Regional specialties lure customers

These days, the kitchen at Thien Loi Service - Agriculture Cooperative in Yen Dinh commune (Son Dong district) is always busy. The craft is done all year round, but it is the busiest from the beginning of lunar December. At this time, the cooperative must prepare ingredients from pork to spices to produce delicious batches of Khau nhuc.

Phi Dien jujubees of Luc Ngan district are widely prefered during the Lunar New Year.

Director of the Cooperative Hoang Van Thien shared: "Khau nhuc is a traditional dish of the ethnic people in my hometown. A feast is only considered as Tet feast if there is Khau nhuc. 

Every year, from the 9th lunar month, my family raises pigs to get the best pieces of pork belly to make the dish. At the same time, we prepare spices including garlic, Kaempferia galanga and others. Later, seeing that many people love this rustic dish, we established a cooperative to process and distribute products to all regions".

For a long time, Song Van Gio cake and Ngoc Thien Nhom cake in Tan Yen district have been a hometown gift for many people. During Tet, this dish is widely preferred by many people because it is easy to eat, boosts up digestion and reminds the flavors of old Tet.

Many other specialties of the Bac Giang countryside are also very popular such as Son Dong arrowroot vermicelli; Grilled Fermented Pork Roll (Tan Yen district); Che lam and peanut candies in Tan My (Bac Giang city); Tho Ha rice sheets (Viet Yen township); Van Chung cake, Thai Son sticky rice (Hiep Hoa district); Yen The hill chicken; Phi Dien jujubes and Luc Ngan sweet oranges.

Sending products farther

To make Bac Giang's typical products well known to many consumers, all localities in the province have accelerated promotion on mass media, social networks and participated in booths and fairs to introduce products, hence helping expand the consumption market and bring products further.

Luc Ngan district is known for many famous specialties such as: Chu noodles, sweet grapefruit, sweet oranges, yellow flesh oranges, Tan Moc tangerines, Phi Dien jujubes.

Tan Yen specialty of Ngoc Thien Nhom cake.

In recent years, fruit growing households and cooperatives in the district have invested in printing packaging and paper boxes with full labels and origin to wrap and store as gifts.

To develop and maintain the brand of typical products, Bac Giang province pays attention to building traditional craft villages and encouraging the establishment of cooperatives.

Typically, Phi Dien Agricultural Production, Trade and Service Cooperative (in Luc Ngan) was established in 2019 specializes in growing lychees and jujubes . With the people's diligence and willingness to learn techniques, Phi Dien jujubes have been recognized as a 3-star OCOP product of the province. When harvested, the jujubes are evenly large, shiny yellow, crunchy and sweet.

Not only appearing on traditional markets, “electronic markets", regional specialties of Bac Giang province are also promoted in modern retail systems and supermarkets.

At GO! supermarket, Co.opmart, Tet specialties are quite diverse from many regions across the country, including some products from Bac Giang such as: Chu noodles, V2 oranges.

Hoang Viet Anh in Thanh Xuan district (Hanoi City) shared: "I really like the fruits and noodles of Luc Ngan district so every year I ask my acquaintances to help me buy them for use and gift for relatives. Everyone likes it. This year I ordered 100 kg of Chu noodles, 200 grapefruits and 100 kg of sweet oranges".

In the chilly weather at the end of the year, gardeners and craft villages in the province are busy with their work. They are elaborately putting the flavors of Tet into each typical product that goes everywhere to make Tet more warm and rich in love for the countryside.

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