Colorful cuisine of Muong My Lung people

My Lung is a mountainous commune located in the Northwest of Yen Lap district; home to 11 ethnic groups, of which the Muong ethnic group accounts for over 80% of the population.

Muong My Lung people organize traditional Ga Gay sticky rice making contests during Tet holidays and important local festivals.

Living for a long time on a land with fertile soil conditions, where Lao stream flows through more than half of the commune's administrative area... has created conditions for Muong people to enjoy the richness and diversity of natural products and create a unique culinary culture with its own flavor of the mountainous region of My Lung such as: Herbal cake; chicken fried with sour bamboo shoots; grilled Lao fish or cooked with sour cassava; mustard greens, pickled banana leaves; pig ear salad; buffalo meat cooked with leaves; roasted meat, sour meat in bamboo tubes... Among them, the most special is My Lung Ga Gay sticky rice - one of three culinary dishes of the province honored by the Vietnam Culinary Culture Association as a typical Vietnamese culinary dish. Sticky rice is made from the famous Ga Gay sticky rice of the region, with large, plump, white grains, a special aroma, after cooking it has a sticky and fatty taste and does not stick to the hands.

Muong My Lung leaf tray.

Lao grilled fish specialty.

Mr. Dinh Cong Mot - a prestigious person of zone 8 said: We Muong My Lung people prefer grilled, boiled, sticky rice dishes and often process food with easy-to-find spices, closely associated with the lives of the people such as doi seeds, sen seeds, vồn ven leaves... to make the dishes more attractive, creating the typical flavor of the mountains and forests. During Tet holidays and important festivals, the dishes offered to heaven, earth, and ancestors will be displayed alternately on a tray of offerings lined with wild banana leaves. We believe that the round leaf tray with many culinary colors represents the community, solidarity, respect, and close attachment of the Muong people. Today, that traditional culinary culture is still being passed down through generations of compatriots as a way for us to protect and continue to promote our national identity in the modern flow.

Bich Ngoc

Source: https://baophutho.vn/sac-mau-am-thuc-nguoi-muong-my-lung-226208.htm