From 3:00 p.m. on September 10, people in Residential Group No. 9, Hoa Hai Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District, Da Nang City were present at Mr. Long's house (Ly Van Phuc Street, Ngu Hanh Son District) to prepare rice, green beans, banana leaves, dong leaves... to cook banh chung.
With more than 100kg of sticky rice and 30kg of green beans, people have to constantly light the stove and wash the rice continuously from early afternoon to cook the cakes in time.
Although the work has to be done continuously, the people in Residential Group No. 9 still work tirelessly.
So the people and benefactors worked together to prepare ingredients to make the cake.
Mr. Do Pho, Head of Residential Group No. 9, is over 60 years old this year. He has difficulty walking due to leg pain, but from 1:00 p.m., Mr. Pho was at Mr. Long's house to prepare leaves to wrap the cakes.
Carefully choosing each leaf, Mr. Pho seemed worried because he was afraid there wouldn't be enough leaves to wrap.
"These days I have read a lot of information about the flood situation in the North, it is really harsh. So after receiving Mr. Long's call to cook banh chung, I joined hands with the people in the residential group to do it," Mr. Pho expressed.
Having lived in the Central region for more than 60 years and suffered many storms, Mr. Pho was very worried when reading information about the storm situation in the North.
At around 4pm the same day, more and more people from Residential Group 9 came to Mr. Long's cake making place. Each person had a job, some cut leaves, sliced meat, some wrapped or cooked banh chung. The working atmosphere was extremely urgent, everyone tried to wrap as many banh chung and banh tet as possible to quickly deliver to people in the flooded areas.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang, a resident of Da Nang, said: "We have prepared 100kg of sticky rice, 30kg of green beans, dong leaves, and banana leaves to wrap cakes and send them to people in flooded areas."
Not only that, volunteers and donors in Da Nang also prepared mineral water, bread...
Especially pre-cooked white porridge to send to the elderly and children affected by storms in recent times.
