Xa Cong Hoa Village, Vietnam

We visited Xa Cong Hoa Village, outside of Hanoi.

 

 

Ducks and rice fields go hand in hand. Ducks eats the bugs and insects around the rice paddies. The white specks are the ducks relaxing in the pond.

 

 

Curious water buffalos.

 

 

 

 

We visited a place that makes tapioca.

 

 

 

 

Tapioca before they become tapioca balls or flour. In Vietnam, there is no wheat production so all baguette breads are made with tapioca flour.

 

 

Bricks with no holes in them are heavier and used for the foundation of the house.

 

 

 

 

Bricks with holes in them are lighter and used for the walls of the buildings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spinning threads onto a spindle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Separating the grain part from the grassy part.

 

 

The grassy part can be dried and used to make brooms. You can buy hers for 20,000 dong.

 

 

Drying out the grassy part on the rooftop.

 

 

 

Drying out rice grains in the sun, takes about 2-3 hours.

 

 

 

If you don't have the machine to separate the rice grains from the grassy part, you can lay it out on the road for people to walk/ride over it.

 

 

Drying the rice grains in the communal area.

 

 

Also, in the communal area, families were drying a thin rice mixture on straw trays. They will later become vermicelli rice noodles, used in pho noodle soup.