Hello everyone,
Today is a beautiful day, and I would like to take you to my hometown, show you how the villagers harvest natural seaweed and enjoy the taste of seaweed soups ^^
(Spoiler alert!) You’ll be surprised at how the villagers in my hometown pick seaweed.
My homeland
My homeland is Viet Nam which is a long, narrow nation shaped like the letter S. Our country is located in Southeast Asia on the eastern edge of the peninsula known as Indochina. Viet Nam has an extensive coastline stretching from the Gulf of Tonkin in the north to the Gulf of Thailand in the south. Our whole country is divided into three parts with their own beauty including Northern part, Middle part and the Southern one.
My hometown
I was born and bred up in Quang Nam province which is placed in the Middle part of Viet Nam. It is a place that is favored and created by nature. Quang Nam has its own beauty of cultural values, simple and liberal life of people and nature. That brings to this place a wild, salty charm like the personality of “Nguoi Quang”.
In my hometown, there are many beautiful beaches made up of seawater and rocks, creating an unspoiled, strong and magnificent sea to infinity.
Seaweed season
Did you wonder when the best time to harvest seaweed is? Yeah, it certainly isn’t in the summer.
At the beginning of the rainy season, from mid-November to the end of December, it’s usually raining all day, sea waves push into the rapids, and it is the season when seaweed tends to arrive at our beaches in a larger amount. Most seaweed in my village is at their tastiest and most productive during the winter.
The seaweed here is tiny, soft and has light purple color. It grows on the surface of the rocks like small beautiful flowers.
Seaweed harvesting
The interesting thing is seaweed can be found in very expensive packets or delicious dishes in decent restaurants, but it is abundant and free to harvest on beaches along the coasts in my village.
In the early morning, when the tide is low and the rocks are exposed, that is the best time to pick seaweed. People in my hometown often get up early to prepare food, drink and bring it with them in order to start harvesting seaweed.
For collecting seaweed, they often bring with them wire baskets as they drain, so they don’t have to carry lots of water around.
The villagers often use their hands to collect seaweed. Because seaweed is slippery, people usually dip their hands in the ashes in order to create roughness. My villagers are careful to slowly pick each seaweed leaf, then put it into a basket.
After a while, they will take a short break for eating, drinking and talking together about daily lives.
When they collect an amount of seaweed, they take seaweed home. Then, the villagers start to rinse the seaweed in a bucket of clean water in order to remove shells, stones and other debris and then hang it to dry.
Enjoy seaweed
After collecting seaweed, it needs to be washed in water, then it will be ready for a great meal. Seaweed is an ideal ingredient for soup. I love seaweed soup, its taste is great.
Yeah, it is one day to harvest seaweed in my hometown.
That's my favorite dish @thaosuong
Look delicious and fresh!
Yeah, it's yummy! Thank you! Hope you have an awesome day!
beautiful places friend, fortunately they know how to take advantage of the benefits of nature
Thank you! The villagers really appreciate the gifts that come from nature.
beautiful photos and wonderful nature, I want to travel in Quang Nam.
Hehe I'm curious about your seaweed soup recipe
Thank you, hihi yeah welcome to my hometown. Let me know if you need a local guide :))
Thank you 😉sure
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100 % sure that must be great taste. Nothing can beat the fresh food from the nature. 😀
Thank you! Yeah, I totally agree with you!
Looks delicious.
Yeah, sure thing ^^
Thank you for this cultural curiosity! I really enjoy this type of content where you can explore distant realities. I usually watch the content of this type on webObsolete :) . Anyway, I'm from Sicily, a large island in Itlay and we do some things like that but with sea urchins. Whit that we make a delicious, simple, and expensive dish!
Do you have this also in Viet Nam?
So cool, I leave on the same island it's so great and beautiful, I recommend visiting our island.
if somebody wants to come to contact me and we'll meet for enjoying ourselves.
Wow, it sounds amazing!
Hi, I'm happy that you're interested in the lifestyle in my hometown. Thank you for sharing! I haven't seen it in Viet Nam, but it looks like this fruit in my country :))
Wow! It is amazing! :O
Beautiful pictures, beautiful place, it looks like a paradise. Yes, paradise on earth. It is the closest thing to happiness!
Thank you! Sure, I agree with you. It's really great!