Every child in Hanoi has no sweet memories of a bowl of sweet soup. Because in June, the sunny weather like fire causes the rocks to melt, causing human heat to heat up. Only bowls of black bean sweet soup have the power of Mrs. La Sat's three-peat fan to extinguish the passionate fever in her body.
Therefore, there are summer afternoons, when the crane stops complaining because of exhaustion, on the hot road, there are only young people with blue hair enthusiastically rushing to buy single stones. Now, perhaps no one knows about "odd stones", which are chopped from stone trees and then sold retail to buyers. When the refrigerator was still a luxury item, the "Stingle da" signs with turning into turning into turning into a lifestyle saved the whole summer.
The stones were bought to drink lemon juice and eat sweet soup. The stones are put into a cloth bag and hung with a plow and crushed into crumbly stones to eat with black bean sweet soup. There was a long summer without power, the ice factory stopped operating, there were no single stones, so we had to release the sealed black bean sweet soup pot into the well, steep it for a few hours to cool it down, then pull it up to eat.
There is nothing as simple as cooking sweet soup. Wash the black beans, remove the floating seeds from the Ancies, then steep them in water until the beans are soft. Then add enough sugar to cook together to form a mixture that is both sweet, fragrant, fragrant, and rich.
That bowl of traditional black bean sweet soup is cooked with the simplicity of the ingredients. Simple, but fast, convenient and not fussy, so it is suitable for the needs of the masses. Therefore, the bowl of black bean sweet soup has become a symbol of Hanoi's summer, as well as the beautiful boiled water spinach with crocodile or jelly flower (jelly) bowl.
The eating philosophy of Hanoians is like that, simple but effective. Cooking a pot of black bean sweet soup is not difficult, as well as adding a few crocodiles to the water boiled with water spinach to create a light and clear soup, but as much as swallowed, it will be as cool.
However, simply because it is too much of a haste or harassment does not mean that certain rules must be followed. Cooking black bean and red bean sweet soup should use black cake sugar, not yellow sugar like bean sweet soup, or white sugar like with green bean and lotus seed sweet soup, or use rock sugar for bean sprout sweet soup, sugar from sugarcane for sticky rice areca flower sweet soup.
The delicious steak with soft, clear, well-seasoned bean sprouts is sweet enough, not too thin, making the eater feel bland, not too thick, making the mouth sweet and sweet, but that is still not enough. One thing that creates the charm of a bowl of sweet soup is the scent.
There was still that bowl of black bean sweet soup, but the sweet soup had cooled, just released a few bunches of jasmine flowers, and it suddenly became miraculously fragrant for half an hour or an hour. The scent of the flowers is reflected in each black bean, each comb of which is watered to create a delicate and elegant snack. Similarly, you can use grapefruit and banana essential oils to enhance the flavor of a bowl of black bean sweet soup.
But not only black bean sweet soup, Hanoians also have countless types of sweet soup to turn the heat of summer into an excuse for communal house drinks. What do we see in the sweet soup stalls in Hanoi? Black bean tea, green bean tea, jelly, black jelly, tofu, soy milk, bee tea, areca flower tea, green jelly, sticky rice...
The simplest thing about a bowl of Hanoi sweet soup is always praised and respected, using only one type of material for a sweet soup to be able to enjoy the maximum quality of that ingredient. When eating black bean sweet soup, you must clearly notice the rich taste of bean sprouts, when eating gangsters, you must have a strong smell of the gangsters.
These will be diluted and confused if they are standing with other ingredients in the sweet soup. At the same time, this monotony is also in line with the requirement of being simple in processing so that everyone can cook. Therefore, Hanoi's summer sweet soup is completely in contrast to Saigon sweet soup or Thai sweet soup, with colorful cups of sweet soup of dozens of ingredients.
The stele in the Southern land is structureally complex due to its variety of ingredients, from which the concept of " come and go" as well as the " come and go" culinary route are formed. Perhaps the richness of products favored by nature has made the Saigon tea cup more flavorful and flavorful than the Hanoi tea bowl.
Hanoians choose calmness as an element to fight the heat. Black tea here does not mean poor, bland, or no choice, but is the highest application of raw materials for its own purposes. The flavor of a bowl of Hanoi sweet soup is the essence, the core that can change the state from breast heat to coolness.
A bowl of black bean sweet soup served with small chillies of ice and ice brings the ultimate dining pleasure to the taste buds, and it can repel the sudden heat. Imagine the combination of emotions such as enjoyment, delight, and relief in eating a bowl of black bean tea at noon in the summer, to see that the peace in that simple bowl of tea is wonderful.
The magical black color of the black bean sweet soup bowl like a soft velvet towel can cover up and extinguish the summer fire. The soft power of simplicity and lightness has made a bowl of black bean sweet soup a delicious dish in Hanoi in the summer. Relying on sweet and cool sweet soups, people happily pass the summer!
