay wet banh trang on plastic nets for drying.     Drying banh trang under the sun.   Under the scorching sun, banh trang is dry within two hours. It takes 4-5 hours in cool weather.   Dry banh trang are put into bamboo baskets for sale.

“Vietnam’s Village” Tourist Site

05/07/07 (GMT+7)

Vietnam’s village tourist site, after 15 years living far from his homeland, Dang Xuan Nghia, a 60 year-old overseas Vietnamese, decided to come back and invest in a tourist site named “Vietnam’s Village” which depicts the life of Vietnamese farmers during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Working from his childhood memories in Dai Loc, Quang Nam Province, Dang Xuan Nghia established the tourist site by the Hoai River near the Cam Nam Bridge in Hoi An Vietnam in September 2005.

Coming here, visitors will have a chance to learn more about the villages in Vietnam and see many of the labour intense activities of farmers in the old days.

They will be surprised at and very interested in watching artisans making pottery utensils from clay, making conical hats and decorative multi-coloured lanterns, whittling wooden clogs, weaving mats, farming, catching fish, etc.

Furthermore, they can try doing some of the work themselves, such as spinning, working the bellows and blowing on the fire to hammer farming tools, etc. Here, the visitors can stay in well-furnished rooms and enjoy many local specialities cooked by artisans in Quang Nam.

Besides cultural features of the Cham, Japanese and Chinese people in Hoi An Vietnam, a World Culture Heritage Site, the tourist site “Vietnam’s Village” helps tourists have a general view on Vietnam and its wet-rice culture in the past.

(Source: Vietnam Pictorial)