Bat Trang people outside the traditional pottery owns valuable culinary culture very proud. In tray anniversary festival in this country, is indispensable ink bamboo soup warm, charming. It is the dedication, ingenuity of these women make is that ink bamboo shoot soup here has no "own name", well known as a brand: Bat Trang ink bamboo shoot soup.

People often shoots soup with beef, with ribs, delicious duck or geese are cooked with but little known to cook soup with squid shoots. Food is excellent combination between salty taste of the sea with a bitter taste of bamboo shoots tan. Bat Trang village has long become accustomed to each occasion ink bamboo soup meetings, anniversary festival. Cement and ink soup became local specialties, cuisine culture is unique in the lives of people in Bat Trang commune, Gia Lam district, Hanoi.


Bamboo shoot soup new ink at Bat Trang Should it have its own name as Bat Trang ink bamboo shoot soup. To make soup squid shoots, shoots should first soak until soft and dry ink. This process must be done from the night before, even from a few days ago by picking bamboo shoots, dried cane shoots to choose brightly colored, two-day immersion in water until soft shoots, for sufficient ductility to Duke thin. The woman, the mother was careful to pick up old cement cutout portion, the rest use pins or small stripping knife, having thick concrete pads must be sliced ​​thin knife away and then stripped. While fiber cement must be stripped to finish, so small.
 
Bat Trang people not square sliced ​​bamboo shoots to make soup like many other localities, so new ink bamboo soup distinct characteristics of this land. It is also hard stages, loss of time, a new contact person, just look at the scene alone is deprived cement impatient already. So what have the job they have to be stripped prior shoots monthly, dried, stored in plastic bags, when necessary, serve. Where women here also have to win both of the local market, selling ceramics, just shoots stripping available. After stripping small shoots, boiled three times, just to boiling approximately invasion had grandchildren, the last change. After that, new shoots are brought seasoned with fish sauce, salt to absorb fat and sauté for hunting crew.


Particularly with ink, must use inks delicious, relatives, not being black beard. This directory must be set before most, moving on from afar or taking another large market in the city to buy about. When processed, the Bat Trang also took body ink, peeling bibs and beard so hard ink fibrosis and then soak and clean with alcohol ink, ginger water. Next, bring the filter cartridge and a preliminary go grilled hot ginger water remover at the second level. Then use a hammer to tap the ink itself evident each fiber, fiber tearing into small ink as cement and brought with fat fried. When to give a little added sugar and salt crystals. Long fiber tear ink must also, small as toothpicks to blend harmoniously with your dry cement.


Speaking as a bamboo shoot soup squid but additional materials are also quite reasonable in that the meat soup. Pork loin cut about 7 segment level, bring on poking away for nine, then also stripped out as fiber cement, fiber cartridge, ensuring that fish marinated fried salt and fat astronauts hunt. Both shoots, squid, fried meat must separately then mixed together, stir once more to the taste and to each other, complement each other, make up the characteristic taste of the soup can not shoot ink and Bat Trang. Water-level bamboo dishes include chicken broth, pork broth and prawns. Raw materials were fussy, processing and true feat kh to simmer stew, fresh water, then carefully colored in sweet and charming sweetness. Bat Trang ink bamboo shoot soup is a dish very fussy during processing. Food really delicious, eating or not also depends on the ability of the housewife, from selecting raw materials, semi-processed until the tasting spices must really reasonable. It should do so when ladled out bowls, soup to have blond, stick in, clear sweetness and fragrance of ink. Bamboo fibers brittle, soft but chewy squid fibers made more attractive dish.