Grilled corn - a favourite snack in winter of Hanoians

Published: 08:28 Saturday - January 21, 2017

Coming to Hanoi, we can find boiled corn in every season but just grilled corn when winter comes, from late autumn to early winter. At every corner street appear kiosk grilled corn with aromatic flavour inviting passersby to look for some warmth in the cold weather. In some way, grilled corn is one of the most typical snack foods that have become a part of winter here.

Coming to Hanoi, we can find boiled corn in every season, but grilled corn in winter. In every corner street of Hanoi night, about midnight appearing kiosk grilled corn with aromatic flavour inviting passersby to look for some warmth in the cold weather.

In the late afternoon, when the street lights started gilded on the street corners, corn rows begins to bake. A charcoal tray, a fan nan , chips three plastic chairs to sit and eat corn . That's enough. In the wood-embrs, corn is cooked slowly, the fragrant smell of ripe corn on each rotor, fly away, every corner makes anyone come across well last stupor to find ... Listen to the fragrant smell, the women, girls, men and women go through these rows could not resist, come to enjoy immediately.

Grilled corn is simple gift, but folk have real traction everyone

We should know how to choose the grilled corn. That must be the corn “buds” is not old or too young. Peel green mantle outer leaves, plucking the corn whiskers, we caught the white snow corn, glossy and regular. Hand press to try corn seed that white milk fresh flowing overflow, which offers fans of corn was grilled on charcoal that crispy, sweet, supple, fleshy, delicious to know.

Winter Hanoi has many gifts, food melt away the numb cold as hot pot, heat snail, banana cake... But one thing which presents home town that a grilled corn always won the hearts of many people by its simple, rustic as the name.In subtle mist, cold - grilled corn becomes a joy to bring the warmth of our people, to the far away image of a street corner, a dim yellow light, and thin smoke fibers flying up to be unforgettable in the minds of people away from Hanoi. Please sit down a minute red glowing coals pot, the smell, the aroma of any desire to wait the turn in the flickering flames in her hand rhythmically of girls sell corn.Faces in the morning - at night, tingling laughter, people come together over the and Hanoi winter seemed to stop.