HANG DUONG STREET- CRALE OF HANOI JAM

Beside Chung cake, spring peach branch, red couplets… jam is consider as soul of traditional Tet holiday.

Jam street

Hanoi concertrates much individual jam places. Especially, we can say to Xuan Dinh village- a village makes the famous jam and candy. However, every body know that the premium jam is located in Hang Duong street.

In addition to making jam, o mai in this street is famous trade mark.Therefore, everyone to Hanoi and Hanoi’s people go far that bring these product to making gift for friends, relatives in different area.

The elder people in Hanoi told that most of the households in Hang Duong street before making jam-o mai. Every Tet holiday, you just steps to street-head where listen the fruit fragrant mixed with sugar, charm to salivate. To the middle of the street, we can attract by sparkling color of jam and o mai in here.

According time, jam-o mai traditional producting is limited. Many households make jam by industrial method, base on the machinery is mainly, only five or three houses make jam by handmade method.However, Hang Duong street is realiable address for customers buy jam, o mai.     

Jam, store of Bui Van Hung family on Hang Duong on during French colonial times. Paternal grandfather of Hung is the generation, who laid the foundation for making jam of family. This job is very difficult, requires the meticulous every stages, therefore it is hard to choose who do work.

Although there are 10 brothers and sisters, but only Hung and his brother are following this job. Besides jams, Hung creatives some kinds of  new jam serves demand of customers such as kiwi, Japanese sweet potatoes jam.. Nowaday, Hung’s store has few hundred types of o mai, jams.

Jam- the special value on Tet holiday.

According to culture expert, jam has special value on Tet holiday. If betel is beginning of the story with the elderly, jam is one thing to talk among the young people, Instead of the candy, Tet holiday ago, host often brings jam to invite guest, expresses the hospitality. Enjoying jam and drinking tea, make the story between host and guest more passionate.

Besides, jam uses on healing. Ginger jam eliminates cold,  quat jam heals cough, coconut, squash jam helps laxative.

According to this expert, on Tet holiday, a jam box with five spices is arranged under the five elements, with colors such as green,yellow, white, black corresponds to each of wood, fire, land , metal, water. It is meaningful balances life and brings fortune, property for host.