This shop has no signboard, only open for sale from 10 pm – 4 am, customers come to eat and order many names “electric spring rolls”, “night rolls”, “Ton Duc Thang rolls” .
The strangest rolled goods in Hanoi: no signboards, only open for sale at midnight
Referring to rice rolls, people remember a folk dish in everyday life, the cake is made from fine ground rice flour, diluted with water. The fragrant, fragrant, hot cakes are most suitable for people to eat in the cold weather of winter.
The shop for more than 30 years has no signboards, but sells it at the “humid” time – midnight, the only thing that leads diners is the light at the end of the alley between countless houses that have turned off the dark lights. .
Arriving at nearly 10 o’clock at night, Ms. Lan, the owner, was busy cleaning up the goods, the first customers were already sitting in the waiting room.
“For more than 30 years, my house has only started selling from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. before leaving. After that, I clean, prepare everything for the next day and make up for the afternoon,” said Lan. .
In the past, Ms. Lan’s parents also sold food. When she was tired of selling rice, she switched to rice rolls, noodle soup. By 1987, Ms. Lan completely moved home selling rice rolls.
She confided: “In the past, my house was very crowded and could not sell. Selling rice had to blow more than weights of rice every day to be enough.”
In the old days, there were expensive goods, because there were not many goods and gifts, now there are many attractive dishes, so customers come to her house to eat less rolls.
In the house, the customers were waiting, Ms. Lan started to roll the cake. Her steps are skillful, skillful, and part of the dough follows the rubbing that spreads to the end of the pot. Cover the swing for a few dozen seconds and then open it, with the help of a large bamboo stick, the thin, white cake being lifted.
The cake was removed from the bamboo stick, hot, and Miss Lan added a bit of minced meat, dried onions and rolled into pieces to taste.
She mixed 3 kinds of delicious rice rolls, then brought it to finely ground: “When a customer comes in to eat, I turn on the kitchen to make, the flour is 100% from rice, so the rice roll from my sister’s family is comfortable eating. I gave the wood ear but I did not give it because I was afraid the night would fill my stomach “, said the U60 owner.
Sauce is prepared and placed at the table, customers eat as much as they want and then add chili, kumquat, and pepper as desired. In addition to rice rolls and cinnamon rolls, Ms. Lan also made steamed eggs.
Customers to Ms. Lan have all ages and professions. There are elderly people who come home late from work also stop by, then young people go out late, students and students.
Guests come to worry about finding seats, in turn, not noisy and hustle. If you come to eat for the first time, you will be a bit impatient because when the guests call her, she will begin to roll the cake.
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