HaNoi’s “Com”- The gift of Autumn

In the autumn, when it’s cold, people think to the “Com”- a simple, elegant dishes of Hanoi’s people. This dishes is the interesting story about it.

To the early August - lunar calendar, if you pass through rice fields which are blossoming, you can’t easily pass by because of new cool flavor of the young arista will be footbinding.

You have known that inside the green shell is a clean milk line which is freeze, has done the arista more and more heavily, curved. Every arista seems to bring all the quintessence of heaven and earth. This flavor has become passionate in the cold of the Autumn.

A special thing is arista which is reaped to doing “Com” not browned, on the contrary it is still green. Therefore, you don’t have amazed when in autumn days, you caught on the truck conveys the green sticky rice from periphery to city.

“Com” is a gift of the countryside but only Vong’s village in Hanoi has the delicious and plasticizer “Com”. In autumn days, people usually meet HaNoi’s girls swinging the strickle on her shoulder to sell the “Com” on the street roads. “Com” is a rustic gift but special. They don’t put the “Com” in the bowl, on the contrary, they pack in lotus leaf carefully, they tie loosely by green fresh straw outside.

The fragrance of lotus leaf mixed with “Com” which creates the “Com” flavor cool and mild. In the Com’s season, they often bring the ancestral altar with a sincere heart about a pure gift, to report a lush season. Beside the “Com” is a special gift in Tet holiday, connect to the sacred. It brings the sacredness of the earth and sky, the sweet of palm, the purification of mildews. The “Com” close to everyone, frugal and pure. Enjoying the “Com” is the special things of Hanoi’s people. Thach Lam’s – the famous poet - writer in pasticcio” Hanoi’s 36 streets” wrote: The “Com” are not a gift of who eat quickly. If you eat the “Com”, you should enjoy a little, deliberately, cogitately. After that you can find that it has the aroma sweet of “Com”, the frugal-gentle of herbs. Therefore, you can say that the “Com” are seem as cavalier, relaxed style of Hanoi people. Nowaday, with the development of society, people’s lives is advancing. People have enjoyed more delicious dishes. So it’s unfortunately, in the autumn, if people don’t listen to sound of the street vendors on the streets of Hanoi who sell “Com”. Inside the familiar sounds are the “Com”- a gif of new rice.