A Chung cake is an essential offering to ancestors during the Tet festival. Many people still remember the time when all family members get around wrapping and boiling the cakes. This essay will discuss making this traditional Tet specialty of Vietnam. Firstly, we have to prepare ingredients for making Chung cake. The main ingredients are sticky rice, pork meat, and green beans. Sticky rice must be carefully selected. We soaked the sticky rice overnight, then drain and shake with salt. We cook and shape green beans into small balls. The pork was cut into squares and seasoned with salt, pepper.
Next step, we wrap Chung cake with leaves. This process is also very interesting and meticulous. We place Dong leaves on a flat surface and put a small bowl portion of sticky rice on it. Then, sprinkle on a green bean ball, place 2 pork squares in the middle and sprinkle another green bean ball. Next, cover with another small bowl portion of sticky rice. After that, fold the leaves over, wrap the cake into a square shape, and tie it with bamboo strings.
A Chung
cake
is an essential offering to ancestors during the Tet festival.
Many
people
still
remember the time when all family members
get
around wrapping and boiling the
cakes
. This essay will discuss making this traditional Tet specialty of Vietnam.
Firstly
, we
have to
prepare ingredients for making Chung
cake
. The main ingredients are
sticky
rice
, pork meat, and
green
beans
.
Sticky
rice
must
be
carefully
selected. We soaked the
sticky
rice
overnight, then drain and shake with salt. We cook and shape
green
beans
into
small
balls. The pork was
cut
into squares and seasoned with salt, pepper.
Next
step, we wrap Chung
cake
with
leaves
. This process is
also
very
interesting and meticulous. We place Dong
leaves
on a flat surface and put a
small
bowl portion of
sticky
rice
on it. Then, sprinkle on a
green
bean
ball, place 2 pork squares in the middle and sprinkle another
green
bean
ball.
Next
, cover with another
small
bowl portion of
sticky
rice
. After that, fold the
leaves
over, wrap the
cake
into a square shape, and tie it with bamboo strings.