According to the Vietnamese year of birth, people named Thin are all born in the year of the Dragon, that is, the year of the Dragon. But strangely, I don't understand why people named Thin are often associated with cooking and dining so much. It is often a famous person, a famous person, but not a " hard" life.
The most famous is Mr. Thin who sells pho, creating the Thin Bo Ho pho brand in the 1950s. Another Mr. Thin also sells pho on Lo Duc street, also creating a ganhang reputation with a series of franchise brands "Pho Thin Lo Duc" appearing in Japan, Australia...
But Mrs. Thin on Hang Bo Street was famous before both of them, because she started selling sweet soup at the end of the 1930s. In the 1980s, Mrs. Thin's daughter took over the sweet soup shop and settled in Hang Bo. And in the third generation, Mrs. Thin's sweet soup shop is located at 2 locations 95 Hang Bo and 1 Bat Dan.
If her granddaughter continues to maintain the family business for another 14 years, congee tea enthusiasts in Hanoi will witness the year-end birthday celebration of the brand "De Ba Thin". Indeed, Southern women are not inferior at all.
Looking at Mrs. Thin's sweet soup menu, we may be blinded by the variety of sweet soup and cakes. However, in the early stages of Mrs. Thin and her daughter, the sweet soup restaurant only had 2 main types: summer sweet soup and winter sweet soup, nam nam nay cold-fried sweet soup and hot-fried sweet soup.
On days of domestic demand, hot to "petrified, golden brown", the restaurant will sell refreshing, fragrant sweet soups such as lotus sweet soup, sticky rice areca flower sweet soup, black bean and bean stew, green mixed sweet soup with black skin, stonewater crocodile water, jasmine flower tofu, black jelly jelly jelly jelly...
But after October, the restaurant will switch to selling Mrs. patties, areca flower sweet soup, train banh flo, and thick black bean sweet soup. Hot sweet soups are always cooked with slices of ginger, so they have a rich, fragrant and spicy taste. The sweet soup is always steamed from the water to always retain the heat.
In addition to water sweet soup, the restaurant also has cakes or dried sweet soups that are quite special and delicious such as green bean green bean green rice cake, cloud-based ripe rice cake, sticky rice cake, stir-fried green rice, bee sweet soup, braised sweet soup, sticky rice... that are convenient to eat on the spot and convenient to buy at home or as gifts.
Depending on the type of sweet soup, however, in the current complicated weather, it is fine to eat summer sweet soups in the cold winter, or like sticky rice sweet soup served both in summer and winter, only in the cool summer sweet soup and the warm winter sweet soup.
In general, Mrs. Thin's tea brings together all the quintessence and rules of the Hanoi "teste industry" such as using familiar ingredients such as rice, beans to cook, using grapefruit, jasmine, banana oil to increase flavor and fragrance.
The sweet soup must have the characteristic color of the sweet soup, for example, black bean sweet soup must be shiny black in the bowl of white porridge, green bean sweet soup must be light yellow and have the aroma of pepper. Bean seeds must remain in shape and not break down, but must be chewy and soft when chewed.
In addition, the texture of the sweet soup must be compared so that the pieces of the stewed sweet soup are beautiful, without lumps or lumps. The sweet soup must be rich and have a moderate sweetness, not bland but also not sweet and "smooth". In general, each piece of sweet soup - even a popular street food - must satisfy the following criteria: Beauty with the eyes - aroma with the nose - deliciousness.
The list of sweet soups of the restaurant is "endlessly unconscious", but the quintessence is only in Northern sweet soups or Hanoi sweet soups, typically sticky rice sweet soup, that is, sweet sticky rice is very sophisticated, very elegant, meeting all standards of beauty, thanhiness, aroma, and deliciousness.
A bowl of pure, sweet and refreshing areca flower sweet soup is great to eat with the berry, sticky, fragrant and light yellow sticky rice. The sticky rice is stewed twice so it is very soft and has a green bean flavor that sticks to the sticky rice grains. Mrs. Thin's secret is to use a little oil to make the sticky rice smell better and add a little cardamom to add a rich, sweet aroma.
100 years are about to pass, but, every time Mrs. Thin's sweet soup is still stuck with the criteria: Selling a delicious snack at a price suitable for the budget of workers.
Coming here to eat sweet soup, whether it is walking or driving, whether it is a student, civil servant or street vendor, the price for each sweet soup is only about 20,000 - 25,000 VND. Therefore, Mrs. Thin's sweet soup restaurant is always crowded and bustling from opening to closing, regardless of summer or winter.
The sweet soup space here also has the characteristic of the " crowded land" old town, with dozens of people sitting in a hurry like eating in their homes or spilling onto the sidewalk.
The scene of young men and women sitting on the sidewalk to eat sweet soup in the evening or on weekends also makes foreign tourists curious, standing by, taking photos and then boldly trying Mrs. Thin's sweet soup to see what dish this is, becoming familiar to the eye.
Mrs. Thin's sweet soup restaurant has only been around for three generations, but there have been many generations of diners for nearly a century. The children who were taken by their parents to eat sweet soup every year by Mrs. Thin now take their grandchildren to the Hang Bo - Bat Dan intersection to enjoy delicious old sweet soups.
In order for Hang Bo street to be proud of its famous names on the border such as Lao Dong Newspaper, Ba Thin tea, Bac Hai pho...
